Saturday, September 29, 2012
Friday, September 28, 2012
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
FOXNEWS: No Gender gap?
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/special-report-bret-baier/videos#p/86927/v/1863012020001
Fox News claims that the difference in wage pay is due to choices of women. But it is not how the gender gap is calculated - you have to compare men and women doing SAME jobs. Here is an example of a serious study study which shows that indeed gender gap is about 30%.
Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? A Cross‐Country Analysis of Gender Gaps
Fox News claims that the difference in wage pay is due to choices of women. But it is not how the gender gap is calculated - you have to compare men and women doing SAME jobs. Here is an example of a serious study study which shows that indeed gender gap is about 30%.
Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? A Cross‐Country Analysis of Gender Gaps
Journal of Labor Economics
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Vol. 26, No. 4 (October 2008), pp. 621-654
Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Society of Labor Economists and the NORC at the University of Chicago
Article DOI: 10.1086/589458
Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/589458
SSRN page:
Direct Link: http://people.bu.edu/olivetti/papers/paper_jan07.pdf
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=906091##
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Comment from Mediamatters: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09/27/fox-news-women-earning-less-than-men-is-not-a-n/190161
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Comment from Mediamatters: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09/27/fox-news-women-earning-less-than-men-is-not-a-n/190161
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
FOXNEWS: Fact Check: Is Romney's tax rate really lower than yours?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/25/fact-check-is-romney-tax-rate-really-lower-than-yours/
The story is that he pays less than someone earning 50,000. In fact, they say that such individual pays about 7.8 effective tax rate in 2010. Well, let's use the tax calculator:
http://www.money-zine.com/Calculators/Investment-Calculators/2010-Tax-Rate-Calculator/
Married filing jointly:
Wages, Salaries, Income ($) 50,000
Adjustments to Income ($) 1,500
Deductions ($) -5,700
Number of Exemptions 1
Adjusted Gross Income ($) 51,500
Deductions ($) -5,700
Exemptions ($) -3,650
Total Taxable Income ($) 42,150
Federal Income Tax ($) 5,485
Social Security ($) 3,100
Medicare Tax ($) 725
Total Federal Taxes ($) 9,310
Tax Bracket (%) 15.0%
Tax Rate (% of Taxable Income) 13.0%
Even if we exclude Social Security and Medicare, the rate is still over 10% ( 5,485 / 51,500)
How did they come up with this number?
Monday, September 24, 2012
Bullshit mountain
The motivation for this blog is from Jon Stewart's description of Fox News during episode #17153, aired on 9/19/2012
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-september-19-2012/chaos-on-bulls--t-mountain---the-entitlement-society
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-september-19-2012/chaos-on-bull--t-mountain---video-distractions
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-september-19-2012/chaos-on-bulls--t-mountain
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-september-19-2012/chaos-on-bulls--t-mountain---the-entitlement-society
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-september-19-2012/chaos-on-bull--t-mountain---video-distractions
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-september-19-2012/chaos-on-bulls--t-mountain
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Thursday, September 20, 2012
FOXNEWS: O'Reilly claims that currently we have less information and people are blocking the truth
His example - Carter years president could not hide from bad economy but currently he can?
I think that he is accusing public of what the Fox News is doing themselves - blocking out the truth and creating misinformation.
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/2012/09/24/bill-oreilly-are-american-voters-fog
I think that he is accusing public of what the Fox News is doing themselves - blocking out the truth and creating misinformation.
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/2012/09/24/bill-oreilly-are-american-voters-fog
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
FOXNEWS: Who are the 47% who do not pay taxes according to O'Reilly
O'Reilly gets the number wrong about who are the 47% of people who do not pay taxes. He uses as proxy answer to question about what people think about the government, but how does he know it is correlated with people "living off of the government"?
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/2012/09/19/bill-oreilly-mitt-romney-truth-and-folks
By Bill O'Reilly
So, now we have a controversy over Governor Romney telling supporters that a large portion of the American population is dependent on government and most likely will not vote for him. Here is my question; Why is that controversial? That's true.
Mr. Romney said that back in May at a fundraiser in Florida where he was secretly videotaped.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
ROMNEY: There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the President no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it -- that that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them.
So, my job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them but they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
O'REILLY: Now, I believe the Governor overestimates the number. I put the percentage of Americans who want a nanny state at about 40 percent. My analysis is based on a Gallup poll which asks the question, which comes closer to your own view?
The government does too much and 54 percent said that. Should do more, 39 percent; depends 4.5 percent. Now if you say the federal government should do more social engineering then the Obama administration is currently doing? Then you want a nanny state. If you want a nanny state, you're not going to vote for Romney who is a big self-reliance guy.
