The average working American has 900 dollars expendable income at the end of every month.

Couldn't tell it by me. And that's after working 60 hours a week - and no credit card use.

Where the hell is that Average? Most of the people I know have like $50 a month left for smokes and beer and that's it...

AVERAGE???

How about the median amount, eh?

50 people could have $2.00 left over and 1 guy could have $10,000 left over and the average is about $200 a month left over... and those 50 peoples can't buy a roll of toilet paper.

FUCKING FED STATISTICIANS lie by telling you statistical truth.

expendable income?? hahahahaha
if i had that much at the end of the month after paying everything it would be a miracle, and i don't have any credit cards, cable tv, other luxuries..

WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU KIDDING HERE???

Well lets just say you must not be average then. It's my opinion that the people on GLP are usually jobless.

Average? I think not as this takes into account the top 1% that pays 70% of the taxes.

Id bet if you took them out of the representative sample, the way they took out the millions who are not working or living off the system, you would find that the average are barely breaking even or going negative.

Last Edited by PACNWguy1 on 12/16/2009 11:12 AM

I am not joking. And by the way that was the Median income not the average. Go look at the fucking site. If people were as poor as you say then there would be NO economy. If the average person only had 50 dollars for smokes and beer then whey in the FUCKING HELL are they spending it on smokes and beer.

If the average person was as poor as you say then there wouldn't be any restaurants in business.

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Shut the fuck up pack. As you can see from my original post I said Average WORKING American. Go suck a dick

God help me, I'm going to back PAC up on this one. A statistician deciding who to include as a working American has a rather broad definition. Unless I see the criteria that this statement is based on I will view it with the same skepticism as unemployment numbers.

I think this WOULD be true if Americans were not overextended into debt by a consumer-based society focused on instant gratification. So many of us carry car loans, have cable TV, internet service, cell phone with 1500+ minutes on the plan - and honestly, we consider these things near necessities.

Yea, if you were to break it down to just LIVING, I probably would have $900 left over...but that's not the case. I would consider my income about average, and I certainly do NOT have $900 in expendable income a month. But I DO have a small list of those "near necessities" that eat into my pocketbook.

Average? I don't know anyone who has that much left, except maybe my brother who was a professional student and started work at the top and never had to do a real job.

Look dick,

I AM working,,have been my whole life since I was 14. Shit,, I have probably been working longer than you have been alive. And all I see is the so called fucking "AMERICAN DREAM" going the way of the dinos. Every year we are able to save less and less. Expenses keep going up and wages are not following any scale. Furthermore the top 1% cannot count in any statistical grouping due to the fact that the skew they (it) caused raised the so called "averages" into unreal levels.

Grow up and talk to me when you do. PFFFT

I'd love to "go look at the fucking site" but you didn't provide a link.

Again I am not talking about people out of work or retired or any of that shit. The average working American has $900 dollars expendable income every month.

But say all you want. If your poor and can barely make ends meet then you need to go to school and get some skills. But don't say I don't know that this is true.

I see people eating out at restaurants. Every night of the week I see restaurants packed almost full on my drive home.

The problem with Americans now is they feel really super poor because the credit dried up. Instead of eating out every night of the week they have to cook for themselves and only eat out twice a month.

But know this. If you think you are poor then you will forever be poor.

Yep, the Median is a more telling 'statistic'. Would be better if the 'masses' came to understand even such statiscial tools as Standard Deviations, but that like the Median is way beyond 4th grade maths.

I think your statement of $50 a month pretty cost... for 'most people' of the middle middle class, and too high for those of the lower middle class and way too high for those of the upper poverty class.

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[link to www.worldsalaries.org]

I don't believe it.



Last Edited by Enaid on 12/16/2009 11:29 AM

35% of Americans dont pay a dime of taxes. How do they fit into 'average'?

I not believe for a minute that the 'average' american family has $11k of residual 'net' income (after taxes) to plug into savings every year.

If they did, there wouldnt be a credit card or home equity issue in the country.

I can agree that this is the 'AVERAGE'... but NOBODY is AVERAGE. Either you are Michael Jordan or you are the fat kid picked last every time. Humanity is about extremes.

Tiger fucks thousands of hot chicks, the OP jerks off a lot. get it?

I think you guys are forgetting that recent study.
Federal workers making $70k/ year.

I know many people that are paying 4-600/mo just on their credit cards. Think about it. That is expendable income that is wasted because you couldn't wait a year for your big screen television. People right now are poor because they bought things they couldn't afford with the hopes that their house would continue to appreciate forever and forever.

Stupid Assed Stereotyping. Since minumum wage is slightly over $7/hr, and vast numbers of Americans are stuck and have been stuck for decades in minium wage jobs... at $7/hr for 40 hours week, do the math... $7 x 160 hr yiels $1120 before taxes, many of those are 'lucky' if they even take home $900 per month.

Its arrogant assholes like you with you head so far up your ass with your "i amd so much better than you attitudes -- because I make more that you do' That just might get you a warm half-can of soup once a day and a piece of dirty carpet to sleep under in the blowing snow at Obamaville. Good luck with that.

[link to www.taxfoundation.org]

out of an average 260 work days a year , the average american spends 103 of them working to pay taxes. the average peasent revolts in history took place at around 30 % taxation levels. 30 % of 260 is 86.66 , clock is tick tocking away as to when this blows up.

And for the record, terms like poor and rich and well off are all relative terms anyway. So, it can truthfully be said, the Poor will always be with you, and so will the Rich. Ending poverty, ending wealth, ending terrorism, ending crime, who do these people saying they are going to be ending these things are, God?

average in a statistics has many definitions...

very broad statement

>>That is an excellent quote.

Yeah, food and toiletries are free...

Oh wait! No they're not. Neither is gas, or any other expense that you have besides utilities. And Euros are worth 37% more than dollars.

More lying bullshit to make Americans feel guilty when they are being pissed on, and told it's raining.

Because it's their fucking money that they earned? Why should some lazy worthless freeloading welfare crack ho get it instead? Fuck you asshole.

maybe not income taxes but they get nailed with a bunch of other taxes and fees. of course if everyone got a salary that aloowed them to pay income taxes, then whatever you make would purchase less and less. infinite amount of dollars chasing a finite supply of material goods.