Thread: Is the Middle Class Decline Permanent?

Funny, a Canuck I know who is a far-left libbie, hates the govt, demands more freebie services, makes good money, and...hasn't paid his taxes for about five years.

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

and...hasn't paid his taxes for about five years.

Well it's like this.
Some of us are grown up enough to handle our money, we keep it and then we support our selves, we invest it where we will get some return in later years and we can go live where we want, do what we want.
But some of us are so inept at life that we have to give the money we make from mowing a lawn to our mothers to hold for us and then we have to give it to a parasite govt to live off part of it and then give us back part in medical ins. when we get older, that way we support a bunch of no good do nothings.
I am one that gave part of my money to support others and then I kept enough to support myself during my sunshine years so now I am cool and go where I want and live where I want.

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

Funny, a Canuck I know who is a far-left libbie, hates the govt, demands more freebie services, makes good money, and...hasn't paid his taxes for about five years.

Yes it is funny that you know someone like that. Convenient too.

Originally Posted by blackgang

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

and...hasn't paid his taxes for about five years.

Well it's like this.
Some of us are grown up enough to handle our money, we keep it and then we support our selves, we invest it where we will get some return in later years and we can go live where we want, do what we want.
But some of us are so inept at life that we have to give the money we make from mowing a lawn to our mothers to hold for us and then we have to give it to a parasite govt to live off part of it and then give us back part in medical ins. when we get older, that way we support a bunch of no good do nothings.
I am one that gave part of my money to support others and then I kept enough to support myself during my sunshine years so now I am cool and go where I want and live where I want.

So in other words you were happy to live and work in a country where you benefited from the work and taxes of others, but when it came to your turn you decided to commit tax-fraud.

Yeah, nice one.

Hey ANTSY and Panry,,does this sound like someone you know????



MY NAME IS WALT TURSKE, CLEVELAND OHIO ,





YES, I'M A BAD AMERICAN


I Am the Liberal-Progressive's Worst Nightmare.

I am an American.

I am a Master Mason and believe in God.

I ride Harley Davidson Motorcycles, and believe in American products.

I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some liberal governmental functionary, Democratic or Republican!

I'm in touch with my feelings and I like it that way!

I think owning a gun doesn't make you a killer; it makes you a smart American.

I think being a minority does not make you noble or victimized, and does not entitle you to anything. Get over it!

I believe that if you are selling me a Big Mac, you should do it in English.

I believe everyone has a right to pray to his or her God when and where they want to.


My heroes are John Wayne, Babe Ruth, Roy Rogers, and Willie G. Davidson, who makes the awesome Harley Davidson Motorcycles.

I don't hate the rich.. I don't pity the poor.

I know wrestling is fake and I don't waste my time watching or arguing about it.

I've never owned a slave, or was a slave. I haven't burned any witches or been persecuted by the Turks, and neither have you! So, shut up already.

I believe if you don't like the way things are here, go back to where you came from and change your own country!

This is AMERICA ..We like it the way it is!

If you were born here and don't like it you are free to move to any Socialist country that will have you.

I want to know which church is it, exactly, where the Reverend Jesse Jackson preaches, where he gets his money, and why he is always part of the problem and not the solution.

Can I get an AMEN on that one?


I also think the cops have the right to pull you over if you're breaking the law, regardless of what color you are.

And, no, I don't mind having my face shown on my driver's license.

I think it's good.... And I'm proud that 'God' is written on my money.


I think if you are too stupid to know how a ballot works, I don't want you deciding who should be running the most powerful nation in the world for the next four years.

I dislike those people standing in the intersections trying to sell me stuff or trying to guilt me into making 'donations' to their cause......Get a Job and do your part!

I believe that it doesn't take a village to raise a child, it takes two parents..

I believe 'illegal' is illegal no matter what the lawyers think.

I believe the American flag should be the only one allowed in AMERICA !


If this makes me a BAD American, then yes, I'm a BAD American.

Originally Posted by blackgang

Hey ANTSY and Panry,,does this sound like someone you know????

Nope. It sounds like a caricature. A poorly written one at that.

Someone sent that to you via email did they.

^
She's nothing but a cookie-cutter liberal democrat who has unsuccessfully attempted to play herself off as a minority - an American Indian which was a big FAIL. She's dishonest and running 6 points back of Scott Brown at this time.

Originally Posted by barbaro

Elizabeth Warren gave a speech at the DNC. (I decided to put the link to it here.)

I hope she beat Scott Brown in the Senatorial election because he voice and views are needed.

You support the white chick who claims to be Cherokee and tells folks "you didn't build that"? She is a liar and hypocrite who gets lots of cash from the big banks. Don't tell me you also applauded the democrats' tribute to Teddy Kennedy, the drunken lying cheat who basically murdered Ms Mary Jo Kopechne by leaving her to die after he drove his car into the river. Ya, these liberals really look out for ya.

