Senator "Whites Only" Whitehouse Shows Graph that unwittingly Reveals the Democrats' Vision of America

[Seymour Flops]

This is the graph:

He showed it while grilling Russell Vought, former Director of OMB now nominated to take the role again.

Whitehouse explained that the blue line represents the income growth of people in the bottom 20% of incomes, while the rust-colored and burnt orange lines represent the top .01% and the top 1% (excluding the top .01%).

Two points that show how people like Whitehouse are out of touch with the economic realities of the American people:

1) He leaves out 79% of the American people, i.e. those in-between the bottom 20% of earners and the top 1%. Not an accident. This is how Democrats see America, a small group of ultra-rich taking advantage of a large group of downtrodden poor. The middle class don't figure into Democrat thinking, so the middle-class voted them out of power.

That rich vs. poor divide is like Venezuala, North Korea, Angola, and South Africa, not like the U.S.

2) He makes no mention of economic mobility or lack thereof nor the causes of either. Many of the people in the bottom 20% in 2000, for example, were either high school or college students working minimum wage part-time jobs. By now, they are firmly in that middle class that Senator Whitehouse ignores.

But, many are basically permanent members of that bottom 20%. What makes the difference? You know what makes the difference, unless you are a Democrat. The difference is one group working their way out of the bottom and the other being comfortable with whatever welfare provides.

The graph doesn't say whether people of color were included in the numbers. Given Whitehouse's past, it may very well be a whites-only chart.

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

This is the graph:

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He showed it while grilling Russell Vought, former Director of OMB now nominated to take the role again.

Whitehouse explained that the blue line represents the income growth of people in the bottom 20% of incomes, while the rust-colored and burnt orange lines represent the top .01% and the top 1% (excluding the top .01%).

Two points that show how people like Whitehouse are out of touch with the economic realities of the American people:

1) He leaves out 79% of the American people, i.e. those in-between the bottom 20% of earners and the top 1%. Not an accident. This is how Democrats see America, a small group of ultra-rich taking advantage of a large group of downtrodden poor. The middle class don't figure into Democrat thinking, so the middle-class voted them out of power.

That rich vs. poor divide is like Venezuala, North Korea, Angola, and South Africa, not like the U.S.

2) He makes no mention of economic mobility or lack thereof nor the causes of either. Many of the people in the bottom 20% in 2000, for example, were either high school or college students working minimum wage part-time jobs. By now, they are firmly in that middle class that Senator Whitehouse ignores.

But, many are basically permanent members of that bottom 20%. What makes the difference? You know what makes the difference, unless you are a Democrat. The difference is one group working their way out of the bottom and the other being comfortable with whatever welfare provides.

The graph doesn't say whether people of color were included in the numbers. Given Whitehouse's past, it may very well be a whites-only chart.

You something in the way of substance beyond a screenshot of a screenshot of a graph?
And who cares? His point is that corps and the wealthy...are getting wealthier. And that has to come at the expense of another bloc of taxpayers.

If history is any indicator, that "middle" class will bear the burden of Trump's forthcoming "beautiful" tax cuts.

 

[Calypso Jones]

You something in the way of substance beyond a screenshot of a screenshot of a graph?
And who cares? His point is that corps and the wealthy...are getting wealthier. And that has to come at the expense of another bloc of taxpayers.

If history is any indicator, that "middle" class will bear the burden of Trump's forthcoming "beautiful" tax cuts.

Those getting wealthy are dem'crats and a lot of repunks in ongress and senate and their allies ...OFF. OUR. BACKS, our children and our health.. bastards.

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

Those getting wealthy are dem'crats and a lot of repunks in ongress and senate and their allies ...OFF. OUR. BACKS, our children and our health.. bastards.

Those getting wealthy are far outside DC. The corps and mega wealthy. Those "tax cuts" will be specifically catered to them. (as they were the last time, and the time before that, etc, etc, etc).
And we in the middle will be increased taxes. ^Shrug^.

Politicians have been getting wealthy in DC for two centuries now. That isn't news.

 

[Calypso Jones]

Those getting wealthy are far outside DC. The corps and mega wealthy. Those "tax cuts" will be specifically catered to them. (as they were the last time, and the time before that, etc, etc, etc).
And we in the middle will be increased taxes. ^Shrug^.

