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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The US middle class is in the top 1% .... [View all]Hoyt
(54,770 posts)1. Fresh_Start I pray for you and your excellent post. You will be slammed for being a globalist,
corporatist, GOPer, scab, and whatever else the world's 1%ers can dream up to criticize poor workers in Mexico, Vietnam, India, etc. Nationalism seems to be a virtue nowadays, not just reserved for Archie Bunker style Republicans.
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Fresh_Start I pray for you and your excellent post. You will be slammed for being a globalist,
Hoyt
Apr 2016
#1
You are supposed to quit treating poor foreign workers like scabs and competition.
Hoyt
Apr 2016
#92
Yep America First and Nationalism, screw the rest of world we are the "greedy 1%ers of the world."
Hoyt
Apr 2016
#95
"Race to bottom" and other such BS is just dog whistle against poor foreign workers.
Hoyt
Apr 2016
#99
"Trade agreements in spite of their ugly local side effects are good for the worlds populations."
Scuba
Apr 2016
#2
Let's see someone in India get's a $3/day job at the expense of someone in the USA who loses ...
Scuba
Apr 2016
#10
Nationalism at its ugliest. If in fact an Indian is getting $3/day, it damn sure is better than
Hoyt
Apr 2016
#25
It's certainly a boon for the Indian guy who was previously making 20 cents a day
Recursion
Apr 2016
#57
It's a net loss for working people. Your attempt to suggest it's racist is noted, however.
Scuba
Apr 2016
#80
In the example I used in the thread, net income for working people is NOT up. Period.
Scuba
Apr 2016
#83
No. Income drops from $240.20 per day to $3.00 per day. If you think that's higher ...
Scuba
Apr 2016
#85
Free Trade agreements do not help with the poverty around the world. FAIR TRADE agreements do.
jillan
Apr 2016
#4
sources? citations? It's not true just because someone says it on the internet
Cheese Sandwich
Apr 2016
#16
The "trade" agreements are meant to bring most of us down to that worldwide poverty level, with the
djean111
Apr 2016
#28
Besides, it costs more to live in the US, especially in the COLD north!
raging moderate
Apr 2016
#82
The US is 4.4% of the world population. So an American with an average income is definitely not
jfern
Apr 2016
#34
Individual or Total household Income? either way the 40k jobs of the future. where are they?
Hiraeth
Apr 2016
#50
You basicaally just said the middle class if fine, because others are worse. Idiot.
Joob
Apr 2016
#56
How UNINFORMED can you get? I'm guessing you are a HILLARIAN because this is so bad.
Zira
Apr 2016
#64
No. I think the Western middle class is in the top 80% to 95% globally, not the top 1%.
pampango
Apr 2016
#73