Loss Of The Middle Class

[Sonny Clark]

The economic backbone of America is declining.

Middle class no longer dominates in the U.S.

The once-strong middle class no longer dominates America.
Middle class Americans now compriseless than half, or 49.9%,of the nation's population, down from 61% in 1971, according to a new Pew Research Center report. For Pew, middle class Americans live in households earning between two-thirds to two times the nation's median income. In 2014, that ranged from $41,900 to $125,600 for a three-person household.


For decades, the middle class had been the core of the country. A healthy middle class kept America strong, experts and politicians said.

But more recently, these residents have struggled under stagnating wages and soaring costs. Presidential candidates on both sides of the political aisle are campaigning on ways to bolster the nation's middle class and increase opportunities to climb the economic ladder.

Middle class no longer dominates in the U.S.

 

[Jroc]

Obamanomaics at work

 

[Bonzi]

I think it's more because of over-spending and living beyond your means.
Society tell us we "need" things we clearly do not need.

 

[Dale Smith]

I have done a lot of research on the demise of the middle class and it all goes back to the Club of Rome that was formed as an offshoot of the U.N in 1968 by Aurelio Peccei in order to come up with a plan to decimate the middle class of every developed country and the United States in particular because it was the strongest at the time. The U.N's goal since it came into existence at the behest of the Rockefeller crowd was to push and nudge the world into a one world government where sovereignty and nation states no longer exist. The CFR in conjunction with the U.N has done much work towards watering down our nationalism with generous immigration ( legal and illegal) and their own papers (which can be publically viewed) state this very salient fact. They wrote a paper in 1972 that spoke of "Zero Growth" in order to save the earth and in order to make that happen, human consumption of what they deem as "finite resources" had to be curbed with the end goal of us serfs having no access to them at all. They started with the auto industry...allowing cheap imports with little to no tariffs. Then they took down the steel plants using environmental laws that liberals jumped on board with. They took down the textile industry by having those jobs shipped over seas. They went after the family farms using bank loans to bankrupt them since they could manipulate the prices of commodities and once they failed, these huge corporate conglomerates could swoop in and buy them up for pennies on the dollar.They pushed through unfair trade agreement acts like NAFTA, CAFTA and GATT and just recently, the TPP....all are designed to give cheap labor in third world countries an advantage over Americans that made a living wage. This trend will continue until there are just two classes..the elites and the serfs. After all, the poor leave less of a carbon footprint and they are easier to control. This is happening and it makes me sick to my stomach seeing how this has unfolded.

 

[Penelope]

The 1972 oil embargo really got it started. We have used more natural resources in the last 60 years than in all of our history. While some of us take water as just being there, those in 3 rd world countries spend most of their day walking for clean water.

So the non industrial nations have to stay that way , because the developed countries need to maintain the standard of living we are use to. I am middle class and your right , our income has not changed but the cost of living has gone up.

The billionaires are out for themselves, seldom do they give to causes except to further their agendas. Time they pay the piper, after all who made them rich, us middle class workers.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

I have done a lot of research on the demise of the middle class and it all goes back to the Club of Rome that was formed as an offshoot of the U.N in 1968 by Aurelio Peccei in order to come up with a plan to decimate the middle class of every developed country and the United States in particular because it was the strongest at the time. The U.N's goal since it came into existence at the behest of the Rockefeller crowd was to push and nudge the world into a one world government where sovereignty and nation states no longer exist. The CFR in conjunction with the U.N has done much work towards watering down our nationalism with generous immigration ( legal and illegal) and their own papers (which can be publically viewed) state this very salient fact. They wrote a paper in 1972 that spoke of "Zero Growth" in order to save the earth and in order to make that happen, human consumption of what they deem as "finite resources" had to be curbed with the end goal of us serfs having no access to them at all. They started with the auto industry...allowing cheap imports with little to no tariffs. Then they took down the steel plants using environmental laws that liberals jumped on board with. They took down the textile industry by having those jobs shipped over seas. They went after the family farms using bank loans to bankrupt them since they could manipulate the prices of commodities and once they failed, these huge corporate conglomerates could swoop in and buy them up for pennies on the dollar.They pushed through unfair trade agreement acts like NAFTA, CAFTA and GATT and just recently, the TPP....all are designed to give cheap labor in third world countries an advantage over Americans that made a living wage. This trend will continue until there are just two classes..the elites and the serfs. After all, the poor leave less of a carbon footprint and they are easier to control. This is happening and it makes me sick to my stomach seeing how this has unfolded.

Nailed it!

 

[toxicmedia]

The economic backbone of America is declining.

Middle class no longer dominates in the U.S.

