GOP losing grip on married moms

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Originally posted by Sikander


You're excoriating statistics in favor of populist rhetoric? The rich may be getting richer, but they don't make their money from paychecks by and large, they make it from dividend checks. So an increase in wages of 4% certainly does benefit more non-wealthy than wealthy citizens.

It depends if they are a wealthy retiree or if they're a CEO making $400 million a year as many of them do. If I recall from one of the previous threads about CEO pay correctly that is a $100 million increase per year since 2000. Sorry but numbers like that spike the data. It takes 100 million $1 raises to equal just one guy increasing his income by $100 million.

Much of this percentage you keep talking about is coming from a few people getting HUGE raises while, as has been proven in thread after thread after thread, a very large percentage of people have seen average hourly earning go down. They've made up for that slow decline by working more hours or getting second jobs. For an autoworker who loses $40 per hour job it takes a lot of hours making $12 to make up the difference even if he has two jobs.

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BTW there is something wrong with someone who makes $7 per hour. Even the Home Depot hires people for $11 per hour here. That's still only $22,880 per year (assuming he works 40 per week) but that's much better then $14,560. Both are not enough to live on but one is 57% higher then the other.

You don't have to be a genius to work at the Home Depot; you just have to show up on time, not be drunk, and not strangle the costumers when they ask stupid questions.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe


Not by much history major.

As a future instructor at a community college, I will be making much more with a full-time salary.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

Right, because I'm so happy with my prosperous lifestyle at $7.00 an hour working at Super Target.

How can you possibly be making so little? I have the same degree as you (BA in history) and I'm looking at jobs that pay $12.50 - $18 an hour. I could be making more if I wasn't taking classes that prevent me from working a 9 to 5, Monday through Friday job...

What jobs are you referring to that pay more simply because you have a BA in History?

[Drake Tungsten]

I'm talking about general jobs that any college graduate is qualified for.

[MrFun]

I see

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Originally posted by Kuciwalker


Actually, it's Oerdin's threads that have lost touch with reality.

Wrong. Folley did in deed grab the ass of a 16 year old page on the floor of Congress. Nice try though.

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Originally posted by MRT144
youre both intellectually bankrupt for not admitting that cyclical economics has a lot to do with the record of presidents and their economic legacy. clinton was as responsible as teh reagan for the economic situation they inherited and rode upwards.

That is true but not the complete truth. Government policies like balancing the budget, not borrowing excessively and driving up interest rates, subsidizing home mortgages which helped get more people to home ownership, subsidized health insurance for the young, poor, and elderly, and a million other little programs which Clinton inacted all helped feed the robust economy. The big increases to education and student aid also helped by producing more educated workers.

Government is a minority part of the good economy but to say that the government's policies don't effect the economy is wrong. They end up effecting it a great deal.

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My first thought was that whoever is happy that their opponent is losing their base among a constituency such as the "married mothers" seriously needs to do some introspection . They need to think about what they have reduced themselves to .

[VetLegion]

Aneeshm, what?

[MRT144]

Originally posted by MrFun
I see

you do realize that a universtiy isnt a vo-tech college, right? what you earn a degree in isnt a determined destiny for your career, right?

[Sava]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Ignorant isn't the same as stupid.

Yeah, but a lot of people are both.

[Winston]

GOP losing grip on married moms

I do wish someone would start addressing this ever growing problem of females with eating disorders.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Oerdin
BTW there is something wrong with someone who makes $7 per hour.

Give the guy a break. He's continuing his education.

[Bosh]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

Right, because I'm so happy with my prosperous lifestyle at $7.00 an hour working at Super Target.

How can you possibly be making so little? I have the same degree as you (BA in history) and I'm looking at jobs that pay $12.50 - $18 an hour. I could be making more if I wasn't taking classes that prevent me from working a 9 to 5, Monday through Friday job...

That little? Ouch, that's gotta be a big come-down from Japan. That's why I'm staying over here...