Fox Reports That 98,000,000 Americans Out Of Work

[rightwinger]

The BIG LIE

Fox Reports That 98,000,000 Americans Out Of Work

They are out of the workforce NOT out of work

So, how is one working but not in the workforce? How does one pull that off?

You are not working and have no intention of working

You are not "out of work"...you are "retired"

Nobody should get to retire anymore what with the budget. Soggy needs to get a job and contribute and stop being a "taker." All these "retired" leeches need to pick it up. (-:

Well, maybe if Republicans kill Social Security like they want to, all those retirees will have to go back to work

 

[pinqy]

"Just one month before the 2012 election, the Obama campaign received a major illegal campaign contribution from the Commerce Department. The Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported on October 5, 2012 that the nation’s unemployment rate suddenly dropped sharply over the prior month, from 8.1% to 7.8%. That supposedly ended the longest period in the nation’s history with unemployment over 8%, except for the Great Depression, which occurred under President Obama.

Just before the election. How convenient.

BLS is not part of the Department of Commerce, but the Department of Labor.
At that time, the one Presidentially appointed position, Commissioner, was vacant and the acting Commissioner was a career civil servant who'd been at BLS since the Reagan administration.

.....how inconsistent the supposed unemployment drop was with other contemporaneous economic data. The sharp unemployment drop supposedly resulted from a total of 114,000 new jobs created in September, 2012, according to the Establishment Survey of business payrolls of the Bureau of Labor Statistics that the Obama Administration had been emphasizing throughout its first term. But economist John Lott noted at Foxnews.comthat the working age population had grown by 206,000 in September, 2012. With normal labor force participation during a recovery from a steep recession, that would have required 138,000 new jobs that month, just to keep pace with population growth, let alone to reduce the unemployment rate.."

Buit the Unemployment rate doesn't use the Establishment survey to calculate the UE rate. It uses a Household Survey...the Current Population Survey. That showed an increase of 626,000 employed. And while it appeared to be a large jump at the time, it does not appear that way in hindsight:

And looking at the UE rate the change doesn't look unusual either.:

And as I showed, the OIG investigation showed no manipulation or even possible manipulation by Census.

Wise up.

I will gladly listen to any credible evidence.

".... one Presidentially appointed..."

Does that phrase refer to the President who won the "Lie of the Year" award???


Does it, pinqy????

As I said there were NO Presidentially appointed people at BLS in 2012. The previous Commisioner, Dr. Keith Hall, was a Bush appointee who served from 2008 to 2012. (The term for BLS Commissioner is independent of the President)

 

[healthmyths]

If that's even close to the truth nobody had a job under Bush:

I did and what does that have to do with now? Bush hasn't been president for seven years.

It's just the way it is on political message boards.
Boards like USMB attract mostly the fringe element filled with severe distaste (hate) for their opposition. Everything that goes wrong is always the otherside's fault and their side always has the answer.
When W was president, anything that went wrong, well it was Clinton's fault. With Obama in office the shoe is on the other foot and now everything is W's fault.
This board (along with other boards) lacks enough objective posters to be taken seriously.

Please tell me none of these things happened.

Year Federal revenue(billions) increase/ decrease Change Reason
2000 $1,211
2001 $1,145 -$ 66 -5.47% -- remember Wall street closed, no flights 3 days destructions!
2002 $1,006 -$139 -12.14% In spite of dot.com/911 losses tax writes offs..
2003 $ 926 -$ 81 -8.04% dot.com/911 losses tax write offs
2004 $ 998 $ 73 up! 7.87% ^ Tax cuts STARTED.. in spite of tax revenues UP!
2005 $1,206 $207 up! 20.76%^ Again tax cuts in play.. REVENUES UP!!!
2006 $1,398 $192 UP! 15.95%^ AGAIN tax cuts but REVENUES UP!!!
2007 $1,534 $136 UP! 9.72%^ Again tax cuts BUT revenues UP!!!
2008 $1,450 -$ 84 - 5.45% $500 billion pulled out of MMF on 9/18/08 in 2 hours!
And then we had more jobs created in spite of the above events that cost jobs...

