Democrats and Ghetto's, They own them

[the_human_being]

The GOP didn't pressure anybody. You're so FOS.

F&F make the regulations banks have to go by in order to make loans. If a bank doesn't comply with those regulations, they can't sell those loans off. They have to keep them.

What about Countrywide etc- Pals of Booshies...not pressure anyone...funny stuff!!

Pals of Bush? Lol, prove it. You libs with your Bush buddies. Everybody is a buddy of Bush apparently.

Just all the greedy idiot mega-rich a-hole Pubs who bankroll the GOP, it's propaganda machine, and caused the world depression and the ruin of our middle class and country, duh dumbass.

From what I've read, it has been Obama's policies that have hurt the Middle Class so much.

Such as lol?

Are you unable to Google anything yourself?

Obama's focus on poor burdens middle class

 

[the_human_being]

What we have is a lack of ambition problem. Most of us who own our own businesses and are successful had our roots in poverty or below poverty. We simply were not satisfied with our lot in life and worked hard to change it ourselves instead of sitting on our butts lusting after someone else's money or waiting on the government to assist us.

Most of you got a loan from daddy

This one didn't. My parents were uneducated and below the poverty level. Their lot in life is what made me determined I was not going to live my life the way they did.

And then pull up the Dem aid ladder behind you that made that possible...see Carson, Cruz, Rubio etc etc..great job!

What Democrat aid ladder, Dupe? You parroting Obama? I made my way all by myself. I never lusted for anyone else's money nor did I ever expect anyone else to help me.

You didn't become successful by yourself. If so, go make a million on a deserted island.

And you became successful in a country that helped guys like you. Go to Mexico and try to make it. See? The government can help or hurt you

I used the G.I. Bill to get an education. That was a benefit of my going off to war. Anyone who desires can go into the military today and earn college benefits. It's open to almost anyone. The Liberals won't do it though, they want someone to provide them with a free education. I'm sorry if I'm hard but don't complain to me if there is an avenue available to you to get a college education and you feel you are just too good to contribute anything at all towards it.

 

[francoHFW]

Yeah, if you see Democrats taking over your community, i advise you to run like hell. Escape immediately. Cause it's gonna get ugly. The Democrats have destroyed many once great Cities and States in this country. It's their dismal track record. So if you see the takeover happening, just get out fast.

Agreed, they are like locusts. They destroy where they are, then move to another location. They aren't smart enough to figure out it was they who destroyed where they were, so the cycle starts again, and they destroy the new are/region/state they move too.

Until these lefties become intelligent enough to admit, that 4/5ths of everything the government touches turns to poop, and they are almost always in charge of the government creating the poop, we are all in trouble.

And let us also be fair here...........it is NOT just because it is them, it is because just like when you go to your sates DMV, or the Social Security board, nobody is there trying to make things faster so someone can make more money. They get paid if they take care of 1 person a day, or 100 people a day. If their payroll goes over budget, either the state, local, or Feds will pick up the tab, and raise taxes on us.....the plebes, to cover the cost.

That is what lefties do not want to understand, or even try to comprehend. We are ALL paying through the nose because they do NOT have to be efficient at all. And when they get in competition with a private organization, the government entity gets hosed each and every time. (think Post Office, Fed-EX) Do lefties understand that if they got their stuff efficient, they could fund way more things they want with the same amount of money? But no, they would rather spend their time telling all of us how evil and uncivil we are, because we demand bang for our, and their......BUCKS!!!!

Sure. Has nothing to do with discrimination by the GOPers against blacks or white flight lol or manufacturing leaving the rust belt...or Pubs wrecking gov't entities like the PO to serve their greedy idiot masters...Thanks for 9/11, the stupidest wars ever, the corrupt world depression, and 7 years of mindless obstruction. Anything for the billionaire brainwashers, dingbat.
From 2007:
The USA is the only modern country in the world where full time workers live in poverty and have no health care (750k bankruptcies a year, most HAVE insurance - crap insurance!)After 30 years of Voodoo: worst min. wage, work conditions, illegal work safeguards, vacations, work week, college costs, rich/poor gap, upward social mobility, % homeless and in prison EVAH, and in the modern world!! And you complain about the victims? Are you an idiot or an A-hole?
Pubs have blocked EVERYTHING since 2/4/2010- don't be duped...again. Stimulus worked-ran out in 2010.
Total Pub Propaganda BS: ACORN, Kenyan Muslim Marxist,Tides, Mosque, Death Panel, lose your doctor, huge costs, DEBT CRISIS, Obama Recession, stimulus failed, Barney Frank, Nazi Soros, Nazi socialists, Volt suqs, Iran making bomb etc etc.
I'm sorry- dupes are lovely people- but I can't take their lazy, ignorant, careless, stupid politics a minute longer. Sorry

Then tell me why all the new subdivisions in my locale are selling out new homes as fast as they can build them and how the new car and truck dealers are adding on and building on and selling so many new vehicles? Why are there so many at all the eating places that you have to stand in line? Why all the shoppers in the mall you can't find a parking place? Where do you live? In the Black Hills?

So many stupid anecdotes, so little sense...I thought Obama policies have ruined everything lol

The Demise of the American Middle Class In Numbers.

Over the past 60 years the American dream has gradually disappeared. The process was slow, so most people didn’t notice. They just worked a few more hours, borrowed a little more and cut back on non-essentials. But looking at the numbers and comparing them over long time periods, it is obvious that things have changed drastically. Here are the details:

1. WORKERS PRODUCE MORE BUT THE GAINS GO TO BUSINESS.

Over the past 30 years worker productivity has grown by 2.0% per year.

But after 1980, workers received a smaller share every year. Labor’s share of income (1992 = 100%):

1950 = 101%
1960 = 105%
1970 = 105%
1980 = 105% – Reagan
1990 = 100%
2000 = 96%
2007 = 92%

A 13% drop since 1980

2. THE TOP 10% GET A LARGER SHARE.

Share of National Income going to Top 10%:

1950 = 35%
1960 = 34%
1970 = 34%
1980 = 34% – Reagan
1990 = 40%
2000 = 47%
2007 = 50%

An increase of 16% since Reagan.

3. WORKERS COMPENSATED FOR THE LOSS OF INCOME BY SPENDING THEIR SAVINGS.

The savings Rose up to Reagan and fell during and after.

