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The Demise Of The American Dream (In 2 Charts)
Presented with little comment aside to note that when 'work is punished' the demise of 'opportunity' will continue...
The painful reality in America: for increasingly more it is now more lucrative - in the form of actual disposable income - to sit, do nothing, and collect various welfare entitlements, than to work.
And that trend appears to be accelerating as more and more men drop out of the workforce...
and the demise of opportunity continues unabated...
... "life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement" regardless of social class or circumstances of birth (or amount of stock ownership).
h/t @Not_Jim_Cramer
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Poor Americans... they 'sold themselves out' to cheesesteak bankers on a PAPER promise... Right now ~ the cheesesteak bankers are hustling their way out of town with suitcases full of gold... Just as they've done for the past 3,000 years...
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Boo fucking [H]oo... Learn how to grow yourself a fucking OKRA plant & you'll be happier than u ever were b4...
Weekends suck for us ZH'ers. The regular staffing is off so the second stringers cut and paste old articles together. "Recycle".
Turn up your speakers numbnuts. Plenty going on..
Minor Threat - Stumped
Fugazi - Steady Diet of Nothing| Long Division
Guilty OBW
Ok Cashonly then why don't you put out a website that reports news and commentary worldwide faster than major media outlets...for free. Jackass
To post the Labor Force participation rate for American males and not a chart showing the changing demographic breakdown of American males is intellectually dishonest at best and disinformation at worst. In 1950, less than 8% of the male population was 65+. What is it today? 15%? 18%? Obviously, these changing demographics don't account for ALL of the drop in the labor force participation rate, but they do account for a large chunk.
True. There's lies, damn lies, and statistics.
I'm glad that I was not the first one to notice the err of redundancy...oh, and I was the 1-out-of-a-possible-5 vote for this article due to it being vacant information on two charts that we have seen
It's supposedly a fight club
Don't let your feelings get hurt
horse racing...study, bet and watch from the comforts of home
American Dream ---> Food Stamps and an Obamaphone.
I like the verbiage in the article better.
Sit, do nothing, and collect = the American dream.
And it spreads across more than just the charts provided.
Corporations automate/computerize as much as possible, getting rid of employees by the millions.
Sit, do nothing but run computer cycles, collect.
The Congress produced the least bills ever, while taking longer & longer tax funded vacations.
Sit, do nothing but lie, collect.
It's the American way! Figure out how to make the most money with the least effort!
I guess you can put a price on pride. Looks like it's worth about 30 grand........
Marcelus Wallace was right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruhFmBrl4GM
Tylers - you missed the most important benefit of all. Towards the left side of the first chart, you don't have to work. Wanting to move right on that chart is a dumb move, and American voters are not dumb when it comes to voting for more money for themselves. From Jamie Dimon down to the non-working welfare queens, they all get it - get what you can from the gummint while you can, and the hell with everyone else or the future.
First off, welfare is theft. Not by the recipient, but by the provider who stole the money from others in the first and is stealing the soul of the recipient in the second.
The chart also details enslavement.
Most people desire to work. Maybe not digging ditches, but to create, produce and be valued. Welfare sets a bar that values ones work less than it would without welfare's existence. Basically, someone earning, say $60,000 a year as a mid-level accountant or IT pro, is earning about on par with a welfare mom not working. On a net basis, your work, sweat, experience and knowledge are worth nothing. You would have to earn a lot more, more than any firm will pay, for said same work to be of higher intrinsic value on a net basis.
I do believe that this sense, the reduced value of one's work compared to those that are "supported," is the source of so many people’s rage against welfare recipients.
However, the problem is NOT the welfare recipient, but the one that stole the money and destroyed the economic opportunities that is the problem, the enemy. The enemies are the criminals of the government and their bankster masters.
Don't miss the forest, the government, for the trees, the welfare recipient.
"My guillotine will gladly eat a bankster today and pay you Tuesday."
Great points. The way I see it the Government is bidding against employers by providing welfare.
Yep. and by welcoming 13 million illegal immigrants. "The beatings will continue until morale inmproves".
"the problem is not the welfare recipient" ???
