The end of the American Dream

[BuckToothMoron]

Corporate profits have increased over the last two decades
It has not gone to the workers

Both of your graphs are in part products of technological advancements. Many middle income jobs have disappeared because of technology.

When I was a kid, 2 people could be checkers at Kroger’s and have the income to support 2 kids and a house payment. Technology (bar code scanning e.g.) has replaced a skilled checker. Most grocery stores let people scan and bag their own groceries. The experienced store clerk is no longer needed.

 

[Skull Pilot]

65 percent of jobs do not pay enough to qualify as middle class

Corporate profits are at record levels, so is executive compensation

Yet, we can’t expect our corporations to pay more than a $7.25 minimum wage. We can’t burden them with health insurance, we can’t expect them to pay wages for employees to support a family

But they deserve a tax cut

Most states have a MW wage that is higher than the federal MW and only 3% of all workers earn the federal MW

So then you would have no objection to raising it after ten years

Since only 3% of people earn the federal MW and those people are mostly very young with no experience I see no reason to raise it at all

Except they are being exploited

Young people rely on that wage to get started. Pay for college, get a car
Now they must substitute debt

No they don't have to

Do what millions of people used to do get a full time job and go to college part time

I got 2 of my degrees while working full time and only had about 8K in loans that I paid off in 2 years

and 97% of all workers earn more than the federal MW and many of those are young people

And the fact is that only 60% of Freshmen entering college finish a degree within 6 years of entrance.

That tell you that 40% of all college freshmen are wasting their money, It's time we stopped this everyone has to go to college bullshit and when we do that tuition rates will drop

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

CEO salaries are out of whack. That is for sure. Rightly or wrongly.

It is not just CEOs but all top level management irrespective of their performance

And you think if someone else makes less that you'll make more?
Or that if someone else makes more then you'll make less?

Experts agree having high tax rates on the richest is the only way to stop this ridiculous CEO pay. Thanks scumbag GOP brainwash and silly Dupes like you all...

WHat a private company pays its people is none of your fucking business

and you won't get paid more if someone else gets paid less

Untrue. Also if we want fewer Socialists we need to stop creating them.

 

[Skull Pilot]

CEO salaries are out of whack. That is for sure. Rightly or wrongly.

It is not just CEOs but all top level management irrespective of their performance

And you think if someone else makes less that you'll make more?
Or that if someone else makes more then you'll make less?

Experts agree having high tax rates on the richest is the only way to stop this ridiculous CEO pay. Thanks scumbag GOP brainwash and silly Dupes like you all...

WHat a private company pays its people is none of your fucking business

and you won't get paid more if someone else gets paid less

Untrue. Also if we want fewer Socialists we need to stop creating them.

Tell me when some CEO got a pay raise and you got a pay cut because of it.

 

[squirt]

Corporate profits have increased over the last two decades
It has not gone to the workers

Both of your graphs are in part products of technological advancements. Many middle income jobs have disappeared because of technology.

When I was a kid, 2 people could be checkers at Kroger’s and have the income to support 2 kids and a house payment. Technology (bar code scanning e.g.) has replaced a skilled checker. Most grocery stores let people scan and bag their own groceries. The experienced store clerk is no longer needed.

Don’t self scan !

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

It is not just CEOs but all top level management irrespective of their performance

And you think if someone else makes less that you'll make more?
Or that if someone else makes more then you'll make less?

Experts agree having high tax rates on the richest is the only way to stop this ridiculous CEO pay. Thanks scumbag GOP brainwash and silly Dupes like you all...

WHat a private company pays its people is none of your fucking business

and you won't get paid more if someone else gets paid less

Untrue. Also if we want fewer Socialists we need to stop creating them.

Tell me when some CEO got a pay raise and you got a pay cut because of it.

I work for myself. My dad worked for Motorola for 40+ years. Saw numerous CEO pay raises as the Company was laying off 1000s.

 

[rightwinger]

It is not just CEOs but all top level management irrespective of their performance

And you think if someone else makes less that you'll make more?
Or that if someone else makes more then you'll make less?

Experts agree having high tax rates on the richest is the only way to stop this ridiculous CEO pay. Thanks scumbag GOP brainwash and silly Dupes like you all...

WHat a private company pays its people is none of your fucking business

and you won't get paid more if someone else gets paid less

Untrue. Also if we want fewer Socialists we need to stop creating them.

Tell me when some CEO got a pay raise and you got a pay cut because of it.

He got a pay raise by forcing others to take a pay cut

 

[francoHFW]

CEO salaries are out of whack. That is for sure. Rightly or wrongly.

