Bae, you cannot compare the 2 experiences. You are a volunteer first responder. Rob is a landlord. Frankly I am getting sick of your superiority. You think you are better then most people . Enjoy
I had family members who fled the class system in the U.K. (rather vanilla part of my family tree for sure, but these were latter arrivals and don't go way back). So they fled poverty too - for somewhere with more class mobility. Unfortunately I don't think that's the case anymore in the U.S. - what they fled for no longer exists.The grass is always greener. My stepgrandfather fled horrible poverty in the Ukraine just before the Bolshevik revolution.
Trees don't grow on money
The class system in the UK has lessened (witness members of the royal family marrying commoners among other things) but there is a false narrative among some in the US that everything here is about class now, not race. We have here several members who rose from poverty to comfortable early retirement.
Our criminal justice system is riddled with racial bias though at every step of the process - disproportionate rates of being profiled, stopped and frisked, arrested, charged, convicted, and given a long sentence. So ANM depending on their skin tone fleeing here may well have resulted in better outcomes for your family members than for the descendants of people here for four centuries. I think we are much more classless than colorblind.
Totally agree Y. We are targeting black people and it is repugnant. Hopefully the next president won’t encourage that type of behavior.
I actually think the issues are inescapably intertwined. I mean this is some recent Fed news:but there is a false narrative among some in the US that everything here is about class now, not race.
Yea racism and poverty are totally intertwined. 11% of the wealth of white households. It doesn't mean there aren't plenty of poor white people though, there are, and like the Fed paper said the bottom 50% as a whole suffered.A working paper published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis argues that the richest Americans took a brief hit during the 2008 financial crisis but their fortunes have grown even larger since then due to a booming stock market. And yet, the bottom 50% of U.S. households still have only half the wealth they did before the financial crisis. The divergence is one factor fueling income inequality in the U.S., which has increased since the crisis. The paper's authors also note that the disparity between the wealth of white and black households has stagnated, with the median black household having less than 11% of the wealth of the median white household, according to the study.
But the poor whites aren't really Trump's base, that's just another stereotype (his base is actually mostly not poor, even if some poor white people vote for him, so did some people of other demographics - but the base more often earns decent money).
Trees don't grow on money
We would not have got a Bulgarian passport, we just would have lived there.
You wouldn't do anything with an entry to the EU because you have told us multiple times that you will not leave the U.S. while your mother is alive. Even this blather about gold rings as flee money is stupid because you arent going to flee, it is just another excuse to dis the United States.
question about this statement. Are you discriminating against Hispanics by paying a lower wage than white folks? Are non Hispanics not sane?
question #2. Previously you wrote how low your property taxes are. How does a government (starting at the local level on up) pay for things like good schools, fire protection, help with mass transit, good social services and safety nets etc. if people don’t want to pay taxes?
Flowers, the answer to question 2 is they don’t. I live in a low tax state and quality of education is 49th in the nation. A lack of social services for people that need it. I came here for a job and was shocked how low our property taxes are. Roads are in bad shape. We are growing like crazy and rent and property values are skyrocketing. A family now needs to make 80k/year to buy a house. The average family with 2 full time workers makes 50k/year. A one bedroom apartment is between 1300-1600/month.
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