15 Mind-Blowing Facts About Wealth And Inequality In America

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JayVols said:
What did he mean then? I may have been mistaken.
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ask him - it's pretty clear he doesn't simply view people as commodities. I took it to be a call for personal responsibility and the economic reality that fluidity in the work force between industries is the BEST pathway to help workers. The protectionist, union mentality is a short-term fix at best.
 
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Am I really reading what I'm reading from BPV and MG?

Oh boy, the field day I could have. Maybe after Florida game.

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utgibbs said:
Am I really reading what I'm reading from BPV and MG?

Oh boy, the field day I could have. Maybe after Florida game.

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The next time you have a field day, Try to get something right. Start with something simple, like the time and date. It'll go the crap quickly thereafter, but you'll have that to fall back on.
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utgibbs said:
Am I really reading what I'm reading from BPV and MG?

Oh boy, the field day I could have. Maybe after Florida game.

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I usually don't get involved in these discussions because everybody can quote stats to support whatever they want. But the above graph does show a generally trend upward during the Bush years.
 
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rjd970 said:
I usually don't get involved in these discussions because everybody can quote stats to support whatever they want. But the above graph does show a generally trend upward during the Bush years.
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and that downward trend in the 80's was probably due in part to the amnesty program Reagan signed. You can't just dump over 3 million low-skilled workers into the labor market and expect average wages to increase.
 
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rjd970 said:
I usually don't get involved in these discussions because everybody can quote stats to support whatever they want. But the above graph does show a generally trend upward during the Bush years.
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Forget that. Real earnings in America aren't about government intervention. It's about supply and demand. Arguing otherwise is senseless.

There is no remote argument that real earnings should have continued rising when globalization made cheap labor pools readily available. Looks how those cheap labor pools' real wages climbed over the same period ad wen thise rose too high (ie Singapore and Taiwan) another supplanted them.
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overseasorange2 said:
I lived in China for 4 years....in my experience most high school seniors in China know more than most college freshman in this country. Only the top 10% of high school seniors get into college in China. Just my observation.....:hi:
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India's up or out policy is similar to that in China. The guys that make the final stages are stout.
 
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how can the US educational system be bad? Look at how much taxpayer money gets thrown at it and then you have the teachers' unions, if ever there was a recipe for out of control success, it would be the US public education system.

/sarcasm
 
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MG1968 said:
how can the US educational system be bad? Look at how much taxpayer money gets thrown at it and then you have the teachers' unions, if ever there was a recipe for out of control success, it would be the US public education system.

/sarcasm
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A voucher system or any effort to make private schooling attainable to the avg American would place purchasing power in the hands of parents producing competition. It would improve both public and private education. Americans should accept only one choice in education no more than they accept one choice in religion.

However like the income tax... the left considers it a matter of control and "fairness" rather than a matter of performance or results... that and greed on the part of Unions.
 
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the voucher system would unquestionably improve education across the board. unfortunetly it would bankrupt many states unless the voided people who are already payng for private school.
 
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overseasorange2 said:
I lived in China for 4 years....in my experience most high school seniors in China know more than most college freshman in this country. Only the top 10% of high school seniors get into college in China. Just my observation.....:hi:
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It's a numbers game. Not all Chinese even go to high school, on a level as we would identify it as such. The top 10 % of Chinese students equals the total number of American students. Person for person, they are no different, there are just more of them so the cream at the top is vast.
 
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I'm still waiting for utgibbs to put BPV and me in our places, as he has promised to do.
 
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MG1968 said:
I'm still waiting for utgibbs to put BPV and me in our places, as he has promised to do.
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he can say what he wants, but the real wages argument is a dead end. It is absolutely and unequivocally a classical microecon supply demand issue. Call it the third way, five finger, magic hand or talking penis and it still doesn't change that Keynesian policy has nothing to do with it, save very short periods of acute problems.
 
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droski said:
the voucher system would unquestionably improve education across the board. unfortunetly it would bankrupt many states unless the voided people who are already payng for private school.
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No. The voucher should not be for the full cost of public school education... nor would it be necessary. Several years ago we got upset with the PC indoctrination our young children were getting in a Chicago suburb. The avg cost per student at the time was over $10K. We put both children in a small Christians school that outperformed the public school on standardized tests for less than $4K.

A voucher could easily be 50% to 70% of the avg public school cost and still have the same positive effect. Most if not all of the savings comes from Administration being run like a business instead of a gov't agency.

Or in the case of a Christian school, the clergy often act as the administration and volunteers perform other support roles.
 
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