America’s political challenge, in one little chart
Two data points:
1.) Corporate profits — corporate after-tax profits — reached $1.75 trillion in the third quarter of 2012, an increase of 18.6 percent over a year ago. In fact, corporate after-tax profits now account for a bigger share of the national economy than at any point since World War II ended.
2.) Workers’ wages, on the other hand, now account for just 43.5 percent of our national economy. That is the lowest share of the national economy going into workers’ paychecks that has been recorded since World War II.
In fact, when you combine those two statistics into a single chart, you have created a snapshot of the single most important, consequential long-term issue facing both the U.S. economy and the U.S. political system. It looks like this:
In the chart, the share of the national economy, or GDP, going to workers’ paychecks is in blue. The share of the economy that is going to corporate profits is in red. (Note that in this combined chart, the two statistics have separate scales.)
Again, those are after-tax profits. While corporate chieftains complain that taxes and regulation and unions have made it difficult to do business here — Bernie Marcus of Home Depot is fond of complaining that he and Arthur Blank could never have created that company in today’s business climate — in reality times have never been better in terms of corporate profitability.
There is every indication that this isn’t the end of it, and that both trends will continue over the long term. They are being driven by factors such as technology and globalization, which empower and enrich capital while undercutting the ability of workers to demand anything close to their previous share of the economic pie.
These trends also create the backdrop for the battles being fought in Washington. Should government attempt to compensate in any way for the massive shift in income distribution away from employees, such as by providing health-care and education assistance? Or must government serve only as a disinterested bystander during this historic transfer of economic wealth and power?
The 2012 election was in some ways a referendum on that question, but its verdict was far from definitive. To the contrary, this conflict will continue to provide the subtext of American politics for at least a generation. The fiscal cliff, entitlements, Obamacare, the 47 percent, the 1 percent, corporate taxes, CEO pay, Wall Street, Medicare — the entire spectrum of economic issues confronting our political system is being driven by the forces portrayed in this chart.
– Jay Bookman
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An observer
December 4th, 2012
1:49 pm
It is time to end the industrial age and bring back the agrarian economy! Where are the Luddites when we need them?
spaceman109
December 4th, 2012
1:49 pm
thulsa….it is good that you can run more than 10 laps! are you up to running a marathon yet? B-)
even though jay’s comment was not directly related to the subject of the article. it is still valid.
i think even you would recognize that such a massive divide between corporate profits and rank-and-file wages is not good for the long-term future of this economy.
as an aside…i do not like the phrase “working americans” that too many politicians like to use when arguing for higher pay and benefits. upper management works hard as well…..i prefer the phrase “rank-and-file” workers.
STUPID LIBERAL
December 4th, 2012
1:49 pm
My current employer is actually hiring, but I have a feeling 98% of the readers are not qualified.
getalife
December 4th, 2012
1:49 pm
stupid,
He is eating 4 dollars of food a day like Americans on food stamps.
With your mindless self defeatism of wage killing, you will be there with them one day.
Brosephus™
December 4th, 2012
1:50 pm
the man had ZERO exec experience before becoming potus.
Ummmm, I think that “He who’s name is to never be mentioned again” proved that exec experience doesn’t mean jack sh*t when living at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave…
Joe Hussein Mama
December 4th, 2012
1:51 pm
Doom — “the point is that Obama is just a smooth talking incompetent who wouldn’t have an inkling of how to build and create let alone manage a successful venture like hd”
He seemed to do just fine with two Presidential campaigns. Those were pretty successful ventures of his.
STUPID LIBERAL
December 4th, 2012
1:51 pm
Ummmm, I think that “He who’s name is to never be mentioned again” proved that exec experience doesn’t mean jack sh*t when living at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave…
CARTER ???
getalife
December 4th, 2012
1:51 pm
“My current employer is actually hiring”
The fries are ready wage killer.
spaceman109
December 4th, 2012
1:51 pm
observer: we cannot go back to an agrearian economy any more than we could go back to 1920’s isolationism.
JamVet
December 4th, 2012
1:51 pm
My current employer is actually hiring, but I have a feeling 98% of the readers are not qualified.
Says Mr. Mensa, himself…
Brosephus™
December 4th, 2012
1:51 pm
completely off topic:
Seems that Mr. Agenda 21 is leaving the GA Assembly…
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/chip-rogers-leaving-state-senate/nTMbb/
Mick
December 4th, 2012
1:52 pm
doom
Since when is CEO a qualification to be president?
