State of Union thread

[frigidweirdo]

If he wore TWO of those pins, would he be DOUBLY patriotic?

If we wore no pin, it would mean he was ashamed of America; perhaps feel compelled to apologize for America.

Would it?

I see it differently. He wears the pin because he's trying to get the votes of people who think wearing a pin is important. Simples.

Simples. Americans think their President should be proud of the Flag.

Great.

Simple symbolism makes everyone go crazy.

Who doesn't wear an American Flag Pin? Everyone does, because they know simple minded people will believe it means whatever they want it to mean.

The Fundamental Transformation of America?

No idea, what do you mean?

 

[francoHFW]

It only gets worse DUH until taxes and policies change...you think the Booosh depression helped. WAKE UP!!!! lol

So your hero failed. Wow, a far left progressive admitting that petulant former President Barack Hussein Obama was a failure.

Way to go!

Totally obstructed by your a-hole, bought off, lying heroes on this. Congrats.

 

[francoHFW]

Sure lol. See def- Where means of production are controlled or REGULATED by the state.

Breaking for dupes: NOT communism, just fair capitalism with a good safety net. "We're all socialists now"- Finland PM when ACA passed. Only in the US are so many people confused. Thanks New BS GOP...

So socialism is a form of capitalism?

You kill me, Franco.

Fair, democratic, capitalism, yes, with a good safety net. Everywhere but dupe world, yes. Where it's communism. lol.

What's the difference between capitalism and socialism, dumbass?

A good safety net, perhaps some industry nationalized, like health and energy...see EU, NZ, OZ, Japan, and the USA -still a pander to the rich GOP mess. So our infrastructure is falling apart and education is way too expensive and pay is low...Great job, GOP greedy rich jerks and dupes. And a lot of poorer countries. After all, we and New Guinea are the only 2 without paid parental leave.

So The United States is socialist?

With ACA, yes, barely. But still a pander to the rich GOP mess. Now freak out, socialism=communism dupe. "We're all socialists now"- Finland PM when ACA passed.

 

[francoHFW]

BS, dupe! 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 EVER, and in the modern world!!

That's right, the EU, OZ, NZ have better upward mobility - SEE EDUCATION AND TRAINING.

BS, dupe! 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 EVER, and in the modern world!!

That's right, the EU, OZ, NZ have better upward mobility - SEE EDUCATION AND TRAINING.

Your ignorance and desperation is duly noted!

Idiot dupe...
Search Results
U.S. lags behind peer countries in mobility | Economic Policy Institute
www.epi.org/publication/usa-lags-peer-countries-mobility/
Oct 10, 2012 - The notion that anyone in America who is willing and able to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps” can achieve significant upward mobility is ...
Economic Mobility -- United States Compared to Europe ...
www.nationalreview.com/.../economic-mobility-united-states-compared-europe-scand...
Jul 6, 2015 - Does the U.S. Have Lower Economic Mobility than Other Countries? ... ends up in the middle fifth as an adult, that is upward relative mobility.
Is it easier to obtain the American Dream in Europe? | PunditFact
www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/.../it-easier-obtain-american-dream-europe/
Dec 19, 2013 - But the United States is distinct from other countries, research shows, in having "less, not more, intergenerational mobility than do Canada and several European countries." Upward mobility is particularly uncommon for children who are born into families at the lowest income bracket.

If you think upward mobility is easier in Europe then you are clearly much dumber than I thought you were.....and I already had you pegged as a retard.

Typical braindead dupe....Reaganism is killing us- Pander to the rich and bs propaganda, dupe.

The Demise of the American Middle Class In Numbers.

Over the past 35 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 63 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 – http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/blog/09/04/27/CongratulationstoEmmanuelSaez/
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 - Current Release
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

Your desperation is duly noted.

Conspicuous in your lame efforts is that not a single one carries through to the year 2016. Why?

Try again.

Because Dems don't have a giant propaganda machine? This website stopped in 2008. Obama, beside ACA and the stimulus, was a tribute to mindless GOP disfunction. Still , 80 straight months of growth and no corrupt GOP bubble, just solid growth.

 

[francoHFW]

Too bad what we really need is higher taxes on the rich and giant corps and investment in the nonrich and the country....SOCIALISM!!! No, not communism, dupes. LOL.

Because low taxes on the rich and no investment in America have worked so well, brainwashed functional MORON/laughing hyena lol...argh. 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 EVER, and in the modern world!! Great job, dupe.

 

[Markle]

Your ignorance and desperation is duly noted!