The once-strong middle class no longer dominates America.
Middle class Americans now compriseless than half, or 49.9%,of the nation's population, down from 61% in 1971, according to a new Pew Research Center report. For Pew, middle class Americans live in households earning between two-thirds to two times the nation's median income. In 2014, that ranged from $41,900 to $125,600 for a three-person household.


For decades, the middle class had been the core of the country. A healthy middle class kept America strong, experts and politicians said.

But more recently, these residents have struggled under stagnating wages and soaring costs. Presidential candidates on both sides of the political aisle are campaigning on ways to bolster the nation's middle class and increase opportunities to climb the economic ladder.

Middle class no longer dominates in the U.S.

American workers need to compete globally.

They have to accept at least some personal responsibility for it. Because whatever party you oppose cannot prevent you from preparing yourself for the good paying jobs that are still available.

 

[Dale Smith]

The 1972 oil embargo really got it started. We have used more natural resources in the last 60 years than in all of our history. While some of us take water as just being there, those in 3 rd world countries spend most of their day walking for clean water.

So the non industrial nations have to stay that way , because the developed countries need to maintain the standard of living we are use to. I am middle class and your right , our income has not changed but the cost of living has gone up.

The billionaires are out for themselves, seldom do they give to causes except to further their agendas. Time they pay the piper, after all who made them rich, us middle class workers.

Actually, Penelope, oil is an abiotic fluid that is naturally produced by the earth's crust to provide lubrication. The petro-dollar was created when Nixon took us off of the gold standard in August of 1971 and USA.INC fucked over every country that stored their gold here because they knew that we were printing more dollars than gold that was stored here at the agreed price of 35 dollars an ounce due to the gentleman's agreement that was Bretton Woods after WWII. America/ USA.INC was given a tremendous advantage and one that could have made a huge difference to make the world a better place but it was squandered and used to bring down third world countries that did not want to play ball with the global elites. Nixon made a deal with OPEC nations to only accept the Federal Reserve note in exchange for their oil in exchange for military protection and any OPEC country that tired of this arrangement could count on our military to come over and open up a can of democracy on them if they dare to cross us.

 

[Dale Smith]

I have done a lot of research on the demise of the middle class and it all goes back to the Club of Rome that was formed as an offshoot of the U.N in 1968 by Aurelio Peccei in order to come up with a plan to decimate the middle class of every developed country and the United States in particular because it was the strongest at the time. The U.N's goal since it came into existence at the behest of the Rockefeller crowd was to push and nudge the world into a one world government where sovereignty and nation states no longer exist. The CFR in conjunction with the U.N has done much work towards watering down our nationalism with generous immigration ( legal and illegal) and their own papers (which can be publically viewed) state this very salient fact. They wrote a paper in 1972 that spoke of "Zero Growth" in order to save the earth and in order to make that happen, human consumption of what they deem as "finite resources" had to be curbed with the end goal of us serfs having no access to them at all. They started with the auto industry...allowing cheap imports with little to no tariffs. Then they took down the steel plants using environmental laws that liberals jumped on board with. They took down the textile industry by having those jobs shipped over seas. They went after the family farms using bank loans to bankrupt them since they could manipulate the prices of commodities and once they failed, these huge corporate conglomerates could swoop in and buy them up for pennies on the dollar.They pushed through unfair trade agreement acts like NAFTA, CAFTA and GATT and just recently, the TPP....all are designed to give cheap labor in third world countries an advantage over Americans that made a living wage. This trend will continue until there are just two classes..the elites and the serfs. After all, the poor leave less of a carbon footprint and they are easier to control. This is happening and it makes me sick to my stomach seeing how this has unfolded.

Nailed it!

Thank you.......

 

[Penelope]

The 1972 oil embargo really got it started. We have used more natural resources in the last 60 years than in all of our history. While some of us take water as just being there, those in 3 rd world countries spend most of their day walking for clean water.

So the non industrial nations have to stay that way , because the developed countries need to maintain the standard of living we are use to. I am middle class and your right , our income has not changed but the cost of living has gone up.

The billionaires are out for themselves, seldom do they give to causes except to further their agendas. Time they pay the piper, after all who made them rich, us middle class workers.

Actually, Penelope, oil is an abiotic fluid that is naturally produced by the earth's crust to provide lubrication. The petro-dollar was created when Nixon took us off of the gold standard in August of 1971 and USA.INC fucked over every country that stored their gold here because they knew that we were printing more dollars than gold that was stored here at the agreed price of 35 dollars an ounce due to the gentleman's agreement that was Bretton Woods after WWII. America/ USA.INC was given a tremendous advantage and one that could have made a huge difference to make the world a better place but it was squandered and used to bring down third world countries that did not want to play ball with the global elites. Nixon made a deal with OPEC nations to only accept the Federal Reserve note in exchange for their oil in exchange for military protection and any OPEC country that tired of this arrangement could count on our military to come over and open up a can of democracy on them if they dare to cross us.