1950 = 6.0%
1960 = 7.0%
1970 = 8.5%
1980 = 10.0% – Reagan
1982 = 11.2% – Peak
1990 = 7.0%
2000 = 2.0%
2006 = -1.1% (Negative = withdrawing from savings)

A 12.3% drop after Reagan.

4. WORKERS ALSO BORROWED TO MAKE UP FOR THE LOSS.

Household Debt as percentage of GDP:

1965 = 46%
1970 = 45%
1980 = 50% – Reagan
1990 = 61%
2000 = 69%
2007 = 95%

A 45% increase after 1980.

5. SO THE GAP BETWEEN THE RICHEST AND THE POOREST HAS GROWN.

Gap Between the Share of Capital Income earned by the top 1%
and the bottom 80%:

1980 = 10%
2003 = 56%

A 5.6 times increase.

6. AND THE AMERICAN DREAM IS GONE.

The Probably of Moving Up from the Bottom 40% to the Top 40%:

1945 = 12%
1958 = 6%
1990 = 3%
2000 = 2%

A 10% Decrease.

Links:

1 = ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/pf/totalf1.txt
1 = https://www.clevelandfed.org/Research/PolicyDis/No7Nov04.pdf
1 = Clipboard01.jpg (image)
2 – Congratulations to Emmanuel Saez
3 = http://www.demos.org/inequality/images/charts/uspersonalsaving_thumb.gif
3 = U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
4 = Federated Prudent Bear Fund (A): Overview
4 = FRB: Z.1 Release--Financial Accounts of the United States--December 10, 2015
5/6 = 15 Mind-Blowing Facts About Wealth And Inequality In America

Overview = http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2010062415/reagan-revolution-home-roost-charts

Frankie I agree may be a bit of a stall or shift to top end managers. What can be done about it? This is Capitalism. If someone does not like working for CEO making 10000X ordinary worker? go get other job? I don't know. I agree, Carly got rich when Lucent went belly up. But there are many success stories too. What can be done?

you want to turn USA into North Korea? everything dictated to everyone?

The only thing that works at cutting ridiculous salaries is a 90% rate over 10 million or so, like they had in the 50's and sixties...

 

[the_human_being]

Agreed, they are like locusts. They destroy where they are, then move to another location. They aren't smart enough to figure out it was they who destroyed where they were, so the cycle starts again, and they destroy the new are/region/state they move too.

Until these lefties become intelligent enough to admit, that 4/5ths of everything the government touches turns to poop, and they are almost always in charge of the government creating the poop, we are all in trouble.

And let us also be fair here...........it is NOT just because it is them, it is because just like when you go to your sates DMV, or the Social Security board, nobody is there trying to make things faster so someone can make more money. They get paid if they take care of 1 person a day, or 100 people a day. If their payroll goes over budget, either the state, local, or Feds will pick up the tab, and raise taxes on us.....the plebes, to cover the cost.

That is what lefties do not want to understand, or even try to comprehend. We are ALL paying through the nose because they do NOT have to be efficient at all. And when they get in competition with a private organization, the government entity gets hosed each and every time. (think Post Office, Fed-EX) Do lefties understand that if they got their stuff efficient, they could fund way more things they want with the same amount of money? But no, they would rather spend their time telling all of us how evil and uncivil we are, because we demand bang for our, and their......BUCKS!!!!

Sure. Has nothing to do with discrimination by the GOPers against blacks or white flight lol or manufacturing leaving the rust belt...or Pubs wrecking gov't entities like the PO to serve their greedy idiot masters...Thanks for 9/11, the stupidest wars ever, the corrupt world depression, and 7 years of mindless obstruction. Anything for the billionaire brainwashers, dingbat.
From 2007:
The USA is the only modern country in the world where full time workers live in poverty and have no health care (750k bankruptcies a year, most HAVE insurance - crap insurance!)After 30 years of Voodoo: worst min. wage, work conditions, illegal work safeguards, vacations, work week, college costs, rich/poor gap, upward social mobility, % homeless and in prison EVAH, and in the modern world!! And you complain about the victims? Are you an idiot or an A-hole?
Pubs have blocked EVERYTHING since 2/4/2010- don't be duped...again. Stimulus worked-ran out in 2010.
Total Pub Propaganda BS: ACORN, Kenyan Muslim Marxist,Tides, Mosque, Death Panel, lose your doctor, huge costs, DEBT CRISIS, Obama Recession, stimulus failed, Barney Frank, Nazi Soros, Nazi socialists, Volt suqs, Iran making bomb etc etc.
I'm sorry- dupes are lovely people- but I can't take their lazy, ignorant, careless, stupid politics a minute longer. Sorry

Then tell me why all the new subdivisions in my locale are selling out new homes as fast as they can build them and how the new car and truck dealers are adding on and building on and selling so many new vehicles? Why are there so many at all the eating places that you have to stand in line? Why all the shoppers in the mall you can't find a parking place? Where do you live? In the Black Hills?

So many stupid anecdotes, so little sense...I thought Obama policies have ruined everything lol

The Demise of the American Middle Class In Numbers.

Over the past 60 years the American dream has gradually disappeared. The process was slow, so most people didn’t notice. They just worked a few more hours, borrowed a little more and cut back on non-essentials. But looking at the numbers and comparing them over long time periods, it is obvious that things have changed drastically. Here are the details:

1. WORKERS PRODUCE MORE BUT THE GAINS GO TO BUSINESS.

Over the past 30 years worker productivity has grown by 2.0% per year.

But after 1980, workers received a smaller share every year. Labor’s share of income (1992 = 100%):

1950 = 101%
1960 = 105%
1970 = 105%
1980 = 105% – Reagan
1990 = 100%
2000 = 96%
2007 = 92%

A 13% drop since 1980

2. THE TOP 10% GET A LARGER SHARE.

Share of National Income going to Top 10%:

1950 = 35%
1960 = 34%
1970 = 34%
1980 = 34% – Reagan
1990 = 40%
2000 = 47%
2007 = 50%

An increase of 16% since Reagan.

3. WORKERS COMPENSATED FOR THE LOSS OF INCOME BY SPENDING THEIR SAVINGS.

The savings Rose up to Reagan and fell during and after.

