Are The 1%-ers Mentally Retarded?

How much would taxes have to be raised to get us on a firm fiscal footing?

 

has not disappeared, it has grown. In the last three decades the percentage of households with incomes $35k - $105k has shrunk while the percentage of households making less than $35k has remained the same. The percentage of households making more than $105k in inflation adjusted dollars has increased to 24% from 11%.

More households have moved up than have moved down. And again, these are adjusted for inflation.

This was one result of the economic policies put put into effect in 1980 and 1984, but these facts don't fit with agenda of the utopian fantasies of the statists.

 

What is your definition of POOR??

The disability here is your brain's ability to see and understand reality.

The following are facts about persons defined as “poor” by the Census Bureau as taken from various government reports:

80 percent of poor households have air conditioning. In 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.

92 percent of poor households have a microwave.

Nearly three-fourths have a car or truck, and 31 percent have two or more cars or trucks.

Nearly two-thirds have cable or satellite TV.

Two-thirds have at least one DVD player, and 70 percent have a VCR.

Half have a personal computer, and one in seven have two or more computers.

More than half of poor families with children have a video game system, such as an Xbox or PlayStation.

43 percent have Internet access.

One-third have a wide-screen plasma or LCD TV.

One-fourth have a digital video recorder system, such as a TiVo.


96 percent of poor parents stated that their children were never hungry at any time during the year because they could not afford food.

83 percent of poor families reported having enough food to eat.

82 percent of poor adults reported never being hungry at any time in the prior year due to lack of money for food.

Other government surveys show that the average consumption of protein, vitamins, and minerals is virtually the same for poor and middle-class children and is well above recommended norms in most cases.

Television newscasts about poverty in America generally portray the poor as homeless people or as a destitute family living in an overcrowded, dilapidated trailer. In fact, however:

Over the course of a year, 4 percent of poor persons become temporarily homeless.

Only 9.5 percent of the poor live in mobile homes or trailers, 49.5 percent live in separate single-family houses or townhouses, and 40 percent live in apartments.

42 percent of poor households actually own their own homes.

Only 6 percent of poor households are overcrowded. More than two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.

Obama just gave them all free cell phones and will soon give them a computer and free wide band internet. I don't see them going into the streets to get more or they would get a job.

In what way? Not enough entitlements? The war of the lower class and poor is being waged by the dems who want to keep them dependent on the government.

 

And none of what you just said will change a thing. It isn't the level of poverty but the disparity between the numbers of those struggling combined with the perversity of those rolling in unimaginable wealth who are wholly unwilling to reinvest in the US economy that will bring on the tipping point.

Any actions by the 1% seen as raping the poor "just a little more" may go off without a hitch or they may be the spark that started the forest fire. With a situation charged like the one we are in now, it's very hard to tell where that threshold is. It's always arbitrary when a spark catches fire instead of sputtering out. Depends on which way the wind is blowing I suppose.

Wise man say when the tinder is dry and knee-high, don't let any sparks fly..

 

So why are you so obsessed with what other people have? Are you so shallow that you hate people simply because they've succeeded while others haven't? If the top 1% just "went away", would that somehow make everything better? No.

Its fun watching "revolutionaries" making pretend speeches while spreading lies, but it bothers me that some people are so filled with hate that they actually believe the top 1% go around trying to figure out how to rape the poor.

No it isn't. You have a handful of jerks like the OWS pretending they speak for everyone when they barely speak for anyone.

With all the hot air from the OWS crowd as demonstrated by your post, I'm surprised the OWS camps haven't spontaniously combusted.

Here is a better one for you.

 

Every side wages war against the poor. Even the poor themselves wage war against the poor. You think there is someone out there that has a magic wand that makes the poor capable of not being poor? I tend to think each individual has that ability, but their biggest obstacle is often the ones that champion their cause.

 

Help me understand what the wealthy aren't doing to invest in the economy??

Only the biggest fools and there are few of them out in the real world, believe that the poor, as you call them, will rise up against the very people who pay most of the taxes that go to provide them free health care, housing, food and even free cell phones.

This looks like another Soros troll thread..

 

I don't get the title. How would the top 1% of earners be mentally retarded? You don't raise up to the top 1% by being stupid.