Didn’t the previous MBA president leave us in the crapper?
What about lincoln, another scholarly lawyer but not a business man?
You need to focus more on the congress, that’s where the solutions need to come from, not the president. Obama is a fully capable president, if not, we would have fallen off the economic cliff in his first year. Instead, he stabilized the mess left at the doorstep…
spaceman109
December 4th, 2012
1:52 pm
brosephus….would you be referring to president bush the younger?!?
STUPID LIBERAL
December 4th, 2012
1:52 pm
getalife
December 4th, 2012
1:51 pm
“My current employer is actually hiring”
The fries are ready wage killer.
are you asking for my order ??
Thulsa Doom
December 4th, 2012
1:53 pm
bro,
so tell me. was it the CEO who made the absurd rule that twinkies and wonder bread had to be delivered in separate trucks, thus creating extraordinary expense and inefficiency? or was it those dumass union rules? hostess had poor management but out of control labor costs certainly didn’t help the situation.
getalife
December 4th, 2012
1:54 pm
stupid,
When you are on food stamps, let us know how long you last.
spaceman109
December 4th, 2012
1:54 pm
brosephus: regaring mr. agenda 21…..that stuff about spending more time with family is really so much eyewash. he could have declined to run for re-election last year and thus saved the taxpayers the expense of a special election.
i understand that young mr. wingfield is very upset about the departure of mr. agenda 21.
STUPID LIBERAL
December 4th, 2012
1:54 pm
getalife,
I will never qualify for food stamps, I have investments. They pay me nicely.
Brosephus™
December 4th, 2012
1:54 pm
would you be referring to president bush the younger?!?
I think he’s the most recent POTUS with private sector exec experience.
DannyX
December 4th, 2012
1:55 pm
“Tell me again why am I being forced to take care of people who did not take care of themself ?”
Stupid, after reading that sentence of yours it appears your company will hire just about anyone.
Nunna Yobinnes
December 4th, 2012
1:55 pm
Thulsa, you must know that bread and twinkies should never be allowed to cohabitate, don’t you?
EJ Moosa
December 4th, 2012
1:55 pm
You should check your data sources. According to the BEA, corporate profits are only up 8.67% year over year for the third quarter
And they were only up that much because companies curtailed investments(decreasing expenses), which then increased their profits.
As for trends, the rate of improve has fallen from sharply over the last two years.
For the trailing 4 quarters, profit growth is only up 8.69% annually.
Regnad Kcin
December 4th, 2012
1:55 pm
It seems the conservatives on this blog got nothin’ except for some variation on “poor is good (for them other folks).”
Or social darwinism – I got mine, therefore I’m better than “them,” and that’s why I got mine…
indigo
December 4th, 2012
1:55 pm
Corporate chieftains have little or no conscience. Because of this, they don’t hesitate, in these strange political times, to layoff as many workers as possible and load as much work as possible on those they keep while paying them as little as possible. Then they blame “taxes, regulations and unions”(in other words Obama), knowing that approximately half the country is actually dumb enough to believe this. They have every intention of keeping this up until they get a most prized posession, “our man in the oval office”. Once this occurs, it’s definitely even more downhill for workers.
STUPID LIBERAL
December 4th, 2012
1:56 pm
DannyX,
is your mom an elected official ?
getalife
December 4th, 2012
1:56 pm
stupid,
Sure you do wage killer.
I am retired and will be fine but my pesky moral compass force me to fight for the right thing.
Thulsa Doom
December 4th, 2012
1:57 pm
Mick,
an mba isn’t a requisite requirement for potus. but some modicum of achievement or success other than bullshyting your way through a political career should be.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 4th, 2012
1:57 pm
Seems that Mr. Agenda 21 is leaving the GA Assembly…
And there was much rejoicing
From your linkee: The decision comes only weeks after Rogers decided not to seek re-election as Senate Majority Leader — one of the most powerful positions in the chamber. He said then that he wanted to spend more time with his family.
“spend more time with his family” = sh*t is about to hit the fan.
alex
December 4th, 2012
1:59 pm
2 Stupid Liberal, while i do not agree with your sentiment, what you say has merit. In terms of skilled labor the U.S. has few qualified workers, that has been the subject of several reports from Indiana where factories cannot find skilled workers. This supports the trade school concept that several have championed in these columns, this is not MENSA work but requires training and a work force willing to put the time and energy to work…..Ex. The apprentice School at Newport News ship building
STUPID LIBERAL
December 4th, 2012
1:59 pm
Here is a little bone for all of you poor liberals, invest in Medical Marijuana, you will thank me in 5 years.