1950 = 6.0%
1960 = 7.0%
1970 = 8.5%
1980 = 10.0% – Reagan
1982 = 11.2% – Peak
1990 = 7.0%
2000 = 2.0%
2006 = -1.1% (Negative = withdrawing from savings)

A 12.3% drop after Reagan.

4. WORKERS ALSO BORROWED TO MAKE UP FOR THE LOSS.

Household Debt as percentage of GDP:

1965 = 46%
1970 = 45%
1980 = 50% – Reagan
1990 = 61%
2000 = 69%
2007 = 95%

A 45% increase after 1980.

5. SO THE GAP BETWEEN THE RICHEST AND THE POOREST HAS GROWN.

Gap Between the Share of Capital Income earned by the top 1%
and the bottom 80%:

1980 = 10%
2003 = 56%

A 5.6 times increase.

6. AND THE AMERICAN DREAM IS GONE.

The Probably of Moving Up from the Bottom 40% to the Top 40%:

1945 = 12%
1958 = 6%
1990 = 3%
2000 = 2%

A 10% Decrease.

Links:

1 = ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/pf/totalf1.txt
1 = https://www.clevelandfed.org/Research/PolicyDis/No7Nov04.pdf
1 = Clipboard01.jpg (image)
2 – Congratulations to Emmanuel Saez
3 = http://www.demos.org/inequality/images/charts/uspersonalsaving_thumb.gif
3 = U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
4 = Federated Prudent Bear Fund (A): Overview
4 = FRB: Z.1 Release--Financial Accounts of the United States--December 10, 2015
5/6 = 15 Mind-Blowing Facts About Wealth And Inequality In America

Overview = http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2010062415/reagan-revolution-home-roost-charts

Frankie I agree may be a bit of a stall or shift to top end managers. What can be done about it? This is Capitalism. If someone does not like working for CEO making 10000X ordinary worker? go get other job? I don't know. I agree, Carly got rich when Lucent went belly up. But there are many success stories too. What can be done?

you want to turn USA into North Korea? everything dictated to everyone?

The only thing that works at cutting ridiculous salaries is a 90% rate over 10 million or so, like they had in the 50's and sixties...

Ever ask yourself why you are so jealous over what someone else makes or the success of others? Why the jealousy and envy?

 

[Wyatt earp]

Agreed, they are like locusts. They destroy where they are, then move to another location. They aren't smart enough to figure out it was they who destroyed where they were, so the cycle starts again, and they destroy the new are/region/state they move too.

Until these lefties become intelligent enough to admit, that 4/5ths of everything the government touches turns to poop, and they are almost always in charge of the government creating the poop, we are all in trouble.

And let us also be fair here...........it is NOT just because it is them, it is because just like when you go to your sates DMV, or the Social Security board, nobody is there trying to make things faster so someone can make more money. They get paid if they take care of 1 person a day, or 100 people a day. If their payroll goes over budget, either the state, local, or Feds will pick up the tab, and raise taxes on us.....the plebes, to cover the cost.

That is what lefties do not want to understand, or even try to comprehend. We are ALL paying through the nose because they do NOT have to be efficient at all. And when they get in competition with a private organization, the government entity gets hosed each and every time. (think Post Office, Fed-EX) Do lefties understand that if they got their stuff efficient, they could fund way more things they want with the same amount of money? But no, they would rather spend their time telling all of us how evil and uncivil we are, because we demand bang for our, and their......BUCKS!!!!

Sure. Has nothing to do with discrimination by the GOPers against blacks or white flight lol or manufacturing leaving the rust belt...or Pubs wrecking gov't entities like the PO to serve their greedy idiot masters...Thanks for 9/11, the stupidest wars ever, the corrupt world depression, and 7 years of mindless obstruction. Anything for the billionaire brainwashers, dingbat.
From 2007:
The USA is the only modern country in the world where full time workers live in poverty and have no health care (750k bankruptcies a year, most HAVE insurance - crap insurance!)After 30 years of Voodoo: worst min. wage, work conditions, illegal work safeguards, vacations, work week, college costs, rich/poor gap, upward social mobility, % homeless and in prison EVAH, and in the modern world!! And you complain about the victims? Are you an idiot or an A-hole?
Pubs have blocked EVERYTHING since 2/4/2010- don't be duped...again. Stimulus worked-ran out in 2010.
Total Pub Propaganda BS: ACORN, Kenyan Muslim Marxist,Tides, Mosque, Death Panel, lose your doctor, huge costs, DEBT CRISIS, Obama Recession, stimulus failed, Barney Frank, Nazi Soros, Nazi socialists, Volt suqs, Iran making bomb etc etc.
I'm sorry- dupes are lovely people- but I can't take their lazy, ignorant, careless, stupid politics a minute longer. Sorry

Then tell me why all the new subdivisions in my locale are selling out new homes as fast as they can build them and how the new car and truck dealers are adding on and building on and selling so many new vehicles? Why are there so many at all the eating places that you have to stand in line? Why all the shoppers in the mall you can't find a parking place? Where do you live? In the Black Hills?

So many stupid anecdotes, so little sense...I thought Obama policies have ruined everything lol

The Demise of the American Middle Class In Numbers.

Over the past 60 years the American dream has gradually disappeared. The process was slow, so most people didn’t notice. They just worked a few more hours, borrowed a little more and cut back on non-essentials. But looking at the numbers and comparing them over long time periods, it is obvious that things have changed drastically. Here are the details:

1. WORKERS PRODUCE MORE BUT THE GAINS GO TO BUSINESS.

Over the past 30 years worker productivity has grown by 2.0% per year.

But after 1980, workers received a smaller share every year. Labor’s share of income (1992 = 100%):

1950 = 101%
1960 = 105%
1970 = 105%
1980 = 105% – Reagan
1990 = 100%
2000 = 96%
2007 = 92%

A 13% drop since 1980

2. THE TOP 10% GET A LARGER SHARE.

Share of National Income going to Top 10%:

1950 = 35%
1960 = 34%
1970 = 34%
1980 = 34% – Reagan
1990 = 40%
2000 = 47%
2007 = 50%

An increase of 16% since Reagan.

3. WORKERS COMPENSATED FOR THE LOSS OF INCOME BY SPENDING THEIR SAVINGS.

The savings Rose up to Reagan and fell during and after.