Elizabeth Warren's donors | WashingtonExaminer.com

Originally Posted by Minnie Maugham

Originally Posted by barbaro

Elizabeth Warren gave a speech at the DNC. (I decided to put the link to it here.)

I hope she beat Scott Brown in the Senatorial election because he voice and views are needed.

You support the white chick who claims to be Cherokee and tells folks "you didn't build that"? She is a liar and hypocrite who gets lots of cash from the big banks. Don't tell me you also applauded the democrats' tribute to Teddy Kennedy, the drunken lying cheat who basically murdered Ms Mary Jo Kopechne by leaving her to die after he drove his car into the river. Ya, these liberals really look out for ya.

I know that Warren lied.

But my focus is on her books and presentations.

As for Ted Kennedy, I never was a fan of him, and I have not seen more than 20 seconds of the Convention.

She fantasized about being a Native American so her outrage could be more authentic. That's how liberals find their slot in their hierarchy, it's by the degree of authentic outrage they are in possession of. How can you get any higher than Native American outrage? They are the original inhabitants. They have more right to stand on the soil than anyone else. Their outrage is at a premium. Elizabeth Warren aimed high.

^
OK...maybe.

But did she lie?

Earning the same income today in 2016 as 16 years ago. Actually, just a little less.








How Trump and Sanders are being fueled by anger over the economy - MarketWatch

16 years into this "century."

May 11, 2016
Middle class takes financial hit in most US cities this century
Sam Fleming and Shawn Donnan in Washington


More than four-fifths of America’s metropolitan areas have seen household incomes decline this century, according to new research that exposes the politically charged reality of middle-class decline at the heart of this year’s presidential election.
The research on urban centres that are home to three-quarters of the US population shows that median household incomes, adjusted for the cost of living in the area, grew in just 39 out of 229 metro areas between 1999 and 2014.

The figures, prepared by the non-partisan Pew Research Center and shared with the Financial Times, cast light on the drivers of the economic discontent that have fuelled the rise of Donald Trump, the likely Republican nominee, and Bernie Sanders, the challenger to Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton.

Both men’s campaigns have tapped into deep-seated concerns among middle class voters on the right and the left. Pew’s research illuminates one source of that anxiety and raises questions about even some of America’s most celebrated economic success stories.

They reveal a steady erosion of the middle class across the map of America, with 203 out of the 229 metro areas experiencing a decline in the share of their populations that are middle income. At the same time, 172 metro areas saw increases in the share of their population that is upper-income, and 160 saw a rising lower-income share.

“We find the shrinking of the American middle class was a pervasive local phenomenon from 2000 to 2014,” said Rakesh Kochhar at Pew. “In that sense American communities share common ground — they are reflecting the national trend.”

Middle-income Americans are defined by Pew as adults who earn two-thirds to double the national median, adjusted for household size.

The drivers of the middle-class squeeze vary from city to city, but some of the steepest income declines were seen in cities hit by industrial job losses in recent decades. Springfield, Ohio, saw incomes fall 27 per cent over the period, while the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn area of Michigan recorded an 18 per cent drop in incomes. Nationwide the number of manufacturing jobs shrank 29 per cent during the current century.

Middle class takes financial hit in most US cities this century - FT.com

47% of Americans do not have $400 in case an emergency happened.

And this program calls them middle class?

^ Just by coincidence, I just lent $400 to a friend on Sunday. I'm in Australia. He's actually working in his own small business but got too many bills at once.
It's pretty awful when you don't even have an emergency fund.

Originally Posted by Latindancer

^ Just by coincidence, I just lent $400 to a friend on Sunday. I'm in Australia. He's actually working in his own small business but got too many bills at once.
It's pretty awful when you don't even have an emergency fund.

It can be scary if there was not only an emergency but a hiccup.

In the video ^^, the average "middle-class family" in the US would run out of funds to pay bills and live in 3 weeks.

And to say again, they're called, "middle-class."

In actuality they are not where near it.

^ Lent money to mates in tai-lan, all the time. Except for a couple times, they always paid me back.

Good on you for helping your friend.

"A friend in need is a friend indeed"

The average income is the same as in 1989 (in US). Of course, the costs have gone up since then. Healthcare, Education, Housing, rents.

People also work more hours per week / month = year today.

It's a phenomenon common to all western industrialised nations outsourcing manufacturing to coolie/coon states and will only worsen when AI begins cutting down large swathes of employment in the traditional white collar, middle class heartland of the law, accountancy, civil service, local government and within the administrative private sector.
Teaching, putting caps in the asses of nigras and hospital staff will however probably remain immune from the ravages.

The middle class in the USA and U.K. are about to be uplifted due to their clever voting in Trump and Brexit.

Originally Posted by wasabi

The middle class in the USA and U.K. are about to be uplifted due to their clever voting in Trump and Brexit.

Poor attempt of trolling. Even poorer than the posts of Dragonfly.