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In reply to the discussion: WTF? China, Mexico and India??? [View all]RKP5637
(67,112 posts)30. Yep, and often dems are part of the problem too even when they know what's going on.
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Actually, we used to brag about our inventiveness, all the scientific awards we won, and
tclambert
Jun 2016
#23
Those accomplishments were true. Read "From Counterculture to Cyberculture" by Fred Turner.
ancianita
Jun 2016
#46
Other nations have been viewed as "the best and the brightest" for a time as well..
whathehell
Jun 2016
#122
Oh, OK, I'll make a note of it. Thank you! ... that Americans are always clever voters! n/t
RKP5637
Jun 2016
#51
Yep, it was far too broad. I also took you off ignore. Your posts are always interesting.
RKP5637
Jun 2016
#126
Table is correct. As a percentage of immense US wealth, share of middle class is small.
George Eliot
Jun 2016
#93
The Democratic Party must decide. Do we really have to forego middle class and working class
highprincipleswork
Jun 2016
#3
I SO want to believe what her potential is, too. There is a Berner aboard her campaign, and
ancianita
Jun 2016
#47
Ask yourself 2 questions. How many times has Hillary talked about the disappearing Middle Class?
Major Hogwash
Jun 2016
#88
What's the surprise? The republicans have been sucking money to the 1% of the 1% since Reagan and
MariaThinks
Jun 2016
#6
Well said!!! So many still just don't get how financially screwed most Americans are by R's and D's.
RKP5637
Jun 2016
#29
True, there are many on the take and don 't want their gravey train upset. So sad and pathetic! n/t
RKP5637
Jun 2016
#40
I knew someone like that. They really have liberal ideas/feelings. I asked them why they vote
RKP5637
Jun 2016
#110
I came across two different votes, one was 90-8 and the other was 98-1. Either way....
George II
Jun 2016
#58
Yep, and often dems are part of the problem too even when they know what's going on.
RKP5637
Jun 2016
#30
The jobs they get based on their education investments are still jobs that used to be based here
That Guy 888
Jun 2016
#48
With all respect, this really doesn't make any sense! The middle class has actually
RKP5637
Jun 2016
#31
These wealth figures are not consistent with income. Their incomes are even more unequal than ours.
pampango
Jun 2016
#37
Spain and the Netherlands at the top? Sweden and Switzerland down with the US? Weird. n/t
pampango
Jun 2016
#19
The US is going nowhere in the 21st century. Often the US gets a free pass because the
RKP5637
Jun 2016
#32
It's okay. We're gonna have lots more wars. That'll make rich people even richer in the U.S.
valerief
Jun 2016
#27
That's the US's chief product. Wars, weapons, destruction, killing, maiming and rebuilding.
RKP5637
Jun 2016
#34
Forty years of policies from neo cons on both sides of the aisle, and trade agreements
truedelphi
Jun 2016
#43
Just for reference, here's the Credit Suisse definition of middle class
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2016
#45
I'm sure that morally bankrupt former treasury secretary will bring out his bogus charts to refute
Skwmom
Jun 2016
#55
It's virtually impossible to compare "middle class" from one country to another for many...
George II
Jun 2016
#97
If this is correct, they can run this for an ad in Nov. Start practicing President Trump.
Skwmom
Jun 2016
#53
I wonder what a chart of historical share of middle income wealth in U.S. as compared to the
Skwmom
Jun 2016
#62
If you look at Table 2 p. 33 of the Credit Suisse Report, we look quite exceptional to me
progree
Jun 2016
#68
Difficult to understand. Does wealth include cost of housing which rose sharply in NW?
George Eliot
Jun 2016
#71
Different analysts use different criteria. Per Credit Suisse, our middle class is smaller.
George Eliot
Jun 2016
#73
Agreed. I have never argued that the U.S. middle class's SHARE of the U.S. population or
progree
Jun 2016
#81
Credit Suisse does show smaller MC. If you are simply refuting OP, then OP chart is correct per CR S
George Eliot
Jun 2016
#87
Another interesting table - we barely edge out China in terms of number of people in the middle
progree
Jun 2016
#83
I would suggest that Table 1, p.32, with "proportion who are middle class or beyond"
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2016
#78
I generally agree with your post -- I like the "middle class and beyond" metric
progree
Jun 2016
#79
Correction: per your table, the OP is correct. You moved to dollars. The table uses percentages.
George Eliot
Jun 2016
#91
I was NOT criticizing the bar chart in the OP but rather the text to the side of the bar chart
progree
Jun 2016
#102
Regardless of dollars, 37% Americans now enjoy 20% of the wealth of the country. Do you agree?
George Eliot
Jun 2016
#111
No. As we long ago established, the middle classes in each country are as rich as each other
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2016
#98
The U.S. doesn't share. I believe we're now an official arm of Saudi Arabia. nt
valerief
Jun 2016
#105
Any graphic that includes any variant on "keep sleeping", "wake up", or "sheeple"
NuclearDem
Jun 2016
#118