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My drug-addled parents and the lame-ass alcoholics to whom they handed off, entirely failed to provide me with the developmental skills the vast majority of kids grow up with.
I bet the overwhelming majority of millionaires had excellent parenting.
so you admit your whole situation is your own (and parents) fault......
A lot of people have non-wage income, like interest and dividends, rental income, capital gains, business income, etc.
WAGE income is considerably lower, I'd like to see some actual data reporting $23 hourly wages.
And if millions of workers are now getting under 30 hours of work a week due to Obamacare, their income ius going to be a lot lower, right? (Not to mention that the workers getting under 30 hours are probably clustered around the low end of the wage scale.)
Wage income is called Earned Income. The Labor board has no information on unearned income and it is not a factor in average or median wage.
Most retail and restaurant jobs were part time well before Obamacare and will likely remain so going forward because they do not want to incur the cost of benefits. Some employers found it convenient to Blame the Obama.
There is nothing to prevent someone from having two part time jobs. Millions do so and mange to cobble together 40-50-60 hours a week.
The average hourly non-farm wage in the United States is $23.78. That equals to $49,462 per individual OR $98,924 per two worker household ANNUALLY!
There is absolutely NO REASON why the average worker in the United States cannot live off of these wages.
In fact, with these wages, and when personal responsibility is factored into the equation, there's absolutely no reason for single-parent families, children born out of wedlock, Medicaid, WIC, Welfare, or Food Stamps.
The AVERAGE worker makes $49,462 per year and yet we have liberals belly-aching over minimum wage and people barely able to make ends meet???? Who's fault is that?!
Get off your lazy asses and DO SOMETHING with your unproductive lives! There's money to be made out there!
You do realize there is a problem with using averages for that in a country with a moderate to high Gini coefficient, right? You should use median instead. The median Household income in the US is about 44k
And those credits (earned income and dependent) have been around for a long, long time.
Yet somehow, a heck of a lot of people seem to think this is an Obama thing. Where was the outrage before Obama?
It's not an Obama thing, though Obama's extension of benefits has made it WORSE. It's an enabling the bad decision makers thing, and it HAS to STOP!
4% are self-made millionaires (the 80% who are first generation wealthy of the 5% of the U.S. population who are millionaires).
You scream about statistics, but don't really seem to understand them.
If contraceptives are 97-99% effective, then every time you have sex, you run the risk of an unintended pregnancy. The number of people engaging in sex, using contraceptives, every single day, vastly outnumber the number of millionaires in the US population. So, the odds of an unintended pregnancy are vastly greater than the odds of someone born into poverty becoming wealthy. Statistics--they just suck, don't they?
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