Income Inequality In The USA

[forsberg21]

USA greatest country in the world end of story

and we will cut taxes more soon and we will become the even greater greatest country in the world, got it? and guess what were going to do with the extra money we will make when our economy grows when we cut taxes??? hmmmm??

KICK THE SH*T OUT OF MORE COUNTRIES, GOT IT?? Dont get too lippy or we may come for YOURS


dont be jealous maybe you can sneak in here some how hey take a chance you never know

Your lesson on economics and taxes makes no sense whatsoever. You will be living in an era of record high taxes because you will have all that debt that needs to be paid off.

Keep "kicking the shit out of more countries" and watch the debt you incur kick the shit out of you.

If you are actually being serious, its guys like this and their attitude are the epitome of why the US is going downhill.

It's ingrates like this and their sense of entitlement that will and are ruining the USA. People like this should never occupy positions of significant responsibility. Ever.

[forsberg21]

So are you saying we should invade Canada and take it over? Okay well its 4 now we should have it fully taken over by 5

Forsberg your US envy is unreal bro, go put out some car fires in Vancouver and do something useful with your time

Why would anyone ever be envious of a pathetic country? Canada consistently outranks the USA in all of those standard of living surveys done by many institutions worldwide every single year.

That Vancouver joke might have been cool if I didn't live 5000 km from Vancouver.

[forsberg21]

yeh maybe we should live in some other country,not have net and starve.

Not everyone can be rich

Most of the blame can come from blacks. Not all but most are lazy and sometimes when your down you just can't get back up.

LOL. What nations on the list of countries with a low Gini Coefficient don't have internet and constant food shortages? England? Canada? Germany? Australia? Sweden? They all have faster internet than the US, the US is so far behind if you actually knew how to read and read something interesting once in a while.

You're a fool. You're just an idiot, plain and simple. You can't even say something that makes sense. Stop posting.

[forsberg21]

forsberg

just like opie told you in the other thread

fuk off

we dont care about how you spin your shit here

you are a gutless

your pics of people holding guns was an advertisement for a rap group. freedom of speech

fat person eating chicken. although they are dumb again free to be fat

pics of homeless people. these are everywhere. dont tell me that you dont have homeless people in your country


Also the US has plenty of places where the degens are not welcome. i havent seen poverty in years. if i wanted to its about a 30 minute drive

Typical Fox News viewer.

You don't care about this shit, yet it's happening right in your own backyard. Are you mental for not caring about this? This is reality. Face it. The US isn't as great as it claims to be and all you ignorant Texans and other hillbillies are calling it some sort of heavenly utopia. You're a disgrace to the rest of Americans who actually have a brain and can realize the predicament they find themselves in.

[forsberg21]

Yeah fuckface AND THIS LIBERAL SCUMBAG HINES...simply can't see how people rather give away more and more of what THEY EARN THROUGH HARDWORK, to take care of the lazy scumbags who refuse to work...

simply look at the pictures.....people in the us who actually want to work and strive to be something go on to live great lives rich and able to do whatever they want, while most of the country, are lazy moochers who want handouts and want to suckhole on me when i bust my balls to work....

**** the lazy bums, i take it you are one of them, as if i work and i make my money, i wana spend it, not give a higher and higher % of it away to the government, through obama's desire to eliminate the variety of classes and to pay for druggies, low lifes, and lazy sob's who sit at home and wait for their welfare checks to come which are paid by me.....

You dont work, and dont make an effort to improve you life, then **** ya, rather than spending $5g in taxes or giving it away to "help" these lazy ones, i rather sit down at a $100 slot machine and make 25 pulls of it most, likely pissing it all away

i'd be all for a place liek in the movie, escape from la, where all these moochers and lazy ones could be put together to live like bums and leave us all alone and stop the constant asking for handouts...GET A JOB YOU *****, I'VE WORKED SINCE I WAS 16...IF A 16 YEAR OLD CAN WORK AT A GROCERY store PART TIME, THEN ANY BUM OUT THERE COULD DO THE SAME BUT THEY CHOOSE NOT TO, THEY CHOOSE TO BE LAZY SO F EM

Wow. Now that's gotta be one of the craziest, most incoherent, drug induced rants I've read on here in a long time.

If your post actually made any sense, I'd attempt to reply to it.

[forsberg21]

Great thread, Forsberg.

Of the 4 nominations it garnered, you have 2 banned posters & an admitted repeat offender pedophile.

