California - Shithole. Leads nation in poverty

Discussion in 'Politics' started by LacesOut, Jan 16, 2018.

  1. People get priced out of their home areas all the time, sickness. It is not about right or wrong, math is math.

    Do you think that America's income distribution in 2018 is perfectly reasonable? All the bottom 5% is a nothing share of nothing.

    Too many republicans go too far with expecting miracles of others. It is not your childhood, the numbers are completely wacky now.
     
    #31     Jan 16, 2018
  2. jem

    jem

    so i hear this wealth distribution complaint from lefties. I hear the answer is more taxes.
    I have to ask is that your solution?
    I have to ask what is the problem you have identified.

    Who do we tax... who do we give the money too? Will that solve the problem?

    Do we care that taxes and inflation are wiping out the middle and lower upper class? Does that not cause part of the wealth distribution problem?


     
    #32     Jan 16, 2018
  3. I was just making a point really about wealth. Some have crazy amounts and I can say for sure, I'm not that smart, I did not 'earn' this much, I got crazy lucky. There is a tenancy to assume because your wealthy you must be a genius. I was just lucky my nerves suit futures trading and I found it when I had a bit of cash and no impediments.

    I have noticed even in myself that money causes changes, I am not as nice as I was four years ago.

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wealth-reduces-compassion/

    I'm perfectly happy as long as I'm not in pain and I get the occasional cinnamon roll. That is actually on my first trading plan. I've always been quite Epicurean, one should live a simple life so when the treats come, they are best enjoyed.
     
    #33     Jan 16, 2018
  4. Jem, could you look at the video or just this. It appears to be factual.

    The wealth problem has been caused in the US in large part by the massive sucking sound as money torrents upwards away from the middle classes, as you can see, away from nearly everyone.

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    CEO and director salaries are INSANE relative to ordinary workers. The top 0.0001% (pick a decimal) buy the government they need.

    There is no natural regulator. This curve is nearly the same in several countries, Russia, Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, Thailand, China..

    Another similar chart from the WaPO. There is no real way to fix this they just have all the power but its the oligarchs lobbying to make ordinary people blame anyone but them. Perhaps revolution eventually? Probably not, in my own mind it just see it getting worse and worse until the classic movie Soyalent Green looks like a prescient documentary.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-in-the-past-50-years/?utm_term=.f67ac1929cb7

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    Below -1 slices is a tent.
     
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    #34     Jan 16, 2018
  5. exGOPer

    exGOPer

    But isn't the leading shit hole, Mississippi is, you are talking about notional poverty, not ACTUAL poverty.

    I am sorry hurts your feefees that the most conservative state is also the shittiest.
     
    #35     Jan 16, 2018
  6. DTB2

    DTB2

    #36     Jan 16, 2018
  7. jem

    jem

    I am aware the wealth is going to the top.
    I am asking for the solution?
    I already know some of the solutions.
    Some of the solutions start with the elimination of systemic inflation.
    Next, we really should not have income and death taxes on anyone not in the .5% of earners if you are concerned about mal distribution.

    I have other solutions too, but if you can't accept the fact that taxing someone making 100 grand is not the solution to mal distribution of wealth when you look at that chart you are not ready to talk.




     
    #37     Jan 16, 2018
  8. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    In what planet is this thread title true?
     
    #38     Jan 16, 2018
  9. Buy1Sell2

    Buy1Sell2

    They are only interested in themselves and are more than happy to take your money to fix problems that they actually create.
     
    #39     Jan 17, 2018
  10. LacesOut

    LacesOut

    Slight difference when you consider we are talking about 2 ‘inbred shitholes’ being the economic equivalent to the number one growth state in the Country.
    Please cut and paste a different chart to make your points even less valid, lefty loon...
     
    #40     Jan 17, 2018