3 years of down REVENUES after
1) Recession...
2) Dot.com bust remember $5 trillion in market losses MEANT tax deductions which meant LoWER REVENUE DUMMY!
3) Little event like 9/11occurred! 3 days no flights;10 days no wall street! 18,000 businesses loss
Event like that cost 400,000 jobs that PAID TAXES you dummy!!!

4) $1 trillion in written off losses due to the WORST Hurricane SEASONS in history.
The worst Katrina made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 3 in 2005. It took 1,836 lives and caused $81.2 billion in damages. Andrew slammed into South Florida in 1992 as a Category 5. It caused 40 deaths and $30 billion in property damage. More than 250,000 people were left homeless and 82,000 businesses were destroyed or damaged.
Hurricane Katrina ALONE! Year 2005: Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
On August 25, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast of the U.S. as a strong Category 3 or low Category 4 storm. It quickly became the biggest natural disaster in U.S. history, almost destroying New Orleans due to severe flooding.
10 Events That Rocked the Financial World

AND YOU evidently forgot about those events and the direct loss of tax payer jobs. Of tax paying businesses destroyed in 9/11 and worst hurricanes!

FROM the Bureau of Economic Analysis Department of Commerce:
BEA National Economic Accounts

When Bush took office in 2001 GDP was $12.355,271,000,000
when Bush left office in 2008 GDP was $14,359,490,000,000
A 16% increase in GDP or $2 TRILLION
OH and yea how about THESE EVENTS that no other President ever experienced: 1) Dot.com bust-- 2) 9/11 3) Worst hurricane SEASONS...All of which made
these numbers worse BUT still there was growth!!!
THESE events OCCURRED!

YET in SPITE of :
a) 400,000 jobs lost due to Hurricanes Katrina/Rita ,
b) 2,800,000 jobs lost in alone due to 9/11,
c) 300,000 jobs lost due to dot.com busts...
In spite of nearly $8 trillion in lost businesses, market values, destroyed property.. IN SPITE of that:

So starting in 2001 132,548,000 people were working.
At the end of 2008 138,056,000 people working..
AFTER the tax cuts Federal Tax REVENUES Increased an average of 9.78% per year!!!
Government Revenue Details: Federal State Local for 2008 - Charts


These are the FACTS.. NOT subjective but real facts.
But you and others totally ignore the biased MSM's efforts to bias the news during GWB presidency.
PROOF they were biased?

1) In 2008 85% of media donated money to Democrats!
1,160 (85%) of the 1,353 of the Senior executives, on-air personalities, producers, reporters, editors, writers and other self-identifying employees of ABC, CBS and NBC contributed more than $1 million to Democrats candidates and campaign committees in 2008, according to an analysis by The Examiner of data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.
Obama, Democrats got 88 percent of 2008 contributions by TV network execs, writers, reporters

2) 130,213 stories can't be swept under the rug that show that the Democrat Bias is very evident!
Study of 130,213 stories shows Obama bias in 2012 election BY PAUL BEDARD | MARCH 16, 2015 | 10:49 AM
A sweeping study of some 130,213 news articles on the 2012 presidential match between President Obama and Mitt Romney has proven anew
that there was a strong pro-Democratic bias in the U.S. and international press.
The study, published in the authoritative journal Big Data Society, also tested the campaign themes the media focused on and determined that Obama succeeded in stealing the economic issue from Republican Romney.
"Overall, media reporting contained more frequently positive statements about the Democrats than the Republicans.
Overall, the Republicans were more frequently the object of negative statements," wrote the study authors, Their conclusion:
"The Republican Party is the most divisive subject in the campaign, and is portrayed in a more negative fashion than the Democrats."
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner's "Washington Secrets" columnist, can be contacted at pbedard@washingtonexaminer.com.
Smooch: Study of 130,213 stories shows Obama bias in 2012 election

 

[PoliticalChic]

Those terrible1%ers!!!!!

