america's middle class is dying

[bustybbwlover]

-- There are 8.5 million people receiving unemployment insurance and over 40 million receiving food stamps.

-- At the current pace of job creation, the economy won't return to full employment until 2018.

-- Middle-income jobs are disappearing from the economy. The share of middle-income jobs in the United States has fallen from 52% in 1980 to 42% in 2010.

-- Middle-income jobs have been replaced by low-income jobs, which now make up 41% of total employment.

-- 17 million Americans with college degrees are doing jobs that require less than the skill levels associated with a bachelor's degree.

-- Over the past year, nominal wages grew only 1.7% while all consumer prices, including food and energy, increased by 2.7%.

-- Wages and salaries have fallen from 60% of personal income in 1980 to 51% in 2010. Government transfers have risen from 11.7% of personal income in 1980 to 18.4% in 2010, a post-war high.

fairly disturbing stats to be found here

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/dail...le-class-crisis-sobering-facts-141947274.html
the report itself:
http://growth.newamerica.net/sites/newamerica.net/files/policydocs/26-04-11 Middle Class Under Stress.pdf

 

[Will E Worm]

Change you can believe in...

That is what we were promised and that is what we received.

18 Sobering Facts Which Prove That The Middle Class Is Not Being Included In This “Economic Recovery” Article

The Declining Middle class and the Coming Civil War.. It's coming if the jobs do not come.

 

[bustybbwlover]

i just noticed the link to that pdf didn't work it's from here
http://newamerica.net/publications/policy/the_american_middle_class_under_stress

 

[ragincaucasian]

Change you can believe in...

That is what we were promised and that is what we received.

18 Sobering Facts Which Prove That The Middle Class Is Not Being Included In This “Economic Recovery” Article

The Declining Middle class and the Coming Civil War.. It's coming if the jobs do not come.

You know this has been going on for a litttle over 3 decades, right?

 

[vodkazvictim]

Goodbye America
:wave:

 

[Hot Mega]

The pace of 'job creation' is nonlinear.

 

[CunningStunts]

Started years ago with NAFTA and open borders... companies will do anything on the cheap if you let them. "Free trade" is an illusion and merely gained every third world country our jobs, while illegals flooded the US will cheap labor as well.

Double barrel blow to the face of the American middle class.

 

[pete rose]

No it's not. It's us vs. them, plain and simple.

 

[domshooter]

Change you can believe in...

That is what we were promised and that is what we received.

18 Sobering Facts Which Prove That The Middle Class Is Not Being Included In This “Economic Recovery” Article

The Declining Middle class and the Coming Civil War.. It's coming if the jobs do not come.

as much as i normally cant stand most of the BS you spew, the whole civil war argument is gaining some ground with me. slowly, but its there. that being said, it wont be like our first civil war, itll be completely different. and who knows what itll look like

 

[CunningStunts]

as much as i normally cant stand most of the BS you spew, the whole civil war argument is gaining some ground with me. slowly, but its there. that being said, it wont be like our first civil war, itll be completely different. and who knows what itll look like

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/liberals-southern-arizona-seek-form-state-130257516.html

It's coming I fear... people are so polarized and have a completely different idea of "the good" as Plato would call it that something is going to cause the whole shithouse to go up in flames... :2 cents:

 

[saschaxx]

If I watch the US debt-clock, I´m sure there´s something more dying but only the middle - class .....

 

[Hot Mega]

as much as i normally cant stand most of the BS you spew, the whole civil war argument is gaining some ground with me. slowly, but its there. that being said, it wont be like our first civil war, itll be completely different. and who knows what itll look like

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/liberals-southern-arizona-seek-form-state-130257516.html

It's coming I fear... people are so polarized and have a completely different idea of "the good" as Plato would call it that something is going to cause the whole shithouse to go up in flames... :2 cents:

If it ever came to that it would be primarily because so called conservatives can't stand the notion losing politically without threatening violence, revolution, war, etc.

Our economy could be in a complete and utter turn around, we could have the war in Afghanistan won, we can have knocked off all of AQ's top 10 to the point of them being a leaderless idea..and the U.S.A returned to being the leaders and best.

If those circumstances indicate Obama getting re-elected...ohhhh hell, this is war sayeth the G:yahooer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Trident1]

The solution: More taxes on the middle class.

 

[busaguy79]

Its been something thats been going on for decades but now is the time when its beginning to really hurt this country and unfortunatly if something drastic happens this is going to continue and in another few decades the middle class will be all but gone and we will be left with the Rich and the poor and thats when Civil War will happen and the end of this country as we know it!

 

[Legzman]

ah fuck! All this means to me is now I'm even more stuck in my shit hole job. Actually calling the place I work for a shit hole would be a compliment...

 

[busaguy79]

ah fuck! All this means to me is now I'm even more stuck in my shit hole job. Actually calling the place I work for a shit hole would be a compliment...

I'm in the same boat and i'm stuck working graveyard and looks like I will be for years to come!! FUCK!!!!!!

 

[meesterperfect]

yeah and where are they going?
5% got rich, the other 95 got poor.

The big questions are why, who's fault is it and how can it be changed.

 

[busaguy79]

We need to get industry back here in the States, get more people back to work making the shit we need for our daily lives!! Don't know how it can be done but we need to get our jobs back from China!

 

[Trident1]

yeah and where are they going?
5% got rich, the other 95 got poor.

The big questions are why, who's fault is it and how can it be changed.

Well I can tell you that any plan to increase taxes on the middle class will not help.
States can lower red tape to create an incentive for the creation of new businesses. Lowering corp tax rates too.
Raising the income level of what is considered "rich/wealthy".

 

[meesterperfect]

Well I can tell you that any plan to increase taxes on the middle class will not help.
States can lower red tape to create an incentive for the creation of new businesses. Lowering corp tax rates too.
Raising the income level of what is considered "rich/wealthy".

true, and high taxes are part of the reason for the crappy economy, thats clearly obvious.
in the past like in our parents and grandparents time everything was cheaper but you made less.........but you werent making 1000 a week and paying 200 in fed tax, 150 in social security, plus state and other taxes.......leaving you with not much more than 50% of what you earned.
then paying taxes on everything you buy and use.

thats why grandma didnt need to work and almost everyone with a job lived comfortably.

its no doubt that unreasonable personal and business taxes used to feed the blob (aka united states government) have contributed greatly to the problems.