Give me a break. When the banksters get zero interest money loans, that's welfare. When a mother of young children stays at home to raise her kid and gets various monetary and non-monetary grants, that's welfare. When a farmer is paid to leave land fallow instead of planting crops, that's welfare. When government illegally changes the rules to favor unions in control of GM, that's welfare.
Yes, government is the deadly force that takes wealth away from producers/owners and transfers it to welfare recipients ... but for heaven's sake, if the welfare recipients said NO, DON'T DO THAT, then government wouldn't steal the wealth. The source of the problem is that democracy empowers "legal" theft, plain and simple. And the thieves are those who support and profit from the welfare. So don't try to put it off on some evil government cabal. As Pogo said -
"We have met the enemy and he is us."
Right on brother...
My main point is, who is the enemy--who is dandgeous and who is important to affecting a slolution?
Putting a welfare mom to the guillotine will not stop the criminals of government and their stealing masters, the banksters, from continuing to steal. Even if welfare is stopped, the criminals will just continue to steal and piss it away elsewhere.
And who is more criminal and dangerous, the welfare mom or the criminal handing her part of our labor and product? Who is more dangerous, the welfare mom, or the criminal sitting in an office coming up with more production and labor hindering regulations? Who is more dangerous, the welfare mom, or the criminals going around kicking in doors and seizing property and lives based on tyrannical "rules" that they themselves make up?
No those that are doing the stealing and "giving" away what is not theirs are the enemy. That enemy is government. And if that government is outside the bounds of their founding and restraining documents, then they are that much more criminal.
The Four Rs
Rejection: Quit paying, quit obeying , quit playing
Revolution: It is inevitable, so prepare, as they are.
Retribution: Is there really any place for these sociopaths and criminals in a restored civil and Constitutional society?!
Restoration: Restore the Constitutional republic.
kchrisc, as you climb the ladder, above gov wonks you get to the source of this evil>banksters, next stop is the fed. but next up to the top is the real enemy> shadowy figures that own the system>the richest muthers fucks with no conscience-pathelogical sociopaths that know and understand the human to a tee. they are well insulated and own the system. the money gods.
so we are stuck understanding it all, but helpless to do much. we watch for another day/same shit. now it is a futile war in ukraine. all predictable. only one option for me >opt out, enjoy the day, and take all i said with a grain of salt...
sorry, but i wish i could offer a real solution, but as is and as it will always be, just history, truth and time, the fourth dimension..
Yes, but big, out of bounds and criminal government is their tool. No big government, no oppression.
The banksters have always tried to defraud their depositors. If government did what they are mandated to do, justice, and held the banksters responsible for their fraud there would be much less "fraudulent-reserve banking." Instead they climbed in to bed with the criminals and destroyed the country of the American people.
Ditto the 'tribe' sociopaths. Their tool is big, out of bounds and criminal government serving their shams and scams. No need to deport or kill them, just take away their tool, big, out of bounds and criminal government.
They of government are the threat. They of government are the tool of oppression. They of government are the enemy.
"Hand a loaded pistol to a 6-year old and he's dangerous. Take it away and he's not."
"However, the problem is NOT the welfare recipient, but the one that stole the money and destroyed the economic opportunities that is the problem"
Is that really the problem? Or is the real problem that a minority now own most of the US land and have been able to reduce wages of the majority to a minimum, effectively creating a slave labour force. Welfare benefits are simply a response to slave wages.
Get off you arse, be productive and rewards will come your way.
or don't. But quit bitching.
Gauge the damage done to this financial system by banksters vs welfare moms, guess who wins? You see this constantly, the elite trying like hell to get the rest of you blame the weakest amongst us. Remember! It was the guy who bags your groceries who invented the CDS. High Frequency Trading? That's the fault of the scraggly bearded homeless guy by the park! And the trillion $ prize winner, shadow banking, goes to any seeing a dime of evil fed/state benefits, which includes everyone on Social Secuirty!
Please leave the elite alone, they cannot enjoy their ill gotten gains if you start blaming them.
What's wrong with 'theft' if it is for the good of the people....We have been taught to love Robin Hood since we were children.