Politicians have been getting wealthy in DC for two centuries now. That isn't news.

well it is time it stopped.

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

well it is time it stopped.

Then lobby for an increase in the corporate tax rate and bumping the top tax rates up.

Otherwise, it will be just more of the same. The top get the cut and the benefits..and the rest of us pay. ^Shrug^.

 

[mamooth]

Thread summary:

Trump cultists have been trained to reflexively suck the asses of the super-rich, even if it's to their own detriment.

How? Get them to blame a scapegoat as the super-rich rob them.

 

[Calypso Jones]

Thread summary:

Trump cultists have been trained to reflexively suck the asses of the super-rich, even if it's to their own detriment.

How? Get them to blame a scapegoat as the super-rich rob them.

LOL YOU are an idiot. The super rich are robbing you. And you support a bunch of robbers, liars, pedophiles and america haters. YOU DOPE...you hate this man so much because they say so..>THEY hate him because he is a threat to their wealth and power. LOOK WHOSE SIDE YOU"RE ON. moron.

 

[Seymour Flops]

You something in the way of substance beyond a screenshot of a screenshot of a graph?
And who cares? His point is that corps and the wealthy...are getting wealthier. And that has to come at the expense of another bloc of taxpayers.

If history is any indicator, that "middle" class will bear the burden of Trump's forthcoming "beautiful" tax cuts.

Can you prove that it is impossible to get wealthy, and at the same time have the wealth you created benefit others financially?

 

[Zincwarrior]

Can you prove that it is impossible to get wealthy, and at the same time have the wealth you created benefit others financially?

Not impossible to get hit by lightning either.

 

[mamooth]

LOL YOU are an idiot. The super rich are robbing you.

Yeah, that's the point. The Republican super-rich. Biden didn't fill a cabinet with billionaires. All pushing for billionaire tax cuts. To be financed by cuts to SS, medicare, and other things that help the middle class.

Fortunately for you, a Republican president is in office, so you can stop pretending you care about deficits. Not that anyone ever believed any Republican who told that lie.

And you support a bunch of robbers, liars, pedophiles and america haters.

Since I don't support Republicans, that's clearly untrue. Most of the depraved behavior comes from your side. Not all of it, but 90% does. Thus, any moral person who opposes depravity focuses on stopping Republicans.

Every Republican accusation is a confession. Decades of experience have proven that.

 

[Calypso Jones]

Yeah, that's the point. The Republican super-rich. Biden didn't fill a cabinet with billionaires. All pushing for billionaire tax cuts. To be financed by cuts to SS, medicare, and other things that help the middle class.

Fortunately for you, a Republican president is in office, so you can stop pretending you care about deficits. Not that anyone ever believed any Republican who told that lie.


Since I don't support Republicans, that's clearly untrue. Most of the depraved behavior comes from your side. Not all of it, but 90% does. Thus, any moral person who opposes depravity focuses on stopping Republicans.

Every Republican accusation is a confession. Decades of experience have proven that.

okay dimbulb..have it your way. pffft.

 

[Calypso Jones]

 

[Seymour Flops]

Not impossible to get hit by lightning either.

Of course not!

That's why we have lightning rods and stop baseball games when lightening starts.

 

[Calypso Jones]

Democrats are being out played and poundcaked. You can tell this from the articles they're writing...they should just shut up. Trump has come in like a whirlwind. The media can't take the lead, they're lost, there is no authoritative democrat who can pick up the pieces nationally..kamala is just stupid...Schumer, pelousy, and the others took a big chance, thinking they were sitting in the catbird seat and at times over the past four years it looked as it they were. Looks like the democrat party is dead and waiting for burial. Today is the 26th, 6 days in....and This President has turned the country so far around, dems heads are unscrewing. Trump slammed on the brakes and through the country into reverse.... It reminds me of Joshua's long day....the sun stopped/reversed/slowed for the length of another whole day.... and it has affected the whole planet.

I never realized just how wishy washy western leaders as well as the others are..

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

Then lobby for an increase in the corporate tax rate and bumping the top tax rates up.

Otherwise, it will be just more of the same. The top get the cut and the benefits..and the rest of us pay. ^Shrug^.

You do know that businesses add the cost of the corporate tax to the price of their goods and services ? The consumer pays that not the company.