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« Reply #22260 on: January 14, 2013, 10:36:35 AM »
get a 3.5% raise
take home $10 less

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« Reply #22261 on: January 14, 2013, 12:57:15 PM »
get a 3.5% raise
take home $10 less

THANKS OBAMA

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« Reply #22262 on: January 14, 2013, 02:03:10 PM »

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« Reply #22263 on: January 14, 2013, 02:19:20 PM »
What :rofl
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« Reply #22264 on: January 14, 2013, 02:24:01 PM »
It's from the WSJ so you know it's extra serious!

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« Reply #22265 on: January 14, 2013, 02:25:24 PM »
I love the tired, haggard looks on the single mom and her two rugrats. It's like Obama just called to tell them their dog got run over by the presidential limo. :lol

That single Asian woman is as cool as a cucumber, though.
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« Reply #22266 on: January 14, 2013, 02:43:06 PM »
Look at those non-working black people. 'Retired' is just an easy excuse.


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« Reply #22267 on: January 14, 2013, 03:03:30 PM »
Look at those non-working black people. 'Retired' is just an easy excuse.

If I could pull down 180k a year while being "retired," I sure as hell would.
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« Reply #22268 on: January 14, 2013, 03:18:11 PM »
mo money
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« Reply #22269 on: January 14, 2013, 03:31:03 PM »
poor single mom raising a family on only $260k a year

also, if me and my wife were bringing home $650k a year, I'd be so busy bathing in champagne I wouldn't have time to read my tax returns
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« Reply #22270 on: January 14, 2013, 03:43:28 PM »
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« Reply #22271 on: January 14, 2013, 06:24:43 PM »
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« Reply #22272 on: January 14, 2013, 07:23:31 PM »
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« Reply #22273 on: January 14, 2013, 07:26:26 PM »
Accompanied an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, I think.

Reminds me of an anecdote from a sports beat writer where a player on the local NBA team asked him how much he made working for the paper, and guessed it was in the neighborhood of $150k.

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« Reply #22274 on: January 14, 2013, 07:29:16 PM »
Obama's America is one where newspapers are free to make charts that assume the average working mom is making 260,000 a year.  Jesus Christ.
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« Reply #22275 on: January 14, 2013, 07:44:07 PM »
Obama's America is also a place where normal people make a second salary on investment income.
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« Reply #22276 on: January 14, 2013, 07:49:20 PM »
Also someone please make the black guy in the pink shirt and jaunty sweater pd's avatar.
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« Reply #22277 on: January 14, 2013, 08:15:22 PM »
Obama's America is also a place where normal people make a second salary on investment income.

A single mom making $35,000 a year in investment income. :lol

Most single moms don't make $35,000 a year in total!
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« Reply #22278 on: January 14, 2013, 08:45:33 PM »
Obama's America is also a place where normal people make a second salary on investment income.

A single mom making $35,000 a year in investment income. :lol

Most single moms don't make $35,000 a year in total!

I posted it on Twitter and someone responded with:

"single parent, two children. real average income for a person in that situation: $19,372."

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« Reply #22280 on: January 14, 2013, 09:22:03 PM »
Why does the retired couple look so depressed when their tax isn't changing?

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« Reply #22281 on: January 14, 2013, 09:38:41 PM »
Why does the retired couple look so depressed when their tax isn't changing?

You see how much their pulling down? 180k a year. How are they supposed to afford basic cable and a weekly dinner at Cracker Barrel on that paltry sum?!
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« Reply #22282 on: January 15, 2013, 06:10:50 AM »
As somebody else mentioned, those WSJ numbers actually seem realistic if you divide the incomes by 10.

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« Reply #22283 on: January 15, 2013, 09:18:02 AM »
But that would ruin the narrative.
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« Reply #22284 on: January 15, 2013, 10:12:09 AM »
Why does the retired couple look so depressed when their tax isn't changing?

You see how much their pulling down? 180k a year. How are they supposed to afford basic cable and a weekly dinner at Cracker Barrel on that paltry sum?!

Where I live, a family making 180k a year isn't anything that exorbitant.
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« Reply #22285 on: January 15, 2013, 10:36:04 AM »
Why does the retired couple look so depressed when their tax isn't changing?

You see how much their pulling down? 180k a year. How are they supposed to afford basic cable and a weekly dinner at Cracker Barrel on that paltry sum?!

Where I live, a family making 180k a year isn't anything that exorbitant.

Living in New York is a choice you make that costs money, not an exogenous parameter which affects your real income.  It's like saying someone's not really rich cause all their money got spent on a huge house, new cars, private school for the kids, a housekeeping staff, etc.

