Look at the Stats -- America Resembles a Broken Banana Republic
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Callinectes
Proud MAGA Semi-Facist
Banana republics are usually led by dictators.
Shit our median slug makes 1/3 more than the average crooked tooth Brit.
What is this "OUR" total income? You mean what others earn belongs to all of us?
Once again we see what is wrong with "Liberal" speak; the belief that what "we" earn doesn't really belong to "us" but rather to the State, and that we should be grateful for what the Liberal "deciders" determine we can keep for ourselves and what is fair.
If Liberals get another eight years of total rule, we could have a banana republic with this kind of thinking.
By the way, if the States did resemble a banana republic, would this be Obamas fault? After all, he has had five years now to fix everything right?
Oh go back to Lyncher's Landing, you boring fucking colonial shit. Steal some shoes and stop believing in witches if you want to time travel. Jesus wept!
Awh!
Cancel 2016.2
The Almighty
here we print up $85B a month for as long as we want, so the government can buy bonds and drive yields down.
here we overspend revenue by $12T in the past 13 years.
Cancel 2016.2
The Almighty
Or we can just knock off the boomers... you were never really useful, now you are most certainly expendable.
HEY!!! I'm a baby boomer!!! I don't deserve to be knocked off!!!
Cancel 2016.2
The Almighty
Or you can get your mommy too! Many boy
The best indicator of a Banana Republic is the loss of the rule of law, which we see every day.
Income inequality has no bearing on anyone's quality of life. Income and wealth inequality is a liberal play thing and has no relevance in the real world.
The only thing worse than the junk science and selective data to create a false correlation between income and wealth inequality and quality of life and social ills, are the incoherent and ideological based proliferation of the junk science and selective data by liberal/socialist apologists.
Income inequality has no bearing or definition on living conditions or the ability for opportunity of the lower quintiles of the economic food chain. The actual purchasing power has increased in the lower quintiles with the rise of the oft maligned Walmart and other similar retailers, and has increased substantially in the past 40 years. The cheap imports from China etc., if burdened with tariffs and if Walmart et al. are forced to pay a wage over what the market will bear, then these morons of the left will actually kick the lower economic quintiles off the bottom of the scale.
Liberals, especially those lacking in a formal education in economics--or any education for that matter, cannot differentiate between nominal and real economic scenarios. What the same dollar bought in 1980 and buys in 2013 escapes them. Rather than being stagnant or drifting backwards, the lower quintile has seen an increase of 10.5% in the past 30 years in real purchasing power, but this increase did see a setback during the Obama administration as he and the Democrat policies have decimated the percentage of wages to GDP to a historic level of 43%.
It is not the role of our government to make the wealth distribution more equal. It is not anyone's role to make wealth distribution more equal. That is a benefit of a free market society. There will be winners and there will be losers. The losers will always want what the winners have, and if a political party can take from the winners and give to the losers, then they can always count on the loser's votes. That is harsh, but that is reality.
Income inequality has no bearing on anyone's quality of life. Income and wealth inequality is a liberal play thing and has no relevance in the real world.
The only thing worse than the junk science and selective data to create a false correlation between income and wealth inequality and quality of life and social ills, are the incoherent and ideological based proliferation of the junk science and selective data by liberal/socialist apologists.
Income inequality has no bearing or definition on living conditions or the ability for opportunity of the lower quintiles of the economic food chain. The actual purchasing power has increased in the lower quintiles with the rise of the oft maligned Walmart and other similar retailers, and has increased substantially in the past 40 years. The cheap imports from China etc., if burdened with tariffs and if Walmart et al. are forced to pay a wage over what the market will bear, then these morons of the left will actually kick the lower economic quintiles off the bottom of the scale.
Liberals, especially those lacking in a formal education in economics--or any education for that matter, cannot differentiate between nominal and real economic scenarios. What the same dollar bought in 1980 and buys in 2013 escapes them. Rather than being stagnant or drifting backwards, the lower quintile has seen an increase of 10.5% in the past 30 years in real purchasing power, but this increase did see a setback during the Obama administration as he and the Democrat policies have decimated the percentage of wages to GDP to a historic level of 43%.
It is not the role of our government to make the wealth distribution more equal. It is not anyone's role to make wealth distribution more equal. That is a benefit of a free market society. There will be winners and there will be losers. The losers will always want what the winners have, and if a political party can take from the winners and give to the losers, then they can always count on the loser's votes. That is harsh, but that is reality.
FUCK THE POLICE
911 EVERY DAY
If everyone winds up rich, no one is rich.
FUCK THE POLICE
911 EVERY DAY
Yes. All income is the product of the nation, graciously shared with the person it was given to by the American people. The American people have a right to take back what is theirs when the portions get out of hand.
Taft2016
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"If everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody."
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