https://twitter.com/WaitingOnBiden/status/1553041822041214976

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Biden casually mentions someone making $120 grand needing financial help. Does anyone have that hilarious report from like 5 years ago from some DC thinktank that has an example family making $400k per year?

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        That's the one, was from the Wall Street Journal apparently. It's mind numbing how they couldn't even conceive of a person making less than six figures.

        • Creakybulks [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Not only that, but an example of someone who doesn't have at least $25,000 per year in PASSIVE INCOME. HOLY SHIT.

          at 5% that means that you've managed to save HALF A MILLION DOLLARS. GET FUCKED

    • Quimby [any, any]
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      2 years ago

      I keep telling y'all--that's really how people around here (DC / people in power) think. People here live in a completely different world, and they can't conceptualize what the average person's life is like.

    • Bruja [she/her, love/loves]
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      2 years ago

      9 years ago— Wall Street Journal
      https://web.archive.org/web/20130427123205/http://freakoutnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/wfwallstreet.jpg