So again, what on earth is the controversy? If I'm Governor Romney, I run with this all day long. And I have the stats to back my position up. Right now the federal and state governments are spending nearly a trillion dollars a year on means-tested entitlements. Those are payments other than Social Security and Medicare.
More than 46 million Americans are now receiving food stamps. That's a record. Nearly nine million Americans are now on federal disability, another record. And more than 100 million Americans, 35 percent of the population, are living in a household receiving some kind of welfare.
Now I'm assuming that Governor Romney wants to stop the madness and get people back to work so they can pay their own bills. I'm assuming that's what he wants to do. So Romney should be pointing a finger, a finger at President Obama saying he wants a welfare state, the President does. And he's well on the way to creating one because that's what the stats show.
This is so painful... this is so crazy, I should say, it's painful. Did you know... did you know that last week the fed pumped about $23 billion into the banking system? Just threw it out there in the marketplace, flooding the zone with dollars hoping they will be loaned out by American banks.
That puts us all in danger. The more dollars that are in circulation, the less the currency we have in our wallet and our bank is worth. That's why OPEC jacked up oil prices, to keep their profits steady. So while we have a lemming-like press, braying over Romney being insensitive or something, the man is telling the absolute truth.
The U.S. government is broke. The feds are borrowing heavily, $3.5 billion every day. And now they're manipulating the dollar in order to pay the bills. That's economically insane. That's Greece.
All Americans should wise up. If you're on the dole, other people have to pick up your tab. And right now, there aren't enough other people to do that. That's why the country is at $16 trillion debt, it's unbelievable.
And that's "The Memo."
- You can catch Bill O'Reilly's "Talking Points Memo" weeknights at 8 and 11 p.m. ET on the Fox News Channel and any time on foxnews.com/oreilly. Send your comments to: oreilly@foxnews.com.
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/2012/09/19/bill-oreilly-mitt-romney-truth-and-folks
By Bill O'Reilly
So, now we have a controversy over Governor Romney telling supporters that a large portion of the American population is dependent on government and most likely will not vote for him. Here is my question; Why is that controversial? That's true.
Mr. Romney said that back in May at a fundraiser in Florida where he was secretly videotaped.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
ROMNEY: There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the President no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it -- that that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them.
So, my job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them but they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
O'REILLY: Now, I believe the Governor overestimates the number. I put the percentage of Americans who want a nanny state at about 40 percent. My analysis is based on a Gallup poll which asks the question, which comes closer to your own view?
The government does too much and 54 percent said that. Should do more, 39 percent; depends 4.5 percent. Now if you say the federal government should do more social engineering then the Obama administration is currently doing? Then you want a nanny state. If you want a nanny state, you're not going to vote for Romney who is a big self-reliance guy.
So again, what on earth is the controversy? If I'm Governor Romney, I run with this all day long. And I have the stats to back my position up. Right now the federal and state governments are spending nearly a trillion dollars a year on means-tested entitlements. Those are payments other than Social Security and Medicare.
More than 46 million Americans are now receiving food stamps. That's a record. Nearly nine million Americans are now on federal disability, another record. And more than 100 million Americans, 35 percent of the population, are living in a household receiving some kind of welfare.
Now I'm assuming that Governor Romney wants to stop the madness and get people back to work so they can pay their own bills. I'm assuming that's what he wants to do. So Romney should be pointing a finger, a finger at President Obama saying he wants a welfare state, the President does. And he's well on the way to creating one because that's what the stats show.
This is so painful... this is so crazy, I should say, it's painful. Did you know... did you know that last week the fed pumped about $23 billion into the banking system? Just threw it out there in the marketplace, flooding the zone with dollars hoping they will be loaned out by American banks.
That puts us all in danger. The more dollars that are in circulation, the less the currency we have in our wallet and our bank is worth. That's why OPEC jacked up oil prices, to keep their profits steady. So while we have a lemming-like press, braying over Romney being insensitive or something, the man is telling the absolute truth.
The U.S. government is broke. The feds are borrowing heavily, $3.5 billion every day. And now they're manipulating the dollar in order to pay the bills. That's economically insane. That's Greece.
All Americans should wise up. If you're on the dole, other people have to pick up your tab. And right now, there aren't enough other people to do that. That's why the country is at $16 trillion debt, it's unbelievable.
And that's "The Memo."
- You can catch Bill O'Reilly's "Talking Points Memo" weeknights at 8 and 11 p.m. ET on the Fox News Channel and any time on foxnews.com/oreilly. Send your comments to: oreilly@foxnews.com.
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