"Port Authority Beat Cop Earns $221,000
Dozens of PAPD officers earn more than $200,000 in 2011, thanks to overtime."
Port Authority Beat Cop Earns $221,000

That cop is not even close to being in the 1%

Post #208:

1. To get into the “top 1%” of Americans you don’t need to be a billionaire or millionaire or half-millionaire. The minimum wage earners in that group make about $343k/year….The “top 1%” of wage earners earn 17% of the nation’s income.Who the Heck Are the "Top 1%"?!!

$343,000.....
A married pair of cops can earn that.

 

[Arianrhod]

Show of hands, please. How many of you who believe that 98 million figure actually know anyone who's unemployed?

 

[edthecynic]

1. To get into the “top 1%” of Americans you don’t need to be a billionaire or millionaire or half-millionaire. The minimum wage earners in that group make about $343k/year….The “top 1%” of wage earners earn 17% of the nation’s income.Who the Heck Are the "Top 1%"?!!

$343,000.....
A married pair of cops can earn that.

The REAL top 1% of wealth do NOT work for wages!!!


A perfect example of how the lying scum on the Right always create a Straw Man to hang their lies on. The lying scum take the top 1% of WEALTH and turn it into the top 1% of WAGE EARNERS and then turn hard working middle class wage earners into the top 1% elites, like Rockefeller, Romney, Trump, Mellon, DuPonte, etc., who are screwing the middle class royally.

 

[PoliticalChic]

1. To get into the “top 1%” of Americans you don’t need to be a billionaire or millionaire or half-millionaire. The minimum wage earners in that group make about $343k/year….The “top 1%” of wage earners earn 17% of the nation’s income.Who the Heck Are the "Top 1%"?!!

$343,000.....
A married pair of cops can earn that.

The REAL top 1% of wealth do NOT work for wages!!!


A perfect example of how the lying scum on the Right always create a Straw Man to hang their lies on. The lying scum take the top 1% of WEALTH and turn it into the top 1% of WAGE EARNERS and then turn hard working middle class wage earners into the top 1% elites, like Rockefeller, Romney, Trump, Mellon, DuPonte, etc., who are screwing the middle class royally.

So....you want to make up your own definitions???

Sooooorrrrrrrrryyyy!

Who are the ‘Top 1%,” so reviled by the class warriors?

1. If the Occupy Wall Street protests are aiming to take down the "1 percent" of Americans who control the increasingly largest chunk of our nation's wealth, perhaps they need to redirect their efforts to somewhere other than Wall Street.
2. According to Nicole Lapin of CNN, financial services professionals make up just 14 percent of that top 1 percent of wage earners. Their average salary of $311,000 per year, while quite gaudy, falls just below the threshold needed to break into the highest-earning subset.
3. The biggest single group of professionals in the top one percent is actually doctors, who make up 16 percent of that subset.
4. Executives and managers outside of finance make up 31% of the total, but Lapin didn't break them down by industry.
5. David Carr of The New York Times would also like to offer up his bosses as targets for the mass uprising, pointing out in his column today that media executives are some of the worst offenders when it comes to CEOs who reap multi-million dollar bonuses and golden parachutes by slashing budgets and laying off rank-and-file workers. Go ahead and add them to the list.
6. So those who want to direct their anger at the winners in the income inequality sweepstakes might want to look beyond the lower of half of Manhattan. There's plenty of other folks closer to home that you might want to have a word with.Where Does the Top 1% Really Work?
7. Lawyers make up 9 percent. The 1 Percent Are Not All Wall Streeters—They're the Bosses
8. To get into the “top 1%” of Americans you don’t need to be a billionaire or millionaire or half-millionaire. The minimum wage earners in that group make about $343k/year….The “top 1%” of wage earners earn 17% of the nation’s income.Who the Heck Are the "Top 1%"?!!