It is not just CEOs but all top level management irrespective of their performance

And you think if someone else makes less that you'll make more?
Or that if someone else makes more then you'll make less?

Experts agree having high tax rates on the richest is the only way to stop this ridiculous CEO pay. Thanks scumbag GOP brainwash and silly Dupes like you all...

WHat a private company pays its people is none of your fucking business

and you won't get paid more if someone else gets paid less

Spoken like a perfect chump of the greedy idiot rich...

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

CEO salaries are out of whack. That is for sure. Rightly or wrongly.

It is not just CEOs but all top level management irrespective of their performance

And you think if someone else makes less that you'll make more?
Or that if someone else makes more then you'll make less?

Experts agree having high tax rates on the richest is the only way to stop this ridiculous CEO pay. Thanks scumbag GOP brainwash and silly Dupes like you all...

WHat a private company pays its people is none of your fucking business

and you won't get paid more if someone else gets paid less

Spoken like a perfect chump of the greedy idiot rich...

Don’t talk about yourself like that

 

[francoHFW]

It is not just CEOs but all top level management irrespective of their performance

And you think if someone else makes less that you'll make more?
Or that if someone else makes more then you'll make less?

Experts agree having high tax rates on the richest is the only way to stop this ridiculous CEO pay. Thanks scumbag GOP brainwash and silly Dupes like you all...

WHat a private company pays its people is none of your fucking business

and you won't get paid more if someone else gets paid less

Spoken like a perfect chump of the greedy idiot rich...

Don’t talk about yourself like that

The amount of BS propaganda and character assassination from the greedy idiot GOP rich that you believe is truly amazing, super duper. Breaking Hillary Obama holder learner are all honest public servants and your pundit Heroes are high school grad ex Coke head DJ bought off shills d u h... Your crap goes nowhere in the real world of law enforcement or anywhere else in the world of Journalism, super duper.

 

[francoHFW]

Likely a cereal rapist

My point is, the potus or congress are no more than mouthpieces

they account for very little of our economy, the well being of the middle class, or the future of America

they do, however, love partisans , best shield they have

~S~

My ass, dupe. The GOP is a giveaway to the rich end of story.
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%

Oh, i remember.....>>>

Long-term disaster he was...lack of money to invest in education training and infrastructure is making us go to hell except for the rich of course.... So now we have the worst inequality and Upward Mobility and poverty ever not to mention the worst BS propaganda machine ever, the only reason they can stay in power is total doops. All downhill since Reagan, s*** heads.
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 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%

Blaming Ronnie for our current state of income inequality, is partisan stupidity.

I'm blaming the tax rates he passed which are basically still enforced dumbass

 

[Marion Morrison]

And you think if someone else makes less that you'll make more?
Or that if someone else makes more then you'll make less?

Experts agree having high tax rates on the richest is the only way to stop this ridiculous CEO pay. Thanks scumbag GOP brainwash and silly Dupes like you all...

WHat a private company pays its people is none of your fucking business

and you won't get paid more if someone else gets paid less

Untrue. Also if we want fewer Socialists we need to stop creating them.

Tell me when some CEO got a pay raise and you got a pay cut because of it.

He got a pay raise by forcing others to take a pay cut

Yeah, but that don't befront me. Y'all wanna stop the damn CEOs from taking advantage, that's a nobel cause.

It still don't befront me.

I work for the CEO, the worker, the faggots, the lesbians. I don't care.

You pay me, I do the work. Simple.

I like it like that

 

[francoHFW]

Experts agree having high tax rates on the richest is the only way to stop this ridiculous CEO pay. Thanks scumbag GOP brainwash and silly Dupes like you all...

WHat a private company pays its people is none of your fucking business

and you won't get paid more if someone else gets paid less

Untrue. Also if we want fewer Socialists we need to stop creating them.

Tell me when some CEO got a pay raise and you got a pay cut because of it.

He got a pay raise by forcing others to take a pay cut

Yeah, but that don't befront me. Y'all wanna stop the damn CEOs from taking advantage, that's a nobel cause.

It still don't befront me.

I work for the CEO, the worker, the faggots, the lesbians. I don't care.

You pay me, I do the work. Simple.

I like it like that

All you GOP dupes are doing a great job of ignoring your party screwing the non rich and the country for 35 years, and believing a gigantic pile of garbage character assassination and pure misinformation slash propaganda that gets nowhere out of your brainwashed bubble...

 

[sparky]

I work for the CEO, the worker, the faggots, the lesbians. I don't care.

