Do you think you'll make it into the top 1%?

Typically 0-4 (Major/Lieutenant Commander) or sometimes 0-5 (Lieutenant Colonel/Commander). The Captain of a nuclear sub would typically be an O-6 (Captain). Even with 30 years of service his retirement would only be about 90,000 a year. To reach the six figure mark you have to retire as a flag officer. These guys are usually old and grizzled by the time they retire, though they can often get very lucrative jobs on company boards and with defense contractors. That said, less than 1% of military members ever make it to flag rank.

 

Bluesguy;

　
　
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The fact is the government shouldn’t cater to anybody. That’s called preference treatment. Doesn’t matter if you are on the bottom or on the top, you should not be getting catered too.
The problem is I see none of the recipients getting rich because of their government assistants/social welfare, but I do see others getting rich because of them, and getting corporate welfare to assure they stay that way.
　
I don’t believe you are that stupid to believe otherwise, so it must just be intellectual dishonesty. Basically the SOP of a good supremacist.
　

　
　
Exactly what is being manipulated in the favor of those at the top, by a bought and paid for bunch of corporate sock puppets.
　

　
And as of yet nobody has been held accountable for the criminal activity that created the robber barons of the 19th century, the war machine barons of the 20th century, or the banking barons of the 21st century, none.
　

　
　
Supporting yes, playing favorites to the point of advanced cronyism, and the present day plutocracy we have today, absolutely not, and completely unacceptable. Why? Because it is unconstitutional for the government to play favorites, unfortunately all three branches have been commandeered by the corporate owned two party system. Their little cheerleaders are simply too stupid to realize they are being played.
　

　
Once again supporting yes, playing favorites and manipulating the market in that minorities favor, reaches the level of organized crime and is as it should be criminal. Unfortunately the same people involved in the criminal activities are the ones who determine whether it is illegal or constitutional. The best government corporate money can buy!!
　

　
　
It's pretty obvious you are the emotionally distraught one in this conversation. I hate nobody, I simply point out the reality of the injustices being perpetrated. You however, have contempt for people who have been trained to be inept by the best government corporate money can buy, and even protect their ability to continue. It's sad really.

 

Not really. Not enough to brag about nor even enough to really live on. It will definitely not put me in the top 1% of earners. There are ample opportunities for me outside of the AF, but most relate to flying. If I leave the AF it will be because I am tired of flying and I will not want to continue that in the civilian world.

 

I keep hearing that the airlines ain't what they used to be in terms of compensation for pilots and aren't the exit opportunity they once were for military pilots.

 

Ha,ha, says the one who supports the party that want to continue coddling the wealthy who keep getting wealthier on the backs of the middle-class who are becoming poorer. They work their butt of to find out they've lost their job because some greedy corporation CEO has sent the jobs to China, because he wants to pay less so he can make more. Yeah - that's what is destroying our country.

Keep drinking the KoolAid - I hope you are one of the wealthy because if you're not, it's the equivalent of a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders.

 

So whichever party gets YOU the most money.

... I guess pride doesn't matter to you.

 

No place in the poll for those who have already made it..

 

Isn't that the cheese that keeps both corporate owned dominating parties in power??

 

The issue is that the other guys are for coddling the poor as opposed to the middle class. And they aren't business friendly either, at least not to companies trying to operate in the US. So, while it seems both sides are only paying lip service to the middle class, usually it comes out that the Republicans would be better for the middle class.

Just pick the highest one. If you really did make it, than it's just a very safe bet for you.

 

You won't make it to the one percent living in a park on wall street demanding more government handouts.

 

Hmmm, I suppose that might be a philsophical thing.

If you could retire comfortably on your own money and play video games all day in your twenties, that would have required you to be well into the 1% at that time.

If you can achieve the same thing with someone elses money, is there a difference?

Perhaps in the future, it'll be the people going to medical school, work long hours, and are on call all the time "like a slave" that have their understanding of who is in the "top" and "bottom" 1% upside down.

 

You could've simplified the poll by asking "Are you a naive idiot?"

 

People could of course be lying, but it sounds like we've got a couple who either are or were there already.

$300-$400k isn't so unatainable especially on a dual income. Granted if my wife stays at home I doubt I'll ever make it, but I've got friends and relatives that I'd expect to make it at least for a while at the peaks of their careers.

 

Good thing Obama is going to ruin working in the health care system. Combine that with these commies who think everyone should make the same amount of money... and things aren't looking to bright.

 

Oh no, another conservative shows they don't understand what Libs are for.
It's not that we want everyone to make the same amount of money, we just want everyone to pay their fair share in taxes.

I know that is too complicated for most Republican/conservatives, wages, taxes, all too confusing for their little brains.

 

Since you liberals will never tell us what your fair share is, or how much everyone should make, we have to make up what we believe you are actually saying! So tell us, we wait with open arms to hear from you, what is everyones fair share?

 

I'm sorry if this offends anyone, but I have been brought up to understand that you never discuss your income, or your financial status, in polite company. So, according to those values, this discussion is very bad form indeed. Mumsy would not be pleased to see me taking part.

My family may, or may not, be considered comfortably off, but on a personal level, I have never had any wealth. It is possible that, given my continuing education, and the likelihood of a professional career, I may just be financially comfortable in the course of time. Being the sole heir, there are also reasonable expectations in respect of the family estate.

But to live a life with the primary aim of getting a better income than 99% of humanity, seems to me a waste of the short time we have on this earth. There is so much more that life offers, and I am put in mind of a priest who said he never met a dying man who wished he had made more money.

 

Exactly, couldn't have said it better myself.

 

Discuss away! We're marginally politce, but we aren't "company". We're an anonymous forum, with an anonymous poll.

I don't think anybody every actually picked that as an aim. It's only come up now in regards to the OWS thing, and possible tax issues down the line.

I think most people that got there just wanted to be a doctor, make partner, run their own business, or they just kept climbing the corporate ladder.

And then they just happened to get there.

That said in my carrer path I'd passed on some higher income potential in order to spend more time with my family.

 

Says the one who wants to keep the low earners exactly that low earners and government dependents.

If it were not for the wealthy people who own the company I work for I wouldn't have the job that puts me in the top 25%. But keep voting for the Democrats who want everyone in the bottom 60% to be dependent on them so they can buy your vote with empty promises.

 

many physicians don't have it that bad, their job is pretty much studying they work a 9-5 just like anyone else while in medical school and their job is bread and butter after, the primary care physicans are nothing more than legal drug dealers.

when they get out they don't deserve any special priviledges of lower taxes for being in the 1 percent, they are no better than the nurse in many cases in fact many nurses know more than new physicians from experience even though they are in a significantly lower income bracket

 

yes someone would be crazy to vote democrat while in the top 1 percent

 

Someone would be just as crazy to vote republican, unless of course they were in the top .001 - .0001%. Then it wouldn't matter who they voted for, as both parties already serve them any way.

 

I don't know. . . a lot of dems have proposed programs and bills that would make many 1%ers very rich if the bills pass. For example, cap and trade would make the exchange holders rich.

 

somewhat agree, the democrats do pick winners and losers in the 1 percent and the republicans include everyone for lower taxes