1950 = 6.0%
1960 = 7.0%
1970 = 8.5%
1980 = 10.0% – Reagan
1982 = 11.2% – Peak
1990 = 7.0%
2000 = 2.0%
2006 = -1.1% (Negative = withdrawing from savings)

A 12.3% drop after Reagan.

4. WORKERS ALSO BORROWED TO MAKE UP FOR THE LOSS.

Household Debt as percentage of GDP:

1965 = 46%
1970 = 45%
1980 = 50% – Reagan
1990 = 61%
2000 = 69%
2007 = 95%

A 45% increase after 1980.

5. SO THE GAP BETWEEN THE RICHEST AND THE POOREST HAS GROWN.

Gap Between the Share of Capital Income earned by the top 1%
and the bottom 80%:

1980 = 10%
2003 = 56%

A 5.6 times increase.

6. AND THE AMERICAN DREAM IS GONE.

The Probably of Moving Up from the Bottom 40% to the Top 40%:

1945 = 12%
1958 = 6%
1990 = 3%
2000 = 2%

A 10% Decrease.

Links:

1 = ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/pf/totalf1.txt
1 = https://www.clevelandfed.org/Research/PolicyDis/No7Nov04.pdf
1 = Clipboard01.jpg (image)
2 – Congratulations to Emmanuel Saez
3 = http://www.demos.org/inequality/images/charts/uspersonalsaving_thumb.gif
3 = U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
4 = Federated Prudent Bear Fund (A): Overview
4 = FRB: Z.1 Release--Financial Accounts of the United States--December 10, 2015
5/6 = 15 Mind-Blowing Facts About Wealth And Inequality In America

Overview = http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2010062415/reagan-revolution-home-roost-charts

Frankie I agree may be a bit of a stall or shift to top end managers. What can be done about it? This is Capitalism. If someone does not like working for CEO making 10000X ordinary worker? go get other job? I don't know. I agree, Carly got rich when Lucent went belly up. But there are many success stories too. What can be done?

you want to turn USA into North Korea? everything dictated to everyone?

The only thing that works at cutting ridiculous salaries is a 90% rate over 10 million or so, like they had in the 50's and sixties...

Yea we know Franco you want to drag us back into the 50s when Europe was in ruins, so many tax loopholes you could drive a Peterbuilt truck through and darkie had to sit in the back of the bus....

Sorry not going to happen.

 

[the_human_being]

Sure. Has nothing to do with discrimination by the GOPers against blacks or white flight lol or manufacturing leaving the rust belt...or Pubs wrecking gov't entities like the PO to serve their greedy idiot masters...Thanks for 9/11, the stupidest wars ever, the corrupt world depression, and 7 years of mindless obstruction. Anything for the billionaire brainwashers, dingbat.
From 2007:
The USA is the only modern country in the world where full time workers live in poverty and have no health care (750k bankruptcies a year, most HAVE insurance - crap insurance!)After 30 years of Voodoo: worst min. wage, work conditions, illegal work safeguards, vacations, work week, college costs, rich/poor gap, upward social mobility, % homeless and in prison EVAH, and in the modern world!! And you complain about the victims? Are you an idiot or an A-hole?
Pubs have blocked EVERYTHING since 2/4/2010- don't be duped...again. Stimulus worked-ran out in 2010.
Total Pub Propaganda BS: ACORN, Kenyan Muslim Marxist,Tides, Mosque, Death Panel, lose your doctor, huge costs, DEBT CRISIS, Obama Recession, stimulus failed, Barney Frank, Nazi Soros, Nazi socialists, Volt suqs, Iran making bomb etc etc.
I'm sorry- dupes are lovely people- but I can't take their lazy, ignorant, careless, stupid politics a minute longer. Sorry

Then tell me why all the new subdivisions in my locale are selling out new homes as fast as they can build them and how the new car and truck dealers are adding on and building on and selling so many new vehicles? Why are there so many at all the eating places that you have to stand in line? Why all the shoppers in the mall you can't find a parking place? Where do you live? In the Black Hills?

So many stupid anecdotes, so little sense...I thought Obama policies have ruined everything lol

The Demise of the American Middle Class In Numbers.

Over the past 60 years the American dream has gradually disappeared. The process was slow, so most people didn’t notice. They just worked a few more hours, borrowed a little more and cut back on non-essentials. But looking at the numbers and comparing them over long time periods, it is obvious that things have changed drastically. Here are the details:

1. WORKERS PRODUCE MORE BUT THE GAINS GO TO BUSINESS.

Over the past 30 years worker productivity has grown by 2.0% per year.

But after 1980, workers received a smaller share every year. Labor’s share of income (1992 = 100%):

1950 = 101%
1960 = 105%
1970 = 105%
1980 = 105% – Reagan
1990 = 100%
2000 = 96%
2007 = 92%

A 13% drop since 1980

2. THE TOP 10% GET A LARGER SHARE.

Share of National Income going to Top 10%:

1950 = 35%
1960 = 34%
1970 = 34%
1980 = 34% – Reagan
1990 = 40%
2000 = 47%
2007 = 50%

An increase of 16% since Reagan.

3. WORKERS COMPENSATED FOR THE LOSS OF INCOME BY SPENDING THEIR SAVINGS.

The savings Rose up to Reagan and fell during and after.

1950 = 6.0%
1960 = 7.0%
1970 = 8.5%
1980 = 10.0% – Reagan
1982 = 11.2% – Peak
1990 = 7.0%
2000 = 2.0%
2006 = -1.1% (Negative = withdrawing from savings)

A 12.3% drop after Reagan.

4. WORKERS ALSO BORROWED TO MAKE UP FOR THE LOSS.

Household Debt as percentage of GDP:

1965 = 46%
1970 = 45%
1980 = 50% – Reagan
1990 = 61%
2000 = 69%
2007 = 95%

A 45% increase after 1980.

5. SO THE GAP BETWEEN THE RICHEST AND THE POOREST HAS GROWN.

Gap Between the Share of Capital Income earned by the top 1%
and the bottom 80%:

1980 = 10%
2003 = 56%

A 5.6 times increase.

6. AND THE AMERICAN DREAM IS GONE.

The Probably of Moving Up from the Bottom 40% to the Top 40%:

1945 = 12%
1958 = 6%
1990 = 3%
2000 = 2%

A 10% Decrease.