Nice crowd you run with, pal.

Oh...almost forgot....Happy Boxing Day!

Happy Boxing Day? What's that even supposed to mean? Do you have rocks in your head Opie?

If you want to talk about the crowds the US rolls with in regards to the Gini Coefficient, here are the USA's bros:

China, Jamaica, Cameroon, Iran, Rwanda, Cambodia, Kenya, Russia, Venezuela, Morocco, Sri Lanka and numerous other third world nations (with the exception of China and Russia).

Look at the nations with low Gini Coefficients. Exclusively WORLD CLASS NATIONS and no other countries like those corrupt, dictator led countries listed earlier.

I don't control who rolls with my threads, but the US chooses to roll with the likes of the scum of the world.

[Cuse0323]

so....that's a no on the spare bedroom?

[forsberg21]

How many Olympic medals has Canada ever won? 2?

USA has been cleaning up the medals for the last 60 years and more.

You've proven that you are getting dumber and dumber by the post. In 10 seconds of Googling, I continue to ruin your credibility:

2010 Winter Olympics: Canada - 14 Gold (All time Olympic record) - 26 total

If I go back to grade 1 math class: 26 medals > 2 medals

BTW, what has your fat ass ever done that resembled anything even slightly associated with winning an Olympic medal? -2000 says you look more like that fat pig with the KFC bucket than you do an athlete.

On a more serious note. You are really dumb Paver. I mean, really, really dumb. Some of the shit you post on here is so contrary to common sense that it can be rebutted and discredited with a 10 second Google search. Life must really be tough being that retarded.

[forsberg21]

so....that's a no on the spare bedroom?

For any "normal" Americans, sure why not.

Don't get me wrong, I don't hate all Americans, I just despise the ones that think that they are the shit and that everyone else lives in third world nations, when in reality, it's Americans who are losing their once fine standard of living.

I will expose morons like Mayan, Pavy, Opie for the ignorant rednecks they are for as long as they keep spewing their hatred and arrogance to anything non-American.

[ACoochy]

Where is everyone??....Walker you might want to get the excavator and dig a mass grave cos we got forum burials going down left right and centre over here...

[ByeShea]

The Gini Coefficient measures the income equality between citizens of a nation. Taken from Wikipedia:

I'm glad you mentioned the Gini Coefficient because it inspired the Peeni Coefficient which measures the Stanley Cup riot equalities.

Canada scored very high with drunk people from all socioeconomic strata contributing.

[forsberg21]

I'm glad you mentioned the Gini Coefficient because it inspired the Peeni Coefficient which measures the Stanley Cup riot equalities.

Canada scored very high with drunk people from all socioeconomic strata contributing.

That was pretty funny, but you're shying away from the real issue here and that's the fact that Canada aligns itself, and is itself, a model nation while the USA, with respect to the Gini Coefficient, aligns itself with third world slumdogs and their corrupt governments that are ruled by dictators. Which list of countries would you rather belong to?

Is there anything else you'd like to add?

[durito]

USA greatest country in the world end of story

and we will cut taxes more soon and we will become the even greater greatest country in the world, got it? and guess what were going to do with the extra money we will make when our economy grows when we cut taxes??? hmmmm??

KICK THE SH*T OUT OF MORE COUNTRIES, GOT IT?? Dont get too lippy or we may come for YOURS


dont be jealous maybe you can sneak in here some how hey take a chance you never know

[Extra Innings]

So someone who works 60 hours a week should be paid the same as someone who works 20 hours a week

[guitarjosh]

A good topic to talk about. The reason for the income inequality is the Fed's easy money policy. When William Martin was the Fed chief from 1951-1970, the bottom 90% of wage earners got the majority of the income compared to the top 1%. All the income stagnation for the middle and lower classes started in the early 1970s when Arthur Burns became the Fed chairman. And before anyone says it was higher taxes that kept income more equal, from the early 60s to 1981 the top bracket on income was 70%, and the capital gains rate nearly doubled from the early 60s to the mid 70s, yet the rich got more of the income starting in the early 1970s.

[andywend]

Canada consistently outranks the USA in all of those standard of living surveys done by many institutions worldwide every single year.

Then why can't Canada ever come up with drug inventions of their own as opposed to constantly waiting for U.S. drug patents to expire and then mass marketing generic versions?

Why does the upper class in Canada keep coming to the U.S. when they need highly, specialized medical care?

