78% of USA workers live paycheck to paycheck

evince said:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mar...ycheck-to-paycheck/ar-BBS1cbe?ocid=spartandhp
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My guess is that MORE than 78% of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck. They just do not realize it. But for some of them, the reckoning comes, because there are many among the 22% who are an unexpected disaster away from poverty. It just takes one unplanned catastrophic illness...and all the supposed safety of savings and thrift go right out the window.

That is how many people in our country find out why some of us insist on protecting and expanding safety-net programs.
 
Truth Detector said:
Liberals do not think. They emote. That is why they tend to be so gullible and believe that Government can provide a utopian solution to all of societies problems. It really is a dullard way to view the world.

They are also economically ignorant. They think that economies are finite, and therefore, if someone has more, someone else must have less. It is a child like view.
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Looking to be a victim and the zero sum game mindset go together. If you believe that for someone else to get a bigger piece of the pie means you get less and you have less, you have someone to blame for failure. Lefties tend to look for someone to blame. That way, when they fail, they already have the excuses made.
 
Jack said:
I wanted to get Permanent Power (taking down the Temporary Pole with the 60 amp box and hooking up my 150 amp Meter Pan/Box) so called the Electric Company. The guy came out, saw the unfinished house, and said "I don't know if I can hook you up?". I said "What's the Problem?". He said "I need to call my Supervisor".
A half hour later, 2 Supervisors showed up. I started rattling off about how I had the required 8 foot grounding rod, the #6 Ground wire, the 10' high Weatherhead, the 3 required straps on the metal conduit, and that the Meter Pan was attached to a 3/4" piece of plywood. I said "What's the Problem?". The two Supervisors looked at each other, then one of them turned to the guy and said "Hook him up".

:) See. It pays to be stupid. Usually the Electric Company doesn't provide Permanent Power to half finished Houses.
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They also don't supply power to non-existent houses that are a figment of your imagination.
 
CFM said:
Looking to be a victim and the zero sum game mindset go together. If you believe that for someone else to get a bigger piece of the pie means you get less and you have less, you have someone to blame for failure. Lefties tend to look for someone to blame. That way, when they fail, they already have the excuses made.
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Spot on. It is really sad that these morons want more Obamunism after the malaise of his eight years. It is proof that they are only capable of operating at an emotional level and not intellectual.
 
Kacper said:
I don't know. We aren't sisters who discuss our feelings while drinking wine and having pillow fights in the Jacuzzi. I know he hates working 12 hour shifts but now that his house is almost paid off, they are talking about selling it and building a new on because why put yourself in a position in which you don't have to work at a job you hate for 20 more years to pay off a new mortgage because your RN wife thinks she should live in the same neighborhood as the doctors she works for.
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doesn't sound like he works paycheck to paycheck dude
 
evince said:
maybe its their pay level


don't be an idiot


people don't live paycheck to paycheck as a choice
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Just an opinion. But people take Government jobs because once you get the job, you'll never be fired, laid off, or furloughed ... or at least that is the thinking. You'll think you have a permanent revenue stream and budget accordingly. So, I would think this 'temporarily out of work' is a big blow to people that think it would never happen to them.
 
Truth Detector said:
Liberals do not think. They emote. That is why they tend to be so gullible and believe that Government can provide a utopian solution to all of societies problems. It really is a dullard way to view the world.

They are also economically ignorant. They think that economies are finite, and therefore, if someone has more, someone else must have less. It is a child like view.
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oh really

then why is it the right has to resort to pretending the short bus school of economics ( that refuses to use MATH) is correct and use it to back their economic claims?
 
Sirthinksalot said:
What percentage of that 78% lives paycheck to paycheck because of their own irresponsible fiscal choices and lack of prioritization? How many of those people wouldn't have to live paycheck to paycheck if they didn't choose to live above their means?
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so you hate 78% of Americans
 
Look at all these righties hating on 78% of Americans


they are all just too stupid according to the right


how I wish they would run their election attempts honestly


then they would not get any of these Americans votes



instead they only say this shit in closed rooms of wealthy donners while calling most Americans TAKERS
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilfredo_Pareto




Vilfredo Pareto



Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto (/pəˈrɛtoʊ/; Italian: [vilˈfreːdo paˈreːto]; born Wilfried Fritz Pareto, 15 July 1848 – 19 August 1923) was an Italian engineer, sociologist, economist, political scientist, and philosopher. He made several important contributions to economics, particularly in the study of income distribution and in the analysis of individuals' choices. He was also responsible for popularising the use of the term "elite" in social analysis.



He introduced the concept of Pareto efficiency and helped develop the field of microeconomics. He was also the first to discover that income follows a Pareto distribution, which is a power law probability distribution. The Pareto principle was named after him, and it was built on observations of his such as that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by about 20% of the population. He also contributed to the fields of sociology and mathematics, according to the mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson:
His legacy as an economist was profound. Partly because of him, the field evolved from a branch of moral philosophy as practised by Adam Smith into a data intensive field of scientific research and mathematical equations. His books look more like modern economics than most other texts of that day: tables of statistics from across the world and ages, rows of integral signs and equations, intricate charts and graphs.[3]
 
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