Brosephus™
December 4th, 2012
2:00 pm
hostess had poor management but out of control labor costs certainly didn’t help the situation.
Doom
I guess you totally ignore the constant CEO shuffling, right? Eight CEO’s in how many years? The union has nothing to do with that. Did the union borrow the money from equity firms? Did the union control the private capital group that bought the company and refused to put money into it?
You love to blame unions for stuff, yet you completely ignore the fact that unions are not the ones who make the corporate decisions. You’re the typical Republican/Conservative or whatever you wanna call yourself in that you wanna blame everybody EXCEPT the people who actually make the decisions for all the bad sh*t that happens.
Had Hostess turned the greatest profit in the history of companies, I bet you and every other corporate fellating jackass in this country would hail the CEO as the best thing since the invention of the wheel. You wouldn’t give the union or the rank-and-file workers a smidget of credit for the work that put the company at the top. However, when bad happens, it’s never the fault of the execs, it’s always the workers. That line of thinking is pure unadulterated 100% Grade A USDA Certified Organic Bovine Fecal Matter!!!
getalife
December 4th, 2012
2:00 pm
“invest in Medical Marijuana”
I do.
spaceman109
December 4th, 2012
2:01 pm
kamchak….well said, young sir…..the firtilizer is about to his the ventilator!
Nunna Yobinnes
December 4th, 2012
2:01 pm
Why, if Wonder Bread and Twinkies were to co-habitate, it just…wouldn’t be…proper.
Fred ™
December 4th, 2012
2:01 pm
Hey Brocephus, wasn’t that video perfect? Dude is riding along all fat, dumb and happy, but safely. He takes just a LITTLE tick to the left and then veers HARD right which tosses him off the “cliff” where he crashes and burns lol.
Like I said a perfect visual metaphor for the Republicans…………
Brosephus™
December 4th, 2012
2:01 pm
“spend more time with his family” = sh*t is about to hit the fan.
My thoughts exactly. I’m just curious as to which cookie jar he had his hands in when the lights came on.
STUPID LIBERAL
December 4th, 2012
2:02 pm
keep the white bread and the twinkies in seperate but equal shipping vehicles.
Nunna Yobinnes
December 4th, 2012
2:02 pm
Bro – you concur that bread and twinkies should not co-habitate the same truck, right?
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
December 4th, 2012
2:02 pm
JAY
Your are wrong. This is what’s wrong with politics and our biggest challenge…flawed results will impair nothing:
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/breaking-news/atlanta-city-council-votes-on-50-percent-pay-incre/nTL23/
http://kwgn.com/2012/11/06/cost-of-2012-election-breaking-records-4-2-billion-and-counting/
http://www.republicreport.org/2012/the-human-cost-of-corruption-in-the-u-s-senate-cutting-food-stamps-while-giving-the-sugar-lobby-billions/
I could go one for days..
Nunna Yobinnes
December 4th, 2012
2:03 pm
And violate Wonder Bread’s civil rights?
getalife
December 4th, 2012
2:03 pm
There is another good ole boy to replace rogers.
Probably busted with a mistress.
Erwin's cat
December 4th, 2012
2:04 pm
unions are not the ones who make the corporate decisions.
true, but they can and do drive a decision
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
December 4th, 2012
2:04 pm
Brosephus™
December 4th, 2012
2:01 pm
It’s code for “i got a lobbyist job?
Brosephus™
December 4th, 2012
2:04 pm
Fred
I guess that rider didn’t realize that saddlebags can double as a post anchor when riding near the water.
ITS ALL BUSHS FAULT
December 4th, 2012
2:06 pm
But, Jay if we can get more tax cuts / loopholes for Corporations they promise to create more jobs…
Fred ™
December 4th, 2012
2:06 pm
Brocephus: He was actually a writer for a French motorcycle publication and that was a test ride of the vehicle. They liked it so much they posted it on their website. Talk about being tossed under the bus………
ITS ALL BUSHS FAULT
December 4th, 2012
2:07 pm
We need to cut medicare and welfare! LOL
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 4th, 2012
2:07 pm
I’m just curious as to which cookie jar he had his hands in when the lights came on.
Or which side of The Appalachian Trail he was hiking?