Links:

1 = ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/pf/totalf1.txt
1 = https://www.clevelandfed.org/Research/PolicyDis/No7Nov04.pdf
1 = Clipboard01.jpg (image)
2 – Congratulations to Emmanuel Saez
3 = http://www.demos.org/inequality/images/charts/uspersonalsaving_thumb.gif
3 = U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
4 = Federated Prudent Bear Fund (A): Overview
4 = FRB: Z.1 Release--Financial Accounts of the United States--December 10, 2015
5/6 = 15 Mind-Blowing Facts About Wealth And Inequality In America

Overview = http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2010062415/reagan-revolution-home-roost-charts

Frankie I agree may be a bit of a stall or shift to top end managers. What can be done about it? This is Capitalism. If someone does not like working for CEO making 10000X ordinary worker? go get other job? I don't know. I agree, Carly got rich when Lucent went belly up. But there are many success stories too. What can be done?

you want to turn USA into North Korea? everything dictated to everyone?

The only thing that works at cutting ridiculous salaries is a 90% rate over 10 million or so, like they had in the 50's and sixties...

Yea we know Franco you want to drag us back into the 50s when Europe was in ruins, so many tax loopholes you could drive a Peterbuilt truck through and darkie had to sit in the back of the bus....

Sorry not going to happen.

Yes, Franco must be a total underachiever himself he's so jealousy of someone else's success.

 

[leftwinger]

The only thing that works at cutting ridiculous salaries is a 90% rate over 10 million or so, like they had in the 50's and sixties...

Revenue collected has almost never broken 20%*GDP (yes I have posted charts) no matter what tax rate is. Why? I not smart enough to know. Money moves? they stop working a 9.9mil? Economy slows?

 

[francoHFW]

What about Countrywide etc- Pals of Booshies...not pressure anyone...funny stuff!!

Pals of Bush? Lol, prove it. You libs with your Bush buddies. Everybody is a buddy of Bush apparently.

Just all the greedy idiot mega-rich a-hole Pubs who bankroll the GOP, it's propaganda machine, and caused the world depression and the ruin of our middle class and country, duh dumbass.

From what I've read, it has been Obama's policies that have hurt the Middle Class so much.

Such as lol?

Are you unable to Google anything yourself?

Obama's focus on poor burdens middle class

What a pile of bs. The fact is that Pubs in congress have blocked all Obama policies the last 7 years. Our recovery is simply the power of America without ANOTHER Pub corrupt bubble. But wages have not improved, and what we need is a prosperous middle class and DEMAND. See infrastructure bank/good jobs and training for 3 million tech jobs going begging- stuff Pubs have always been for in the past, but now they're mindless greedy ideological idiots with nothong but bs propaganda for brainwashed functional idiots like you. Like your stupid link.

All he's passed is ACA and that has not hurt the economy, just ridiculous Big Health profits.

 

[francoHFW]

Then tell me why all the new subdivisions in my locale are selling out new homes as fast as they can build them and how the new car and truck dealers are adding on and building on and selling so many new vehicles? Why are there so many at all the eating places that you have to stand in line? Why all the shoppers in the mall you can't find a parking place? Where do you live? In the Black Hills?

So many stupid anecdotes, so little sense...I thought Obama policies have ruined everything lol

The Demise of the American Middle Class In Numbers.

Over the past 60 years the American dream has gradually disappeared. The process was slow, so most people didn’t notice. They just worked a few more hours, borrowed a little more and cut back on non-essentials. But looking at the numbers and comparing them over long time periods, it is obvious that things have changed drastically. Here are the details:

1. WORKERS PRODUCE MORE BUT THE GAINS GO TO BUSINESS.

Over the past 30 years worker productivity has grown by 2.0% per year.

But after 1980, workers received a smaller share every year. Labor’s share of income (1992 = 100%):

1950 = 101%
1960 = 105%
1970 = 105%
1980 = 105% – Reagan
1990 = 100%
2000 = 96%
2007 = 92%

A 13% drop since 1980

2. THE TOP 10% GET A LARGER SHARE.

Share of National Income going to Top 10%:

1950 = 35%
1960 = 34%
1970 = 34%
1980 = 34% – Reagan
1990 = 40%
2000 = 47%
2007 = 50%

An increase of 16% since Reagan.

3. WORKERS COMPENSATED FOR THE LOSS OF INCOME BY SPENDING THEIR SAVINGS.

The savings Rose up to Reagan and fell during and after.

1950 = 6.0%
1960 = 7.0%
1970 = 8.5%
1980 = 10.0% – Reagan
1982 = 11.2% – Peak
1990 = 7.0%
2000 = 2.0%
2006 = -1.1% (Negative = withdrawing from savings)

A 12.3% drop after Reagan.

4. WORKERS ALSO BORROWED TO MAKE UP FOR THE LOSS.

Household Debt as percentage of GDP:

1965 = 46%
1970 = 45%
1980 = 50% – Reagan
1990 = 61%
2000 = 69%
2007 = 95%

A 45% increase after 1980.

5. SO THE GAP BETWEEN THE RICHEST AND THE POOREST HAS GROWN.

Gap Between the Share of Capital Income earned by the top 1%
and the bottom 80%:

1980 = 10%
2003 = 56%

A 5.6 times increase.

6. AND THE AMERICAN DREAM IS GONE.

The Probably of Moving Up from the Bottom 40% to the Top 40%:

1945 = 12%
1958 = 6%
1990 = 3%
2000 = 2%

A 10% Decrease.

Links:

1 = ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/pf/totalf1.txt
1 = https://www.clevelandfed.org/Research/PolicyDis/No7Nov04.pdf
1 = Clipboard01.jpg (image)
2 – Congratulations to Emmanuel Saez
3 = http://www.demos.org/inequality/images/charts/uspersonalsaving_thumb.gif
3 = U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
4 = Federated Prudent Bear Fund (A): Overview
4 = FRB: Z.1 Release--Financial Accounts of the United States--December 10, 2015
5/6 = 15 Mind-Blowing Facts About Wealth And Inequality In America

Overview = http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2010062415/reagan-revolution-home-roost-charts

Frankie I agree may be a bit of a stall or shift to top end managers. What can be done about it? This is Capitalism. If someone does not like working for CEO making 10000X ordinary worker? go get other job? I don't know. I agree, Carly got rich when Lucent went belly up. But there are many success stories too. What can be done?

you want to turn USA into North Korea? everything dictated to everyone?

