Just between YOU and ME

YOU CAN SAY THAT AGAIN...

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT
N O W H E R E?

"Oh, if I knew that I could tell you a lot about it. Could I, I guess it's for many reasons. But you know there are all kinds of considerations. There are lot's of things happening. For me, I'm not sure. I'm not going to give you a direct answer, because I don't really know..."

D. Marleau MP

Well, actually, that was about something else (OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM) but I guess it still applies! (eh!)

My question of the decade:
It is better to die in your seventies in the Nineties.
It is better to die in your eighties in the Seventies.
It is better to die in your nineties in the Eighties.

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...since 1973 the gap between the rich and poor has increased by a factor of 314 — based on employment income.
The middle class has decreased from 60% to 44% of the total population. The richest 10% earned an average of $136,737 in 1996.
About one generation earlier — back in 1973, the poorest 10% earned about 1/21 of what the richest ten percent of the Canadian population earned. By 1996 this ratio had collapsed by a stunning 1,200 percent!
In 1973 about a third of the poorest families had regular work. In 1996 the amount of income from earnings was about 8% of the 1973 figures without adjusting for inflation!
The consumer savings rates have dropped from about ten percent of after tax income to virtually zero over the past ten years.
Between 1953 and 1973 the cost of cars expressed as a ratio of Personal Disposable Income (PDI) dropped by eighty percent, remaining steady between 1974 and 1984 and rising upward almost by fifty percent since 1990.
Using Government figures for the average family, after tax income dropped by 9.218 percent between 1989 and 1995.
Since 1989 the average debt-to-income ratio has increased from about 75 percent of earnings to more than 100 percent of earnings!
Why do suppose the family unit is disintegrating and people feel hopelessness and are increasingly stressed out?