You want stupid, watch this:

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I agree that the rich are out of touch with the rest of society. Mitt is clearly out of touch and I hear multiple examples from my contractor friend of rich people who are just, detached for lack of a better word. That's not to say they all are; certainly there are many people with money who understand what they have vs what others have, but that's not everyone. He has also noted that rich people, the ones who are not detached, tend to be the best people to talk to as they actually have functional brain and are able to carry on conversations about a variety of subjects which are not based around American Idol.

So basically your title is way off. As for the revolution I don't see that happening soon. The far left is extremely disorganized and doesn't really know what they're doing. The occupy movement is a great example as not even they knew what they were all about. Their reasoning against the wish comes solely from jealousy, which is a terrible thing to found your principles upon. If they would look outside of their blind hate then maybe they could start trying to make some actual change. They won't though, they'll just keep beating on drums talking about how great socialism is and how even though it has inevitably blew up in every nation that really goes for it they're somehow going to manage to make it work this time. Never mind the fact that without a hard core socialist government our nation is already going massively broke to the point no one could even hope to bail us out. As far as I'm concerned that woman in the video is the average ultra-leftist; someone who never bothered to think things out and just regurgitate a mixed up version of every concept they've been told they should believe in.

 

No, I think the title fits. If someone is mentally disabled it's fair game to say they are mentally retarded. The process by which people learn from experience, in this case what labor is and what it is worth, is a process of fulfilling one's whole potential. If any part of that learning is witheld, with respect to the area of witholding that person/student/life experiencee is "retarded". His growth has been "retarded".

Many of the rich 1% running our country today have never known true labor. Many of them are children of the rich who grew up with nannies, groundskeepers, maids and other servants. They've never known real labor, of their very food and shelter depending on the fruit of their hands.

You show me a man or woman in their 40s or 50s with smooth, flawless and manicured hands, wearing a suit or tie and spouting about "connecting with the common folk" and I'll show you an entitled steaming pile of pig vomit. It was from this same pool the slaveowners of the South were drawn..the same people who justified putting others in chains and applying whips [literaly or figuratively] to have their necessities brought to them on silver platters. They bought and sold laborers like chattel.

And what happens when today's colorless slave class "gets uppity"? They get their jobs, food and shelter sent to an even more willing slave class in China. Unless the 1%ers are thinking about relocating in China when the US collapses beneath their feet from their unwillingness to acknowledge where their grandpappies got rich from, they'd better get un-retarded really quick and reinvest in the US.

 

I see. The problem is the OWS is nowhere near 1%. I agree they are completely retarded though.

So you're going to pretend none of the top 1% of the country worked. That's a joke!

Well, that certainly explains the youth of today. They've been coddled, told everyone is exactly the same, stripped of all competitiveness, and told to expect their lives to be handed to them. We're raising a generation of retards as evidenced by the OWS. It is going to get worse because more people are finding out reality is a (*)(*)(*)(*)(*) and just expecting life to be handed to you isn't enough.

And this coming from some nut who has nothing to back up their claims. There are over 300,000,000 people in this country, so you're trying to pretend there are over 3,000,000 people like that? Time for a reality check!

You're going to hold up a mirror to the OWS movement? That's not very nice, especially since that means you have to get close to the steaming pig vomit.

OK. How about Michael Jordan? Billionaire. Not quite 50. Grew up with five brothers and sisters in the South. I would bet anything that he is far more connected to the "common folk" than hate spewing OWS retards.

Ah, more hate speech imagry. When all else fails, compare people to slaveowners! LAAAAAME!!!!

They go on strike usually.

Maybe they should have asked for less or be willing to pay more for the goods they create to keep the jobs here.

There you go spouting that nonsense. The top 1% are EASILY the most heavily invested class that has invested in America. I think what you are very poorly trying to say is "give their money to the poor". That doesn't do anything.

BTW, you do understand it isn't the "1%" that sends jobs overseas but the stockholders of companies that allow that to happen. I know you think anyone who does better than you (which is apparently just about everyone) is some evil monster, but reality is far different.

Keep up the hate speech, though. Really makes you look like a class act!

