You're starting that chart from 1980. Start it in 91 or 92, and America has Japan beat in GDP per capita growth. Just eyeballing it on another chart, it looks like Japan's GDP per capita in that time has increased by around 5k, while ours has increased by around 10k. Their stock market is a fraction of its all time high it reached in the late 80s, and their growth has been pathetic.
Now you are just being stubborn. Japan's real GDP per capita has increased over 20% in the last two decades. The reason they call it the "lost decades" is because their overall growth has been anemic. But like I said, you have a declining population and a culture that saves money. They have healthcare paid for, they have increased their standard of living, they have increased their exports, they've accumulated over $1 trillion of our debt, they have low unemployment.
I mean come on, if you are going to preach your ridiculous Austrian anti-Govt theories at least find a country that is doing worse off. For some reason Japan and the US continue to grow and their standard of living continues to increase. By your logic, that should be impossible. You are being very stubborn here and cherry pickin data again.
I mean come on, if you are going to preach your ridiculous Austrian anti-Govt theories at least find a country that is doing worse off. For some reason Japan and the US continue to grow and their standard of living continues to increase. By your logic, that should be impossible. You are being very stubborn here and cherry pickin data again.
For some reason our standard of living continues to grow, despite how monstrous our Government is and how destructive inflation is. Maybe people like fletch are idiots (guitarjosh is just misinformed, not an idiot). Unfortunately for them, the data does not coincide with their fear mongering theories.
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where does 16% minority unemployment, increasing welfare, increasing use of food stamps, record high foreclosures and the total decay of the inner city family reflected in fratfraud's world of delusion?
"I got me an Obamaphone", that's evidently his improved standard of living for them
"I got me an Obamaphone", that's evidently his improved standard of living for them
Why do you guys always try to make a quote of one into a quote of all? Same mentality you guys use for people on welfare....i guess you will just never understand that the people you quote and use for examples are not the majority of those groups. Must come from being so protected in your own bubble....you should really spend some time with the groups you demonize...i think you would find they are nothing like fox news and repub media makes them out to be. Time to step out of the bubble.
come on man, "you guys" and not youse guys? really?
and I didn't even do what you says Isa did
read my words as they are written, don't do none of that there between the lines stuff wit me
and I didn't even do what you says Isa did
read my words as they are written, don't do none of that there between the lines stuff wit me
Conspricacy theorists? No . They're not that blunt so as not to upset the masses, hence
their use of 'code', as you called it. And yeah, we agree- without a change in policy they must devalue the dollar.
Compete with China? No , in various sectors, you cannot compete. Thats why US companies build plants in
far east. It's estimated that by 2025 China will trump USA with the planets largest economy.
