The middle class is being wiped out

[gallantwarrior]

The middle class is the backbone of this country so you better hope the government doesn't wipe it out.

Manufacturing and skilled labor is the backbone of the middle class, if they keep regulating manufacturing offshore, the middle class will continue to decline. Skilled labor for construction and infrastructure will still be around but eventually the large numbers of people seeking those jobs will drive the wages down. Just think, you may starve to death, but you can breath really, really clean air while your dying.

The days of growing up to work in the same facotry as your daddy are over. We need to let the lava lamp assembly jobs go overseas where they belong. Paying someone union scale to do a low-skilled job is out of whack with the natural order of things.

We need to be educating our future workers for nanotechnology, biochemistry, photonics, high finance, and so forth.

Then we really need to refit the public school system as an educational institution and not an indoctrination facility.

 

[g5000]

Manufacturing and skilled labor is the backbone of the middle class, if they keep regulating manufacturing offshore, the middle class will continue to decline. Skilled labor for construction and infrastructure will still be around but eventually the large numbers of people seeking those jobs will drive the wages down. Just think, you may starve to death, but you can breath really, really clean air while your dying.

The days of growing up to work in the same facotry as your daddy are over. We need to let the lava lamp assembly jobs go overseas where they belong. Paying someone union scale to do a low-skilled job is out of whack with the natural order of things.

We need to be educating our future workers for nanotechnology, biochemistry, photonics, high finance, and so forth.

Wait, what? The world still needs Druid philosophers ya know.

Well, as far as I can foresee, you can't outsource plumbers. So that's a pretty secure profession, unless everyone gets that idea at the same time and we become a nation of plumbers.

 

[ScreamingEagle]

wait i was told on here by the right that the middleclass is fine.

Romney ran on the promise to turnaround our economy......unemployment is still at 8% (actually more)......food stamps are increasing every year.....etc.

where did you get the idea the economy is fine.......oh wait.....the liberal media told ya.....

 

[GoneBezerk]

obamination and his fellow goons need the middle class to fall to the poor class where they will depend on govt handouts to survive.

A middle class is dangerous to the socialist/communist because they have some wealth, can live on their own wealth and want more wealth through work and education. That is dangerous to the obaminations of the wold because they need those people to rely on them for their resources to survive.

Meanwhile, the rich will keep their wealth and protect it with laws they pass for the poor class to follow. Castro has lived the luxury life in Cuba while others there stood in line for food, medicine, etc.

The idiots here claiming this is all a lie are the useful idiots the leftists use until they kill them off at the purge.

 

[g5000]

Manufacturing and skilled labor is the backbone of the middle class, if they keep regulating manufacturing offshore, the middle class will continue to decline. Skilled labor for construction and infrastructure will still be around but eventually the large numbers of people seeking those jobs will drive the wages down. Just think, you may starve to death, but you can breath really, really clean air while your dying.

The days of growing up to work in the same facotry as your daddy are over. We need to let the lava lamp assembly jobs go overseas where they belong. Paying someone union scale to do a low-skilled job is out of whack with the natural order of things.

We need to be educating our future workers for nanotechnology, biochemistry, photonics, high finance, and so forth.

Then we really need to refit the public school system as an educational institution and not an indoctrination facility.

Exactly.

A great many of our problems are directly related to our education system.

One third of all people who don't have health insurance are high school dropouts, for example. And people of the wrong mindset want us to fix that problem by making the rest of us pay for their mistakes. They are treating the symptom instead of the disease.

This upside down perception is just as prevalent in labor issues.

 

[Wacky Quacky]

The middle class is the backbone of this country so you better hope the government doesn't wipe it out.

Manufacturing and skilled labor is the backbone of the middle class, if they keep regulating manufacturing offshore, the middle class will continue to decline. Skilled labor for construction and infrastructure will still be around but eventually the large numbers of people seeking those jobs will drive the wages down. Just think, you may starve to death, but you can breath really, really clean air while your dying.

The days of growing up to work in the same facotry as your daddy are over. We need to let the lava lamp assembly jobs go overseas where they belong. Paying someone union scale to do a low-skilled job is out of whack with the natural order of things.

We need to be educating our future workers for nanotechnology, biochemistry, photonics, high finance, and so forth.

It may be a while before that shift happens. We still have over 40,000 new lawyers entering the field every year.

