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  • Rated by tuffghostsu on Apr 29 2009, 9:47pm

    Can't read the x-axis labels.

  • Rated by gwilgus on Oct 24 2008, 4:09pm

    While the breadth of the distortions in this analysis is profound, a simple fact remains. VIEWS OF THE KLEPTROCRATIC CLASS ARE NEVER TO BE TRUSTED OR USED AS A BASIS FOR MONETARY OR SOCIAL DECISIONS. Monkeys! They are all monkeys.

  • Rated by Tyrhaynes on Oct 12 2008, 4:28am

    The data on this page is false. They are lying. Depending on the source americans work between 1800 to 2000 hours a year every year from 1997 to 2007 not 15xx as stated here. Someone is guessing that the audience is either ignorant or unable to fact check. Also, for several facts in the bibliography they state the authors as the source. Not a good sign!

  • Rated by shadus on Sep 30 2008, 1:43pm

    There are three kinds of lies, Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics. This is a perfect example of the third type of lie. You'll note he frequently compares the poor has now vs what the common man had in earlier times, but what he doesn't show is the ratio between the poor and common/rich then and the poor/common/rich now. Because that trend doesn't look so rosey. The poor are getting poorer, the rich are getting richer. Just because we now consider access to a television "normal" regardless of economic status does not mean we are better off than the equivalent people a given period of time ago. The space is too small here to detail the problems with most of his statistics, but if you've taken a statistics class and take a serious look at his presentation methodology you'll see a lot of problems immediately arising. The problem with most information is unless presented in a raw format you can cherry pick the information to have it say anything you want it to say... and in a raw format unless you're an statistician it means generally nothing to the common person. His suggestion that $10k would be $280k today in you put it in the stock market is a great example of the many fallacies of this article... Worth 280k today, if the particular stock didn't tank... and for every stock that did that well you can easily find 10 that would have cost you all your money.

  • Rated by ethanator1088 on Sep 20 2008, 12:21am

    cool article