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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHalf of all Americans earn less than $30,000 have you seen the price of medical and housing costs?
Over the past two years, 14 billionaires increased their networth by 150 billion.
14 people increased what they already owned by 150 BILLION!
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Half of all Americans earn less than $30,000 have you seen the price of medical and housing costs? (Original Post)
Csainvestor
May 2016
OP
Even the Chinese are buying up property to ask for astronomical rents that people can't afford.
bkkyosemite
May 2016
#1
I see the price of medical care every time the calendar turns to a new year
My Good Babushka
May 2016
#2
Don't be so negative, the bottom quintiles increase their income by 2%!!!!!!
Human101948
May 2016
#3
bkkyosemite
(5,792 posts)1. Even the Chinese are buying up property to ask for astronomical rents that people can't afford.
My Good Babushka
(2,710 posts)2. I see the price of medical care every time the calendar turns to a new year
and I have to make that stupid deductible all over again. Then the other half of the year I save up for property taxes. I know I'm lucky to have a house, but it seems like the bills never stop. And we just got notices that our utilities are increasing their rates by double digits this year. Perfect!
shraby
(21,946 posts)5. You should be on social security and have the same problems.
Human101948
(3,457 posts)3. Don't be so negative, the bottom quintiles increase their income by 2%!!!!!!
The past 20 years were better for poor and middle class Americans than the 20 years before that
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1910420
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1910420
My Good Babushka
(2,710 posts)4. Yes, and in another forty years
if they're good, maybe they'll get another percent! ha ha!