Idiot dupe...
Search Results
U.S. lags behind peer countries in mobility | Economic Policy Institute
www.epi.org/publication/usa-lags-peer-countries-mobility/
Oct 10, 2012 - The notion that anyone in America who is willing and able to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps” can achieve significant upward mobility is ...
Economic Mobility -- United States Compared to Europe ...
www.nationalreview.com/.../economic-mobility-united-states-compared-europe-scand...
Jul 6, 2015 - Does the U.S. Have Lower Economic Mobility than Other Countries? ... ends up in the middle fifth as an adult, that is upward relative mobility.
Is it easier to obtain the American Dream in Europe? | PunditFact
www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/.../it-easier-obtain-american-dream-europe/
Dec 19, 2013 - But the United States is distinct from other countries, research shows, in having "less, not more, intergenerational mobility than do Canada and several European countries." Upward mobility is particularly uncommon for children who are born into families at the lowest income bracket.

If you think upward mobility is easier in Europe then you are clearly much dumber than I thought you were.....and I already had you pegged as a retard.

Typical braindead dupe....Reaganism is killing us- Pander to the rich and bs propaganda, dupe.

The Demise of the American Middle Class In Numbers.

Over the past 35 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 63 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 – http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/blog/09/04/27/CongratulationstoEmmanuelSaez/
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 - Current Release
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

Your desperation is duly noted.

Conspicuous in your lame efforts is that not a single one carries through to the year 2016. Why?

Try again.

Because Dems don't have a giant propaganda machine? This website stopped in 2008. Obama, beside ACA and the stimulus, was a tribute to mindless GOP disfunction. Still , 80 straight months of growth and no corrupt GOP bubble, just solid growth.

So in your desperation, you present intentionally outdated information. As if the information is not available.

EIGHT YEARS of anemic growth of less than a 2% average leading to the greatest number of workers OUT of the labor market since the 70's. Of that, you're proud. Got it!

 

[francoHFW]

Idiot dupe...
Search Results
U.S. lags behind peer countries in mobility | Economic Policy Institute
www.epi.org/publication/usa-lags-peer-countries-mobility/
Oct 10, 2012 - The notion that anyone in America who is willing and able to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps” can achieve significant upward mobility is ...
Economic Mobility -- United States Compared to Europe ...
www.nationalreview.com/.../economic-mobility-united-states-compared-europe-scand...
Jul 6, 2015 - Does the U.S. Have Lower Economic Mobility than Other Countries? ... ends up in the middle fifth as an adult, that is upward relative mobility.
Is it easier to obtain the American Dream in Europe? | PunditFact
www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/.../it-easier-obtain-american-dream-europe/
Dec 19, 2013 - But the United States is distinct from other countries, research shows, in having "less, not more, intergenerational mobility than do Canada and several European countries." Upward mobility is particularly uncommon for children who are born into families at the lowest income bracket.

If you think upward mobility is easier in Europe then you are clearly much dumber than I thought you were.....and I already had you pegged as a retard.

Typical braindead dupe....Reaganism is killing us- Pander to the rich and bs propaganda, dupe.

The Demise of the American Middle Class In Numbers.

Over the past 35 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 63 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 – http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/blog/09/04/27/CongratulationstoEmmanuelSaez/
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 - Current Release
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

Your desperation is duly noted.

Conspicuous in your lame efforts is that not a single one carries through to the year 2016. Why?

Try again.

Because Dems don't have a giant propaganda machine? This website stopped in 2008. Obama, beside ACA and the stimulus, was a tribute to mindless GOP disfunction. Still , 80 straight months of growth and no corrupt GOP bubble, just solid growth.

So in your desperation, you present intentionally outdated information. As if the information is not available.

EIGHT YEARS of anemic growth of less than a 2% average leading to the greatest number of workers OUT of the labor market since the 70's. Of that, you're proud. Got it!

ALL thanks to mindless GOP obstruction DUHHH. Reaganism rolls on, ruining YOU and your friends and family and the country, and you're proud as a peacock, brainwashed functional moron. Compared to what the total catastrophe Booosh handed Obama, this is a utopian paradise. IDIOT.

 

[Meathead]

His speech was "Reaganesque". There is no greater accolade.

 

[francoHFW]

His speech was "Reaganesque". There is no greater accolade.

FOS, no details, a legacy of debt and middle class ruin, gilded age inequality, and ANOTHER GOP corrupt bubble bust? I know, ANOTHER giant tax cut for the rich!

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 EVER, and in the modern world!! Great job, dupes.