The 1972 oil embargo really got it started. We have used more natural resources in the last 60 years than in all of our history. While some of us take water as just being there, those in 3 rd world countries spend most of their day walking for clean water.

So the non industrial nations have to stay that way , because the developed countries need to maintain the standard of living we are use to. I am middle class and your right , our income has not changed but the cost of living has gone up.

The billionaires are out for themselves, seldom do they give to causes except to further their agendas. Time they pay the piper, after all who made them rich, us middle class workers.

Actually, Penelope, oil is an abiotic fluid that is naturally produced by the earth's crust to provide lubrication. The petro-dollar was created when Nixon took us off of the gold standard in August of 1971 and USA.INC fucked over every country that stored their gold here because they knew that we were printing more dollars than gold that was stored here at the agreed price of 35 dollars an ounce due to the gentleman's agreement that was Bretton Woods after WWII. America/ USA.INC was given a tremendous advantage and one that could have made a huge difference to make the world a better place but it was squandered and used to bring down third world countries that did not want to play ball with the global elites. Nixon made a deal with OPEC nations to only accept the Federal Reserve note in exchange for their oil in exchange for military protection and any OPEC country that tired of this arrangement could count on our military to come over and open up a can of democracy on them if they dare to cross us.

Are you saying oil is continually being made by the earth's crust?

 

[Dale Smith]

The 1972 oil embargo really got it started. We have used more natural resources in the last 60 years than in all of our history. While some of us take water as just being there, those in 3 rd world countries spend most of their day walking for clean water.

So the non industrial nations have to stay that way , because the developed countries need to maintain the standard of living we are use to. I am middle class and your right , our income has not changed but the cost of living has gone up.

The billionaires are out for themselves, seldom do they give to causes except to further their agendas. Time they pay the piper, after all who made them rich, us middle class workers.

Actually, Penelope, oil is an abiotic fluid that is naturally produced by the earth's crust to provide lubrication. The petro-dollar was created when Nixon took us off of the gold standard in August of 1971 and USA.INC fucked over every country that stored their gold here because they knew that we were printing more dollars than gold that was stored here at the agreed price of 35 dollars an ounce due to the gentleman's agreement that was Bretton Woods after WWII. America/ USA.INC was given a tremendous advantage and one that could have made a huge difference to make the world a better place but it was squandered and used to bring down third world countries that did not want to play ball with the global elites. Nixon made a deal with OPEC nations to only accept the Federal Reserve note in exchange for their oil in exchange for military protection and any OPEC country that tired of this arrangement could count on our military to come over and open up a can of democracy on them if they dare to cross us.

The 1972 oil embargo really got it started. We have used more natural resources in the last 60 years than in all of our history. While some of us take water as just being there, those in 3 rd world countries spend most of their day walking for clean water.

So the non industrial nations have to stay that way , because the developed countries need to maintain the standard of living we are use to. I am middle class and your right , our income has not changed but the cost of living has gone up.

The billionaires are out for themselves, seldom do they give to causes except to further their agendas. Time they pay the piper, after all who made them rich, us middle class workers.

Actually, Penelope, oil is an abiotic fluid that is naturally produced by the earth's crust to provide lubrication. The petro-dollar was created when Nixon took us off of the gold standard in August of 1971 and USA.INC fucked over every country that stored their gold here because they knew that we were printing more dollars than gold that was stored here at the agreed price of 35 dollars an ounce due to the gentleman's agreement that was Bretton Woods after WWII. America/ USA.INC was given a tremendous advantage and one that could have made a huge difference to make the world a better place but it was squandered and used to bring down third world countries that did not want to play ball with the global elites. Nixon made a deal with OPEC nations to only accept the Federal Reserve note in exchange for their oil in exchange for military protection and any OPEC country that tired of this arrangement could count on our military to come over and open up a can of democracy on them if they dare to cross us.

Are you saying oil is continually being made by the earth's crust?

