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stupid ? c'mon blue....that ain't like you.
3. It's a ing wild-assed guess.
"The second step involves constructing the pattern of wealth holdings within nations. Direct data
on the distribution of wealth are available for 22 countries. Inspection of data for these countries
suggests a relationship between wealth distribution and income distribution which can be
exploited in order to provide a rough estimate of wealth distribution for 141 other countries
which have data on income distribution but not on wealth ownership.
It is well recognized that the traditional sources of wealth distribution data are unlikely to provide
an accurate picture of wealth ownership in the top-tail of the distribution. To overcome this
deficiency, the third step makes use of the information in the “Rich Lists” published by Forbes
Magazine and elsewhere to adjust the wealth distribution pattern in the highest wealth ranges.
Implementing these procedures leaves 50 countries for which it is difficult to estimate either the
level of household wealth or the distribution of wealth, or both. Usually the countries concerned
are small (e.g. Andorra, Bermuda, Guatemala, Monaco) or semi-detached from the global
economy (e.g. Afghanistan, Cuba, Myanmar, North Korea), but not in every instance (e.g.
Angola, Nigeria). For our estimates of the pattern of global wealth, we assign these countries
the average level and distribution of the region and income class to which they belong. This is
done in preference to omitting the countries altogether, which would implicitly assume that their
pattern of wealth holdings matches the world average."
stupid ? c'mon blue....that ain't like you.
shup, stupid rake fighter.
fine. I edited it.
Obama is such a pussy.
Canada socialist hahaha. Canadiens I know hate their
Health plan, but love their dirty Oil and all the
Jobsand money that comes along with it.
What's the population of Canada vs the US?
Don't worry, we still spend almost twice as much per capita on healthcare than they do...
Ask them if they want to swap their health system for US's sick system.
Everybody's a , everybody can be bought with enough (oil) money.
Bottom Half Of American Households Have Just 1 Percent Of Nation’s Wealth
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...percent-wealt/
Whats the per capita income of Canada versus the US?
I always hear this anecdote from 'conservatives' but then I look at legitimate polling.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/11899/us-...e-ratings.aspx
Who should I believe I wonder....
Anecdotally the 5 Canadians that I know well all say they like their health care.
New Republican Tax Plan Eliminates $11 Billion In Tax Credits For Working Families
The child tax credit: The ARRA dropped the amount of income a household must earn to qualify for this credit — which provides any household as much as $1,000 per child — from $12,500 down to $3,000. The Hatch-McConnell plan would let this extension expire, jacking up the threshold to $13,300 next year. This would deny 8.9 million working families, with 16.4 million children, a total of $7.6 billion in assistance for 2013 alone.
The Earned Income Tax Credit: Most families that qualify for this credit have at least one child. The ARRA increased it specifically for families with three or more children, from 40 percent to 45 percent of their qualifying income. Above a certain level of income, the credit phases out, but the ARRA also pushed that phase-out back to a higher level for married couples. The Hatch-McConnell plan would allow both of these changes to expire as well, for a total loss of $3.4 billion for 6.5 million families with 15.9 million children.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...-for-families/
Big Corporations Are Making Huge Profits While Keeping Their Employees Stuck At Minimum Wage
- The majority (66 percent) of low‐wage workers are not employed by small businesses, but rather by large corporations with over 100 employees;
– The 50 largest employers of low‐wage workers have largely recovered from the recession and most are in strong financial positions: 92 percent were profitable last year; 78 percent have been profitable for the last three years; 75 percent have higher revenues now than before the recession; 73 percent have higher cash holdings; and 63 percent have higher operating margins (a measure of profitability);
– Top executive compensation averaged $9.4 million last year at these firms, and they have returned $174.8 billion to shareholders in dividends or share buybacks over the past five years.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...s-minimum-wag/
Last edited by boutons_deux; 07-20-2012 at 08:20 AM.
I know a boat load of 'em too. They agree.
Interesting that a developed nation of 40 million has a higher average wealth index than a developed nation of 400 million.
Interesting in that it isnt interesting at all.
Canada does have some inherent advantages built in.
Last edited by coyotes_geek; 07-20-2012 at 10:42 AM.
So a bigger country has the disadvantage of proportionately more unwealthy people? Size alone makes the difference?
Notice that the industrial/developed "social democracies" are all higher than USA:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...y-adjusted_HDI
The reason the VRWC slanders "socialism" non-stop is that social democracy means wider wealth distribution, iow, less for the 1% and more for the 99%.
With the 1% holding USA by its short and curlies, America is ed and un able, and getting ed more all the time.
The social democracies are all subsidised by American taxpayers since we're the ones dumping tons of money into the military. Must be nice for people in these nations to have an ally that bleeds its own people dry so they don't have to pay for military protection.
bull
USA isn't defending those countries from anything.
the MIC will get its $700B ($1.5T when Dept of State included), every year, with increases, to make the world safe for the US corps and US resource extraction.
Don't you mean a "boot load", eh?
(bah-dum tssss)
Yeah, this doesn't really say anything. You used the word "average" which means that you understand that the results have been normalized so that the two could be directly compared.
What are the demographics of Canada vs the US?
Military protection from who? Iraq and Afghanistan?
I'm pretty sure many of these countries (including Canada) have their own military forces, and ours has been in that cluster of Afghanistan for the past decade. America's decision to stockpile more nukes than all countries combined and expand their military reach to every corner of the Earth is America's choice alone. The U.S. military isn't setting up shop in Saudi Arabia for their protection, I'll tell you that.
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