Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Paul Ryan Boasts About Giving $1.50 Weekly Raise To Workers" video.

There is more to it than that. To start, CEOs are paid differently than workers. Next, if you were to take the top 6 executives of Walmart and spread their salaries to the 525,000 lowest paid employees of Walmart, those workers will earn an extra $147 a year. That's it. Attacking CEO pay is not a solution. Also, you should compare CEO pay to the number of workers they employ. For example, if a CEO earned $1 million and employed 100 employees and then 20 years later earned $1.5 million and employs 200 employees, they doubled the work force but their salary was not doubled. Sure they may earn much more than the average employee, but they also employ twice as many people.
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To add, you say this "The average worker has been saving for 3 years to buy a new car, while his CEO boss can afford to buy say 3 new cars a year" That CEO may run a business that invested in a way to develop newer cars that are cheaper and better meaning that average worker only has to save for two years. And when they buy the car that car may last 10 years as opposed to 5 years. There is that to consider.
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There is a lot to life expectancy than just healthcare. For example, if you remove car accidents and murders of all OECD countries the US is number 1 in life expectancy.
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The UK also has a murder rate that is 1/5 of the US. Is that related to healthcare? To a degree. But is it completely? No. There are other factors besides healthcare.
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So you support massive inflation.
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Magno, they don't care. It comes down to two things 1. Either they have no idea what drives productivity in this country and they feel goods and services just magically exist 2. Or they just want everyone to be equally poor.
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"Nearly half the country makes 30K a year or less. Does that mean nearly half the country is just lazy?" No, it means that half the people earn $30,000 or less which, from what I have seen is not a true stat. Even if it is there is more to it than that. What is their household income? What is the cost of living where they live at? What is their employment status? What is their age? You can't just throw numbers out there without proper perspective. This is why many people criticize the left for not understanding economics. And this is why I say, at the very core, the political left if driven off of emotions and the political right is driven on facts and logic. You throw numbers out there to appeal to emotions. The right gives out numbers in perspective to show what they really mean.
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sprybug, I just did my taxes. I earned a little over $23,000 last year. I have my own apartment, my own car, I have three square meals a day. I am fine. I actually have a savings I am building up. I am fine because I live in an area with a low cost of living. Does that mean everyone earning as much as I do is fine? No. But to generalize like you do saying that everyone earning less than $30,000 a year is poor is completely false because in reality they aren't.
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