Brosephus™
December 4th, 2012
2:07 pm
you concur that bread and twinkies should not co-habitate the same truck, right?
Honestly, I wouldn’t even give a rat’s ass if they rode in cars…
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true, but they can and do drive a decision
So, why do they never get the glory when things go right if that’s the case? That’s why I hate the whole line of thinking that singles out anybody for praise/critique when ALL parties are responsible.
DannyX
December 4th, 2012
2:09 pm
If burger flippers and Walmart workers just did some real work like Chip Rogers.
You know, the hard work required to get a $2.1 million no collateral loan that could never be paid back, then use the funds to buy a roach motel that has no chance of ever making a profit.
Gosh, small businessmen like Rogers just have no chance with all the government regulation.
Nunna Yobinnes
December 4th, 2012
2:10 pm
They do get the glory. They’re not going to let Twinkies ride in the same truck with Wonder Bread. Who do those truck drivers think they are?
Brosephus™
December 4th, 2012
2:10 pm
Fred
I am in complete shock that they posted it. Not many publications would do that.
————————-
Kam
getalife
December 4th, 2012
2:11 pm
“George W. Bush: Immigration Reform Needed To Boost Economy” HP
The w disaster return to politics.
Csby
December 4th, 2012
2:13 pm
Tax ‘em at 75% and then see how many jobs are left..that will work..in the mean time have Barry “Invest” in green energy as he has in the past and see how many jobs are left!!
Fred ™
December 4th, 2012
2:13 pm
STUPID LIBERAL
December 4th, 2012
12:58 pm
I do not make 70k a year, and I am an Engineer. No need to pay people who ask, “may I take your order,” for a living anything more than $7.00 per hour.
+++++++++++++++++++++++
You either just started or you are a crappy engineer.
spaceman109
December 4th, 2012
2:13 pm
DannyX
December 4th, 2012
2:09 pm
If burger flippers and Walmart workers just did some real work like Chip Rogers.
You know, the hard work required to get a $2.1 million no collateral loan that could never be paid back, then use the funds to buy a roach motel that has no chance of ever making a profit.
Gosh, small businessmen like Rogers just have no chance with all the government regulation.
this comment rates a gigantic “just DAMN!!!”
stands for decibels
December 4th, 2012
2:14 pm
He seemed to do just fine with two Presidential campaigns. Those were pretty successful ventures of his.
And the Senate campaign before that, and his State Senate campaigns, and the Harvard Review, and running the Developing Communities Project. But yeah, it’s all just BS, he’s like a tooootal failure, man.
Or maybe the whining whiners are just whining again. Dunno.
Nunna Yobinnes
December 4th, 2012
2:15 pm
Green energy? Who knew boogers could be so useful?
Fred ™
December 4th, 2012
2:16 pm
Is it too early to start thinking about the next summer Olympics?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr5DouXRv0k
JohnnyReb
December 4th, 2012
2:17 pm
stands – that’s a good one on dillusion and the pickle. Obviously, I need spell check on this blogging thing, and it was a mistake. However, there is such as word as dillusion. Look it up, some the explanation applies.
STUPID LIBERAL
December 4th, 2012
2:17 pm
Obama is a real genious. If you want to expand an economy with no jobs, and very low wages, just force everyone to buy expensive healthcare and that should stimulate the economy.
Erwin's cat
December 4th, 2012
2:17 pm
You either just started or you are a crappy engineer
See Fred we can agree on somethings
stands for decibels
December 4th, 2012
2:17 pm
He was actually a writer for a French motorcycle publication and that was a test ride of the vehicle. They liked it so much they posted it on their website. Talk about being tossed under the bus…
wowser.
alex
December 4th, 2012
2:17 pm
@ Bro, there’s plenty of blame to go around, the company could not compete and tastes have changed. As for the unions it is well documented that Driving pastries and breads in different trucks, a union requirement was absurd. Unions did give in on various concessions, in the end the company was lost. Buggy whips and Twinkies-gone with the winds of time…
clem
December 4th, 2012
2:17 pm
chip rogers leaving…excellent; now if we could get thulsa doom to leave as well
Nunna Yobinnes
December 4th, 2012
2:18 pm
I can see it now – mucous collection bins all across the land. Snot today. Electricity tomorrow.
Brosephus™
December 4th, 2012
2:18 pm
Csby @ 2:13
As Kamchak often advises people, when doing the sock puppet thingie, always double check your name before hitting “Submit Comment”. It saves you the embarassment of being outed..
stands for decibels
December 4th, 2012
2:19 pm
However, there is such as word as dillusion.
