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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Oeconomicus who wrote (51681)10/3/2006 1:19:14 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 90947
 
"I mean averages are a bad way to measure anything. In terms of wages, two men each make $10000 which is sup par for a family of 4; a third man makes $500k way above par. The mean between the three is $173k suggesting an affluent community when its not."

Gee. While technically correct, your argument is irrelevant. I wasn't talking about average incomes across a widely divergent population, but rather average hourly wages of production and non-supervisory workers within specific industries YOU claimed were high or low-paying.

Such nonsense......you are so full of fluffernutter, you would be a huge hit at a girl scouts' campfire sleepover. I never once discussed or specified any workers within a particular industry. This is a discussion that took place purely in your own head.

And that's the problem here........you are making it up as you go along and refusing to deal with the issue at hand: the rich are getting richer at the expense of the poor.

You neither substantiated that claim when you made it nor offered up data of your own to contradict mine when asked directly to do so after you claimed mine somehow didn't matter.

The truth is I have given you tons of supporting data many posts ago. Data that clearly shows upper incomes getting a bigger and bigger slice of the total pie over the past 20 years. Nothing you have said has changed that position. Instead, you have made every attempt to divert the conversation into another arena where you believe you can make a more plausible argument.

And one last comment has to be about "the truth".....something the right badly lacks these days. Whether its the war in Iraq or the right's response to Katrina or the seduction of a page, very little truth comes from the mouthpieces on the right. So why should I expect better from you. In fact, I don't.

And the three recommendations for Oeconomicus's post.......you people are no better than the politicians who ignored Foley's follies with the pages. You shold be ashamed...........
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