$343,000.....
A married pair of cops can earn that.



The profanity in your post is a give-away: you know I whipped you again, don't you.

 

[SwimExpert]

Oh look, another unemployment, workforce participation, job growth, multiple income household mashup thread. Where everyone gets to be a winner by picking their favorite data irrelevant to their arguments.

 

[rightwinger]

Show of hands, please. How many of you who believe that 98 million figure actually know anyone who's unemployed?

My mom is 84 and she hasn't worked in years

 

[rightwinger]

1. To get into the “top 1%” of Americans you don’t need to be a billionaire or millionaire or half-millionaire. The minimum wage earners in that group make about $343k/year….The “top 1%” of wage earners earn 17% of the nation’s income.Who the Heck Are the "Top 1%"?!!

$343,000.....
A married pair of cops can earn that.

The REAL top 1% of wealth do NOT work for wages!!!


A perfect example of how the lying scum on the Right always create a Straw Man to hang their lies on. The lying scum take the top 1% of WEALTH and turn it into the top 1% of WAGE EARNERS and then turn hard working middle class wage earners into the top 1% elites, like Rockefeller, Romney, Trump, Mellon, DuPonte, etc., who are screwing the middle class royally.

So....you want to make up your own definitions???

Sooooorrrrrrrrryyyy!

Who are the ‘Top 1%,” so reviled by the class warriors?

1. If the Occupy Wall Street protests are aiming to take down the "1 percent" of Americans who control the increasingly largest chunk of our nation's wealth, perhaps they need to redirect their efforts to somewhere other than Wall Street.
2. According to Nicole Lapin of CNN, financial services professionals make up just 14 percent of that top 1 percent of wage earners. Their average salary of $311,000 per year, while quite gaudy, falls just below the threshold needed to break into the highest-earning subset.
3. The biggest single group of professionals in the top one percent is actually doctors, who make up 16 percent of that subset.
4. Executives and managers outside of finance make up 31% of the total, but Lapin didn't break them down by industry.
5. David Carr of The New York Times would also like to offer up his bosses as targets for the mass uprising, pointing out in his column today that media executives are some of the worst offenders when it comes to CEOs who reap multi-million dollar bonuses and golden parachutes by slashing budgets and laying off rank-and-file workers. Go ahead and add them to the list.
6. So those who want to direct their anger at the winners in the income inequality sweepstakes might want to look beyond the lower of half of Manhattan. There's plenty of other folks closer to home that you might want to have a word with.Where Does the Top 1% Really Work?
7. Lawyers make up 9 percent. The 1 Percent Are Not All Wall Streeters—They're the Bosses
8. To get into the “top 1%” of Americans you don’t need to be a billionaire or millionaire or half-millionaire. The minimum wage earners in that group make about $343k/year….The “top 1%” of wage earners earn 17% of the nation’s income.Who the Heck Are the "Top 1%"?!!

$343,000.....
A married pair of cops can earn that.



The profanity in your post is a give-away: you know I whipped you again, don't you.

Wages are for peasants

The 1% doesn't care about wages....they have wealth

 

[PoliticalChic]

1. To get into the “top 1%” of Americans you don’t need to be a billionaire or millionaire or half-millionaire. The minimum wage earners in that group make about $343k/year….The “top 1%” of wage earners earn 17% of the nation’s income.Who the Heck Are the "Top 1%"?!!

$343,000.....
A married pair of cops can earn that.

The REAL top 1% of wealth do NOT work for wages!!!


A perfect example of how the lying scum on the Right always create a Straw Man to hang their lies on. The lying scum take the top 1% of WEALTH and turn it into the top 1% of WAGE EARNERS and then turn hard working middle class wage earners into the top 1% elites, like Rockefeller, Romney, Trump, Mellon, DuPonte, etc., who are screwing the middle class royally.