The only thing that works at cutting ridiculous salaries is a 90% rate over 10 million or so, like they had in the 50's and sixties...

Yea we know Franco you want to drag us back into the 50s when Europe was in ruins, so many tax loopholes you could drive a Peterbuilt truck through and darkie had to sit in the back of the bus....

Sorry not going to happen.

Yes, Franco must be a total underachiever himself he's so jealousy of someone else's success.

Jebus what an idiot...The middle class and the country have fallen apart the last 30 years, hater dupe, and all you have is stupid propaganda and stupid insults. Functional moron.

After 30 years of Voodoo: worst min. wage, work conditions, illegal work safeguards, vacations, work week, college costs, rich/poor gap, upward social mobility, % homeless and in prison EVAH, and in the modern world!! And you complain about the victims? Are you an idiot or an A-hole?

 

[the_human_being]

Pals of Bush? Lol, prove it. You libs with your Bush buddies. Everybody is a buddy of Bush apparently.

Just all the greedy idiot mega-rich a-hole Pubs who bankroll the GOP, it's propaganda machine, and caused the world depression and the ruin of our middle class and country, duh dumbass.

From what I've read, it has been Obama's policies that have hurt the Middle Class so much.

Such as lol?

Are you unable to Google anything yourself?

Obama's focus on poor burdens middle class

What a pile of bs. The fact is that Pubs in congress have blocked all Obama policies the last 7 years. Our recovery is simply the power of America without ANOTHER Pub corrupt bubble. But wages have not improved, and what we need is a prosperous middle class and DEMAND. See infrastructure bank/good jobs and training for 3 million tech jobs going begging- stuff Pubs have always been for in the past, but now they're mindless greedy ideological idiots with nothong but bs propaganda for brainwashed functional idiots like you. Like your stupid link.

All he's passed is ACA and that has not hurt the economy, just ridiculous Big Health profits.

Then go get the technical training you need. No one is stopping you. No one is standing in the school house door to block you. It's your own choice.

 

[the_human_being]

So many stupid anecdotes, so little sense...I thought Obama policies have ruined everything lol

The Demise of the American Middle Class In Numbers.

Over the past 60 years the American dream has gradually disappeared. The process was slow, so most people didn’t notice. They just worked a few more hours, borrowed a little more and cut back on non-essentials. But looking at the numbers and comparing them over long time periods, it is obvious that things have changed drastically. Here are the details:

1. WORKERS PRODUCE MORE BUT THE GAINS GO TO BUSINESS.

Over the past 30 years worker productivity has grown by 2.0% per year.

But after 1980, workers received a smaller share every year. Labor’s share of income (1992 = 100%):

1950 = 101%
1960 = 105%
1970 = 105%
1980 = 105% – Reagan
1990 = 100%
2000 = 96%
2007 = 92%

A 13% drop since 1980

2. THE TOP 10% GET A LARGER SHARE.

Share of National Income going to Top 10%:

1950 = 35%
1960 = 34%
1970 = 34%
1980 = 34% – Reagan
1990 = 40%
2000 = 47%
2007 = 50%

An increase of 16% since Reagan.

3. WORKERS COMPENSATED FOR THE LOSS OF INCOME BY SPENDING THEIR SAVINGS.

The savings Rose up to Reagan and fell during and after.

1950 = 6.0%
1960 = 7.0%
1970 = 8.5%
1980 = 10.0% – Reagan
1982 = 11.2% – Peak
1990 = 7.0%
2000 = 2.0%
2006 = -1.1% (Negative = withdrawing from savings)

A 12.3% drop after Reagan.

4. WORKERS ALSO BORROWED TO MAKE UP FOR THE LOSS.

Household Debt as percentage of GDP:

1965 = 46%
1970 = 45%
1980 = 50% – Reagan
1990 = 61%
2000 = 69%
2007 = 95%

A 45% increase after 1980.

5. SO THE GAP BETWEEN THE RICHEST AND THE POOREST HAS GROWN.

Gap Between the Share of Capital Income earned by the top 1%
and the bottom 80%:

1980 = 10%
2003 = 56%

A 5.6 times increase.

6. AND THE AMERICAN DREAM IS GONE.

The Probably of Moving Up from the Bottom 40% to the Top 40%:

1945 = 12%
1958 = 6%
1990 = 3%
2000 = 2%

A 10% Decrease.

Links:

1 = ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/pf/totalf1.txt
1 = https://www.clevelandfed.org/Research/PolicyDis/No7Nov04.pdf
1 = Clipboard01.jpg (image)
2 – Congratulations to Emmanuel Saez
3 = http://www.demos.org/inequality/images/charts/uspersonalsaving_thumb.gif
3 = U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
4 = Federated Prudent Bear Fund (A): Overview
4 = FRB: Z.1 Release--Financial Accounts of the United States--December 10, 2015
5/6 = 15 Mind-Blowing Facts About Wealth And Inequality In America

Overview = http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2010062415/reagan-revolution-home-roost-charts

Frankie I agree may be a bit of a stall or shift to top end managers. What can be done about it? This is Capitalism. If someone does not like working for CEO making 10000X ordinary worker? go get other job? I don't know. I agree, Carly got rich when Lucent went belly up. But there are many success stories too. What can be done?

you want to turn USA into North Korea? everything dictated to everyone?

The only thing that works at cutting ridiculous salaries is a 90% rate over 10 million or so, like they had in the 50's and sixties...

Yea we know Franco you want to drag us back into the 50s when Europe was in ruins, so many tax loopholes you could drive a Peterbuilt truck through and darkie had to sit in the back of the bus....

Sorry not going to happen.

Yes, Franco must be a total underachiever himself he's so jealousy of someone else's success.

Jebus what an idiot...The middle class and the country have fallen apart the last 30 years, hater dupe, and all you have is stupid propaganda and stupid insults. Functional moron.

After 30 years of Voodoo: worst min. wage, work conditions, illegal work safeguards, vacations, work week, college costs, rich/poor gap, upward social mobility, % homeless and in prison EVAH, and in the modern world!! And you complain about the victims? Are you an idiot or an A-hole?

Like I said before, the houses are selling. The cars and trucks are selling. Maybe if you had stayed in school you could have made it too?