He was a thief, yet idolized.
Who are these welfare queens you guys keep talking about? Some young woman with 2 small kids whose husband went off in search of fresh pussy and finds his child support cramps his style? Sometimes a man will fool you; you think he's a father, but it turns out he was only a sperm donor and you only find out after its too damn late. He moves around and changes jobs a lot. Oh, maybe its some young woman who got pregnant and wouldn't or couldn't get an abortion, which would have been better for everybody? The sperm donor, of course, has headed for the hills. Where are the prolifers when she really needs them? They've headed for the hills too. How dare she take section 8 housing to put a roof over those children's heads. How dare she use daycare assistance so she can go to work. How dare she take EBS and WIC to help feed those children. If she had any pride they would live in the street and eat out of dumpsters. This place will look like India pretty soon. I've said it here before, that welfare queen is a myth; class warfare at its ugliest. The poverty of people on welfare is terrible. If you know of someone collecting welfare and driving an SUV around, its because they've only recently fallen on hard times and the repo man hasn't caught up with them yet. They'll be riding shanks mare soon enough.
Be sure to give us the weather outlook from Beverly Hills when you wake up.
I see even more "nonparticipating" women that men.
Where's that chart?
And furthermore, would a white male in his 30's also be better off earning $29,000 than $60,000? Somehow I think not.
the dream has lowered expectations>new game>new reality>less is moar...
5 years from now, trailer homes with be aveage middle income earners castle.
of course, with a pick-up right in the front yard. so fucking cool...
Women want to say they're equal...but we all know they're not. Not saying men are better (they compliment each other perfectly) but let's take a look at "equal pay".
How many female construction workers do you see?
How many female electricians do you see?
How many female plumbers do you see?
How many female framers do you see?
(those are all well paying jobs by the way - which in many cases can lead to starting your own business)
If females are equal than why in sports don't women compete with men?
How many females in the military sign up for combat positions? What's the percentage that actually want to?
Women want equal pay... without the "equal work" part.
Men and women are fundamentally different in just about every way. Men are built stronger and our hormones make us more aggressive and determined....which is why the best Lawyers in the world happen to be men (albeit a few exceptions).
Well...now thanks to the feminists, women THINK they can get equal pay and be single mothers (YOU DON'T NEED NO MAN WOMEN!!!) and the sad reality is...we are a nation full of single mothers that can't feed themselves or their children without government assistance. Add to that a generation of children growing up without fathers.
Good job you feminist Nazis. You are one of the main reasons America is in decline.
And for the record... a lot of Obama's foreign policy blunders happened with Hillary Clinton being the Sec. Of State, so let's not talk about how awesome she is.
what a pathetic patriarchal wanker you are.
The reason you dont see many female construction workers is because they would have to put up with sexist dickheads like you
Attack the message not the messenger.
traditionally i would, but in this instance both the message and the messanger are a blight on this planet
For a girl I bet you have big dick.
hehe it doesnt surprise me that you are so thoroughly enslaved by your gender identity and masculine superiority complex that you could not imagine that i am, in fact, a man.
yes but that dress looked great on you
squid puppet,
care to refute one and only's point?
please don't argue that Moochelle is stronger/tougher than Barry.
that's not fair.
I'd wager you're a typical Prius-driving, white-guilted beta male metrosexual based on your comments. The dude above had a point and you tried to argue it. Game, set match, wanker.
my word, the morons abound today. Here's a guy that seems to hinge his and other's sense of identity upon what brand of car you drive
and im not sure what 'point' the guy above even had aside from a general contempt and derision of women, which is what i am reacting to.
It is actually possible - and emotionally profitable - to be comfortable in your male identity without resorting to diminishing females. Does that view make me a 'metrosexual'. Oh no! Get me some steroids quick!!
You wanna label me, so what? Im just an average guy who doesnt have the need to bluster about the fact that i was born with a dick.
Regardless whether you're male or female, you are a stupid cunt.
Your ad hominem attacks don't fly in the forum of critical thinkers.
Take your bullshit back to huffington post or the yahoo boards.