It's ingrates like this and their sense of entitlement that will and are ruining the USA. People like this should never occupy positions of significant responsibility. Ever.

You know what happens when too much power is given to socialists like Forsberg? You get Greece.

In the U.S., EVERYONE has the opportunity for wealth and success if they are willing to work hard enough for it. Unfortunately, the Forsberg's of the world are INFECTING my country and trying to shove failed socialistic policies down our throats.

Forsberg, you can take your income equality and socialistic beliefs and shove them straight up where the sun don't shine.

[Boner_18]

This statistical method has so many holes in it that it is generally not used by anyone looking to measure social inequality.

[wtf]

i think the gini coefficient is splitting of hairs once a certain level of wealth is obtained

i watched this with my own eyes in china, 20 years ago, yes only 20, they barely had paved roads, running water
central plumbing

now they have the worlds largest internet community, yes there is huge disparities but all boats have been risen without a doubt

[stogies]

Nearly 2 hours and only 7 replies... the truth must hurt.

what a fukking loser you are.

[Pareto]

Then why can't Canada ever come up with drug inventions of their own as opposed to constantly waiting for U.S. drug patents to expire and then mass marketing generic versions?

Why does the upper class in Canada keep coming to the U.S. when they need highly, specialized medical care?You know what happens when too much power is given to socialists like Forsberg? You get Greece.

In the U.S., EVERYONE has the opportunity for wealth and success if they are willing to work hard enough for it. Unfortunately, the Forsberg's of the world are INFECTING my country and trying to shove failed socialistic policies down our throats.

Forsberg, you can take your income equality and socialistic beliefs and shove them straight up where the sun don't shine.

Actually, Denmark which is one of the most socialist countries in the world has the 10th largest pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk - which produces a large part of the worlds insulin , and also many other large pharmaceutical companies such as Lundbeck, which produces antidepressants and also the drug you in america uses to execute prisoners with.

This is not a defense for socialism as I am a libertarian and therefore very much pro market. But to think that innovation and inventions only happens in a low tax, capitalistic environment is wrong.

[MarlinsFan2212]

[slapshot]

You know what happens when too much power is given to socialists like Forsberg? You get Greece.

sad fact is that the financial status of america is approaching the one of greece....and by the way if you are afraid of socialism........communistic china more or less own america..........together with japan.

[pavyracer]

You've proven that you are getting dumber and dumber by the post. In 10 seconds of Googling, I continue to ruin your credibility:

2010 Winter Olympics: Canada - 14 Gold (All time Olympic record) - 26 total

If I go back to grade 1 math class: 26 medals > 2 medals

BTW, what has your fat ass ever done that resembled anything even slightly associated with winning an Olympic medal? -2000 says you look more like that fat pig with the KFC bucket than you do an athlete.

On a more serious note. You are really dumb Paver. I mean, really, really dumb. Some of the shit you post on here is so contrary to common sense that it can be rebutted and discredited with a 10 second Google search. Life must really be tough being that retarded.

Winter Olympics?

You failed!

You also forgot the Special Olympics. With retards like you Canada is the undisputed champion of the world.

[Glitch]

dont you guys have milk in a bag up there.

[Mr. Jones]

Just off the top of my head, but maybe we should ascertain the circumstances of our so called poor. I will admit that many will fall into the category of lazy, shiftless, garbage. Not much can be done for them and perhaps should not be done at all.

But many others are now victims of our economy. Some of these folks may be your mamas and papas or even YOU. These people who continue to struggle and try to work or find work and still can't make ends meet should be helped. A lot of good people, unfortunately, fall into the latter category and it is growing daily.

[BWest]

What elitists don't understand is that they pay for social injustice somehow. If govt stops spending money on education etc., you end up building more prisons and incarcerating more people. Who pays for that? If people do not have jobs they are more likely to become involved in anti-social behavior. Quality of life crimes (petty theft, shoplifting, rip and run crime) become more frequent and target the haves. Who ends up paying for that? You can invest in society in a way that you have some control or you invest in society in a way you can't stand....taxes, prisons, security systems. Look at corrupt countries...the haves travel in security convoys, live inside guarded compounds, have to worry about thier kids being kidnapped. You pay somehow for inequality and social injustice. Would it not be better to do it in a manner that actually benefits society in some way? Get some return on your investment? Maybe a little piece of mind?