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« Reply #22286 on: January 15, 2013, 10:51:59 AM »
180k is still comfy living in NY, or LI at least. Even if it isn't rich per se

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« Reply #22287 on: January 15, 2013, 10:59:04 AM »
It's like saying someone's not really rich cause all their money got spent on a huge house, new cars, private school for the kids, a housekeeping staff, etc.

Last year a Toronto magazine did a feature that was basically that.
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« Reply #22289 on: January 15, 2013, 11:12:03 AM »
Why does the retired couple look so depressed when their tax isn't changing?

You see how much their pulling down? 180k a year. How are they supposed to afford basic cable and a weekly dinner at Cracker Barrel on that paltry sum?!

Where I live, a family making 180k a year isn't anything that exorbitant.

Living in New York is a choice you make that costs money, not an exogenous parameter which affects your real income.  It's like saying someone's not really rich cause all their money got spent on a huge house, new cars, private school for the kids, a housekeeping staff, etc.

Changing where a person lives is a pretty big thing for a lot of people, especially myself as I grew up in NY and my family, friends, etc. are all here. If I were to move anywhere, it'd have to be somewhere near a huge city (aka, pricey no matter where you go)... I would definitely not fit in the South/Middle America religiously and politically for example. Nor will my interests be catered to (I don't think Kansas would be a hotbed of Ethiopian or Indian food, or would get lots of touring EDM DJs, correct me if I'm wrong though)

If the companies out here paid you more, the higher COL wouldn't be a big deal, but most don't pay much more than average. My company is all over the states and I think their LI salaries are only on average $10k higher a year than their employees in northern Florida or Iowa.

Not to mention, the COL has soared in the last 20-30 years here. LI wasn't always this expensive, my dad bought a new-construction 3 bedroom house in the late 70's for $65k on a teacher's salary. That house is worth about $500k now (new-construction here is ONLY mcmansions and they are at least $750k), and I don't think teacher's salaries have increased enough to cover the change. Property taxes here are also exorbitant - I am lucky I bought in a community that grieved taxes for years and have some of the lowest on the island, but my mom is paying $12k/year if not more. It's just getting to a point where the middle class have no option other than leave for North Carolina or something (which I would NEVER be able to live in, I'd never fit in there and there would be nothing for me to do). Leaving only the retired people who paid off their mortgage before the COL raised (like my mom), the uber-rich, and the poor immigrant workers living in the ghettos (yes there are ghettos on LI) to serve them.
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« Reply #22290 on: January 15, 2013, 11:27:04 AM »
180k is still comfy living in NY, or LI at least. Even if it isn't rich per se

this makes me a sad panda that sounds so rich to me  :-\
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« Reply #22291 on: January 15, 2013, 11:46:52 AM »
If you don't want to live an hour and a half away from the city or in a slum you are looking at $300k+ for your house and $8k+ in property taxes



Or you are like me and make well above the median, but not $180k, and want to live in a good zip code, so you live in a condo

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« Reply #22292 on: January 15, 2013, 11:49:21 AM »
thank god I don't live in new york
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« Reply #22293 on: January 15, 2013, 11:51:48 AM »
P.S. my condo was well over $200,000

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« Reply #22294 on: January 15, 2013, 11:52:55 AM »
Seeing people driven out by gentrification and ramped up CoL always sucks.

But all those reasons you listed as why you don't want to leave NY?  That's what you're getting for your money!  I'm not saying it doesn't cost, just that it's a way to spend money, even if it's a big decision and not as tangible as other things.

Plus, if you just want to be "near" a big city with ethnic restaurants, you'll find places where $180k will let you live quite well.  It's not always a choice between New York and Tobacco Road.



PS The $180k is the income of the retired couple in the picture, who probably have ~$750 savings, going by that investment income.

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« Reply #22295 on: January 15, 2013, 11:57:21 AM »
I don't understand how english majors live in manhatten (some of my friends)
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« Reply #22296 on: January 15, 2013, 12:00:38 PM »
They're secret prostitutes.

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« Reply #22297 on: January 15, 2013, 12:02:03 PM »
P.S. my condo was well over $200,000

I live in a condo (I paid $335,000 for it, but got it for a steal due to some very special circumstances) - in an awesome area with a top-tier school (Mick Foley graduated from there :lol), but it's still about 55 miles to midtown Manhattan. Surprisingly, there's not much condo development on the island (as most of it was built up before condos became a big thing, during a time when the nuclear family was much more common, and people who wanted to leave the city and have single family homes), so condo prices are a bit higher than usual. There's no way I'd be able to afford a house on a single-income. Nor would I want one!

Viscen, where is your condo? I probably looked there! I looked all over the island for one before settling in Setauket.

Guess I just need to marry a girl with a high-paying job :lol
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« Reply #22298 on: January 15, 2013, 12:02:17 PM »
They're secret prostitutes.

