he get more in bonuses and stock than in salary.
it's nuts.

I could afford a pitchfork.

Just the way I like it.

I'd eat a pitchfork if one fell from the heavens. I don't even know what Wall Street is...something like the Emerald City? Sounds like a fantasy, nobody really believes in that kind of stuff do they? Urban legends

d'arby o'gill?

Broke a brand-new pitchfork the first time I tried to use it in the vegetable garden.
Took it back, and the store didn't have any more.

They were SOLD OUT OF PITCHFORKS.

... will pierce the tough scales of corporatist reptiles much more easily than the blunted points of a spade fork. Now, if the peasants storming the castle had automatic weapons...!

They work great in the garden.

They have some very neat stuff

Woodworking
Metal hardware

Some people just don't like sharing.

"Community"



peace to you billhicks76,
kp

Like, yesterday.

This should be national news...alas, not so much...

Will travel.

Probably not the most formidable of weapons.

to a Free Market economy!!!!!!

Like, what the fuck is stopping these people? They aren't rewarded ENOUGH?

Folks, the above charts show unfettered capitalism in all it's cruel glory.

But Ted Cruz et al INSIST if we have MORE of this free fucking economy, it will create more jobs.

The stupid. It burns. Because people bob their heads up and down and clap their hands when he tells them this tall tale. They buy it, as their wages shrink and their pensions disappear and their savings vanish.

The first paragraph of the MoJo article says Wall Street's bonus pool was ...roughly double the combined earnings of all Americans working full-time jobs at minimum wage.

But the second paragraph compares the sum of all Wall Street bonuses to one million minimum wage workers. The total wages of all minimum wage workers in the U.S. would be in the hundreds of billions.

It's still an outrage. But the combined wages of all min wage workers on America are far more that $14B.

you will see both mention that it is full-time minimum wage workers' earnings being discussed. The Times's article cites a BLS number of 1.03 million full-timers at minimum wage.

You are correct that there are many more minimum wage workers if all part-timers and full-timers are counted.

So this would indicate that only 0.8% of full time workers make minimum wage. Much lower than I would have thought if these numbers are true.

I am sure that they are using the "federal minimum wage", and many states have higher minimum wages than the federal, so whole states would not be included in that number. Also, if someone is making 10 cents over the minimum wage, they will not be included in this, but they will still be poor. With all the factors, it is hard to do a calculation.

Besides, the chart is pink, obviously created by gays or women, neither of which have opinions worth hearing. (Fellow DUers please note, obviously I am being sarcastic but in this dumbed down country rife with racism, sexism, homophobia and STUPID, there most assuredly are citizens out there who think this way....and they vote too!!!) KnR for those pitchfork owners who aren't racists, homophobes, sexists and for everyone else with a little moral decency too.....especially if the vote.

I'm not very handy, but I'm willing to chip in to make a few.

Capitalism will eat itself.

That Wall Street got the redder rectangle.

It is reverse socialism. With all the gains going to the top and all the losses absorbed by the bottom.
We live under corporate totalitarianism. There are those who labor for and benefit from it and there are those who are serious about issues like saving democracy, climate change and the death of our ecosystems.

PS. I do have a nice old (well made) pitchfork. And a good grinder with a good sharpening wheel.

... just bring red ants.

Yay!

Bernanke and Geithner who instituted most of the policies that allowed for this crap.

Not that a Republican in office at 1600 Pennsylvannia would have done better - but that should be a fact people think about: No matter who the top people are for the top positions, be they Democratic or Republican, they won't be looking out for Ma and Pa Middle class.

Get rid of the federal minimum wage.....problem solved.

Americans love "wealth creation" and we certainly can't have "soak the rich" as our party platform.