There's a great sound bite that's making the rounds of Democratic talking heads lately, most recently in Webb's rebuttal to the SOTU speech last night. It goes like this:
"Real wages today are at their lowest point in history, as a percentage of our nation's wealth."
Sounds pretty horrible, right?
Well consider this. MY OWN real wages today are the lowest they've ever been compared to my net worth as well. Yours should be too!
When you were making $2.50 / hr. or $5,000 per year and had a net worth of $1,000 (if you were lucky), your wages were 5 TIMES your net worth. If today you make $50,000 per year and have a net worth of $100,000, your wages have "declined" as a % of your wealth, dramatically.
But you're a whole lot better off (just like America!).
This is a classic example of pandering to the victim mindset with confusing phraseology hammered out in the sound-bite grist mills of Washington's Democratic think tanks.
Shameless class warfare hate mongerers! Steel yourself...they'll be beating this drum for the next two years.
God...they think they're so much smarter than all of us rubes out there across America!
2007-01-24 15:58:45
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answered by Anonymous
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http://www.uuforum.org/deficit.htm One look at this number should give everyone who does not want to ultimately be cleaning toilets for the Chinese a real cause for concern. The Bush debt, greater than any other administration in history, may wipe out everyones 401 K and a lot more. Let us listen to all those Republicans who have made millions off the last six years cry when they will be asked to foot the bill so deftly dropped into the lap of the Democratic Congress, and placed on the backs of our grandchildren!
2007-01-22 09:47:05
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answered by michaelsan 6
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They would have to if the liberal biased media wasn'[t so liberal biased.
Liberals are the new fascist Nazi's.
They can't tolerate any opinion different than their's.
Look what they do to college speakers. They throw urine, pies, pull fire alarms, start fights, etc etc, to keep conservative's from speaking.
They want to pass laws to eliminate talk radio.
Liberals are intolerant, bigoted fascists, incapable of allowing free speech.
Islamicfascists have pledged to murder you and me.
Liberals want to help them.
Conservatives want to fight them.
Liberalism is ok when it is practiced.
But todays America's liberals, are not real liberals.
They are against change of all types and devoid of new idea's or solutions to problems.
Conservatives offered many new programs and initiatives the last 6 years, and liberals always fought against them, with never an original idea or solution to offer in return.
Liberals love it whan a woman murders a child that is unborn but hate it when criminals who rape, murder and commit attrocities get the death penality.
In reality the liberals of today are Stalinists and Marxists. Their belief that government is the solution to all problems and no wealth should be privately owned is what drives todays liberals.
They are also anti-American. They believe America is the worlds problem and the world would be better off without America in it.
Liberals are all for forsaking the poor weak and downtrodden if America's military is involved in keeping them alive, but insist on keeping America's poor weak and downtrodden in their miserable existance because of 'political correctness', (New Orleans and any urban city).
2007-01-22 10:02:31
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answered by Feelsgood 2
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And when the economy tanks into a deep recession because of the rising deficit and national debt into the trillions, a decline of the GDP, rising oil prices, rising inflation, the cost of this war, and the rising health care costs that no one can afford, will you finally admit this president really sucks and sucks bad? Because this is exactly what is going to happen if we don't get our national debt and deficit paid down. But this Borrow and Spend president doesn't know what the heck he's doing.
2007-01-22 10:11:09
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answered by twyla_twerp 1
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That's just one part of it. That's not the entire economy. We are one point away from a recession. That's when the facial year closed in September of 06. When we hit that one point and we will, your going to see those 401 k's take a nose dive. So get out now while it's high. Put it in a low risk stock.
2007-01-22 09:55:14
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answered by wondermom 6
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You base the economy simply on how well your 401k is doing? LOL.
BTW, to the poster who said that democrats hate the stock market and 401k's. Where'd you get your information? The bathroom stall?
Bernake said a couple of days ago, that if the US doesn't take care of it's huge deficits and debt that it is going to be very tough in the next couple of years. Do you really think that reflects a sound economy?
2007-01-22 09:46:23
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answered by Anonymous
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HA-HA-HA! "Kicking ***." Don't you mean sucking ****? The common man is struggling. The middle-class has been assaulted. Your earlier post wanted to thank Bush for $2.18 gas vs $3.00. You thank a thief for just taking most of your money and not all of it? I identified with the Republicans until they spent a fortune chasing Clinton (who I didn't care for but surely miss now). The icing on the cake has been the corrupt, thieving, dishonorable, lying, sinful Republican Congress & Administration.
2007-01-22 10:08:24
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answered by mike s 5
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2016-11-01 00:42:47
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answered by ? 4
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In certain areas of country (east and west coast) and certain segments of the economy (construction and real estate for example) are doing well. Many states and many other industries are not faring as well.
2007-01-22 09:45:47
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answered by ndmagicman 7
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Thats a little one sided considering it was clinton and greenspan that cleared the national debt in the first place. DEMO... you know where I'm going with this! And by the way the economy is always higher during times of war. He hasnt done anything special. I doubt bush can balance his own checkbook let alone the countries!!!!!!
2007-01-22 09:45:20
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answered by Hope 2
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