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#176 2008-08-28 10:18 am
#177 2008-08-28 11:16 am
- dv
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Re: Warren Buffet: daring to be different
Mine's only ~800, but I like it.
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#178 2008-08-28 1:36 pm
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Re: Warren Buffet: daring to be different
As long as it's over 500 you aren't cramped and can have lots of stuff!
I'm not dead yet.
There are 3 types of people, those who can count and those who can't.
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#179 2008-08-28 3:07 pm
#180 2008-08-28 4:00 pm
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Re: Warren Buffet: daring to be different
I lived in West Africa in a country adjacent to Burkina Faso, so I can complain if I want to.
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#181 2008-08-28 4:07 pm
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Re: Warren Buffet: daring to be different
That's not where Haiti is!
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.
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#182 2008-08-28 4:17 pm
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Re: Warren Buffet: daring to be different
D'oh! You're right. I guess I can't complain after all, dammit!
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#183 2008-09-01 2:25 pm
Re: Warren Buffet: daring to be different
isaly wrote:
Of course, these "statistics" are easy to cite, I could go to a government website and get data which may or may not be adjusted temporally. . . but I do know that my parents bought their house for $22,000.00 in 1969 when they earning about $25,000.00 between them and my mom sold it for $90,000 eight years ago. . . but even in my own little anecdotal paradigm my dad wasn't earning the median.
Median then $33,338.00, house $22,000.00
Median now $44,922,00, same house $90,000.00
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Your numbers aren't all comparable to each other. For 1969 you give a median real (inflation-adjusted) income figure, but not an inflation-adjusted home price. $22,000 in 1969 is the inflation-adjusted equivalent of roughly $103,000 in 2000, or $132,000 today.
If your parents were earning $25K in 1969, that's well above the median. It looks like the median household income in 1969 was around $7750 in that year's dollars.
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#184 2008-09-01 2:39 pm
Re: Warren Buffet: daring to be different
... and for the rest of the argument, it is preposterous to say that people in the U.S. are not far, far, far better off than previous generations.
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#185 2008-09-01 7:38 pm
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How's the family income been in the last few years, adjusted for inflation?
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#186 2008-09-01 11:43 pm
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Re: Warren Buffet: daring to be different
freecat wrote:
... and for the rest of the argument, it is preposterous to say that people in the U.S. are not far, far, far better off than previous generations.
This link's discussion of health care is laughable.
"If you run, you're guilty, and I'll catch you" -- Titus the Neo-Con
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#187 2008-09-02 7:23 pm
Re: Warren Buffet: daring to be different
freecat wrote:
... and for the rest of the argument, it is preposterous to say that people in the U.S. are not far, far, far better off than previous generations.
Products? PRODUCTS? Thanks for the toilet paper, now take all these cheap plastic toys and try eating them!
Measure of wealth == property + nutrition.
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