Economic Inequality: The Greatest Conflict in US Society Today.

We import workers from Asia because Americans are too unskilled and uneducated to do the kinds of work necessary for today's market.

Untrue. There is no shortage of skilled programmers and other IT specialists among the U.S.-born. We import workers from Asia because they will work for less, and thus draw pay for these skilled fields down. There is no other reason that is not a lie.
 
And as we race to the bottom, for the benefit of the top, you end up with more poor folks. You then can blame those poor folks for their own plights. This is conservative logic. Blame the victims, and ignore WHAT really caused it.

If you want your citizens to have a higher standard of living, you have to force it. It does not happen by itself, which we found out early on. You cannot pit your own against the workers from dirt poor nations, not if you want a middle class. Just basic shit.
 
People are becoming "sensitized" to a differentiation between income from "work" and income from investment and are being deluged with the perception that the latter is evil. Of course "work" is portrayed as including politicians, community organizers, union leaders, and other agitators who are presented as the righteous ones. . Persons engaged in activities supporting the traditional "open market" philosophy are lumped in with the "investment class" and are vilified.

It appeals to the basest of human nature and is therefore quite effective.
Maybe we should distinguish between investments that produce something, jobs, goods or services, and investments that are speculative or extractive in nature.

If your definition of "investment class" includes the richest two percent of Americans, they've just increased their share of returns to wealth (interest, dividends, rent and capital gains) thanks to the work done by Republicans AND Democrats in bailing out Wall Street while keeping the debt overhead in place for 98% of Americans.

In basest terms, the happy 2% currently receives 75% of all returns to wealth which is nearly double what it raked in a generation ago.

The Coming Sell-Out to the Super Rich and What It Means for the Rest of Us » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
 
US remains top bet for real estate investment in 2012

US remains top bet for real estate investment in 2012 but Brazil gains ground | North America | News

New York remained the top city for foreign investment, London moved up to second place, swapping places with Washington. Sao Paulo was fourth, and San Francisco moved up to fifth from tenth place last year.

I'll stick with the US.

Experts predict US property market will reach bottom in 2012 | North America | News

It's a time to invest.
 
How about you dumb leftists crack open an intro to microeconomics book and learn about equilibrium prices and supply/demand for unskilled workers instead of crying to yourselves about how unfair the world is.
When will retarded righties catch up to the economics of poverty:

"The survey attributed the change, in part, to 'underlying shifts in the distribution of wealth in American society,' citing a finding by the Census Bureau that the share of wealth held by the top 10 percent of the population increased to 56 percent in 2009, from 49 percent in 2005."

The world is unfair because the rich consolidate state power and use it for their own selfish ends, ask Adam Smith if you're still confused.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/12/us/more-conflict-seen-between-rich-and-poor-survey-finds.html?_r=1

Or you can ask Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville, about it.

He ALSO foresaw and warned us how the tyranny of INDUSTRIALISTS could pervert our democratic republic as well.

If any of you are truly interested, I can site chapter and verse for you.
 
You neo-socialists know deep down more than anyone else that if the federal government confiscated 3/4 of the income of every so-called rich person, the Country would be worse off and you wouldn't see a dime of it. Were you sleeping during history class when they covered the Russian revolution?
 
We import workers from Asia because Americans are too unskilled and uneducated to do the kinds of work necessary for today's market.

Untrue. There is no shortage of skilled programmers and other IT specialists among the U.S.-born. We import workers from Asia because they will work for less, and thus draw pay for these skilled fields down. There is no other reason that is not a lie.


IndustryWeek : Shortage of Skilled Workers Taking its Toll on U.S. Manufacturers

Shortage of Skilled Workers Primary Reason for Offshoring Jobs | Duke Today

You might WANT your reasons to be valid, but they aren't. I know several IT executives who vowed to hire American yet ended up grateful to get an guy from New Delhi who knew what they were doing.
 
You neo-socialists know deep down more than anyone else that if the federal government confiscated 3/4 of the income of every so-called rich person, the Country would be worse off and you wouldn't see a dime of it. Were you sleeping during history class when they covered the Russian revolution?

Oh dear....there's a reality for you....those poor rich people having 75% of their wealth taken away. :eusa_whistle:

When did that happen?
 
We import workers from Asia because Americans are too unskilled and uneducated to do the kinds of work necessary for today's market.

Untrue. There is no shortage of skilled programmers and other IT specialists among the U.S.-born. We import workers from Asia because they will work for less, and thus draw pay for these skilled fields down. There is no other reason that is not a lie.


IndustryWeek : Shortage of Skilled Workers Taking its Toll on U.S. Manufacturers

Shortage of Skilled Workers Primary Reason for Offshoring Jobs | Duke Today

You might WANT your reasons to be valid, but they aren't. I know several IT executives who vowed to hire American yet ended up grateful to get an guy from New Delhi who knew what they were doing.


Of course you did. :eusa_liar:
 
"Based on a survey of 1,123 manufacturing executives across the United States"

Says it all. Sorry, I would prefer data supporting the assertion that is not likely to be a self-serving lie.
 
According to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center about two-thirds of Americans now believe there are "strong conflicts" between rich and poor in the US.


