Jon Kyl Berates Obama For Focus On Middle Class

Great point L,
The people in the 1% changes from year to year. Static 1%'rs tend to be Democrats like JFK and FDR. Maybe they should donate more of their family money versus spending other peoples.

I also agree that the 1% shift from year to year- in fact many of those people only make the 1% list for one year- they sell a business they have built up for an entire lifetime for example.

For that one year- they may make 3 million or 5 or 8. The next year they only show investment income from that money.

But LJ is ignoring the facts I have put foward in my first post here- and the article from CNBC that came out 4 days ago- which indicate that the 1% are taking a harder hit than we ever thought- that they have lost a larger percentage of their income during this recession- that they pay a larger sum in taxes....

That the income gap is actually shrinking since 2008- not growing as the Socialists of the country and Obamie the commie keeps saying. This class warfare is not only dividing us- it's all based on a bunch of lies.

And I hope LJ and the rest of the lefties out there feel comfortable knowing they are spewing lies - it shows how morally corrupt they all are.

And that is the truth- those are the facts. I hope you are happy living a life of lies LJ.

Like the article says-"But when politicians and pundits talk about the rich just getting richer and paying less taxes, they need to pay closer attention to the actual numbers."

Source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/falling-fortunes-one-percent-152338859.html

"Bigger sum in taxes" (gross numbers") vs. "percentage of their income" is an irrelevant comparison...

But y'all have fun with your Heritage Foundation Kool-Aid...

I'll see if I can work up a tear for all those 1%-ers.

It goes up and down. Seven years ago I was over 6 figures. Two years ago, I was scraping the bottom of the barrel at under 15k, and and now, I'm at about 50% of my high 7 years ago. It went up and down, and not once did I feel like someone was putting me down, or that I was in this class or that class. I did what I had to do, on my own, and made things work.

Whiny liberals like LJ just can't get over things, can't pick their ass off the floor and get on with it, deal with it, make it work. No, the LJ's in the world just keep blaming it on someone else. She does it here on a daily basis.

The Liberals GOP Twin wrote: It goes up and down. Seven years ago I was over 6 figures. Two years ago, I was scraping the bottom of the barrel at under 15k, and and now, I'm at about 50% of my high 7 years ago. It went up and down, and not once did I feel like someone was putting me down, or that I was in this class or that class. I did what I had to do, on my own, and made things work.

Whiny liberals like LJ just can't get over things, can't pick their ass off the floor and get on with it, deal with it, make it work. No, the LJ's in the world just keep blaming it on someone else. She does it here on a daily basis.

Exactly. I have gone from new cars owned free and clear in my 20's to fake cheese and dodging bullets living in a bad neighborhood back to transatlantic cruises.

Well, there you have it. If your personal experience and anecdotal experience was different than the other 99.9999999999% of the population, then that must be the standard by which we should measure... :Snooze

I'm soooo not interested in your Ayn_Randroid sociopathic, selfish perspective on the rest of the population.

I went from "po' white trash" beginnings in Texas to doing better than I care to share... I don't extrapolate that to: "everybody that didn't do what I did is [lazy/stupid/greedy/freeloader/fill-in-the-standard GOP-sociopathic response]."

Democracy4Sale wrote: Well, there you have it. If your personal experience and anecdotal experience was different than the other 99.9999999999% of the population, then that must be the standard by which we should measure... :Snooze

I'm soooo not interested in your Ayn_Randroid sociopathic, selfish perspective on the rest of the population.

I went from "po' white trash" beginnings in Texas to doing better than I care to share... I don't extrapolate that to: "everybody that didn't do what I did is [lazy/stupid/greedy/freeloader/fill-in-the-standard GOP-sociopathic response]."

And you miss the real message in the haze of your socialistic kool aid... those of us who have been up and down and this way and sideways... the important message is we tried hard and didn't whine... unlike you.

Democracy4Sale wrote: Well, there you have it. If your personal experience and anecdotal experience was different than the other 99.9999999999% of the population, then that must be the standard by which we should measure... :Snooze

I'm soooo not interested in your Ayn_Randroid sociopathic, selfish perspective on the rest of the population.

I went from "po' white trash" beginnings in Texas to doing better than I care to share... I don't extrapolate that to: "everybody that didn't do what I did is [lazy/stupid/greedy/freeloader/fill-in-the-standard GOP-sociopathic response]."

But that isn't what we are saying. We are saying no matter how hard you work, or where you came from, fortunes rise and fall. Even though you are a perfect example of someone rising above their past, you declare less than 1% of Americans can advance to the 1%.

In some states like California and back east, hourly workers with overtime are making over 100K a year.

I'm soooo not interested in your Ayn_Randroid sociopathic, selfish perspective on the rest of the population. Is there some part of that you are not getting? I don't care "how many get to advance to the 1%"--I care about the other 99% of the population that the 1% seem to sh*t on with impunity.

In other words - the only words she is interested in are the ones she regurgitates after hearing from inside the echo chamber. Not enough room left in her guano filled cranium for independent thought after all.