Nothing quite like an EOE conscript MM

~S~

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

WHat a private company pays its people is none of your fucking business

and you won't get paid more if someone else gets paid less

Untrue. Also if we want fewer Socialists we need to stop creating them.

Tell me when some CEO got a pay raise and you got a pay cut because of it.

He got a pay raise by forcing others to take a pay cut

Yeah, but that don't befront me. Y'all wanna stop the damn CEOs from taking advantage, that's a nobel cause.

It still don't befront me.

I work for the CEO, the worker, the faggots, the lesbians. I don't care.

You pay me, I do the work. Simple.

I like it like that

All you GOP dupes are doing a great job of ignoring your party screwing the non rich and the country for 35 years, and believing a gigantic pile of garbage character assassination and pure misinformation slash propaganda that gets nowhere out of your brainwashed bubble...

Was that even English?

 

[BuckToothMoron]

Corporate profits have increased over the last two decades
It has not gone to the workers

Both of your graphs are in part products of technological advancements. Many middle income jobs have disappeared because of technology.

When I was a kid, 2 people could be checkers at Kroger’s and have the income to support 2 kids and a house payment. Technology (bar code scanning e.g.) has replaced a skilled checker. Most grocery stores let people scan and bag their own groceries. The experienced store clerk is no longer needed.

Don’t self scan !

Why?

 

[Care4all]

CEO salaries are out of whack. That is for sure. Rightly or wrongly.

It is not just CEOs but all top level management irrespective of their performance

And you think if someone else makes less that you'll make more?
Or that if someone else makes more then you'll make less?

Experts agree having high tax rates on the richest is the only way to stop this ridiculous CEO pay. Thanks scumbag GOP brainwash and silly Dupes like you all...

WHat a private company pays its people is none of your fucking business

and you won't get paid more if someone else gets paid less

Have you ever worked for a corporation? Because that is PRECISELY how it works... the corporation Division is given a set budget for salaries and pay increases.... if the top takes most of the increase allotted in their payroll budget, then the rest of the employees get less.

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

CEO salaries are out of whack. That is for sure. Rightly or wrongly.

It is not just CEOs but all top level management irrespective of their performance

And you think if someone else makes less that you'll make more?
Or that if someone else makes more then you'll make less?

Experts agree having high tax rates on the richest is the only way to stop this ridiculous CEO pay. Thanks scumbag GOP brainwash and silly Dupes like you all...

WHat a private company pays its people is none of your fucking business

and you won't get paid more if someone else gets paid less

Have you ever worked for a corporation? Because that is PRECISELY how it works... the corporation Division is given a set budget for salaries and pay increases.... if the top takes most of the increase allotted in their payroll budget, then the rest of the employees get less.

That’s fine but if CEOs continue to get paid 300x the average employee vs 20x as was in the 80s then you have a self fulfilling prophecy of creating more and more socialists.

 

[rightwinger]

CEO salaries are out of whack. That is for sure. Rightly or wrongly.

It is not just CEOs but all top level management irrespective of their performance

And you think if someone else makes less that you'll make more?
Or that if someone else makes more then you'll make less?

Experts agree having high tax rates on the richest is the only way to stop this ridiculous CEO pay. Thanks scumbag GOP brainwash and silly Dupes like you all...

WHat a private company pays its people is none of your fucking business

and you won't get paid more if someone else gets paid less

Have you ever worked for a corporation? Because that is PRECISELY how it works... the corporation Division is given a set budget for salaries and pay increases.... if the top takes most of the increase allotted in their payroll budget, then the rest of the employees get less.

Trickle down

 

[gipper]

Likely a cereal rapist

My point is, the potus or congress are no more than mouthpieces

they account for very little of our economy, the well being of the middle class, or the future of America

they do, however, love partisans , best shield they have

~S~

My ass, dupe. The GOP is a giveaway to the rich end of story.
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%

Oh, i remember.....>>>

Long-term disaster he was...lack of money to invest in education training and infrastructure is making us go to hell except for the rich of course.... So now we have the worst inequality and Upward Mobility and poverty ever not to mention the worst BS propaganda machine ever, the only reason they can stay in power is total doops. All downhill since Reagan, s*** heads.
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 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%

Blaming Ronnie for our current state of income inequality, is partisan stupidity.

I'm blaming the tax rates he passed which are basically still enforced dumbass

Okay but why not also blame all the presidents since Reagan, since they could have changed things? Particularly your beloved BJ Bubba and Big Ears.

Partisans. Ugh!