What Will be Left When There is NO Middle Class?

World renoun? Thats phunknee.

 

You quote an urban legend email that comes from a place nobody can pin down that references a guy who is not a doctor who did say something in an article once on this subject but is entirely different than the email is portraying his comments as and Snopes.com outted the email for the fraud that it was but you defend this guy as an expert anyway.

You remind me of Mulder from the X-Files....You really want to believe and when you are hit with reality, you simply make up your own facts and defend them at all costs. In your world, questioning a guy like Vaknin makes me a Socialist/Communist bent on seeing world governance ushered in. Why don't you just return to planet Earth and admit that you bought into another phony right wing email smear? Oh yeah, there is my signature line which explains the answer so clearly.

 

Really, but I nailed you right in the bread basket,hook line and sinker. FISH ON !

 

something you might like to read or not.

THE DANGERS OF UNDER CONFIDENCE


Published on DickMorris.com on October 4, 2010

Just as when the Republican establishment wrote off Scott Brown's effort to capture "Ted Kennedy's" seat in the Senate, the Washington Republicans may be under estimating the number of seats the GOP can capture in the House of Representatives.

Over confidence is not a danger. Everybody is working as hard as they can to elect Republicans all over America. Nobody is apathetic on the right. The only indifference and passivity in the nation is on the left. But under confidence - writing off seats that we can win - is a huge obstacle to further progress.

The swath of destruction Obama has cut through our economy, banking system, manufacturing base, and medical profession is so broad and ugly that Republicans and Independents everywhere are determined to end his mandate by electing a Republican Congress in 2010. Seats that Republicans had no chance to win in previous elections are suddenly in play. With scores of Democratic incumbent Congressmen polling at under 50% of the vote, the possibilities for Republican gains are enormous.

But Republican funding and tactical focus is having a hard time keeping pace with the political developments on the ground. Handicappers like Cook Political Report are slow in switching their predictions quickly enough as the Republican wave sweeps through the nation. GOP national committees and PACs run the risk that they will concentrate too much money on races that are already won, leaving opportunities to rot on the vine in other districts.

This process of under estimating the chances for Republican victories is fed by two mistakes in polling methodology - and one in survey analysis -- which are understating Republican chances in the coming elections.

While most pollsters survey only likely voters, their screens to determine who will vote are too porous, letting through many who will not actually make it to the polls. Most surveys simply ask if voters are likely to participate or not rather than asking how enthusiastic the survey participant is about voting. Rankings based on enthusiasm and intensity - sure guides to actual turnout - are generating far more Republican samples than those that are ultimately published.

And many pollsters are weighting their data so their samples conform to traditional party distribution. When their samples yield too many self-described Republicans and too few Democrats (as measured against historic norms) they weight down the Republican interviews and weight up the Democratic ones to adjust. But, in reality, they are obscuring the very findings of their surveys. Voters are becoming more Republican and Democrats are becoming Independents. These trends are hard to spot when data is weighted.

Finally, in assessing the meaning of the polls, analysts are underestimating the ability of Republican challengers to defeat Democratic incumbents who are under 50% of the vote. The undecided vote usually goes to the challenger. A host of Republican insurgents with limited name recognition are running behind their Democratic incumbent adversaries because voters don't know who they are. But, if the incumbent is failing to win a majority of his district, these voters will likely vote for the challenger when they learn his name as the campaign unfolds.

Taken together, these flaws in polling and the widening range of Republican capabilities should militate for readjusting GOP sights to aim at more Democratic districts and races that once seemed impossible. Over confidence is not our problem. A lack of belief in our potential is.




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By all means keep posting your urban legends and conspiracy theories. Even I can't make you look as foolish as you make yourself look. You really are a True Believer.

P.S. Isn't it sort of narcissistic to declare yourself the winner at this point?

 

What this country needs is more mixed metaphors. Keep 'em coming Pep!

 

What percentage of the homes in Las Vegas are under bank control ( repossesion ) ? Do you know Craig ?

 

An area of the country that lives almost solely on gambling, tourism, and the like? I would guess very high. Ridiculously high. I bet some people were making some money on the housing run up, though, until they threw craps.

 

Nevada had the highest foreclosure rate for the 44th straight month. One in every 84 households got a notice, more than four times the national average. Filings fell 25 percent from a year earlier.

Florida had the second-highest rate, at one in every 155 households, two and a half times the U.S. average. Filings fell 8.9 percent from a year earlier. Arizona ranked third at one in 165 households, and California was fourth at one in 194.

 

Five states accounted for more than half of all U.S. filings, led by California’s 69,143, a fifth of the national total. Filings in the most populous state rose 3 percent from July and declined 25 percent from a year earlier.
Florida ranked second with 56,877 filings, up 10 percent from July and down 9 percent from a year earlier. The state accounted for almost 17 percent of the U.S. total. Michigan was third at 17,764 filings, followed by Illinois at 16,808 and Arizona at 16,510.

 

No I dont know exactly. But its the highest in the country. But I dont think its because Obama thinks highly of himself

 

Didn't BO make some disparaging comments regarding Las Vegas that got the tourism folks there upset?

 

I think he made one remark. And I thought it was regarding saving money or something. ''Dont go blow your money in Las Vegas.''. Or something like that. Its not an exact quote. I want to make that clear. I dont want to be called a liar or a pussy or a faggot over some crap that was said by someone else over a year ago.

 

http://www.lvrj.com/news/obama-remark-reopens-wound--83423182.html

 

Excellent link! It shows that BO warned people away from Vegas on more than one occasion and also shows what a hypocrit he is when he says Washington should tighten it's belt...he sure created a double standard when it comes to household budgets & his government's budget, didn't he?

 

Ya know, I have made a concerted effort to leave you alone for some time now.

 

In context Obama said don't blow your college money in Las Vegas. He was talking common sense not anti-Las vegas. People are just hypercritical and jump on anything. All silliness.

 

Likewise. But I still remember what happened the last time I mis-quoted someone. I just wanted EVERYONE to understand that I wasnt sure of the exact words.

 

So what else is new?

 

Feel better now?