 

[Papageorgio]

Ghetto's form because there isn't enough funding for education, isn't enough high paying jobs and the infrastructure is turning to shit.

Also not enough police. Op, do you believe in Police?

That is where democrats are elected and put into control, why don't the Dems who claim to before education do something?

 

[the_human_being]

So many stupid anecdotes, so little sense...I thought Obama policies have ruined everything lol

The Demise of the American Middle Class In Numbers.

Over the past 60 years the American dream has gradually disappeared. The process was slow, so most people didn’t notice. They just worked a few more hours, borrowed a little more and cut back on non-essentials. But looking at the numbers and comparing them over long time periods, it is obvious that things have changed drastically. Here are the details:

1. WORKERS PRODUCE MORE BUT THE GAINS GO TO BUSINESS.

Over the past 30 years worker productivity has grown by 2.0% per year.

But after 1980, workers received a smaller share every year. Labor’s share of income (1992 = 100%):

1950 = 101%
1960 = 105%
1970 = 105%
1980 = 105% – Reagan
1990 = 100%
2000 = 96%
2007 = 92%

A 13% drop since 1980

2. THE TOP 10% GET A LARGER SHARE.

Share of National Income going to Top 10%:

1950 = 35%
1960 = 34%
1970 = 34%
1980 = 34% – Reagan
1990 = 40%
2000 = 47%
2007 = 50%

An increase of 16% since Reagan.

3. WORKERS COMPENSATED FOR THE LOSS OF INCOME BY SPENDING THEIR SAVINGS.

The savings Rose up to Reagan and fell during and after.

1950 = 6.0%
1960 = 7.0%
1970 = 8.5%
1980 = 10.0% – Reagan
1982 = 11.2% – Peak
1990 = 7.0%
2000 = 2.0%
2006 = -1.1% (Negative = withdrawing from savings)

A 12.3% drop after Reagan.

4. WORKERS ALSO BORROWED TO MAKE UP FOR THE LOSS.

Household Debt as percentage of GDP:

1965 = 46%
1970 = 45%
1980 = 50% – Reagan
1990 = 61%
2000 = 69%
2007 = 95%

A 45% increase after 1980.

5. SO THE GAP BETWEEN THE RICHEST AND THE POOREST HAS GROWN.

Gap Between the Share of Capital Income earned by the top 1%
and the bottom 80%:

1980 = 10%
2003 = 56%

A 5.6 times increase.

6. AND THE AMERICAN DREAM IS GONE.

The Probably of Moving Up from the Bottom 40% to the Top 40%:

1945 = 12%
1958 = 6%
1990 = 3%
2000 = 2%

A 10% Decrease.

Links:

1 = ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/pf/totalf1.txt
1 = https://www.clevelandfed.org/Research/PolicyDis/No7Nov04.pdf
1 = Clipboard01.jpg (image)
2 – Congratulations to Emmanuel Saez
3 = http://www.demos.org/inequality/images/charts/uspersonalsaving_thumb.gif
3 = U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
4 = Federated Prudent Bear Fund (A): Overview
4 = FRB: Z.1 Release--Financial Accounts of the United States--December 10, 2015
5/6 = 15 Mind-Blowing Facts About Wealth And Inequality In America

Overview = http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2010062415/reagan-revolution-home-roost-charts

Frankie I agree may be a bit of a stall or shift to top end managers. What can be done about it? This is Capitalism. If someone does not like working for CEO making 10000X ordinary worker? go get other job? I don't know. I agree, Carly got rich when Lucent went belly up. But there are many success stories too. What can be done?

you want to turn USA into North Korea? everything dictated to everyone?

The only thing that works at cutting ridiculous salaries is a 90% rate over 10 million or so, like they had in the 50's and sixties...

Yea we know Franco you want to drag us back into the 50s when Europe was in ruins, so many tax loopholes you could drive a Peterbuilt truck through and darkie had to sit in the back of the bus....

Sorry not going to happen.

Yes, Franco must be a total underachiever himself he's so jealousy of someone else's success.

Jebus what an idiot...The middle class and the country have fallen apart the last 30 years, hater dupe, and all you have is stupid propaganda and stupid insults. Functional moron.

After 30 years of Voodoo: worst min. wage, work conditions, illegal work safeguards, vacations, work week, college costs, rich/poor gap, upward social mobility, % homeless and in prison EVAH, and in the modern world!! And you complain about the victims? Are you an idiot or an A-hole?

All you've got to do is vote Trump and we'll make America great again. Trump won't have any problem vacating all the executive orders Obama has made. The ACA is collapsing all on its own anyway.

 

[francoHFW]

Most of you got a loan from daddy

This one didn't. My parents were uneducated and below the poverty level. Their lot in life is what made me determined I was not going to live my life the way they did.

And then pull up the Dem aid ladder behind you that made that possible...see Carson, Cruz, Rubio etc etc..great job!

What Democrat aid ladder, Dupe? You parroting Obama? I made my way all by myself. I never lusted for anyone else's money nor did I ever expect anyone else to help me.

You didn't become successful by yourself. If so, go make a million on a deserted island.

And you became successful in a country that helped guys like you. Go to Mexico and try to make it. See? The government can help or hurt you

I used the G.I. Bill to get an education. That was a benefit of my going off to war. Anyone who desires can go into the military today and earn college benefits. It's open to almost anyone. The Liberals won't do it though, they want someone to provide them with a free education. I'm sorry if I'm hard but don't complain to me if there is an avenue available to you to get a college education and you feel you are just too good to contribute anything at all towards it.

OMFG what a lying POS socialist lol...who the hell started GI Bills, MORON? And who feqed up college loans and public college costs, and changed laws to start scam online colleges in 2002-5 to ream returning GIs with bs profit for megarich Pub a-holes? You're a total dupe.

 

[the_human_being]

This one didn't. My parents were uneducated and below the poverty level. Their lot in life is what made me determined I was not going to live my life the way they did.

And then pull up the Dem aid ladder behind you that made that possible...see Carson, Cruz, Rubio etc etc..great job!

What Democrat aid ladder, Dupe? You parroting Obama? I made my way all by myself. I never lusted for anyone else's money nor did I ever expect anyone else to help me.

You didn't become successful by yourself. If so, go make a million on a deserted island.