So....you want to make up your own definitions???

Sooooorrrrrrrrryyyy!

Who are the ‘Top 1%,” so reviled by the class warriors?

1. If the Occupy Wall Street protests are aiming to take down the "1 percent" of Americans who control the increasingly largest chunk of our nation's wealth, perhaps they need to redirect their efforts to somewhere other than Wall Street.
2. According to Nicole Lapin of CNN, financial services professionals make up just 14 percent of that top 1 percent of wage earners. Their average salary of $311,000 per year, while quite gaudy, falls just below the threshold needed to break into the highest-earning subset.
3. The biggest single group of professionals in the top one percent is actually doctors, who make up 16 percent of that subset.
4. Executives and managers outside of finance make up 31% of the total, but Lapin didn't break them down by industry.
5. David Carr of The New York Times would also like to offer up his bosses as targets for the mass uprising, pointing out in his column today that media executives are some of the worst offenders when it comes to CEOs who reap multi-million dollar bonuses and golden parachutes by slashing budgets and laying off rank-and-file workers. Go ahead and add them to the list.
6. So those who want to direct their anger at the winners in the income inequality sweepstakes might want to look beyond the lower of half of Manhattan. There's plenty of other folks closer to home that you might want to have a word with.Where Does the Top 1% Really Work?
7. Lawyers make up 9 percent. The 1 Percent Are Not All Wall Streeters—They're the Bosses
8. To get into the “top 1%” of Americans you don’t need to be a billionaire or millionaire or half-millionaire. The minimum wage earners in that group make about $343k/year….The “top 1%” of wage earners earn 17% of the nation’s income.Who the Heck Are the "Top 1%"?!!

$343,000.....
A married pair of cops can earn that.



The profanity in your post is a give-away: you know I whipped you again, don't you.

Wages are for peasants

The 1% doesn't care about wages....they have wealth

Learning time for you?
Sure
Who are the ‘Top 1%,” so reviled by the class warriors?

1. If the Occupy Wall Street protests are aiming to take down the "1 percent" of Americans who control the increasingly largest chunk of our nation's wealth, perhaps they need to redirect their efforts to somewhere other than Wall Street.
2. According to Nicole Lapin of CNN, financial services professionals make up just 14 percent of that top 1 percent of wage earners. Their average salary of $311,000 per year, while quite gaudy, falls just below the threshold needed to break into the highest-earning subset.
3. The biggest single group of professionals in the top one percent is actually doctors, who make up 16 percent of that subset.
4. Executives and managers outside of finance make up 31% of the total, but Lapin didn't break them down by industry.
5. David Carr of The New York Times would also like to offer up his bosses as targets for the mass uprising, pointing out in his column today that media executives are some of the worst offenders when it comes to CEOs who reap multi-million dollar bonuses and golden parachutes by slashing budgets and laying off rank-and-file workers. Go ahead and add them to the list.
6. So those who want to direct their anger at the winners in the income inequality sweepstakes might want to look beyond the lower of half of Manhattan. There's plenty of other folks closer to home that you might want to have a word with.Where Does the Top 1% Really Work?
7. Lawyers make up 9 percent. The 1 Percent Are Not All Wall Streeters—They're the Bosses
8. To get into the “top 1%” of Americans you don’t need to be a billionaire or millionaire or half-millionaire. The minimum wage earners in that group make about $343k/year….The “top 1%” of wage earners earn 17% of the nation’s income.Who the Heck Are the "Top 1%"?!!

 

[rightwinger]

1. To get into the “top 1%” of Americans you don’t need to be a billionaire or millionaire or half-millionaire. The minimum wage earners in that group make about $343k/year….The “top 1%” of wage earners earn 17% of the nation’s income.Who the Heck Are the "Top 1%"?!!

$343,000.....
A married pair of cops can earn that.

