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What part of the word "present" is hard for you to understand? If your point is that in the FUTURE everyone will be pulling in these radical pensions then say that. Because as of RIGHT NOW thats not the case.

Maybe you didn't see this :"At present, nearly 2 million federal retirees are drawing an average of $12,481 a year--and the figure is $6,000 higher for those who spent ful careers in the civil service"

Still looking around but this is one quick fact for brandon and pabst that I think is relevant, and kind of funny: "The nation's 6 million retired civil servants — teachers, police, administrators, laborers — received a median benefit of $17,640 in 2005" "At present, nearly 2 million...

I've known a few school teachers and none of them could dream of 6 figures. Your friends mom is very atypical. However, I will study federal pensions. Give me a few hours. I will post what I find, whether I'm wrong or right...but I don't think you example is going to fly.

Well where did the money from the pension come from? I dont think your example flies, but Im not certain...Im not going to pretend like I know a lot about pensions lol. But it wont take me long to figure them out. How could a person "not worth a cent" have a 100k a year pension?

I'm looking for new data now. You are right, the rich ALWAYS take a hit when the stock market crashes. The top 1% (thats ONE PERCENT) own 1/3rd of all stock, while the bottom 80% owns just 1/10th. Please explain your pension point a little more, im not quite following.

We all know people dont click links. As far as the wealth itself goes: "In the United States, wealth is highly concentrated in a relatively few hands. As of 2001, the top 1% of households (the upper class) owned 33.4% of all privately held wealth, and the next 19% (the managerial...

Wake up, the very thing you oppose is already happening. There is a class war, and the middle class is getting dominated year after year. Redistribution of wealth? 5% holding 50% of the wealth? I would say current policy has redistributed wealth very very efficiently.

Some of you will say the the upper class pay the vast majority of income tax and that is true. Why? Because thats where all the money is. The middle class don't account for that much revenue. Why? Its not because they dont pay their taxes, and its because they have a low tax rate...its because...

It seems the conservatives hate it. Why give away the wealth someone earned via higher taxes to someone else that doesn't make much money? That's class warfare...you are punishing the rich people by raising their taxes to pay for the lower taxes of the middle class. You're redistributing wealth...

lol No way.

Thats true and its a very very common mistake. Stereotypes aren't necessarily deserved, but the fact is they are earned. Bias is leaning one way on a factually basis, prejudice is leaning one way for no real reason at all.

In football when you're ahead by a decent margin, you run the ball. You run the clock down and try not to take any major risks. I think thats what Obama did tonight. He fended off attacks, and answered his questions and no more. Mccain was more aggressive, but it didn't really help him. I doubt...

lol yea. I've never lived in LA or Chicago, but there's a certain kind of tension in the south where the offspring of slaves rub shoulder with the offspring of slave owners.

Well I've only flipped one house. It was a monster flip though haha. I have family in rural CO and was tired of NC. I'm by myself in Denver now and I have to say its a great town. The midwest is nice in that it lacks the racial polarity of the south. The fact is that I haven't been in one single...

I grew up in the south (north carolina) I lived there from 1st grade to when I was 17 years old. My middle school was 80% black (Elm city middle school). I can't remember the exact demographics of Fike high school, but I'm sure blacks out numbered white there too. I lived in Wilson, North...

Get him barry! on the health care small business

Let me go in! Let me go in!

Exactly. I've been telling this to them for a while. Honestly they don't care. Their decision is based on ideals (flawed ones too), not facts...so the addition of new facts really doesn't matter to them at all.

Well that you are a racist idiot mostly who clings only to his twisted ideals no matter what the scenario. For all your banter you're just an insecure bigot who didn't like that the black kids were usually better than you in sports in school, and that somehow carried through to the rest of your...