 

[gallantwarrior]

The days of growing up to work in the same facotry as your daddy are over. We need to let the lava lamp assembly jobs go overseas where they belong. Paying someone union scale to do a low-skilled job is out of whack with the natural order of things.

We need to be educating our future workers for nanotechnology, biochemistry, photonics, high finance, and so forth.

Then we really need to refit the public school system as an educational institution and not an indoctrination facility.

Exactly.

A great many of our problems are directly related to our education system.

One third of all people who don't have health insurance are high school dropouts, for example. And people of the wrong mindset want us to fix that problem by making the rest of us pay for their mistakes. They are treating the symptom instead of the disease.

This upside down perception is just as prevalent in labor issues.

I do agree with much of your proposal, except the continued offshoring of low-skilled manufacturing jobs. There will always be people who need those types of jobs, if for no other reason than they need a starting point to build themselves from. Unfortunately, low-skilled jobs have been priced (and regulated) out of the market and those who need those jobs are now all-too-often unemployed and on the public dole.

 

[WillowTree]

Manufacturing and skilled labor is the backbone of the middle class, if they keep regulating manufacturing offshore, the middle class will continue to decline. Skilled labor for construction and infrastructure will still be around but eventually the large numbers of people seeking those jobs will drive the wages down. Just think, you may starve to death, but you can breath really, really clean air while your dying.

The days of growing up to work in the same facotry as your daddy are over. We need to let the lava lamp assembly jobs go overseas where they belong. Paying someone union scale to do a low-skilled job is out of whack with the natural order of things.

We need to be educating our future workers for nanotechnology, biochemistry, photonics, high finance, and so forth.

It may be a while before that shift happens. We still have over 40,000 new lawyers entering the field every year.

And most of em post here at USMB!

 

[ScreamingEagle]

The days of growing up to work in the same facotry as your daddy are over. We need to let the lava lamp assembly jobs go overseas where they belong. Paying someone union scale to do a low-skilled job is out of whack with the natural order of things.

We need to be educating our future workers for nanotechnology, biochemistry, photonics, high finance, and so forth.

Then we really need to refit the public school system as an educational institution and not an indoctrination facility.

Exactly.

A great many of our problems are directly related to our education system.

One third of all people who don't have health insurance are high school dropouts, for example. And people of the wrong mindset want us to fix that problem by making the rest of us pay for their mistakes. They are treating the symptom instead of the disease.

This upside down perception is just as prevalent in labor issues.

all true.....the system is run by the unions.....aka the marxist liberals......which is why we need to cut the umbilical cord and eliminate the Dept. of Education and Fed handouts....bring it all back to the state and local levels....

 

[WillowTree]

100 million dollars a year for "food stamps" what a guy! the gravey train is in da station.

 

[OKTexas]

The middle class is the backbone of this country so you better hope the government doesn't wipe it out.

Manufacturing and skilled labor is the backbone of the middle class, if they keep regulating manufacturing offshore, the middle class will continue to decline. Skilled labor for construction and infrastructure will still be around but eventually the large numbers of people seeking those jobs will drive the wages down. Just think, you may starve to death, but you can breath really, really clean air while your dying.

The days of growing up to work in the same facotry as your daddy are over. We need to let the lava lamp assembly jobs go overseas where they belong. Paying someone union scale to do a low-skilled job is out of whack with the natural order of things.

We need to be educating our future workers for nanotechnology, biochemistry, photonics, high finance, and so forth.

Yep, but you also have to have someone keep the lights on, build the buildings, make the steel to go into those buildings and so on. Without skilled labor there is no society or infrastructure to support the high tech. How many biochem guys does it take to install a light fixture?

 

[ScreamingEagle]

Manufacturing and skilled labor is the backbone of the middle class, if they keep regulating manufacturing offshore, the middle class will continue to decline. Skilled labor for construction and infrastructure will still be around but eventually the large numbers of people seeking those jobs will drive the wages down. Just think, you may starve to death, but you can breath really, really clean air while your dying.

The days of growing up to work in the same facotry as your daddy are over. We need to let the lava lamp assembly jobs go overseas where they belong. Paying someone union scale to do a low-skilled job is out of whack with the natural order of things.

We need to be educating our future workers for nanotechnology, biochemistry, photonics, high finance, and so forth.

