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In reply to the discussion: Do Americans Know What a Massive Ripoff American Life Really Is? [View all]Old Crank
(3,662 posts)82. He said average income
Not family income. Which screws the number a lot lower to help make his point. But emphasizes the need to have two incomes in a family unit. I won't go into the politics of is it better to have to have both partners working while raising a family. That is another discussion.
I agree with most of what he means, even if he sensationalizes the numbers. I would have prefered it if he hadn't.
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I feel like a cat that just coughed up a hairball after listening to that and shutting it off again.
NullTuples
Sep 2021
#161
So you don't like the message so you want to kick the messenger. Get out of bubble much?
Bernardo de La Paz
Sep 2021
#32
At no point did he claim to be downtrodden. He's talking about America's working poor and
FSogol
Sep 2021
#9
Elitist fuckwad living ivory tower lifestyle telling how the poors how poor they are? Fuck him
Shanti Shanti Shanti
Sep 2021
#21
I lived in Greece, Thailand, the Phillipines, not London, Paris or Berlin, so I should shut up, eh
Shanti Shanti Shanti
Sep 2021
#26
Oh I just decided to stir things up, went to Walmart and got prescipt sunglasses for $94, I'm good
Shanti Shanti Shanti
Sep 2021
#75
I also lived for months at a time in Colombia, Peru and Brazil, yeah, Americans are spoiled, you bet
Shanti Shanti Shanti
Sep 2021
#85
Do their citizens have to start go-fund-me campaigns to help pay for health care too?
tenderfoot
Sep 2021
#106
What health care? Villiage doctors,drink water from the rivers, be lucky to have a toilet that works
Shanti Shanti Shanti
Sep 2021
#110
Yep, all guilty, its OK though, civilization ends when the power goes out, its only a matter of time
Shanti Shanti Shanti
Sep 2021
#128
Fuck him because he is right? I've lived many years in USA and Canada. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Sep 2021
#33
He's got his whole "We're DOOMED! USA IS DOOMED, EUROPE IS DOOMED!" Schtick going for him, yeah
Shanti Shanti Shanti
Sep 2021
#102
You're comparing rent with purchasing? Where I live (SoCal) lower incomes can't afford to purchase
chia
Sep 2021
#87
You realize you need a sizable down payment, plus there's PMI until your equity is over 20%
chia
Oct 2021
#175
There's a lot of people in this thread that make Ayn Rand look compassionate
tenderfoot
Sep 2021
#154
WTF? This is the sort of emotional, illogical, "patriotic" reaction that the Rs have relied on for
KPN
Sep 2021
#56
Statistics show we do well in cost-of-living compared to Europe. But Afghanistan is cheap.
Hoyt
Sep 2021
#13
Utilities, loans (borrowing to pay for things), etc., are included in "cost-of-living." But it is
Hoyt
Sep 2021
#20
COL index includes healthcare. New York and California are expensive the rest of the country isn't
uponit7771
Oct 2021
#191
Food is cheap, but health care is hellishly expensive in US and not great unless you have gold. . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Sep 2021
#35
Europeans are pissed because they ain't got a Starbucks on every corner.... and
3Hotdogs
Sep 2021
#15
What do you mean? The whole Democratic Patty is Both Sides because of a few people?
betsuni
Oct 2021
#194
IKWYM but they are outliers, not representative of the Democratic party, at least IMO.
JudyM
Oct 2021
#203
Yes, Americans have been deluded with propaganda while corporations take in enormous profits
dlk
Sep 2021
#19
Well, in the few urban centers of Europe I have been, driving is not a thing...
Moostache
Sep 2021
#98
We pay so much for healthcare so we don't have hundreds of thousands dying of treatable issues
IronLionZion
Sep 2021
#62
He fails to mention how lobbyists buy the politicians to enact the laws that protect them, and
bucolic_frolic
Sep 2021
#63
Median Household Income in the US varies from $67.5k to $79.9k, depending on source
Martin Eden
Sep 2021
#68
I totally disagree with the idea that life is immeasurably better in Canada.
BobTheSubgenius
Sep 2021
#72
My grandparents homesteaded on the Saskatchewan prairie in the early 1900s.
Grasswire2
Sep 2021
#146
I guess the price would depend, as the price of all land does, on location and quality.
BobTheSubgenius
Oct 2021
#213
Absolutely. This country is one giant corporation that chews up and spits out its citizens
budkin
Sep 2021
#93
Umair Haque publishes many deep and dark articles a week - I read them on medium.com
erronis
Sep 2021
#103
Veilikovsky sold a lot of books on the DOOMSDAY scenarios too, Worlds in Collision Earth in Upheaval
Shanti Shanti Shanti
Sep 2021
#112
Very accurate and depressing article. And the sad thing is NOTHING will ever change here
beaglelover
Sep 2021
#118
Umair has made SO many mistakes in logic that I'm beginning to believe it's on purpose.
Equomba
Sep 2021
#162
$100 or less for heating, electricity and gas? Don't know if I paid that little in 1983...
chia
Oct 2021
#178
Because Republicans politicized religion and created a media empire to spread their propaganda.
betsuni
Sep 2021
#157
I guess he's never been to Tokyo, London, Singapore, the Emirates, Dubai, or Disneyland.
marble falls
Oct 2021
#174
Carefully selected statistics and vague generalizations do not describe ANY country accurately
DFW
Oct 2021
#184