Women are only good for one thing. Look at my avatar, that should give you an idea.
I don't see sandwiches.
Funniest comment ever!
Look dude, he didn't say men were better than women, he said simply that man are better at particular things than women. Lets use his statement in reverse so you understand.
Women are better at breastfeeding than men. Kinda hard to argue with isn't it?
Self hating men.... feminists like yourself make me want to vomit! Go back to your womens studies classes if you think that's the only chance you have of getting some pussy.
because lifes options are just that binary, huh? You cant take issue with patriarchal discrimination without hating yourself as a man? it's just not possible that i can be comfortable in my male identity without holding women's differences with derision? What an emotionally impoverished world view
So in your world the only reason women do not seek out employment in physically challenging careers is because some mean man will not treat the nice.
That is beyond racist, beyond sexist, so beyond the reality of evolution. Why is that almost without exception all warring cultures throughout history have relied on males?
In your world the only reason women were not used is that their feelings might have got hurt.
White knighting still abounds, it seems.
Is that you Bruce Jenner?
Math is hard for Barbie.
Reality is hard for you.
"patriarchal" and "sexist" is the veil you have been taught to use to protect you.
And it was all a lie.
Meanwhile, the government encourages the moral hazard common to the least able to conduct themselves as responsible adults, and you cheerlead.
Stop being pathetic and believe your lying eyes, not your progressive oppressors.
and yet it took a chick to write Atlas Shrugged
A snowflake does not prove a blizzard.
but somehow the snowflake example of hillary clinton can be used to infer that womens failures are responsible for the general demise of US international influence
edit: (not that i am in any way sticking up for clinton herself, she is as equally useless and evil as the assholes surrounding her)
.... and admit the edit came after the downvotes. Male feminists... the most disgusting of them all!
if you were around at the time of the edit you would have seen the scorecard at 0/0. Male masculinists - most violent and destructive creatures on the planet. Prove that wrong.
Ehhhh.....What?
All orginal ideas.
Who wrote the Magna Carta and the US Constitution (the two most important documents related to liberty)?
Hint: Not Jay Z
Hint: Not Ayn Rand
Yeah. Better bring up your game, if a little kike woman is making more sense than you. A dead kike woman at that. We have enough real problems to address
Her name was Alisa Rosenbaum
Her name was Alisa Rosenbaum
Her name was Alisa Rosenbaum
Ayn Rand was a Russian Jewess chick, who recognized the ultimate progressive jihadist triumph in the Russo-Jewish-communist totalitarianism of the 1940's and 1950's, ....having escaped from behind the iron curtain.
I first read Atlas Shrugged when I was in high school in the mid 1950s.....when we were still taught to read something beyond the 3rd grade level.
She was, indeed, prescient in recognizing the nascent communist takeover of the Demoncrap Party in the late 1940s.
Women don't work on construction sites normally because most of them are not physically capable of dealing with hard labour, no matter how much feminists want to pretend otherwise, there was a reason that back when we were hunter gatherers, men went out to get the food and women raised the children. Its not sexist, its an undeniable fact of life.
Idi_ocracy Agree. I notice women on road-building or -repair crews are holding traffic-warning flags. Maybe they're needed, I don't argue that, and may be hot and dirty, but they're not doing the real work. Probably a union requirement to have female "labor"?
uhh- was johnson a feminist?
NO.
He was a 'progressive' Demoncrat.
Dude, (one and only) you should go check your bank balance. Then write a check to your Mom for that amount.
Men vs women, Ford vs Chevy, whatever sports team against whatever sports team , Dems vs GOP, gay vs straight, white vs black vs brown vs yellow, Christian vs Muslim vs Jew . As long as we are divided and arguing like a bunch of fucking sheep, someone can control every aspect of our lives.
Women are economically second class citizens due to the fact that men pretty much own everything (land).
If there was a proper tax on the benefits of owning land women would become economically equal with men in short time.
'If females are equal than why in sports don't women compete with men? ...
Men and women are fundamentally different in just about every way. Men are built stronger ...'
Didn't you just answer your own question there?
It's fitting your list of occupations only includes those requiring muscle, but not critical thinking skills.
