JayB Posted September 14, 2010 Share Posted September 14, 2010 Good discussion on NPR today: http://www.kcrw.com/news/programs/tp/tp100914does_the_growing_inc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billcoe Posted September 14, 2010 Share Posted September 14, 2010 Re: Inceome Inequality Do I have to google "Inceome"? I've broken it down to In CEO Me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaskadskyjKozak Posted September 14, 2010 Share Posted September 14, 2010 Re: Inceome Inequality Do I have to google "Inceome"? I've broken it down to In CEO Me. Inceome: In-CEO-me - you have been consumed by a CEO. Eventually he will shit you out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevbone Posted September 14, 2010 Share Posted September 14, 2010 Does this thread need some old school? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayB Posted September 14, 2010 Author Share Posted September 14, 2010 Glad to have provided fodder for some clever wordplay with the typo... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob Posted September 14, 2010 Share Posted September 14, 2010 Does this thread need some old school? you sure have nasty taste in women. NASTY. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobo Posted September 14, 2010 Share Posted September 14, 2010 Re: Inceome Inequality Do I have to google "Inceome"? I've broken it down to In CEO Me. Inceome: In-CEO-me - you have been consumed by a CEO. Eventually he will shit you out. Not necessarily so. History has shown us that the vast majority of CEOs are notoriously full of shit. Bill is stuck in there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevbone Posted September 14, 2010 Share Posted September 14, 2010 Does this thread need some old school? you sure have nasty taste in women. NASTY. How do you know my taste in women? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob Posted September 14, 2010 Share Posted September 14, 2010 cause I see those disgusting, weenie-shrinking women you post on here all the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevbone Posted September 14, 2010 Share Posted September 14, 2010 cause I see those disgusting, weenie-shrinking women you post on here all the time. So if I post a picture of Bush or Hitler that means I love bush or Hitler? Your reasoning does not make sence? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevbone Posted September 14, 2010 Share Posted September 14, 2010 Are you saying this does not turn you on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob Posted September 14, 2010 Share Posted September 14, 2010 Fucking frightening. It makes my penis want to crawl inside my abdomen and hide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob Posted September 14, 2010 Share Posted September 14, 2010 hey kevbone, this is probably your speed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevbone Posted September 14, 2010 Share Posted September 14, 2010 hey kevbone, this is probably your speed Nope....too thin and too fake looking for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob Posted September 14, 2010 Share Posted September 14, 2010 but she has a penis! just like the other ones! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prole Posted September 14, 2010 Share Posted September 14, 2010 (edited) Good discussion on NPR today: http://www.kcrw.com/news/programs/tp/tp100914does_the_growing_inc Doesn't get much more hilarious than a labor economist under GW Bush blaming growing income inequality on the minimum wage, workers comp, unemployment insurance, and the recent healthcare bill. Are you people even trying anymore? The Manhattan Institute et al looks more and more like an Addams Family reunion every day. Edited September 14, 2010 by prole Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayB Posted September 14, 2010 Author Share Posted September 14, 2010 Thought it was "good" because the participants were generally able to state their arguments clearly, and explain the rationale behind the conclusions that they derived from the data reasonably well. I'm sure that Ms. Furchtgott-Roths arguments will endlessly enrage progressives, but given that both the host and all of the guests took the other side of the argument, I don't think they'd be able to complain that their perspective wasn't represented. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prole Posted September 14, 2010 Share Posted September 14, 2010 In general, To The Point is a decent show (I am a daily listener) and I appreciate the format and diversity of viewpoints. Unfortunately, despite the important topic, none of the speakers addressed the historical causes or the political or cultural effects we're experiencing due to income inequality in a meaningful way. Offshoring, tax breaks and evasion, community incorporation, privatization, declining union membership and the effects of creating a permanent underclass received nary a mention. Pretty weak sauce. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayB Posted September 14, 2010 Author Share Posted September 14, 2010 I think it's an interesting topic that looks very different when you look at actual people as opposed to statistical abstractions like "households," or income quintiles. The changing composition of "households" over time has a significant effect on what a metric like "household income" would look like over time, even if the distribution of incomes per worker in society were held completely static at early 1970's levels. Ditto for the income quintiles. The fact that the top quintile of households contains more people than the bottom quintile, and that the households in the top quintile contain more than two income earners while the bottom quintile contains something like 0.6 matters quite a bit. Then there's the fact that very few people stay in the same household income quintile for life, and tend to be in a lower quintile at the beginning and after the end of their working life than they occupy in their peak earning years. Et...cetera. You can go on like this for quite some time. All this has been covered before ad nauseum, but I think the conversation was one that most people with an interest in the topic will find worth listening to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Larry Posted September 14, 2010 Share Posted September 14, 2010 Are you saying this does not turn you on? scareeee; darn, looks like a dude w/wig/man-arms/?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Larry Posted September 14, 2010 Share Posted September 14, 2010 hey kevbone, this is probably your speed the nails are, well, touching.sob. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Larry Posted September 14, 2010 Share Posted September 14, 2010 Are you saying this does not turn you on? scareeee; darn, looks like a dude w/wig/man-arms/?? BTW best laugh today, tanks bro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobo Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 Are you saying this does not turn you on? No, she absolutely does not. While she's a fine tennis player, that's as far as it goes for me with her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Conway Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 done with a woman knocking your balls back and forth across court? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevbone Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 done with a woman knocking your balls back and forth across court? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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