[underthe total]

Typical Fox News viewer. You don't care about this shit, yet it's happening right in your own backyard. Are you mental for not caring about this? This is reality. Face it. The US isn't as great as it claims to be and all you ignorant Texans and other hillbillies are calling it some sort of heavenly utopia. You're a disgrace to the rest of Americans who actually have a brain and can realize the predicament they find themselves in.

i dont do the media pal

i do not absolutely care about 1 fukin poor person in this country or yours

the rich should not have to share there money with anyone

if it means certain parts of our country is overun with poors so be it

i appears you are at or below the poverty line yourself

good luck with that

[acarmelo1]

I think that the real problem in the US might be the difference on the salaries. For example The Vice President of The Company earns 100K per Month while the cashier makes 1200 per month.

I see a big problem here.

Why cant the vice president of the company make 50K per month which is enough to live very very well and raise the cashiers salary to 3000 per month.

Samething happens here in Panama.

[Flashmo]

Who really gives a **** about the Gini Coefficient??

[benjy]

Who really gives a **** about the Gini Coefficient??

Really? Economists, political scientists, sociologists, just to name a few.

[RubberKettle]

Forsberg is so smart that this post is probably out of reach for most here, but seriously does this douche have nothing better to do then spew Anti-American rhetoric on a gambling forum.

The country numbers are not used for comparison as they do not take into effect factors like transfer payments or educated rates of immigrants. If you look at the bottom third of these countries and compare purchasing power you will see that the difference is not as great as you claim with these extreme portraits of the American poor.

I will not be replying so you haven't the need to scour the internet for a rebuttal.

Oh and btw this is still America where the individual has more freedom and opportunity than any of those countries you've listed.

[Richkas]

I take it Forsberg is not going to the bash..

[lakerboy]

How many Olympic medals has Canada ever won? 2?

USA has been cleaning up the medals for the last 60 years and more.

maybe the us govt should put less money into sports and more into its ghetto cities, but then again showing the world a gold medal will give the impression that things are all fine and well in the mighty usa. russia does well at olympics . maybe its a good place to live.

[Tsonga]

I haven't been paying much attention to the political forum here for a while but now I see there is a new influx of stupidity. Not the same old posters I'm used to.

Obama is a monster socialist. Government is good. Knows what's best for all.

If he wins again, things will get closer to the way you want them.

Sounds like a Glenn Beck follower...no brain to go with a lot of fear.

yeh maybe we should live in some other country,not have net and starve.

Not everyone can be rich

Most of the blame can come from blacks. Not all but most are lazy and sometimes when your down you just can't get back up.

Typical response from most rep.

I guess that's what happens when you encourage people to be lazy and live off of welfare, rather than make something of themselves and work hard like the majority of the wealthy do.

Keep catering to the lazy, and the gap becomes wider. Encourage the lazy by limiting their benefits, and they might actually get off their asses and work hard and earn a decent wage.

yah...the income inequality is directly related to the lazy people who are now growing in increasing numbers....hmm...when did they all of a sudden become lazy? What about when the US was in their prime for manufacturing and unemployment was much lower?

the countries with low whatever you said dont have rich people because they left and came here where they are free to be rich

Yah...there are no super rich people outside of the US. You are not free to be rich in those liberal countries like Canada and all the European countries where there is a fall smaller rate of income inequality.



Now for one of the stupidest posts I have ever seen. I just noticed that Forsberg already mentioned it but it is worth looking at again.

How many Olympic medals has Canada ever won? 2?

USA has been cleaning up the medals for the last 60 years and more.

You have got to be kidding me!!?? I know the average american knows jackshi$ about Canadian trivia but the ignorance of this statement is mind boggling. Even if it were true (i realize it was sarcastic) I take it that the argument is that the US is a superior country because of gold medals??? You do realize that Canada as a whole has 34 million people compared to 311 million in the US?

Now...let's just look at the most recent Olympics. Canada set the winter olympics record for golds at 14. The US with all their people and $$$$$$$$$$$$ invested in sports came in at 9 golds. You should hang your head in shame that with 4% more of the WORLD's population you can't get more gold medals than us.

Canada has 110 gold medals at the Olympics by the way. Congrats to demonstrating a new low for American ignorance.

[Cap dat 4ss]

Canada is irrelevant. Nobody here takes these discussions seriously. Canada would be the poorest country in the world if not for its trade surplus with its mighty neighbors to the south. We view canada as our retarded cousin.