And you became successful in a country that helped guys like you. Go to Mexico and try to make it. See? The government can help or hurt you

I used the G.I. Bill to get an education. That was a benefit of my going off to war. Anyone who desires can go into the military today and earn college benefits. It's open to almost anyone. The Liberals won't do it though, they want someone to provide them with a free education. I'm sorry if I'm hard but don't complain to me if there is an avenue available to you to get a college education and you feel you are just too good to contribute anything at all towards it.

OMFG what a lying POS socialist lol...who the hell started GI Bills, MORON? And who feqed up college loans and public college costs, and changed laws to start scam online colleges in 2002-5 to ream returning GIs with bs profit for megarich Pub a-holes? You're a total dupe.

No. I'm a very successful businessman who paid for the college educations of three children who are now running the business I built. I'm one of those whom you are so jealous and envious of. Suck it up.

 

[francoHFW]

Frankie I agree may be a bit of a stall or shift to top end managers. What can be done about it? This is Capitalism. If someone does not like working for CEO making 10000X ordinary worker? go get other job? I don't know. I agree, Carly got rich when Lucent went belly up. But there are many success stories too. What can be done?

you want to turn USA into North Korea? everything dictated to everyone?

The only thing that works at cutting ridiculous salaries is a 90% rate over 10 million or so, like they had in the 50's and sixties...

Yea we know Franco you want to drag us back into the 50s when Europe was in ruins, so many tax loopholes you could drive a Peterbuilt truck through and darkie had to sit in the back of the bus....

Sorry not going to happen.

Yes, Franco must be a total underachiever himself he's so jealousy of someone else's success.

Jebus what an idiot...The middle class and the country have fallen apart the last 30 years, hater dupe, and all you have is stupid propaganda and stupid insults. Functional moron.

After 30 years of Voodoo: worst min. wage, work conditions, illegal work safeguards, vacations, work week, college costs, rich/poor gap, upward social mobility, % homeless and in prison EVAH, and in the modern world!! And you complain about the victims? Are you an idiot or an A-hole?

All you've got to do is vote Trump and we'll make America great again. Trump won't have any problem vacating all the executive orders Obama has made. The ACA is collapsing all on its own anyway.

Yup, tax cuts for the rich, business deregulation, and chickenhawk wars...what could possibly go wrong?

 

[the_human_being]

Ghetto's form because there isn't enough funding for education, isn't enough high paying jobs and the infrastructure is turning to shit.

Also not enough police. Op, do you believe in Police?

That is where democrats are elected and put into control, why don't the Dems who claim to before education do something?

Well, to be fair, Obama did spend a whole lot of taxpayer funds on shovel-ready jobs. LOL!!

 

[francoHFW]

And then pull up the Dem aid ladder behind you that made that possible...see Carson, Cruz, Rubio etc etc..great job!

What Democrat aid ladder, Dupe? You parroting Obama? I made my way all by myself. I never lusted for anyone else's money nor did I ever expect anyone else to help me.

You didn't become successful by yourself. If so, go make a million on a deserted island.

And you became successful in a country that helped guys like you. Go to Mexico and try to make it. See? The government can help or hurt you

I used the G.I. Bill to get an education. That was a benefit of my going off to war. Anyone who desires can go into the military today and earn college benefits. It's open to almost anyone. The Liberals won't do it though, they want someone to provide them with a free education. I'm sorry if I'm hard but don't complain to me if there is an avenue available to you to get a college education and you feel you are just too good to contribute anything at all towards it.

OMFG what a lying POS socialist lol...who the hell started GI Bills, MORON? And who feqed up college loans and public college costs, and changed laws to start scam online colleges in 2002-5 to ream returning GIs with bs profit for megarich Pub a-holes? You're a total dupe.

No. I'm a very successful businessman who paid for the college educations of three children who are now running the business I built. I'm one of those whom you are so jealous and envious of. Suck it up.

And all you really care about now is not paying your fair share and blaming and hating the poor victims of the New BS GOP, blaming the black guy and the gay guy lol...your party is a disastrous disgrace.

After 30 years of Voodoo: worst min. wage, work conditions, illegal work safeguards, vacations, work week, college costs, rich/poor gap, upward social mobility, % homeless and in prison EVAH, and in the modern world!! And you complain about the victims? Are you an idiot or an A-hole?

 

[the_human_being]

What Democrat aid ladder, Dupe? You parroting Obama? I made my way all by myself. I never lusted for anyone else's money nor did I ever expect anyone else to help me.

You didn't become successful by yourself. If so, go make a million on a deserted island.

And you became successful in a country that helped guys like you. Go to Mexico and try to make it. See? The government can help or hurt you

I used the G.I. Bill to get an education. That was a benefit of my going off to war. Anyone who desires can go into the military today and earn college benefits. It's open to almost anyone. The Liberals won't do it though, they want someone to provide them with a free education. I'm sorry if I'm hard but don't complain to me if there is an avenue available to you to get a college education and you feel you are just too good to contribute anything at all towards it.

OMFG what a lying POS socialist lol...who the hell started GI Bills, MORON? And who feqed up college loans and public college costs, and changed laws to start scam online colleges in 2002-5 to ream returning GIs with bs profit for megarich Pub a-holes? You're a total dupe.

No. I'm a very successful businessman who paid for the college educations of three children who are now running the business I built. I'm one of those whom you are so jealous and envious of. Suck it up.

And all you really care about now is not paying your fair share and blaming and hating the poor victims of the New BS GOP, blaming the black guy and the gay guy lol...your party is a disastrous disgrace.

After 30 years of Voodoo: worst min. wage, work conditions, illegal work safeguards, vacations, work week, college costs, rich/poor gap, upward social mobility, % homeless and in prison EVAH, and in the modern world!! And you complain about the victims? Are you an idiot or an A-hole?

I don't owe the Blacks a damn thing. I don't owe you a damn thing and I certainly pay far more taxes than you.

 

[francoHFW]

Ghetto's form because there isn't enough funding for education, isn't enough high paying jobs and the infrastructure is turning to shit.

Also not enough police. Op, do you believe in Police?

That is where democrats are elected and put into control, why don't the Dems who claim to before education do something?

Well, to be fair, Obama did spend a whole lot of taxpayer funds on shovel-ready jobs. LOL!!

200 billion. Not enough, but his tax cuts for the middle class and support of state and local gov't (cops and teachers) etc stopped ANOTHER true Pub Great Depression.