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Old 05-26-2007, 07:06 PM
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s I've shown, the "hegemony of the rich" and the "shrinking middle class" are myths. The fiction incorporates at least four flaws:

1. poverty cannot be measured without accounting for all government poverty-relief transfers, taxes, hours worked and assets (such as home ownership);

2. the typically cited income quintiles contain unequal populations, overstating earning disparities;

3. there is substantial mobility between income quintiles; and

4. if the rich get richer, the poor don't necessarily suffer; money is not a zero-sum game.

A new study by The Congressional Budget Office adds additional evidence, summarized in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal:

A new study by the Congressional Budget Office says the poor have been getting less poor. On average, CBO found that low-wage households with children had incomes after inflation that were more than one-third higher in 2005 than in 1991.

The CBO results don't fit the prevailing media stereotype of the U.S. economy as a richer take all affair -- which may explain why you haven't read about them. Among all families with children, the poorest fifth had the fastest overall earnings growth over the 15 years measured. (See the nearby chart.) The poorest even had higher earnings growth than the richest 20%. The earnings of these poor households are about 80% higher today than in the early 1990s.
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Old 05-27-2007, 02:44 PM
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Old 05-27-2007, 05:07 PM
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Or government cheese.
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Let them eat baby seals.
The world would be better suited if CONSERVATIVES WERE EAT'IN!
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The world would be better suited if CONSERVATIVES WERE EAT'IN!
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Did you not get your government cheese this month?
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Let them eat baby seals.
Not my style.

I eat a lot of black girl pussy though!
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Old 05-27-2007, 11:02 PM
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Not my style.

I eat a lot of black girl pussy though!
Bet they like that as most black guys won't do that!!!!
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Old 05-28-2007, 10:03 AM
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There are liars, damn liars and statistics. Now let me "lie" with statics. Since most of the neonazis(neocons) on this site are males, the following makes me wonder why they are such apologists for the American system.

Thirtysomething Men Lose Worth
The American dream has always held that each generation will see a higher standard of living that the last.

That may not be the case anymore.

American men in their 30s earn LESS than their fathers' generation did at the same age according to a study released Friday.

Family incomes of thirysomething men have continued to rise in recent decades because more of their wives are working, the study authors added.

In 2004, the median income for a man is his 30s was $35,010, 12 percent less than thirtysomething men in 1974(about the time of the advent of the “women's lib movement), adjusted for inflation, according to the study which was based on the Census Bureau data.

The influx of well-educated women into the work force since the 1970s might have exerted downward pressure on men's wages.

Among those younger than 50, 32 percent of women hold a four-year degree, compared with 23 percent of men.

Outsourcing and the demise of higher-paying manufacturing jobs have contributed to the stagnation of men's incomes.

I might add that another study found that the best paying job a new male high school graduate could find was the US Army. I guess all males are good for in this new neonazi society is to provide protection for the working women!

So tell me, why do neocon males vigorously support a system that is royaly screwing them|?

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