So is that single mom.
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« Reply #22299 on: January 15, 2013, 12:10:43 PM »
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« Reply #22300 on: January 15, 2013, 12:27:24 PM »
I don't understand how english majors live in manhatten (some of my friends)

Supplemented income and living in bed-stuy/Harlem with 6 other roommates.

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« Reply #22301 on: January 15, 2013, 12:30:14 PM »
I don't understand how english majors live in manhatten (some of my friends)

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« Reply #22302 on: January 15, 2013, 12:56:51 PM »
I don't understand how english majors live in manhatten (some of my friends)

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« Reply #22303 on: January 15, 2013, 01:28:22 PM »
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/15/doma-republicans_n_2479666.html?1358266478

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« Reply #22304 on: January 15, 2013, 01:53:28 PM »
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« Reply #22305 on: January 16, 2013, 12:26:18 PM »
23 executive actions:

1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system.

2. Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background check system.

3. Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system.

4. Direct the Attorney General to review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun to make sure dangerous people are not slipping through the cracks.
5. Propose rulemaking to give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual before returning a seized gun.

6. Publish a letter from ATF to federally licensed gun dealers providing guidance on how to run background checks for private sellers.

7. Launch a national safe and responsible gun ownership campaign.

8. Review safety standards for gun locks and gun safes (Consumer Product Safety Commission).

9. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations.

10. Release a DOJ report analyzing information on lost and stolen guns and make it widely available to law enforcement.

11. Nominate an ATF director.

12. Provide law enforcement, first responders, and school officials with proper training for active shooter situations.

13. Maximize enforcement efforts to prevent gun violence and prosecute gun crime.

14. Issue a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence.

15. Direct the Attorney General to issue a report on the availability and most effective use of new gun safety technologies and challenge the private sector to develop innovative technologies.

16. Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.

17. Release a letter to health care providers clarifying that no federal law prohibits them from reporting threats of violence to law enforcement authorities.

18. Provide incentives for schools to hire school resource officers.

19. Develop model emergency response plans for schools, houses of worship and institutions of higher education.

20. Release a letter to state health officials clarifying the scope of mental health services that Medicaid plans must cover.

21. Finalize regulations clarifying essential health benefits and parity requirements within ACA exchanges.

22. Commit to finalizing mental health parity regulations.

23. Launch a national dialogue led by Secretaries Sebelius and Duncan on mental health.

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« Reply #22306 on: January 16, 2013, 01:34:40 PM »
my god, there are way too many gun morons on gaf
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« Reply #22307 on: January 16, 2013, 01:49:19 PM »
Maybe they should leave automatic weapons laying around schoolyards, (but have tracking devices on them) so we can catch the killers. :teehee


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« Reply #22308 on: January 16, 2013, 02:11:43 PM »
my god, there are way too many gun morons on gaf

My facebook is a nightmare of pro-second-amendment image macros.
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« Reply #22309 on: January 16, 2013, 02:20:38 PM »
And yet, not a single gun was taken from anyone. :usa
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« Reply #22310 on: January 16, 2013, 02:35:32 PM »
And yet, not a single gun was taken from anyone. :usa

YET.

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« Reply #22311 on: January 16, 2013, 02:49:00 PM »
The executive orders are no longer highlighted on Drudge lol. They're so common sense and..non threatening. And yet rather effective. Especially:

14. Issue a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence.

The NRA’s war on gun science
http://www.salon.com/2012/07/25/the_nras_war_on_gun_science/

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« Reply #22312 on: January 16, 2013, 03:05:14 PM »
Can I just say that I think anyone who believes Obama is going to take their guns is a fucking idiot and shouldn't be offended when they're called a hillbilly?
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« Reply #22313 on: January 16, 2013, 03:08:20 PM »
Can't say hillbilly as most of the people I know that are bitching are urbanized NYers freaking out about Cuomo's new law.

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« Reply #22314 on: January 16, 2013, 03:10:53 PM »


I'm sick of the debate, I'm going to sleep. Wake me up when the government is knocking at my door with their tanks and drones following them ready to throw me into a FEMA rape camp.
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« Reply #22315 on: January 16, 2013, 03:13:16 PM »
And yet, not a single gun was taken from anyone. :usa

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« Reply #22316 on: January 16, 2013, 03:22:15 PM »


I'm sick of the debate, I'm going to sleep. Wake me up when the government is knocking at my door with their tanks and drones following them ready to throw me into a FEMA rape camp.
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« Reply #22317 on: January 16, 2013, 07:49:59 PM »


I'm sick of the debate, I'm going to sleep. Wake me up when the government is knocking at my door with their tanks and drones following them ready to throw me into a FEMA rape camp.
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We need to add that to the Bore book club.
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