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View Poll Results: Does the income disparity between the richest Americans and everyone else concern you?
Yes 49 55.68%
No 39 44.32%
Voters: 88. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 10-30-2011, 05:43 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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These CEO's are making salaries; they are not the elite.
The CEO's do the bidding of the Board of Directors.

The Board of Directors call the shots that the CEO carries out. You people are barking up the wrong tree.

If you are making a salary you are NOT the elite and powerful.

Try looking at these think tank non-profits. The same powerful names keep cropping up as founders, members, heavy contributors.
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Old 10-30-2011, 05:47 PM
 
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
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It has been going on for quite sometime, however the gap has completely exploded over the last 30 years.
This is true. It's getting close to a boiling point, IMO.
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Old 10-30-2011, 05:50 PM
 
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This is true. It's getting close to a boiling point, IMO.
A boiling point? You don't instigate change by how many bong tokes you can take and how many women you can bang. Well, you might change the population and it's chances at getting a job.
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Old 10-30-2011, 06:36 PM
 
Location: NJ
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Mircea, The 94 change was not the major reason unemp rate declined, try 22 million jobs created in 8 years, a rate that has not been approximated before or after for net consistent job creation. PS the 94 change has also not been reversed, which makes 43s record even more putrid.
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Old 10-30-2011, 06:42 PM
 
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Mircea, The 94 change was not the major reason unemp rate declined, try 22 million jobs created in 8 years, a rate that has not been approximated before or after for net consistent job creation. PS the 94 change has also not been reversed, which makes 43s record even more putrid.
Bull. 5 million more people were employed in 1984 compared to 1983.

http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000

That would be those evil rich people hiring people faster than you can even count.... Why was that?
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Old 10-30-2011, 06:49 PM
 
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The change was valid, and the last I checked 5 mill/22 mill = 23.7%. So even if we said 17 mill, that is 180k per month net new jobs, 43 came in at less than 25% that, RR came in at around 100k net/mth.

180k First Place.
Forgive me, I've had a few beers. Please repeat this in English.
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Old 10-30-2011, 06:50 PM
 
Location: NJ
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It wasn't well written, but NO OTHER president had 22 mill over 8 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobs_cr...idential_terms (from BLS)
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Old 10-30-2011, 06:55 PM
 
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I am happy about it.

I am in the top 10% of earners now, and will be among the top 5% soon.

My goal is to be a billionaire.

That does not mean that I took it from someone else, it means that I offer people what they want.
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Old 10-30-2011, 07:26 PM
 
Location: The Republic of Texas
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Does the income disparity between the richest Americans and everyone else over the past 30 years concern you? Why or why not.

Ross Perot warned us.

The Government has allowed the rich, to leave the poor and now the middle class Americans out of the equation, in order to exploit foreign labor.

There is your disparity.
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Old 10-30-2011, 07:42 PM
 
Location: FL
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This could very well be the single most likely issue/thing to lead to the country imploding. Not terrorists...not race...not religion...not radical Islam...not illegal immigration...

Thats why the Republicans are dooming themselves as a political party. This division, this siphoning all of the wealth in the country to a very few at the top, is what the Tea Party, right-wing Talk Radio, and the Fox News agenda support. Whether they are genuinely that clueless to believe the trickle-down nonsense, just give every break, advantage, incentive, etc. to the top and they will trickle on the rest of us, or they are really just that evil that they want to see this happen to the country where a few elitists run everything and the rest of us are slaves to the few at the top...

At some point even the tea-tards, and talk-radiots will start to see themselves being affected and realize its not because of some welfare momma collecting a whopping $12,000 dollars a year in tax payer money because she wants to get stoned all day instead of working. Or its not the fault of unions and the whopping 7% of the workers in the country they have clout over. Or its not the fault of Obama because hes a socialist, communist, muslim, facist, nazi born in Kenya.

At some point, even the ignorant, bitter, angry tea-tards and talk-radiots, the 18%ers...will realize their puppetteers...The Koch brothers, the tea-party, the rich, Faux News, the talk-radiot talking heads...They are the reason they are seeing the American dream disappear...Yes even tea-tards and talk-radiots will figure this out eventually!

I don't think they will ever get it.
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