Originally Posted by ballz2wallz i don't see what's so funny. please enlighten me. Because it's so out of touch with reality. The average salary in the US is something like 45 grand? You make it sound like everyone is getting 6 figure jobs out of college. I think people earning ...
09-08-2006, 10:03 AM
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| Originally Posted by ballz2wallz Because it's so out of touch with reality. The average salary in the US is something like 45 grand? You make it sound like everyone is getting 6 figure jobs out of college. I think people earning 6 figures are in the top 10% of the country and are obviously a very small minority. 
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09-08-2006, 10:03 AM
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| Banned  Conservative Government is another way to say Better Than You
| Originally Posted by Scrumtralecent http://www.libertylounge.net/forums/30656-post4.html
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09-08-2006, 10:04 AM
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| Originally Posted by WickedLou9 well...like i said, everyone i know is having no problem getting jobs
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09-08-2006, 10:05 AM
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| Originally Posted by Scrumtralecent i didn't say that at all. i just said i know too many like that.
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09-08-2006, 10:05 AM
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| Originally Posted by ballz2wallz I would agree with that, kiplingers and money both reported this past may as being the second best season for graduates behind 1999.
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09-08-2006, 10:06 AM
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| Originally Posted by ballz2wallz Ahh so you wouldn't let a doctor operate on you who doesn't know how to fix a car. One has nothing to do with another. | ||||
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09-08-2006, 10:06 AM
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| Banned Conservative Government is another way to say Better Than You
| Originally Posted by Scrumtralecent hey, he's the one writing about it...and was wrong. you can't blame me for that
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09-08-2006, 10:07 AM
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| Originally Posted by ballz2wallz Thats not relevant really. There are 280 million people in the US.. you know 5 of them.
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09-08-2006, 10:07 AM
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| Originally Posted by 6SpeedTA95 yeah, i hear graduates are doing ok. i don't know what everyone is complaining about.
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09-08-2006, 10:08 AM
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| Originally Posted by WickedLou9 Your weekly liberal assesment of the economy
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09-08-2006, 10:10 AM
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| Originally Posted by 6SpeedTA95 That's not really at issue. Alot of people are working, yes. But the average buying power of the US worker is lower than it used to be. We have to spend a much larger portion of our income on basic things like food and housing then we ever did before. Most house holds are getting by on two incomes no better than they did on one income in the 1950's.
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09-08-2006, 10:11 AM
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| Originally Posted by WickedLou9 job market+new graduates 05 - Google Search
for the rest of your life you're going to be saying 'we have to spend more on food and housing than we ever did before' my uncle asks me how much i pay for rent. whne i say '1100/mo' he laughs and says 'i had to pay 150/mo' it's never going to change. that's how it works. | ||||
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09-08-2006, 10:14 AM
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| Originally Posted by ballz2wallz Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?  unemployment is low. I agree and I understand. people are getting jobs out of college. Awesome. Now if they could only raise a faimly on a single income. Boy that would be great. | ||||
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09-08-2006, 10:16 AM
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| Originally Posted by WickedLou9 Thats part of economics, it fluctuates almost constantly. We have a decade up and a decade down. As you know from 72 to 81 things were piss poor. However, most of the time from 82 to 1999 was pretty damn good.
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09-08-2006, 10:17 AM
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| Originally Posted by ballz2wallz no not really. there is this thing called inflation right? and it makes things more expensive over time... usually the amount of money people earn also goes up with inflation or even better, people's incomes increase faster than inflation meaning they are more well off year after year...
however.. and I will say this for the third time... our buying power today is less than it was 40 years ago. Wage growth for the average american is being outpaced by inflation and it has been since the 70's. what don't you understand about this basic concept? | ||||
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09-08-2006, 10:18 AM
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| helluo librorum The Lab Moderator Humanist Chicago Suburbs
| Originally Posted by ballz2wallz Wow so he would have had a shit load more disposable income. Oh wait, there's that inflation and cost of living thing.
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09-08-2006, 10:19 AM
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| Originally Posted by WickedLou9 because i see people making more money as well? starting salaries are higher. to me, that seems as though it's a response to the market. for me, i'm making almost twice as much in boston as i would be in nashville, because of what? cost of living. the economy takes care of itself that way. people are aware, the economy is aware, businesses are aware. i really have no idea what you're talking about.
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09-08-2006, 10:20 AM
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| Banned Conservative Government is another way to say Better Than You
| Originally Posted by 6SpeedTA95 yes he is. but he also forgets that people have indiscretionary spending at all time highs. hardly comparable to the 50s.
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09-08-2006, 10:20 AM
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