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What role does NAFTA play in Mexican migrations?Ginni Coefficients for startersUm.....
You still haven't 'splained why they are coming here to get their own cars and jobs
"This (Ginni) index measures the degree of inequality in the distribution of family income in a country.
"The index is calculated from the Lorenz curve, in which cumulative family income is plotted against the number of families arranged from the poorest to the richest.
"The index is the ratio of (a) the area between a country's Lorenz curve and the 45 degree helping line to (b) the entire triangular area under the 45 degree line.
"The more nearly equal a country's income distribution, the closer its Lorenz curve to the 45 degree line and the lower its Gini index, e.g., a Scandinavian country with an index of 25.
"The more unequal a country's income distribution, the farther its Lorenz curve from the 45 degree line and the higher its Gini index, e.g., a Sub-Saharan country with an index of 50.
"If income were distributed with perfect equality, the Lorenz curve would coincide with the 45 degree line and the index would be zero; if income were distributed with perfect inequality, the Lorenz curve would coincide with the horizontal axis and the right vertical axis and the index would be 100."
Mexico: 48.2 (2008)
US: 45.0 (2007)
I'm sure we'll catch up with Mexico shortly, and we can all hang out in Home Depot parking lots.
I assume that you don't understand your own "cut-and-paste" faux-answer to a relatively simple question. Not really much of a surprise.
I'll answer for you:
Mexicans are migrating to the USA because they have a much better chance to increase their wealth and standard of living.
Until they cease their migration, then you're absurd notions of Egyptian Style class warfare in the USA will remain rediculous.
What role does NAFTA play in Mexican migrations?Ginni Coefficients for starters
"This (Ginni) index measures the degree of inequality in the distribution of family income in a country.
"The index is calculated from the Lorenz curve, in which cumulative family income is plotted against the number of families arranged from the poorest to the richest.
"The index is the ratio of (a) the area between a country's Lorenz curve and the 45 degree helping line to (b) the entire triangular area under the 45 degree line.
"The more nearly equal a country's income distribution, the closer its Lorenz curve to the 45 degree line and the lower its Gini index, e.g., a Scandinavian country with an index of 25.
"The more unequal a country's income distribution, the farther its Lorenz curve from the 45 degree line and the higher its Gini index, e.g., a Sub-Saharan country with an index of 50.
"If income were distributed with perfect equality, the Lorenz curve would coincide with the 45 degree line and the index would be zero; if income were distributed with perfect inequality, the Lorenz curve would coincide with the horizontal axis and the right vertical axis and the index would be 100."
Mexico: 48.2 (2008)
US: 45.0 (2007)
I'm sure we'll catch up with Mexico shortly, and we can all hang out in Home Depot parking lots.
I assume that you don't understand your own "cut-and-paste" faux-answer to a relatively simple question. Not really much of a surprise.
I'll answer for you:
Mexicans are migrating to the USA because they have a much better chance to increase their wealth and standard of living.
Until they cease their migration, then you're absurd notions of Egyptian Style class warfare in the USA will remain rediculous.
Watch Out for Dogs and Razor Wire:Oh I'm sorry...I accidentally walked into the "Delusional Nutjobs Who Hate America and Americans" forum. Excuse me and carry on.
As Go Tunisia and Egypt, So Goes US?
Or the price of corn in Chiapas?What role does NAFTA play in Mexican migrations?I assume that you don't understand your own "cut-and-paste" faux-answer to a relatively simple question. Not really much of a surprise.
I'll answer for you:
Mexicans are migrating to the USA because they have a much better chance to increase their wealth and standard of living.
Until they cease their migration, then you're absurd notions of Egyptian Style class warfare in the USA will remain rediculous.
It depends on the price of Tea in China
One day Americans will march in the streets to DEMAND an end to rich generals and other parasites plundering their economy.As Go Tunisia and Egypt, So Goes US?
ABSOLUTELY!
One day Americans will march in the streets to DEMAND a right to vote for their own leadership!
Oh. Wait.
Nope. Georgieporgie is merely an imbecile.
One day Americans will march in the streets to DEMAND an end to rich generals and other parasites plundering their economy.As Go Tunisia and Egypt, So Goes US?
ABSOLUTELY!