The REAL top 1% of wealth do NOT work for wages!!!


A perfect example of how the lying scum on the Right always create a Straw Man to hang their lies on. The lying scum take the top 1% of WEALTH and turn it into the top 1% of WAGE EARNERS and then turn hard working middle class wage earners into the top 1% elites, like Rockefeller, Romney, Trump, Mellon, DuPonte, etc., who are screwing the middle class royally.

So....you want to make up your own definitions???

Sooooorrrrrrrrryyyy!

Who are the ‘Top 1%,” so reviled by the class warriors?

1. If the Occupy Wall Street protests are aiming to take down the "1 percent" of Americans who control the increasingly largest chunk of our nation's wealth, perhaps they need to redirect their efforts to somewhere other than Wall Street.
2. According to Nicole Lapin of CNN, financial services professionals make up just 14 percent of that top 1 percent of wage earners. Their average salary of $311,000 per year, while quite gaudy, falls just below the threshold needed to break into the highest-earning subset.
3. The biggest single group of professionals in the top one percent is actually doctors, who make up 16 percent of that subset.
4. Executives and managers outside of finance make up 31% of the total, but Lapin didn't break them down by industry.
5. David Carr of The New York Times would also like to offer up his bosses as targets for the mass uprising, pointing out in his column today that media executives are some of the worst offenders when it comes to CEOs who reap multi-million dollar bonuses and golden parachutes by slashing budgets and laying off rank-and-file workers. Go ahead and add them to the list.
6. So those who want to direct their anger at the winners in the income inequality sweepstakes might want to look beyond the lower of half of Manhattan. There's plenty of other folks closer to home that you might want to have a word with.Where Does the Top 1% Really Work?
7. Lawyers make up 9 percent. The 1 Percent Are Not All Wall Streeters—They're the Bosses
8. To get into the “top 1%” of Americans you don’t need to be a billionaire or millionaire or half-millionaire. The minimum wage earners in that group make about $343k/year….The “top 1%” of wage earners earn 17% of the nation’s income.Who the Heck Are the "Top 1%"?!!

$343,000.....
A married pair of cops can earn that.



The profanity in your post is a give-away: you know I whipped you again, don't you.

Wages are for peasants

The 1% doesn't care about wages....they have wealth

Learning time for you?
Sure
Who are the ‘Top 1%,” so reviled by the class warriors?

1. If the Occupy Wall Street protests are aiming to take down the "1 percent" of Americans who control the increasingly largest chunk of our nation's wealth, perhaps they need to redirect their efforts to somewhere other than Wall Street.
2. According to Nicole Lapin of CNN, financial services professionals make up just 14 percent of that top 1 percent of wage earners. Their average salary of $311,000 per year, while quite gaudy, falls just below the threshold needed to break into the highest-earning subset.
3. The biggest single group of professionals in the top one percent is actually doctors, who make up 16 percent of that subset.
4. Executives and managers outside of finance make up 31% of the total, but Lapin didn't break them down by industry.
5. David Carr of The New York Times would also like to offer up his bosses as targets for the mass uprising, pointing out in his column today that media executives are some of the worst offenders when it comes to CEOs who reap multi-million dollar bonuses and golden parachutes by slashing budgets and laying off rank-and-file workers. Go ahead and add them to the list.
6. So those who want to direct their anger at the winners in the income inequality sweepstakes might want to look beyond the lower of half of Manhattan. There's plenty of other folks closer to home that you might want to have a word with.Where Does the Top 1% Really Work?
7. Lawyers make up 9 percent. The 1 Percent Are Not All Wall Streeters—They're the Bosses
8. To get into the “top 1%” of Americans you don’t need to be a billionaire or millionaire or half-millionaire. The minimum wage earners in that group make about $343k/year….The “top 1%” of wage earners earn 17% of the nation’s income.Who the Heck Are the "Top 1%"?!!