The democrats are certainly desperate to make an actual 'conflict' of their phoney class warfare bullshit. In fact, such transparent demagoguery is about the only hope for obama to be reelected.

They care that little about the country and that much about their political fortunes.
 
People are becoming "sensitized" to a differentiation between income from "work" and income from investment and are being deluged with the perception that the latter is evil. Of course "work" is portrayed as including politicians, community organizers, union leaders, and other agitators who are presented as the righteous ones. . Persons engaged in activities supporting the traditional "open market" philosophy are lumped in with the "investment class" and are vilified.

It appeals to the basest of human nature and is therefore quite effective.
If your definition of "investment class" includes the richest two percent of Americans, .................

The Coming Sell-Out to the Super Rich and What It Means for the Rest of Us » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

I don't have a definition of "investment class" or any other "class" I leave that up to ideologues.
 
what will all ewe libtards do when the investors stop investing in America? huh? whine bout it? :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
They already have.
Better returns in China and India.
When will cons catch on?

wrong. we've caught on, you want communism and we don't.
I'm for political equality myself.
Something you don't find under communist or corporate rulers.

If all citizens are supposed to be equal--in terms of their rights and in terms of the considerations given to their interests by the government, communists and central bankers will always favor the 1% over the 99%.

Do you actually believe your interests and mine receive the same consideration from DC as Warren Buffett's or the Koch brothers'?
 
We import workers from Asia because Americans are too unskilled and uneducated to do the kinds of work necessary for today's market.

Untrue. There is no shortage of skilled programmers and other IT specialists among the U.S.-born. We import workers from Asia because they will work for less, and thus draw pay for these skilled fields down. There is no other reason that is not a lie.


IndustryWeek : Shortage of Skilled Workers Taking its Toll on U.S. Manufacturers

Shortage of Skilled Workers Primary Reason for Offshoring Jobs | Duke Today

You might WANT your reasons to be valid, but they aren't. I know several IT executives who vowed to hire American yet ended up grateful to get an guy from New Delhi who knew what they were doing.

Uh, our business used to work with colleges and trade schools to insure a work force. They would rather not do that today, so they have an excuse to import cheaper labor.
 
People are becoming "sensitized" to a differentiation between income from "work" and income from investment and are being deluged with the perception that the latter is evil. Of course "work" is portrayed as including politicians, community organizers, union leaders, and other agitators who are presented as the righteous ones. . Persons engaged in activities supporting the traditional "open market" philosophy are lumped in with the "investment class" and are vilified.

It appeals to the basest of human nature and is therefore quite effective.
If your definition of "investment class" includes the richest two percent of Americans, .................

The Coming Sell-Out to the Super Rich and What It Means for the Rest of Us » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

I don't have a definition of "investment class" or any other "class" I leave that up to ideologues.
"Ideology (plural ideologies)

"Doctrine, philosophy, body of beliefs or principles belonging to an individual or group.
The study of the origin and nature of ideas."

Are you looking for a world without beliefs or principles or ideas?

You may not be interested in the revolution, but that doesn't mean the revolution isn't interested in you.
 
If your definition of "investment class" includes the richest two percent of Americans, .................

The Coming Sell-Out to the Super Rich and What It Means for the Rest of Us » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

I don't have a definition of "investment class" or any other "class" I leave that up to ideologues.
"Ideology (plural ideologies)

"Doctrine, philosophy, body of beliefs or principles belonging to an individual or group.
The study of the origin and nature of ideas."

Are you looking for a world without beliefs or principles or ideas?

You may not be interested in the revolution, but that doesn't mean the revolution isn't interested in you.

Definition of IDEOLOGUE
1
: an impractical idealist : theorist
2
: an often blindly partisan advocate or adherent of a particular ideology
 
According to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center about two-thirds of Americans now believe there are "strong conflicts" between rich and poor in the US.


The democrats are certainly desperate to make an actual 'conflict' of their phoney class warfare bullshit. In fact, such transparent demagoguery is about the only hope for obama to be reelected.

They care that little about the country and that much about their political fortunes.
You whistling past the electoral graveyard if you think it's only Democrats who are waking up:

"The survey, which polled 2,048 adults from Dec. 6 to 19, found that perception of class conflict surged the most among white people, middle-income earners and independent voters.

"But it also increased substantially among Republicans, to 55 percent of those polled, up from 38 percent in 2009, even as the party leadership has railed against the concept of class divisions."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/12/us/more-conflict-seen-between-rich-and-poor-survey-finds.html?_r=1

The class war was here thousands of years before the US came into existence, and it will probably be here thousands of years after the US is forgotten.
 
I don't have a definition of "investment class" or any other "class" I leave that up to ideologues.
"Ideology (plural ideologies)

"Doctrine, philosophy, body of beliefs or principles belonging to an individual or group.
The study of the origin and nature of ideas."

Are you looking for a world without beliefs or principles or ideas?

You may not be interested in the revolution, but that doesn't mean the revolution isn't interested in you.

Definition of IDEOLOGUE
1
: an impractical idealist : theorist
2
: an often blindly partisan advocate or adherent of a particular ideology
Would that be a 0.1er dictionary you're using?

"ideologue (plural ideologues)

"A person advocating some ideology, especially as an official or the most eminent advocate.

ideologue - Wiktionary
 

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