American's living Paycheck to Paycheck

[Penner]

Just like point of sale markup is not the same as profit, living paycheck to paycheck is not the same as poverty.

Nobody here is saying that. What we are saying is that it's harder to build up savings vs the past and it's getting harder and harder every year. The whole point of the article is that Americans 20 years ago lived good and were as a whole able to save money. Now 18 years of stagnant wages and constant increase in living costs is putting a giant squeeze on the middle class. WTF don't you get Okee?

Only 20 years? I thought that the whole wage stagnation started in like the 1970s/1980s?

[Smitty-48]

Americans are living paycheck to paycheck because they made that life for themselves. Americans have gotten this 'I deserve' shit attitude. Normal is XYZ and I have to have XYZ. Understand that yes, business', banks and insurance companies want every penny of money from you. Normal will make you poor and in debt.

^^^ Here's another American soldier, and near as I can tell, the only thing he ever "complains" about, is that America is not tough enough, and rather you should all be at the coalface and liking it, as suffering is good for the soul or something like that one supposes.

You can't even take out a low interest loan, without Captain Hardcore here hitting you over the head with a shovel and tossing you into a ditch.

[Penner]

[Viktorthepirate]

Using Federal minimum wage it's...

FMW was $1.30 in 1969, which is $8.67 in 2017 dollars, so, FMW is about $1 per hour behind the inflation curve, with Missouri.

"OMFG!!!"

My calculator said 10.88

[Viktorthepirate]

Americans are living paycheck to paycheck because they made that life for themselves. Americans have gotten this 'I deserve' shit attitude. Normal is XYZ and I have to have XYZ. Understand that yes, business', banks and insurance companies want every penny of money from you. Normal will make you poor and in debt.

^^^ Here's another American soldier, and near as I can tell, the only thing he ever "complains" about, is that America is not tough enough, and rather you should all be at the coalface and liking it, as suffering is good for the soul or something like that one supposes.

You can't even take out a low interest loan, without Captain Hardcore here hitting you over the head with a shovel and tossing you into a ditch.

Asking what's best for our society is not equivalent to complaining.

- Former Soldier

[Fife]

Didn't we already send out the gibs alert?

Whatevs, Gibs Alert, 2.0. ... whoop, whoop, stand by for gibs instructions.

[Smitty-48]

Asking what's best for our society is not equivalent to complaining.

- Former Soldier

It's not asking what you do here, there's no asking going around here, you're all just moaning and complaining and whining and feeling sorry for yourselves, and it's collective, one of you will start off, some thread about how hard done by you all are now as compared to a mythical America that never was, and then one just jumps in after another, beating the self pity drum, and I've watched it for a decade now, this ain't your fuckin' congressmans office, this is your internetz feelz mutual self pity society.


Don't try to snow the Snowman.

-The Snowman

[Smitty-48]

Also bear in mind, the internet is not some supernatural diety of complaint, where if you all just complain really loud at the same time, the God of the Internet is just going magically unfuck everything for you, so even if you did have an ask, you've come to wrong place, sunshine.

You relationship to the internet is like a bunch of superstitious savages worshiping at the foot of an solicon idol, beseeching it to fix all the ills by divine intervention.

[Viktorthepirate]

Asking what's best for our society is not equivalent to complaining.

- Former Soldier

It's not asking what you do here, there's no asking going around here, you're all just moaning and complaining and whining and feeling sorry for yourselves, and it's collective, one of you will start off, some thread about how hard done by you all are now as compared to a mythical America that never was, and then one just jumps in after another, beating the self pity drum, and I've watched it for a decade now, this ain't your fuckin' congressmans office, this is your internetz feelz mutual self pity society.


Don't try to snow the Snowman.

-The Snowman

I don't have self pity about shit. I just think that the citizens should enjoy the benefits of empire.

[Smitty-48]

I don't have self pity about shit. I just think that the citizens should enjoy the benefits of empire.

Pretty sure you are, as in absence of King Dollah and associated Empire of Liberty; then you'd really have something to cry about.