Canadians Now Richer Than Americans
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Oh dear: Rich Canucks[^] As an American you think I'd find this alarming but I actually see it as a relief. From now on, the world's problems now get to be someone else's fault. So... Canadians, where's my check? Incidently, it occurs to me that all of their new found wealth may having something to do with the Code Project. It looks like a friendly website, but in reality it is full of evil rich guys - I'm in Michigan so I think I can probably launch a Moltov Cocktail from here.
And they get health care without being force by the government to buy insurance companies. And the poor will not have pay a penalty to the IRS when they cannot afford health insurance.
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There is no way the average American's net worth is $320,000.
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If I read the article correctly, that $320,000 net worth wasn't for the average American, but rather for the average American household. When you consider all the empty homes that are over mortgaged and add those into the equation, maybe that net worth number is pretty close. :) Although, the original article was written for a Canadian newspaper. :doh:
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
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Oh dear: Rich Canucks[^] As an American you think I'd find this alarming but I actually see it as a relief. From now on, the world's problems now get to be someone else's fault. So... Canadians, where's my check? Incidently, it occurs to me that all of their new found wealth may having something to do with the Code Project. It looks like a friendly website, but in reality it is full of evil rich guys - I'm in Michigan so I think I can probably launch a Moltov Cocktail from here.
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Do you mind? I may be your Evil Overlord, but I'm certainly not rich! BTW can you lend me a couple of Trillion dollars until payday? I need to get the death ray satellite launcher installed on the Secret Volcano Base.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
but I'm certainly not rich!
To quote from Seasick Steve's song "I started off with nothin' and I still got most of it left."
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And they get health care without being force by the government to buy insurance companies. And the poor will not have pay a penalty to the IRS when they cannot afford health insurance.
Clifford Nelson wrote:
And the poor will not have pay a penalty to the IRS when they cannot afford health insurance.
that is untrue. nothing is going to force the poor to pay a penalty if they don't have insurance. in fact, the government is going to subsidize insurance for those who make less than 4x the poverty line. and since Medicaid is being expanded, the truly poor will be covered that way.
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White, long haired cats and abandoned volcano lairs for all! Mwahahaha
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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If I read the article correctly, that $320,000 net worth wasn't for the average American, but rather for the average American household. When you consider all the empty homes that are over mortgaged and add those into the equation, maybe that net worth number is pretty close. :) Although, the original article was written for a Canadian newspaper. :doh:
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
That's plausible if it is households. Like for like a single person is ~70% and a couple 100% of a household. Non couples sharing are slightly over ~106% and children add about 15% for the first gradually going down. So an average married couple, with two sub-teen children would be somewhere around the $400k net worth mark.
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White, long haired cats and abandoned volcano lairs for all! Mwahahaha
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There is no way the average American's net worth is $320,000.
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Remove the top 2% of the population from that average, and you'll get a very different number.
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Oh dear: Rich Canucks[^] As an American you think I'd find this alarming but I actually see it as a relief. From now on, the world's problems now get to be someone else's fault. So... Canadians, where's my check? Incidently, it occurs to me that all of their new found wealth may having something to do with the Code Project. It looks like a friendly website, but in reality it is full of evil rich guys - I'm in Michigan so I think I can probably launch a Moltov Cocktail from here.
And they have a national health system. How does that line up with US politicians' arguments about national health systems?
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Clifford Nelson wrote:
And the poor will not have pay a penalty to the IRS when they cannot afford health insurance.
that is untrue. nothing is going to force the poor to pay a penalty if they don't have insurance. in fact, the government is going to subsidize insurance for those who make less than 4x the poverty line. and since Medicaid is being expanded, the truly poor will be covered that way.
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no, it's not free, but then again, neither is our $22,000/second Department Of Defense budget - something which no budget hawk i've ever encountered would even consider trimming.
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no, it's not free, but then again, neither is our $22,000/second Department Of Defense budget - something which no budget hawk i've ever encountered would even consider trimming.
Chris Losinger wrote:
neither is our $22,000/second Department Of Defense budget - something which no budget hawk i've ever encountered would even consider trimming.
I'd trim it so fast it would blow your mind. I'd also pull ALL American military personnel and facilities from EVERY foreign country and place a bunch of them on our borders. I'd also quit the UN & NATO and end ALL foreign aid until such time as our national debt is $0. But that's just me...
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Chris Losinger wrote:
neither is our $22,000/second Department Of Defense budget - something which no budget hawk i've ever encountered would even consider trimming.
I'd trim it so fast it would blow your mind. I'd also pull ALL American military personnel and facilities from EVERY foreign country and place a bunch of them on our borders. I'd also quit the UN & NATO and end ALL foreign aid until such time as our national debt is $0. But that's just me...
