Oh Snap! Can anyone deny, Obama Nation= Food Stamp Nation? (The Obama surge)

[Karee 4,191]

Don't like what you're making at your current job? Go find another one. There's no right of employment in this country. Corporations don't owe anyone $hit except their shareholders. It's called running a business.

Want to make a point? Don't use that corporation's services or buy their products. America has turned into a bunch of whining babies where everyone thinks they are owed something for doing nothing.

[Danno 1,228]

I said he was a politician. Not that there's much of a difference but I did not say he was a liar.

CAlling the President a liar is not nice, we should rather say "He is evolving"

On Wall street payoffs.

In How offended he is at the folks held in Gitmo.

On Gays and transgenders

On what "transparency" in Gov;t means.

On What Shovel ready means.,

On His commitment to Gun control.

On expectatoions for a national economy.

HE is also evolving on Green Energy.

Or if it will "bring out economy back" (What a joke)

Bush was a decider Obama is the Evolver.

[Protocol417 161]

Thanks for your comment.

The married single comparison is no more complicated than on average- when you break it down by occupation class and age, married men tend to earn more simply because they have more incentive. Also the single guy at 40 is more likely to be paying child support, perhaps alimony. This is a huge drain on his net worth and the ability to accumulate wealth to pass on to any kids he has.

And when you have the duel income married couple, then they have the benefit of one house payment, one electric bill etc, this is huge even over a ten year period.

My main point is for LOWER EARNING PEOPLE, since they are less likely to be married than well off people, the net worth gap will be heightened irregardless of what else is going on in the economy.

I predict we can look forward to an ever growing divide in class..... and this will be trouble.

I'm not addressing the ubber rich CEO's I mean between the basic well educated class and the working class.

I see your point about older men potentially owing alimony and child support. That isn't a contingent I had factored, so thanks for pointing that out. I'd be interested to know if income considered was before or after alimony/child support because that may also skew the "singles" numbers (I'll admit, I have no idea how that works, if it's taken out of people's paychecks or paid directly, and since I don't know where they get their numbers from that doesn't help me figure it out much). This part of the discussion almost sounds like a reason marriage might ultimately destabilize your income though

I mentioned this briefly in my last post that the chart didn't seem to have anything to do with skill level (I was implying that I didn't know why it was being brought up). I'm still a little unclear about that point. I mean, I get your point, that you think lower-income people are that way (or at least are that way more so than in the past) because they're not getting married, I'm just not sure I agree with the evidence presented. I am seeing articles discussing that lower-income people tend to put off marriage (makes sense) which goes back to the "correlation, not causation" I was discussing before (making more money = more likely to get married, as opposed to getting married = more likely to make more money). And I would still like to know how cohabiting adults are treated, since I'd imagine that's a fairly large chunk of people by now.

To be honest, the "basic well educated" class don't really seem to be doing too much better than the "working class" (depending on how you define the "working class" I guess). The chart we've been discussing had a range of between $30K and $90K as an average, and $90K between two people isn't actually that good. It's not that much more than what my ex and I made together when we were married, and although we lived comfortably, I would not have called us well off. Knowing that there are uber rich CEO's and the like mixed in those numbers, making them higher than they'd otherwise be... yeah, that makes me a bit more nervous *lol*

[Danno 1,228]

Don't like what you're making at your current job? Go find another one. There's no right of employment in this country. Corporations don't owe anyone $hit except their shareholders. It's called running a business.

Want to make a point? Don't use that corporation's services or buy their products. America has turned into a bunch of whining babies where everyone thinks they are owed something for doing nothing.

Hold up.... you haven't been listening.

What did Obama teach us?

YOu didn't build that

That company only exists because of everyone else, therefore everyone else has the right to dictate the CEO and the workers pay.

See how it works in Obama land?

[Protocol417 161]

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Don't like what you're making at your current job? Go find another one.

The stats are that hard to grasp?

CAlling the President a liar is not nice, we should rather say "He is evolving"

He's a politician, Danno. What do you expect?

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

As Walmart grows and becomes the employer of more people, more people will end up on sustenance programs. This is what the race to the bottom looks like. More than 1/3 of jobs in this country do not pay a living wage. This share has been growing for decades and is set to grow further. Where do you think the ever growing corporate profits come from? Who do you think pays for them?

I might have to assign a letter to, It's Walmart's fault".

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I might have to assign a letter to, It's Walmart's fault".

You might? You must since you're demonstrably incapable of ever formulating any meaningful response.