One day Americans will march in the streets to DEMAND a right to vote for their own leadership!
Oh. Wait.
Nope. Georgieporgie is merely an imbecile.
Not hard to guess which side you'll be on.
Nutjob.
For thousands of years all governments have functioned to redistribute wealth by socializing cost and privatizing profit for a select few.George seems to think money is supposed to be distributed like a monopoly game .
Much of the money the richest 1% of the US population has acquired in the last four decades came from Republicans AND Democrats redistributing national income, largely through tax biases that favor debt over equity investments.
You and Toto aren't playing board games in Kansas anymore, and the US rich will continue looting this country until they're dealt with like Mubarak and his sycophants.
"One cause of the revolts in Tunisia and Egypt is popular outrage over the monopolization of wealth by a small cadre of elites.
"The grievances of the Middle East's dispossessed probably seem justified to most Americans, who view the region as a relic of feudalism and stomping ground for despots.
"But what about America itself?
"As has been widely noted over the past few days, income inequality in the United States is actually much worse than in Egypt, Tunisia, or Pakistan.
"Could the US government feel the push of inequality's domino effect?
Comparative prosperity seems to argue otherwise since, as a group, America's poor have about as much wealth as India's richest.
"Yet those arguments neglect some of the major disadvantages of being modestly middle class in a wealthy country: A much higher cost of living and a perceived need to keep up with the Joneses, which fueled the explosion of subprime home loans that caused the recession.
"'Global unemployment remains at record highs, with widening income inequality adding to social strains,' Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the chief of the IMF, said this week during a speech in Singapore, citing turmoil in North Africa as a prelude to what may happen elsewhere.
"'We could see rising social and political instability within nationseven war.'"
And he wasn't referring to banana republics exclusively.
As Go Egypt...
Oh I'm sorry...I accidentally walked into the "Delusional Nutjobs Who Hate America and Americans" forum. Excuse me and carry on.
"One cause of the revolts in Tunisia and Egypt is popular outrage over the monopolization of wealth by a small cadre of elites.
"The grievances of the Middle East's dispossessed probably seem justified to most Americans, who view the region as a relic of feudalism and stomping ground for despots.
"But what about America itself?
"As has been widely noted over the past few days, income inequality in the United States is actually much worse than in Egypt, Tunisia, or Pakistan.
"Could the US government feel the push of inequality's domino effect?
Comparative prosperity seems to argue otherwise since, as a group, America's poor have about as much wealth as India's richest.
"Yet those arguments neglect some of the major disadvantages of being modestly middle class in a wealthy country: A much higher cost of living and a perceived need to keep up with the Joneses, which fueled the explosion of subprime home loans that caused the recession.
"'Global unemployment remains at record highs, with widening income inequality adding to social strains,' Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the chief of the IMF, said this week during a speech in Singapore, citing turmoil in North Africa as a prelude to what may happen elsewhere.
"'We could see rising social and political instability within nationseven war.'"
And he wasn't referring to banana republics exclusively.
As Go Egypt...
When the US dollar no longer functions as the world's reserve currency, hundreds of thousands of combat vets will return home to 17% un/under employment levels.
That should scare you a little more than Bill Ayres or Van Jones.
btw, it wasn't radical lefties that inflicted homicidal violence on Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Any attempt at violent overthrow of this government will come from those carrying Crosses in one hand and Old Glory in the other.
if you dont have irrational hatred for people who have more money than you, it really doesnt matter how much they have does it?
I highly doubt the people have been rioting because the rich have so much money.
And yet when I talk about collapse of Government my shrink and my therapist tell me I am delusional.
Would it help if I told you you're delusional.
What if the Federal Reserve turned every $10 bill in the country into a $5?um...no.
As long as the TV still works, and fast food still exist - Americans are too otherwise occupied to notice much anything else.
Or worse??
if you dont have irrational hatred for people who have more money than you, it really doesnt matter how much they have does it?
I highly doubt the people have been rioting because the rich have so much money.
What if the Federal Reserve turned every $10 bill in the country into a $5?um...no.
As long as the TV still works, and fast food still exist - Americans are too otherwise occupied to notice much anything else.
Or worse??
The USA economy would start recovering.
Assuming that you meant inflation, of course.
We need some.