Silly girl

You are mixing up income with wealth

The wealthy don't care about income....you have to pay tax on that
They are concerned with generating and maintaining wealth. That is where their power lies

 

[Arianrhod]

Show of hands, please. How many of you who believe that 98 million figure actually know anyone who's unemployed?

My mom is 84 and she hasn't worked in years

Yet FOX includes her in their data, and the dimbulbs don't get it...

 

[edthecynic]

1. To get into the “top 1%” of Americans you don’t need to be a billionaire or millionaire or half-millionaire. The minimum wage earners in that group make about $343k/year….The “top 1%” of wage earners earn 17% of the nation’s income.Who the Heck Are the "Top 1%"?!!

$343,000.....
A married pair of cops can earn that.

The REAL top 1% of wealth do NOT work for wages!!!


A perfect example of how the lying scum on the Right always create a Straw Man to hang their lies on. The lying scum take the top 1% of WEALTH and turn it into the top 1% of WAGE EARNERS and then turn hard working middle class wage earners into the top 1% elites, like Rockefeller, Romney, Trump, Mellon, DuPonte, etc., who are screwing the middle class royally.

So....you want to make up your own definitions???

Sooooorrrrrrrrryyyy!

Who are the ‘Top 1%,” so reviled by the class warriors?

Repeating your lies does not make them any less a lie.
The top 1% of WEALTH are not now nor have they ever been WAGE EARNERS.
Even your MessiahRushie admits it.

August 7, 2007
CALLER: And, you know, and the way our tax system works, we have an overly complex system, which in and of itself is a problem, but the way our tax system works and the way the tax laws are written, it's based on a few kind of like hinge numbers like adjusted gross income and taxable income, and while the soak the rich -- or however you choose to describe it -- really doesn't come down that way. It really comes down to much lower income levels.

RUSH: It does, exactly, and here's the dirty little secret if you ever to pull it off. It's hard. This is why most people don't understand the tax-the-rich business. You've got to structure your life so you have no "earned" income. I'm out of time. I'll explain that. There's a category called earned income versus other kinds of income. Earned income is what the income tax rate is on. That's how "the rich" do it. They don't have "earned" income.
END TRANSCRIPT

The Truth About Taxes
August 6, 2007
RUSH: I've told you before: the income tax is designed to keep people like his [Buffett's] secretary from becoming wealthy! There is no "wealth" tax. So this is a big misnomer. ...
But there's no tax on wealth. There is a tax on income, and the tax on income is designed to keep everybody who is not wealthy from getting there.
I'm talking about genuine wealth, not the way Democrats define "rich."

 

[gipper]

The BIG LIE

Fox Reports That 98,000,000 Americans Out Of Work

They are out of the workforce NOT out of work

So, how is one working but not in the workforce? How does one pull that off?

You are not working and have no intention of working

You are not "out of work"...you are "retired"

Nobody should get to retire anymore what with the budget. Soggy needs to get a job and contribute and stop being a "taker." All these "retired" leeches need to pick it up. (-:

Well, maybe if Republicans kill Social Security like they want to, all those retirees will have to go back to work

Yeah the same old same refrain that dupes often spout...all based on nothing but lies.

How can you post this shit when your beloved BO just cut social security?

How does one get so slanted?

 

[rightwinger]

The BIG LIE

Fox Reports That 98,000,000 Americans Out Of Work

They are out of the workforce NOT out of work

So, how is one working but not in the workforce? How does one pull that off?

You are not working and have no intention of working

You are not "out of work"...you are "retired"

Nobody should get to retire anymore what with the budget. Soggy needs to get a job and contribute and stop being a "taker." All these "retired" leeches need to pick it up. (-:

Well, maybe if Republicans kill Social Security like they want to, all those retirees will have to go back to work

Yeah the same old same refrain that dupes often spout...all based on nothing but lies.

How can you post this shit when your beloved BO just cut social security?

How does one get so slanted?

Why do you want old people to have to work?