Don't like the way wealth is distributed? Then you can join congressional Democrats and grump about it, or you can get some wealth for yourself.
Ahh, if only that were true.
The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that real median household income in the United States in 2009 was $49,777, not statistically different from the 2008 median.
The nation's official poverty rate in 2009 was 14.3 percent, up from 13.2 percent in 2008 — the second statistically significant annual increase in the poverty rate since 2004. There were 43.6 million people in poverty in 2009, up from 39.8 million in 2008 — the third consecutive annual increase.
Meanwhile, the number of people without health insurance coverage rose from 46.3 million in 2008 to 50.7 million in 2009, while the percentage increased from 15.4 percent to 16.7 percent over the same period.
These findings are contained in the report Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2009. The following results for the nation were compiled from information collected in the 2010 Current Population Survey (CPS) Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC).
The median income in the last ten years has actually decreased. Meanwhile, median CEO pay has gone up 350%. It's awesome. Work harder, serfs. Your lords need more loot. Perhaps if you work hard enough, you can get promoted to Serf, First Class.
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Perhaps if you work hard enough, you can get promoted to Serf, First Class.
Perhaps instead of wanting everything to be given to you and wasting time on this blog complaining you chose to work harder to improve your lot in life you'd be rich...
Oh No!
Did you know Zandar has a credibility problem with his non-existent fact checking?
You do now!
Remember that Zandar gets upset when people get their facts wrong...when it's somebody other than himself that is!
Oh but wait it turns out that all Fox News was doing was reporting the truth about global warming.
Zandar doesn't like facts because they don't like him.
Oh No!
Work harder, serfs.
Do you know real definition of a serf? I don't mean the one you spew from your Marxism 101 class, but the real definition.
Why do you denigrate people who work by calling them names?
All in all, that's about a 3 on the 10-point International Trolling Competition scale. Too weak, too obsessed on a single point, too much like a sad and pathetic little man wishing he had the readership Zandar has.
You go home. Practice more. Maybe someday you'll be able to play with the big boys.
Damn the timing. That was at the anonymous troll that kicked this all off. No offense, SteveAR.
I don't even want "wealth"--I want a full-time job so I can pay my bills, pay off my student loans, and not lose my home.
I send out resume after resume, make follow-up calls, but get nowhere. At least I have a part-time job, but it's not enough to really make ends meet.
I don't want anything given to me--I want a goddamn job.
None taken, Asariel.
SteveAR wins this argument hands down.
Zandar thinks Obamacare treating people as faceless health care consumers is fine. Consumers have to buy coverage because the nanny state knows best! It is for the greater good! BUT he howls about the way lesbians and gays are treated in the military because the government has no right to treat people as faceless dolls?
Sorry Zandar you liberals can't have it both ways! Either we're actual people or we're just CONSUMERS!
steveAR has never won an argument on this site. really. you are as big an idiot as he obviously is if you believe otherwise.
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