How about equal pay for equal productivity per dollar?
We all know that, on average, women are better in professions that involve talking and process vs. results. Note the phrase "on average". Yeah, there are some women who kick men's ass in the workplace and/or make great leaders. There are also some men who are irresponsible losers and far worse then women. But they are the exceptions, not the rule. One the postive side, women tend to show up on time and do their assigned job faithfully, but it pretty much ends there. Where I work, the women are all about emotion, talk, and appearances. They are also the first ones to abandon tried and true standards when it gets hard or someone feelings are hurt. They also tend to feel sorry for the men who are abject failures; conversely, they shit on those who go to extraordinary lengths to make the organization succeed--and that includes the ones they turn to for help over and over again. Sometimes it bad enough to make one want to quit and leave them to their devices--kind of like Atlas shrugging. One last thing: Sisterhood is an illusion. The worst enemy of women is often other women.
Men and women are fundamentally different in just about every way.
HATE FACT!
Expect a visit from your local branch of the Thought Police.
Well, if the damn governments weren't manipulating everything from prices to wages to rates to 'values' to indices maybe we wouldn't be in this mess.
That is true, but it would just be a different kind of mess.
And then the chart of young, white men...
Dats racisss
Go back to only property owners being able to vote. White, black, brown, red, yellow, male, female, trans, doesn't matter, it's the skin in the game not the skin.
I have always thought this was a good idea but then pondered- "what are the parameters"? Is it owning a house w/ no mortgage? If someone shells out $5k for a Dee-troit crack house does that count? Can a farmer sell someone a 1 sq ft piece of land for $100 and you are now a property owner? Etc.
Good questions. Back in what, 1789, only about 6 percent of the population was "eligible" to vote, so I guess "property owners" were well monied.
Of course no one really "owns" property as long as the cocksuckers in the govt demand their pound of property tax flesh
True enough. Rent to the King.
You only owned land if you improved upon it in the old days. Hence, the stories of Johnny Appleseed, the real life guy that threw apple seeds into everyone's yards.
BTW, most apples taste terrible, and are only good for cider. The only reason we have good tasting apples is because the growers found a good tasting tree, and they cut off it's limbs and graft them to other trees.
WOAR: In the early days the biggest "industry" was making and selling booze. Wild apples distilled provided income. Johnny planted lots of trees here-there-everywhere in order to further production of lots of saleable product. You can look it up.
Where did the property owners get their property from. It wasn't created by mankind (they might jhave improved it a bit) Land doesn't belong to anyone, it belongs to the community. Property owners have basically stolen it from the community. In the case of the US, property owners have basically stolen it from the indiginous community.
We are are the indigenous community of the world. I think having property rights is great.
No one wants to jump off a cliff
Why can't the imbeciles in government see reality?]
Rhetoric... yeah okay
they can see it. They just dont want you to see it.
Relax. Everything is just the way it should be. The Kenyan said 'nobody built anything anyway'.
I can't wait for the Fed to double QE to $170b per month. Then nobody will have to work! Woohoo! Why did we think of this sooner?
Make you wonder why we have to pay taxes. Why don't they just print what they need and disband the IRS.
It's not our money they need, they already have it all, it's our labor. They need us in the yoke, and they need us to pay them for that yoke, they need us to be in debt. It is their lifeblood.
They want robots to avoid legacy cost. Robots can't purchase manufactured goods to aid in GDP growth
Ministry - Faith Collapsing
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Bad Goyim! No thinky allowed!
That is the central point why the FED type Central Banksters know they are sacrificing the 99% to save the banks and the Banksters.
If the printing had no pain or downside they would save a bunch of money removing taxes and print more.
Since they don't, they know that printing will have huge downside. So they print to save the Banksters and await the fall for the 99% and their kids to pick up the mess.
Banksters are not worth the O2 they use.
I think tradition, mostly.
And the millions of accountants, tax preparers, lawyers, IRS agents, lobbyists, and telephone sanitizers it would disemploy.
Since the beginning of the Obamanation we have either borrowed or printed about half the federal budget anyway. Give it time.
To make it seem legit.
