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Wealth inequality stands at its highest since the turn of the 20th century - the so-called 'Gilded Age' - as the proportion of capital held by the world's 1,542 dollar billionaires swells yet higher. The report, undertaken by Swiss banking giant UBS and UK accounting company PwC, discusses the roles technology and globalization play in the status quo, and appears two weeks after the IMF recommended that the rich should pay more tax to address the enormous disparity.
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Grelb's Reminder:
Eighty percent of all people consider themselves to be above
average drivers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 29 2017, @03:38PM (4 children)
Or if you expect to be able to pay for frivolous things like food and shelter and be able to take a week or two off for vacation every year. That's something that an increasing number of Americans can't do, there's only 12 counties in the entire country that have affordable housing for those living on minimum wage.
As for Obamacare, your room mate most likely had a substandard plan that would have cut out if anything serious had happened. The increased cost of buying plans now is mostly a function of the fact that they have to actually provide service no matter who signs up. They're also not allowed to cut people off.
But, you make it sound like they're making more profits when that's not true. They're required by law to refund any additional premiums if they don't spend at least 80% of individual plans on health care or 85% of group plans.
What went wrong is a bunch of mental midgets like you have no idea what you're talking about and choose to deliberately ignore the fact that there's more service being provided and the GOP has been deliberately doing whatever they can to sabotage the legislation rather than working with the Democrats to find ways of improving it.
Plus, since when do you care about the middle class? You're one of the biggest asses on the site boosting the kind of governmental policies that destroyed the middle class in the first place.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday October 29 2017, @04:45PM (3 children)
Nope. One of the Cadillac plans you hear about unions getting for their members. And you thought Republicans were the ones ass-fucking the unions...
What went wrong is Democrats created a plan that took an enormous amount of money out of the middle class (only the middle class) and gave it to big corporations as a corporate entitlement in exchange for covering those who contribute very little to society but think they're owed first rate healthcare anyway.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 29 2017, @05:18PM (1 child)
The more I see TMB posting in a discussion, the more confident I can be that reading it is a waste of time.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday October 30 2017, @04:21AM
Indeeeed. And the best/worst part is that the stupid carrion-molesting dipshit is too much of a terminal Dunning-Kruger case to see this and *shut the fuck up.* It's got to be some kind of cluster B personality disorder or something.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2017, @06:10AM
What you are describing is class warfare. It is just funny how you only blame the"one evil" for all ills, but will conveniently use "they're both equally evil" when it comes to playing defense.