 

Will Hollywood liberals be safe in their 1% mansions?


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Sure you do. Wealth protects them from the consequences of their actions. And under capitalism, nothing is required in order to make wealth except to already have it.

 

Wrong. If someone is stupid (i.e. retarded), the money gets squandered and wasted. It is only through managing one's wealth that it grows or even mantains. Just look at all the wealthy celebrities who had wealth and are suddenly broke. Their wealth did not protect them nor did it continue to grow without intelligent decisions.

 

I highly doubt it. LA will be this country's first real apocalpyse-style nightmare, guaranteed...

 

She isn't; none of us are. This is your terminal misunderstanding of Conservatives.

 

Well there are conservatives and then there are greedy bastards. They are not the same thing. The 1%ers are greedy bastards of both sides of the aisle and some other sides of it not mentioned here.

Conservatives would realize that their foundation is what holds their house up. Greedy bastards never took carpentry in trade school. They were too busy getting manicures..

 

No, cause the left are too poor and fat to get up off their couch to actually go fight. Jerry Springer has most of their attentions, and the right are too well armed. Not to mention, the right doesn't begrudge him for making that kind of bet, he has earned the right to do so. That is something the right believes in, other peoples right to their money.

So no, the poor aren't going to revolt french style, they would get put down Syrian style.

 

You apparently don't know many 1%ers. Let me tell you a story about one that I knew in Austin in the 1970s. He was retired and had ten accountants counting his money. He leased a new Chrysler Imperial every six months. When he got out of college he had trouble finding a job so his father struggled to support him while he worked for free for over a year in the south Texas oil field. He worked his ass off and finally stated getting paid. In the end he had oil wells all over Texas and was still getting royalty from them the last time I saw him.

My brother worked his way through high school because my father moved away from out home town and my brother wanted to stay with his friends. By thirty he had his own construction company with no help from anyone but me - I had good credit at my bank so I financed his first piece of equipment- and by thirty five he had and oil field supply company. Now he works because he likes to work. He has a lot of oil wells and a small ranch south of San Antonio. He may be a little south of the hated 1%.

I met Red McCombs the first time when he only had a couple of used car lots and now he must be a billionaire.

Of the rich people that I know or have met I can only think of one that has not worked for what he has.

 

OWS is not a fan of hollywood liberals either. Hollywood liberals are the ones trying to push for SOPA type internet censorship bills. They want the government to come in and protect their broken business models because they're too afraid to sell movies digitally.

 

Confusing question

The rich are not directly responsible for that, the poor themselves often are.

These are disease for our nation, without a doubt, and anyone who supports them is anti American. what people like US need to understand is that there are FAR fewer of Americans who support their ilk then it appears to be: this is because the media always shines the light on this filth: just think - where would these hypocrites be without the publicity of the establishment media?

By being ignorant and too busy working and making a living. also among us are many scumbags as well, who see it as a priority to lead their own movement rather then to join together for a fair cause - for example pure liberalism is an absolute socialism/communism. I believe the only answer is pvsi.net, but that is my web site. when I take a look at other movements, I can not find anything genuine and worthy to lead a real revolution. usually it ends up being about collecting donations or selling a book or something...

 

I stumbled across an interesting fact concerning the amount of estimated added revenues from raising tax rates on the 1%-ers as opposed to simplifying tax structure and eliminating the 1%-ers' tax loopholes - from 1-21-2012 issue of The Economist - The Politics of Plutocracy

In case that extra 7% GDP from the 1%-ers doesn't sound like much, it amounts to about $1 trillion dollars in added annual revenues!

Unfortunately, even with that much additional revenues we would still have to cut around 3% GDP, or about $450 billion dollars in annual spending, in order to balance the budget. That just shows how far out of balance spending really is - even to the point where the usual solutions of "taxing the rich" (raising tax rates on the 1%-ers) breaks down into a well crafted but fairly impotent dupe of the masses.

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Are The 1%-ers Mentally Retarded?

No, only the portion of the 99%ers that think they are entitled at anything more than they make with their own efforts.

 

I disagree. Guys like Bush Jr. and Donald Trump squander and waste great amounts of wealth.

 

OWS is insignificant.

 

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