Huh, ya don’t say.
http://www.thelizlibrary.org/dillusion.html
(link is worth clicking just to see a teardown of the apostrophe-defilers.)
STUPID LIBERAL
December 4th, 2012
2:19 pm
Fred ™
December 4th, 2012
2:13 pm
STUPID LIBERAL
December 4th, 2012
12:58 pm
I do not make 70k a year, and I am an Engineer. No need to pay people who ask, “may I take your order,” for a living anything more than $7.00 per hour.
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You either just started or you are a crappy engineer.
I have 10 years experience. I get paid per project, before Obama came into the picture, I was turning down money. Since Obama killed our economy, I am begging for work. Notice how I have time to bring some common since to a board filled with ignorance ?
Brosephus™
December 4th, 2012
2:20 pm
alex
I’m not the one that needs to hear that. You need to point that out to Thulsa Doom. He’s the one blaming unions. You will seldom here me lay blame on a segment of a group unless that segment is explicitly responsible for the f**k up. I grew up being taught that when one fails, all fail. I know there’s enough blame to go around, but thanks for the post anyway.
getalife
December 4th, 2012
2:22 pm
I seriously doubt stupid is an engineer.
“Obama is a real genious”
I rest my case.
STUPID LIBERAL
December 4th, 2012
2:22 pm
<…………name says it all. LOL
St Simons - aboriginal BOOTAKOOK 2014
December 4th, 2012
2:23 pm
get, i’m not sure we can help them.
mrsstsimons says if they’re determined to commit suicide, there’s
not a lot you can do to stop them.
getalife
December 4th, 2012
2:23 pm
stupid is probably a leech.
STUPID LIBERAL
December 4th, 2012
2:24 pm
leech / liberal, not much of a difference.
getalife
December 4th, 2012
2:25 pm
“mrsstsimons says if they’re determined to commit suicide, there’s
not a lot you can do to stop them.”
I had to try.
Dang moral compass.
Joe Hussein Mama
December 4th, 2012
2:25 pm
S. Liberal — “Notice how I have time to bring some common since to a board filled with ignorance ?”
No time for common SENSE, though, it would appear.
Looney Bin
December 4th, 2012
2:25 pm
I think in the rush to pit the producers against the takers we’re losing sight of the bigger picture. Those folks that don’t have the marketable skills today’s companies want? Left to take low paying hourly rate jobs. Now we don’t want to “give them” free stuff, like medical care, or a decent wage, as they made their bed so let them lie in it. But wait – what happens when they lose it all to medical bills or out and out poverty? I guess they’ll end up on the street – OUR streets. Then we’ll complain about how we should “do something” about those bums pestering people for handouts.
Guess what? We are a society, and must deal with people from all levels of social and economic strata. We must ALL deal with them. I still think we are a nation of compassion and believe we are better when we think of the greater good.
Of course that probably will get me the dreaded “socialist” label from the less enlightened around here that made it all on their own with no help from anyone or any instituion…..
cmac
December 4th, 2012
2:25 pm
America’s political challenge is to find some politicians with backbone instead of the one’s we currently have who just wanna work very few days, collect excessive pay checks and bide their time for ridiculous retirement pensions and benefits!!!
Brosephus™
December 4th, 2012
2:25 pm
Since Obama killed our economy, I am begging for work.
When you have to lie to make a point, you don’t really have a point to make.
East Lake Ira
December 4th, 2012
2:27 pm
Why did they turn off comments on the Chip Rogers story?
Too many folks arguing about who he wants to gay marry or what?
Fred ™
December 4th, 2012
2:27 pm
I have 10 years experience. I get paid per project, before Obama came into the picture, I was turning down money. Since Obama killed our economy, I am begging for work. Notice how I have time to bring some common since to a board filled with ignorance ?
No I notice you adding more FOXBOT lies. Like I said, good engineers are still working. Instead of arguing with us successful people on a blog using FOXBOT lies perhaps you should use your not so creative writing skills to pad your resume. You can find places in the link below to send it……
http://jobsearch.local-jobs.monster.com/jobs/?wt.mc_n=hjnpsearch&ch=ajcjobs&q=Engineer&where=Atlanta&re=130&cy=us&brd=1&rad=50
St Simons - aboriginal BOOTAKOOK 2014
December 4th, 2012
2:28 pm
Chip Rogers made a wise choice. That’s all I’ll say heheh.
ok, karma sammich, that’s it i promise….
getalife
December 4th, 2012
2:28 pm
stupid,
Pull up those boot straps wage killer.