 

[Dale Smith]

Yes, Ma'am, I am..... old oil fields that were thought to be "tapped out" are re-filling again. With that being said, I do not believe (due to my research) that tapping into it is all that healthy for the planet. There is technology that has been suppressed for almost 100 years that could get us off of a petroleum based economy...but in the minds of the global elite? A cheap energy source would diminish their power over the masses and encourage population growth and they are deathly afraid of it. They believe that the balance of the earth can be best maintained at 500 million to a billion people that would be subservient to them. Ever heard of the Georgia guide stones? There is a soft-kill depopulation agenda that has been going on for sometime...especially in third world countries and it is coming home to roost here in the industrialized nations and they are using a myriad of methods to shorten life...I shit you not. You, we all walk through a virtual land mine every day and don't even know it.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Middle class no longer dominates in the U.S.

So lets end liberal policies that are destroying the middle class!!
1) end highest liberal corporate taxes in world that force our companies off shore
2) end liberal labor unions that drove 20 million jobs to China
3) end liberal budget deficits that allow China to purchase our deficits rather than our products
4) end liberal, crippling near genocidal welfare programs that force people into the lower class
5) end the liberal war on our schools that renders many Americans unfit for middle class life
6) end the liberal war on our families that renders many American too damaged for middle class life.

 

[sealybobo]

The economic backbone of America is declining.

Middle class no longer dominates in the U.S.

The once-strong middle class no longer dominates America.
Middle class Americans now compriseless than half, or 49.9%,of the nation's population, down from 61% in 1971, according to a new Pew Research Center report. For Pew, middle class Americans live in households earning between two-thirds to two times the nation's median income. In 2014, that ranged from $41,900 to $125,600 for a three-person household.


For decades, the middle class had been the core of the country. A healthy middle class kept America strong, experts and politicians said.

But more recently, these residents have struggled under stagnating wages and soaring costs. Presidential candidates on both sides of the political aisle are campaigning on ways to bolster the nation's middle class and increase opportunities to climb the economic ladder.

Middle class no longer dominates in the U.S.

Today the GOP in Michigan are considering giving another corporation an unfair tax break so it doesn't leave. There are a lot of benefits to doing business in Michigan. Some would say it is worth the tax these corporations should be paying. Do you like our schools and police and the Greatlakes? Great for shipping your shit around the world.

I love the poker analogy someone made. Its like We the People are bad poker players. As soon as the corporate bullies raise, we fold assuming our hand is weak. We never call their bluff. We never raise them! And in fact we have a stronger hand than they do. We don't have to buy their shit. If they want to move to Arkansas or Mexico, sell your shit to them. If you want to send your executives to India, move to India where the taxes and labor I'm sure are cheap. But sell your shit to Indians.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

And in fact we have a stronger hand than they do.

100% stupid liberal talks like corporations are the enemy when we all work for them, invest in them, and they provide the products that got us from the stone age to here.
Its so 100% stupid its liberal!

 

[sealybobo]

And in fact we have a stronger hand than they do.

100% stupid liberal talks like corporations are the enemy when we all work for them, invest in them, and they provide the products that got us from the stone age to here.
Its so 100% stupid its liberal!

Well they aren't our friends little eddie. In fact they have no heart, feelings and they don't die. They only care about $. If they are any good they only care about money.

So that's why we have our government regulate them and keep them in check. They aren't the enemy little bitty eddie. We workers know how important they are. The problem is little bitch is they don't think we are important to them anymore. In fact, why worry about selling shit to us when our wages are going down. Why not go to China and the rest of the world where wages are going up.

They have pitted us American workers against Chinese, Mexicans and Indians.

And so I don't consider my employer "the enemy" but if they send my job to China then I would consider them the enemy and I would think most Americans would.

Do you really want to do business with a company that manufactures in China and their HQ is in the Caymen Islands?

See little Eddie, you think the corporations have all the power. That makes you a little bitch. Now maybe you ae a house slave who's doing pretty good. So what? I'm worrying about the field slaves, you stupid little pussy.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Well they aren't our friends little eddie. .

100% stupid and liberal. If so why would we work for them, invest in them, and sustain our lives with their products? Did you think of your mother as your enemy too?

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

They only care about $. .

thats because we want to be paid in $ when we work for corporations, get $ from our investments in them, and save $ when we buy their products. See how incredibly stupid you and liberal you are??

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

They have pitted us American workers against Chinese, Mexicans and Indians.

they have no choice customers want the lowest prices!! Imagine how stupid you have to be to blame them when you should blame the customers.A business would much rather stay here charge higher prices and not bother moving to china but customers demand the lowest possible prices. Imagine how stupid and liberal you must be no to know that?

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

See little Eddie, you think the corporations have all the power..

they have no power stupid stupid liberal they have to provide customers with lowest prices or all powerful customers drive them into bankruptcy!! Imagine how stupid you must be not to know that despite having learned it 57 times now??

Did they hold you back several grades in school? Is that how you got to be a liberal?