US Social Security Admin: More Than Half Of Wage Earners Make $30,000 or Less!

jesus christ wtf are you talking about. we did not replace educated jobs with manual labor jobs. Remember that whole manufacturing thing the US used to do... that was replaced with this lil thing called the service industry... and i dont mean drycleaning, i mean highly educated services. We replaced shit jobs with educated ones

yes thats it! because my grammar punctuation and capitalization is nonexistent then that must mean hes working for the government as a spy... holy shit your genious

Wow I wishh I made 30 grand a year, life would be so much easier.

Us informed people know this, the news sites attack the uniformed and make them feel inferior. Maybe we should start following the New Jerusalem Calendar Russ has because in that system my news would be vastly different.

j/k

so what your saying is that although we pay these people alot of money, i will prolly get picked up by some underpaid kid with poor training... do you hear the words coming out of your mouth

Really, here's a link to Congressional Research Services. It details the huge loss in Service jobs by outsourving overseas.
[link to forbes.house.gov]
"Summary
Offshoring, also known as offshore outsourcing, is the term now being used to describe a practice
among companies located in the United States of contracting with businesses beyond U.S.
borders to perform services that would otherwise have been provided by in-house employees in
white-collar occupations (e.g., computer systems designers). The term is equally applicable to
U.S. firms offshoring the jobs of blue-collar workers on textile and auto assembly lines, for
example, which has been taking place for decades. The extension of offshoring from U.S.
manufacturers to service providers has heightened public policy concerns about the extent of job
loss and foregone employment opportunities among U.S. workers. This concern is especially
pertinent to policymakers because of a national unemployment rate persistently exceeding 9%
despite the end of the latest recession in June 2009. "

U.S. workers reportedly have become more concerned about the security of their jobs due to
increased global economic integration since the early 2000s. Offshore outsourcing, which is one
manifestation of globalization, is reported to have adversely affected the employment situations
of U.S. white-collar workers in information technology (IT) jobs (e.g., computer systems analysts
and software engineers) and IT-enabled jobs (e.g., telemarketers and accounting clerks). Data
from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Displaced Worker Survey nevertheless suggest that the
vulnerability to job loss of white-collar workers preceded the expansion of offshoring from jobs
in manufacturing industries to jobs in professional and business services, administrative support
services, and financial services industries. In addition, the data on displaced workers that include
the latest recession suggest that macroeconomic conditions rather than offshoring have likely
accounted for most of the increase in job losses in recent years. "

You see, this is what colleges are churning out these days. Pathetic. It's "genius" by the way...and thanks!
ROFL
LMAO
I'm starting to see why college students have trouble finding work. They can't write English!

Here's what it should read, "Yes, that's it! Because my grammar, punctuation, and capitalization are nonexistent, then that must mean he's working for the government as a spy. Holy shit, you're a genius!"

Last Edited by Don'tBeAfraid on 02/02/2013 05:20 AM

you reading a 20 page article on economics is like a carpenter reading a 20 page article on plumbing. maybe you should stick to your so called "advanced medical degree"

You got cheated on your degree there, Hoss! You better make sure you can actually write a sentence before you attempt to work anywhere, or else you'll get the "boot" on day one. What a moron!

Last Edited by Don'tBeAfraid on 02/02/2013 05:20 AM

fuck your grammar, im an economics student dipshit not english i study numbers and could giv a shit less about something that doesnt matter. Did you understand what i was saying? thats all that matters and im not ganna waste my time with trivial shit on a very very informal forum

Most paramedics here earn $80000 a year with benefits and are highly trained and skilled professionals.....then we don't spend our whole annual budget on defence,security and wars.........just saying

yet again if you honestly think i write like this in my papers you are one sad dumb motherfucker. And if you went to school you would prolly understand the difference between informal and formal

now thats more like it... very good point sir

I think, my academically challenged shill, that you mean, "F--k your grammar! I'm an economics student dipsh_t, not an English major! I study numbers, and could give a sh_t less about something that doesn't matter. Did you understand what I was saying? That's all that matters, and I'm not going to waste my time with trivial sh_t on a very very informal forum."

Or is that Ebonics? Hmmm?

Last Edited by Don'tBeAfraid on 02/02/2013 05:24 AM

The people are only given the budget which is inferior to the comprehensive annual financial report of the federal government. Open the books and really see the revenue.

Source: [link to www.usavsus.info]

Stop talking EBONICS, you dope! "Prolly" is not a word in the English language!

is that all you can do anymore is ad hominem. o and btw you used way to many commas lol

im done with you good night dipshit enjoy your shitty job

Sleep blissfully well moron! You wasted four years of education to learn to speak Ebonics! I think he means, "I'm done with you. Good night dipsh_t. Enjoy your sh_tty job."

Last Edited by Don'tBeAfraid on 02/02/2013 05:29 AM

Houses in your country are a million.

And you can't give yours away........who's winning?

You know, it was not uncommon in 2000 for a "shitty manufacturing job" to pay 50K and benefits. What a sea change globalization has created.
Back then real estate prices were rising, and one could easily make a decent wage, invest back into the country, and maintain a good tax base.

Now, who knows? With so much artifical money supply and the Federal Reserve buying up government securities, it seems to me that we're having massive deflation of real estate coupled with massive inflation.

We are not creating new wealth. We are not creating a sustainable ecnomy. We are not providing jobs for the next generation. It will lead to chaos...and it's global, not an American issue.

