2 questions for liberals.?

Question

1)Where do you draw the line (monetary value) between Middle Class and the Poor?


2)How much money does a company have to make before you classify it as evil "Big Business"? (monetary value needed here too)

don, I do want to help poverty, I want you to define who to help.

detoth, the Department of Labor is ran by the Bush admin therefore making my answers skewed. So you give me yours.

Answer 1

2-Using the lib definition: Government should be classified as evil since it makes the biggest profit off of every gallon of gas.

Answer 2

I'm not trying to dodge the questions-but it's complicated! I wish there were simple answers. For instance $20,000 a year in a small town in Kansas is probably decent. But $20,000 in a large city is low wage. If you pay for your own insurance, it gets worse. If you are young, that's not too bad. If you're 50, your insurance could cost $600 a month(for a healthy person with high deductible) or more than $20,000 if you are a cancer survivor!

"Everyone wants to believe they are middle class... But this eagerness... has led the definition to be stretched like a bungee cord - used to defend/attack/describe everything... Ah yes, there's a group of people bound to run into each other while house-hunting." -Dante Chinni, The Christian Science Monitor. 2005

I think these are good guidelines:

While there is no one coherent definition of middle class and the incomes of those to whom the term is applied will likely vary depending on how one defines middle class, certain income trends may be helpful. Depending on whether the middle class is defined as consisting of professionals or of those in the middle of the income strata the following income trend may or may not be helpful in determining what middle class is. In 2004, the middle fifty percent of households had annual gross incomes between $22,500 and $75,000. The top quarter (26.8%) of households earned more than $75,000 while the bottom quarter earned (25.24%) earned less than $22,500 annually.[29] Overall the median personal income of a male, age 25 or older was $33,517, while that for a female was $19,679. The median income for a similar male with a college degree was $55,751; $73,853 for those with a PhD.[30] The median household income for a household with two income earners was $67,348, roughly twice the overall median personal income of an American male over the age of 25. The overall median household income in the country was $43,318.[31]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_middle_class#Income_distribution

There are also some good charts there. There are also links to material referenced. My sister once told me she was middle class making $120,000 a year. I disagree but also would say you're not rich at that level-but you are in the top 1% of income earners.

2. I don't believe monetary value indicates "evil" so I can't answer that one. There are large companies that are good and large ones that are bad. I don't link evil to money at all. Nothing thrills me more than the good guys getting rich!

Answer 3

2 answers for the neocon... Things are not as simple as you and many others (liberal and conservative) like to pretend that they are.

1. There is no well defined line between the middle class and the poor. But the poor and needy obviously exist and it would be less than human not to help those who, through no fault of their own, need help. Obviously you are not in that situation and don't consider poverty to be a problem. Or at least not your problem.

2. It is not the amount of money a corporation makes that causes it to be "evil big business." A large corporation acting responsibly is not evil. A mom & pop shop that abuses their employees and the general public is evil.

When a multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical company lets people suffer and die because they cannot afford to support the company's huge profits... When they lobby to keep the poor and elderly from buying drugs from other countries where the company doesn't have a monopoly or a stranglehold on the government, and therefore charges lower prices... When that company or industry creates a pittance of a giveaway program to create a public relations illusion of compassion and generosity as a means to protect their profits, that is evil.

Answer 4

1. The distinction between middle class and the poor is not measured with a specific monetary benchmark. You cannot just say that anyone earning less than a particular income is poor. There are many variables.

2. Neither income, nor net worth nor assets have a bearing on a corporation being called evil "Big Business". What does, however, earn them the title is exploiting their employees, damaging the environment without accountability, unethical business practices, gouging their customers, manipulating free markets, bilking tax payers, and engaging in anti-trust activities. In other words, Halliburton, Exxon, and Kellogg, Root & Brown.

Answer 5

1) This changes on an annual basis, but here are a couple links on how it is calculated:
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/povdef.html#1
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/threshld/thresh04.html

2) That will depend on how many employees it keeps and the median slary of the employees.

But a quick guesstimate would be an annual gross revenue of greater than $200,000 more than the median salary (for each employee). In other words, take the annual revenue, subtract (the median salary times the number of employees) and divide by the number of employees. If this is greater than $200,000 then there is definitely Big Business going on.

As for evil, then that has more to do with skirting tax responsibilities and polluting the environment, than profit margin.

Answer 6

The government seems happy with a mean household income of $42,642 for family of four. I don't know if you want to consider that a Liberal or Conservative number, in fact I didn't even know there were Liberal or Conservative numbers.

Your other question would be speculative since it would depend on the person answering as there is no category for evil, or even good Big Business.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

LOL! You cons and you amusing questions!

The Dept of Labor Statistics defines the line bewteen Middle class and poor. Perhaps you should go to their site and educate yourself.

BIg Business isnt evil. Big buisiness's stranglehold on govt is evil, illegal business practices are evil, business practices that suit them and screw others is evil, business practices that kill people is evil. Money by itself is not evil.

Jesus taught us that its near impossible for a rich man to enter his kingdom, he taught us to not worship wealth. I find cons hard to believe when they call themselves Christian.

Answer 9

Sigh.. OK I'm tired of hearing the word liberal used like its some sorta virus.. dosent Liberal & Liberty come from the same latin root word? (Umm yeah if i remember my latin right it does)

Personaly 've never been a registered democrat.. i have been a registerd republican before (G. Bush Sr cured me of that)

I dont care what you do as long as it dosent effect me personally.. does that make me a liberal? If so so be it...

Answer 10

The labor department can answer both questions.

Answer 11

1.)

When Liberals are attempting to claim that their actions have improved the economic situation in their district, they tend to set the minimum monetary level for entry into the "middle class" very low, so as to increase this group as much as possible, thus allowing them to claim that they have "increased the middle class".

However, when a Republican is seeking re-election, these same Liberals attempt to raise the minimum income level for entry into the "middle class" as high as possible to attempt to create the appearance that the middle class is shrinking.

Though, historically, socialistic programs, instituted both abroad, and here, by the Democrats, have been shown to shrink the middle class by impoverishing people under huge tax burdens.

2.)

An "evil big business" is simply any busness, regardless of size, that does not donate to Liberal causes and/or is currently being vilified by Hollywood.