A collection of recent viral images that made me laugh, think, or scream... Because sometimes it is hard to type with fists.
Only in order of how they landed on my Facebook wall...
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Expressing a build up of viral material: Recent viral images…
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Chart: Income, Profits, and Taxes 1960 - 2010
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| Source: The Dish by Andrew Sullivan |
The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast:
The graphs above need no more elaboration. What they show is that, at a time of soaring public debt, corporate and personal taxes are at historic lows, while wages are in the toilet but corporate profits, after tax, have never been as healthy as they currently are, as a share of the economy.
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Does this seem to you to be an era in which the president knows nothing about business and needs to get out of the way of the great American job-making machine by, er, cutting taxes even further? Or does it seem an era in which global corporations can make serious global money even when domestic workers are suffering, and where the obvious primary worry for any government would be the collapse of demand and risk of deflation at home?
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Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Chart: Corporate Profits vs. Unemployment, 2001-2010 - The Top GOP Myth And What You Can Use To Fight It
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| Found on MotherJones. Originally submitted to MoveOn.org by volunteer editor Jessica S. |
The Top GOP Myth And What You Can Use To Fight It | MoveOn.Org:
Do lower taxes, and therefore higher profits, mean more jobs? See for yourself:
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Wednesday, November 02, 2011
Chart: Barack Obama & Ronald Reagan... Separated at birth?
Starting to think a trend is emerging. First there was this: Ronald Reagan and Obama both said the same thing about taxes for the wealthy
And today I noticed this...
Yes, at this point in their presidencies, Obama and Reagan are running very similar poll numbers. And if I remember right, there was a lot of talk about Reagan's failed presidency and about him being a one term-er at this point in his first term. (George H. W., on the other hand, looked unbeatable at this point.)
Of course, the democrats helped Reagan out quite a bit by nominating Mondale, but the Republicans will surely not pull the Democrats' favorite trick and run a weak candidate against a beatable incumbent in 2012, will they? Oh...
One interestng thing about these numbers is that almost every president starts strong and crashes out, approval-wise, by the end of their final term in office. There are many reasons for this, of course, and that is not what I find interesting.
What is interesting is that there is one president here who clearly shattered this trend. Bill Clinton.
I think we all miss Bill at this point. At least, I really miss the state of the economy under his watch.
Yeah, I know the arguments about the presidency and the economy... But there is still a lot to be said for the influence of the guy in the White House contributing to the positive or negative mood of the country, which does effect the economy in a fairly substantial way.
This is a very cool interactive chart USA Today has put together. It is worth a look
And today I noticed this...
Yes, at this point in their presidencies, Obama and Reagan are running very similar poll numbers. And if I remember right, there was a lot of talk about Reagan's failed presidency and about him being a one term-er at this point in his first term. (George H. W., on the other hand, looked unbeatable at this point.)
Of course, the democrats helped Reagan out quite a bit by nominating Mondale, but the Republicans will surely not pull the Democrats' favorite trick and run a weak candidate against a beatable incumbent in 2012, will they? Oh...
One interestng thing about these numbers is that almost every president starts strong and crashes out, approval-wise, by the end of their final term in office. There are many reasons for this, of course, and that is not what I find interesting.
What is interesting is that there is one president here who clearly shattered this trend. Bill Clinton.
I think we all miss Bill at this point. At least, I really miss the state of the economy under his watch.
Yeah, I know the arguments about the presidency and the economy... But there is still a lot to be said for the influence of the guy in the White House contributing to the positive or negative mood of the country, which does effect the economy in a fairly substantial way.
This is a very cool interactive chart USA Today has put together. It is worth a look
Presidential approval tracker - USATODAY.com:
The Gallup organization first started asking Americans how they approved of the job the president was doing in the 1940s. See how each president since then has fared in the approval poll, look at some news events that influenced public opinion and compare how approval ratings evolved for each president.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Who funds the U.S. government: Comparison Chart - Total Reported Income Vs. Total Income Taxes Paid (2007)
But who can afford to fund the government? The fact of the matter is that, while the top 25% earners in the country pay 86.6% of the taxes, a percentage that drives conservative wild, just asking the bottom 75% to "pay their fair share" is not a workable solution.
While it sounds good on paper, at the end of the day, the bottom 75% can't afford it. Small percentage changes in the tax rate for most Americans have a dramatic effect on their day to day lives, much more so than it does for the wealthiest members of society.
And at a certain point, taxes become uncollectable. Are we really going to ask someone to choose between paying their tax bill and putting food on the table for their children? Those are taxes that won't get paid and then we'll be sending good money after bad trying to collect and prosecute those damn, poor and lazy tax evaders that are not pulling their weight in society.
And if we are asking the average American to give more of their money to the government instead of spending their money in the free market, how are the top 25% going to keep earning their money? Raising prices to compensate for smaller sales? Double tapping the purchasing power of the average American and driving the economy even further into the darkness?
Blah... Too burned out for a thoughtful, well written argument on this topic today, but I did want to look into the facts and to offer a couple splintered fragments of my humble opinion..
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