Posted on 08/29/2004 1:57:32 PM PDT by NYC Republican
In '80, the rate was 52%
In '03, the rate was 44%
The one HUGE thing they don't mention anywhere is where the 8% has gone... ABOVE (75k, into upper class)or below (25k, into poor/poverty). In reading this trash article, it clearly implies that they all went into the poverty bucket...
I'd bet my bottom dollar that they went into the upper bracket, in disproportionate numbers...
This would be a good thing, no? You would think just the opposite by reading this, and all of the other Bush-hit pieces in this trash paper.
If anyone knows where the data can be pulled (stats below and above middle class) for '80 and '03, please post it here. Thanks
Sorry, in '03, it was 45%, not 44%, so that leaves 7% moving out of middle class.
Actually, it's taxes and Social Security that are killing me - and, by the way, I'm so glad I work the first half of the year to pay for illegal aliens' health care and wasteful government bureaucracy.
Right. Skerry's going to help you out on that. Just wait and see. Sweet.
I didn't read the article because I already know it is a lot of hogwash.
Every single time I've been to a mall in the past 3 years (ever since after 9/11) the places have been packed. I don't know where all those "poor Americans from the other America" are. Because all the rest of us are at the mall.
John F'in K and the staff of the NY Slimes probably don't know that, because they are too elite to actually go to malls.
Yeah. I can't wait. Where's that koolaid again?
Exactly!
You've been here for a month... I smell TROLL...
Subtitle:
"Dog Squeeze Squeeze Plaguing NYT"
I think it's time for someone to write a book that chronicles the misinformation and outright lies the New York Slime prints.
It could be a best seller on the New York Times best sellers list, which would be ironic.
'Scuse me?
I sure felt squeezed when I got that $800 check
from the govt. last summer.
A refund of MY MONEY.
Recycle your Karl Rove Bribe [TM].
Donate to the Swift Boat Veterans NOW!
Man, that's an excellent idea... The NY Post already has a weekly article that chronicles the NY Slime's lies and propoganda... It would be GREAT if someone actually logged all of this in a book.
Jeez, another newbie, you're less than a week old, huh? Republican my a$$.
You can bet that if the 7% went to the poor level, the NY Slimes would have reported the figures... The fact that they didn't indicates that this is a bunch of lies/spin/propoganda.
Oh, I get it. Questioning my credentials. Card-carrying Republican since 1971, never voted any other ticket, never will, and Freeper from 2000-2003 (took a break following a painful run-in with a couple other Freepers concerning a topic too close to me, namely, the death of an infant) and re-upped because...well, my name ought to tell you enough.
What's deceptive is that Kerry does NOT have a "plan" for the most important component of this whole thing: the re-vivification of manufacturing.
More accurate, his plan is the same as Bush's: benign neglect--let it all go to PRChina.
And Maytag is slowly pulling manufacturing out of the USA, just as did Admiral, which closed down their main plant in Illinois and killed the town surrounding it.
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