STUPID LIBERAL
December 4th, 2012
2:28 pm
2013 is going to be very tough of you guys. If I was the bleeding heart type, I would probably donate some money to the red cross, but nah, let em eat cake.
F. Sinkwich
December 4th, 2012
2:29 pm
“He seemed to do just fine with two Presidential campaigns. Those were pretty successful ventures of his.”
It ain’t hard promising free stuff to the ignorant masses fully supported and echoed by a fawning MSM.
williebkind
December 4th, 2012
2:30 pm
Free Stuff:
(low estimate)
$330 x 99wks reduced to $330 x19
$300 x 12 for food
$600 x 12 for housing
$250 x 12 for power
$80 x12 for cell phone
$200 x 12 for medical and medicine
$50 x 12 for travel expenses
So if someone pays taxes on the free stuff, it is still free stuff and they have not earned any of it.
STUPID LIBERAL
December 4th, 2012
2:30 pm
fred, find 1 structural engineering job on that list.
Not mechanical, not electrical. Structural.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 4th, 2012
2:31 pm
Csby
December 4th, 2012
2:13 pm
Ruh, roh.
Looks like another person has failed to spell check their usual nom-de-blog when signing back in after doing the sock-puppet thingie.
Joe Hussein Mama
December 4th, 2012
2:31 pm
F. Sinkiewicz — “It ain’t hard promising free stuff to the ignorant masses fully supported and echoed by a fawning MSM.”
It also ain’t so hard to beat a tightazzed cartoon character like Thurston Howell III.
Fred ™
December 4th, 2012
2:31 pm
I think I’m going to try to get a job at Waffle house being a cook. I can’t get any Restaurant owners to believe me when I say I want a job as an entry level cook.
Speaking of cook, it’s time to cook. Ya’ll have fun. Oh and if Donovan gets another break from the fryer at McDonalds, tell him I left hi a post downstairs please.
(you might want to read it yourself Brocephus lol).
spaceman109
December 4th, 2012
2:34 pm
hey jay….please correct me if i am wrong on the figures. i remember reading that in the 50s…when pretty much everyone in the u.s. was doing well…..a ceo’s pay was about 40 times what the rank-and-file worker made. by the early 90s, ceo pay was some 300 times more. the last time we had that sort of gulf……was the late 1920’s.
also…..the last president in the white house who had a previous resume as a successful businessman…..that would be herbert hoover, kids!!
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
December 4th, 2012
2:34 pm
Fred ™
December 4th, 2012
2:13 pm
Sanitation Engineer?
Fred ™
December 4th, 2012
2:34 pm
Wow. Look what the search for Structural Engineer brought up. 1 job, and then other that were……. like you said, mechanical, civil, electrical………..
Hell isn’t it an advanced degree to be a Structural Engineer?I thought you had to have a masters for that. You can teach
http://jobsearch.local-jobs.monster.com/jobs/?q=Structural-Engineer&where=Atlanta&cy=us
SPC
December 4th, 2012
2:35 pm
A more accurate comparison would include worker’s paychecks plus fringe benefits. The corporate profit calculation wouldn’t have any significant variables over time, but worker’s fringe benefits would.
STUPID LIBERAL
December 4th, 2012
2:35 pm
No, a masters is not required, a BA in science will get you in the door.
Fred ™
December 4th, 2012
2:35 pm
Stevie Ray: LOL, naw, they make more than $70,000 what with overtime and everything……..
Ronald Reagan
December 4th, 2012
2:36 pm
The above chart is too complex for most Liberals to read & comprehend. As a rule they don’t do very well when math is involved. They do better at remembering “oneliners” told them by their wacko media!
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 4th, 2012
2:36 pm
you would think the Hostess CEO geniuses would be able to negotiate rule changes between two different unions (teamsters and bakery) and to work through what some, completely ignorant of reality, try to claim is the union’s fault…… but nope, what they did instead was demand pay cuts and abandoning pension plans. Only an idiot would blame the failure of Hostess on “union rules” but we see an idiot made the claim here.
Fred ™
December 4th, 2012
2:37 pm
Well good luck on the job search. I may tease a little, but I am rarely happy when someone loses a job. I say rarelty because Chip Rogers losing his makes me happy. So would Nancy Pelosi losing hers………