Two parasites feed symbiotically. The bottom feeders who receive their benefits are fed by our noble compassionate takers in government, who take their cut before passing a depleted amount down. The government parasites feed themselves better, than they pass to the bottom feeders.
You're forgetting the upper class who only exist because of .gov handouts. Best example is Jamie Dimon, King of the Welfare Queens; and yes, that's why he's richer than youse.
its not demise of a dream, its a beginning of new one. women work, men stay home:
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/LNS11300002
yes, but if these men worked, then the 1% would have to give up something - a case of bollinger, a cheaper louis vuitton, one less lamborghini, to make payroll.....puuuhleeeeze!
You might need a lesson in economics.
The rich person will hire you if your contribution/effort makes him even richer.
He won't hire you if you cost him money.
So the secret to working is to provide greater value than what you are paid.
here...let Killing Joke explain it to you:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_sot9ZK8X8
When a nation doesn't need it's Men it is in terminal decline.
The male labor participation rate is inversely proportional to the growth of the federal budget.
On a brighter note, I live in Illinois and have tried to apply for our new conceal/carry license since the first week in January. I couldn't get past the java verification portion for the last two months. Yesterday I ran system recovery and started from the beginning. Today, I completed the process in 20 minutes. And since I only use my computer for reading, I didn't lose much in the recovery process. Happy day
No conceal carry permit/license required in Arizona.
Semperfi: Can't live w/o potable water.
..........And the off-shoring of manufacturing.............and the growth of "Free Trade".........Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!............... and intentional.
...........And, If you don't believe that this result was planned, anticipated, and intentional, you are part of the problem.
So which do I need to go bullish on: H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine", or George Orwell's "1984"?
Try "Apocalypse Now, American Style".
Black mobs on steroids.
Chartporny doom. Where's the tipping point into oblivion? This is what keeps me awake at night. And just after that tipping point, what does it look like? How does it impact me and my short stack of benjamins?
The town I live in has a HUGE population of EBT'ers. When those cards no longer function this place will go instantly medieval. Roving bands of well armed, hungry people. Banditry in the 'burbs. Just what you want to see come down your street. No place to hide. No cops in sight. They'll be....who knows where they'll be. They just won't be on your street at the time needed or ever.
I don't see a happy ending or a reversal in the trends.
Could the only saving grace be......
China implodes in their debt bubble. Devolves into civil war. Flight to the dollar! Manufacturing returns to Amerika due to complete chaos at China, Inc.
Or does that just enable us for worse behavior? Does the contagion take us down too?
ever thought why China is accumulating so much gold?
The same reason the saudi's buy it. It's like interest on Treasuries.
Just to the north of me, in San Diego, there are many new community developements that are a mote away from castles. Even the rich know and they are consolidating into these gated communities. Although more defensible looking, they're going down with the rest of us. Wouldn't it be better to get the petroleum monopoly to return gasoline to the $2.40 range as it was before they started our recession?
I must be missing something. But why does someone who isn't working (or at least reporting 0 income) that should therefore be able to stay home to look after their kids ged childcare?
The EBT crowd was at WalMart early on Monday the 3rd.
They were buying up the grocieries and flat screen TVs, and paying no attention to the ammo counter.
walmart ammo prices rock if you can find any. Timing is the key I have found. The Russky Tulammo is cheap but dirty to shoot. It does however afford practice.
Bass pro not bad either and have everything in stock. Including all reload supplies....
Republicans can't say tax cuts create US jobs. The 1% isn't enough to get them elected.
fuck your political party garbage - goobermint is way too fucking fat regardless of party
This paradox of modern policy and earnings is confusing to you and others. It is founded on the premise that unemployed people will prefer to have no credit rating and very little consumption beyond allowed neccesities as distinguished from more luxury. MORE deluxe is always the mantra of the American modern consumer. Little has changed, Americans always want MORE exclusive goods, except this time they are worried about who will pay for the party,and what does it mean when there are more dollars than dirt? Are dollars worth more than dirt? Wait and see in Chapter 16 in The story of One Man's Times and Tastes. Book one, Chapter 15.