The average American family only makes 54,000. That's pathetic based upon 2000 statistics. We've lost an enormous amount of the middle class.

Last Edited by Don'tBeAfraid on 02/02/2013 05:42 AM

Why do you think I'm here! The decisions you guys make affects us all.....you go we go shit.....as much as i hate some of the things you guys do your still our allies and friends...we will be there for each other...even as small and insignificant as we are.

Don'tBeAfraid Finishes Royy!


FLAWLESS VICTORY!

I assure you, in general the people of the USA hold the people of Australia in high regard. If anything we envy the loveliness of your women, the wonderful beauty of your Land, your cultural history, and on and on.

All of our decisions matter, Greece proved that as well as Spain. Countries in the Middle East matter and of course the instability there.

The NWO globalists sold out the entire world for greed and they're collapsing the world economy. I guess in order to pick up the pieces in the aftermath. The only nation I see benefitting is China and that won't last long since the movement of manufacturing there is destroying the consumer base they have. Imagine a billion angry Chineses upset with their own rulers. They rose up once, not that long ago, and could still do it again.

Hardly. What I'd rather is people of his ilk would stop spouting government massaged data, especially on unemployment when we know it's massively high. It is undeniable that the USA economy is imploding. And to think that Royy is an young person in the pipeline in economics (or so he claims) and will likely affect USA domestical ecnomic policy. That's scary.

And this is what college is turning out these day????

Last Edited by Don'tBeAfraid on 02/02/2013 05:56 AM

Good to see there are others that see the big picture...
THANKS.

When I was being educated in college and graduate school, we questioned the veracity of what we were hearing, and were taught to do independent research, and honed our critical thinking. Yes, there were the low-level folks merely shooting for the undergraduate degrees and in a hurry to find a job, but not all Americans sucked up the easy answers.

Now, I'm finding it more and more plausible that even the younger generation that should be taking my place and evaluating ideas...are merely becoming parrots of government statistics.

The most disturbing aspect is when someone claims to believe in Ron Paul, and then does the opposite of what he's discussing. That's why I assumed Royy was a government disinformation agent. Now, I think he's merely a moron.

Ron Paul will no doubt be remembered as a statesman who actually was honorable, self-sacrificing, and educated in not only medicine but economic policy. His loss is incalculable. It means less and less honest people in the Legislature who will actually read the bills that they enact into law.

Last Edited by Don'tBeAfraid on 02/02/2013 08:34 AM

This has to be the dumbest post on GLP. Probably the dumbest on the whole internet. This is not the 1990's.

I sincerely believe that a college education is a good thing. The problem is that most of the college students I encounter might have been best served by a trade school education had they been born in the 1990s. That's not available to them, for we have lost a huge portion of manufacturing jobs due to globalization and free trade. Then we outsourced a ton of service jobs, something I posted a pdf on. There really are no good jobs save in Nursing, Engineering, and working for the government.

The fact that some Nurses are having trouble finding employment when fresh out of school is alarming. In the USA, we've had a 40 year shortage of RNs. If they can't find work, that's scary, especially considering Obamacare and 45 million new patients.

There must be a curtailment of the growth of government, for the tax base is not there. This means a loss of new growth in government jobs. We know of course that the military is cutting back, and hence any defense related industries will also see cutbacks. Perhaps drone and surveillance tech and robots will continue to grow, but otherwise, I doubt it.

While our infrastructure is crumbling, and despite enormous lip service in the last eight years to boost the economy by construction and engineering jobs, it hasn't panned out.

What we should do, for the benefit of our respective nations, if ban free trade. If each country created their own items and services, then we wouldn't be in this mess. Then working people can purchase homes. We must try to put the genie of Free Trade back in the bottle.

In the USA, and now in Australia, there are oil reserves, and so we could do more domestic production and get away from Middle Eastern oilfields. In essence, if we cut off the purchase of their oil, those Muslim nations lack any other products save dates to pay for terrorism. They are too unstable, and it would behoove us to invest locally rather than in the Middle East. That sucks for Europe, but that's their problem.

It's not up to the USA to be a world policemen. It doesn't pay. It doesn't create wealth. In history, the only times a military paid was by plunder. Today, we plunder oil from the Middle East by helping corporations. We sell our armaments globally, and all this does is foment discord.

The USA needs to invest domestically. It's the only logical solution. It's that or eventual slavery and kowtowing to corporate masters.

Most young people have no common sense and zero ancestral skills. They can't build a fire and they can't hunt. How will they make it if they can't grow crops?

That diploma is only getting them a job waitressing, and that won't pay the loans off. Worse, they can't get enough hours to actually improve their situation enough to get benefits. Many college grads are working jobs that pay minimum wage and only by luck are getting tips. If that dries up, and it will because in a down economy people don't eat out as much, then they're screwed.

Minimum wage in the USA varies but is around $7.25. Waitressing pays half of that, because it's calculated that they make tips. No one can live on that, not without living with their mom and dad.
[link to www.paywizard.org]

Last Edited by Don'tBeAfraid on 02/02/2013 06:58 AM

Yes, but the MSM tells us 'Happy Days Are Here Again!', what the fuck ever!

We have an 18 month supply of homes in this country and builders are churning out McMansions at a blistering pace, I mean big fuckin' ugly McMansions that at an average of $110 a square foot, and average square footage of 2600, means that the average home going up is $286K!

So, who is going to buy them? And that doesn't figure in the declining boomer population who are leaving McMansions as they take their hand basket ride to Hades!

Fucked, fucked, fucked.