Yep, but you also have to have someone keep the lights on, build the buildings, make the steel to go into those buildings and so on. Without skilled labor there is no society or infrastructure to support the high tech. How many biochem guys does it take to install a light fixture?

alot more today......those new lightbulbs are quite hazardous...................

 

[boedicca]

You're an idiot if you think Obama has anything to do with the declining middle class. This is the result of Trickledown Reaganomics.

You are such a moron.

Progressives are systematically working to turn everyone into beggars "cuz they're easier to please".

[ame=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V7HeBJp620]Gubmint Cheese[/ame]

 

[Nova78]

The Dow is based on the assumption the next sucker will pay more than the last sucker !

Untrue. A company's stock price is determined by the value of the company. The quality of its products, and the demand for same. It's innovation. It's cash balance. It's debts. It's workforce. It's competition. And so on and so forth.


At least it was until our politicians began to legislatively tilt the playing field in a big way to favor their friends, especially those in the financial sector.

Somewhere there was guy happy to sell stocks that would pay his investment back in only 7 years. We call that guy a moron. Similarly, somewhere there was a guy willing to buy stocks that wouldn’t pay him back in 25. That dude’s a moron too.It’s a good thing these folks exist, because they’re the high level engine that powers profits in the market. Everything else is just the details. It’s the people willing to over or under pay by a factor of two because they’re too uneducated to know otherwise that fuel the whole machine. Without a sucker, there’s no reason to hold a poker game.

 

[Seawytch]

You're an idiot if you think Obama has anything to do with the declining middle class. This is the result of Trickledown Reaganomics.

You are such a moron.

Progressives are systematically working to turn everyone into beggars "cuz they're easier to please".

[ame=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V7HeBJp620]Gubmint Cheese[/ame]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/tax-cuts-rich-dont-spur-151649273.html

Continue to ignore the evidence. Your corporate masters are pleased.

 

[francoHFW]

The dupes are so damn dumb.

1. WORKERS PRODUCE MORE BUT THE GAINS GO TO BUSINESS.

Over the past 63 years worker productivity has grown by 2.0% per year.

But after 1980, workers received a smaller share every year. Labor’s share of income (1992 = 100%):

1950 = 101%
1960 = 105%
1970 = 105%
1980 = 105% – Reagan
1990 = 100%
2000 = 96%
2007 = 92%

A 13% drop since 1980

2. THE TOP 10% GET A LARGER SHARE.

Share of National Income going to Top 10%:

1950 = 35%
1960 = 34%
1970 = 34%
1980 = 34% – Reagan
1990 = 40%
2000 = 47%
2007 = 50%

An increase of 16% since Reagan.

3. WORKERS COMPENSATED FOR THE LOSS OF INCOME BY SPENDING THEIR SAVINGS.

The savings Rose up to Reagan and fell during and after.

1950 = 6.0%
1960 = 7.0%
1970 = 8.5%
1980 = 10.0% – Reagan
1982 = 11.2% – Peak
1990 = 7.0%
2000 = 2.0%
2006 = -1.1% (Negative = withdrawing from savings)

A 12.3% drop after Reagan.

4. WORKERS ALSO BORROWED TO MAKE UP FOR THE LOSS.

Household Debt as percentage of GDP:

1965 = 46%
1970 = 45%
1980 = 50% – Reagan
1990 = 61%
2000 = 69%
2007 = 95%

A 45% increase after 1980.

5. SO THE GAP BETWEEN THE RICHEST AND THE POOREST HAS GROWN.

Gap Between the Share of Capital Income earned by the top 1%
and the bottom 80%:

1980 = 10%
2003 = 56%

A 5.6 times increase.

6. AND THE AMERICAN DREAM IS GONE.

The Probably of Moving Up from the Bottom 40% to the Top 40%:

1945 = 12%
1958 = 6%
1990 = 3%
2000 = 2%

A 10% Decrease.

The Demise of the American Middle Class In Numbers. | Fact Left

Amazingly, the richest have tripled their wealth while the country goes to Hell.

 

[ScreamingEagle]

Amazingly, the richest have tripled their wealth while the country goes to Hell.

and so what has BO done about it......? put more people on govt. cheese.....? great plan...
ps: the tax hike on the rich will last about a week....

 

[HUGGY]

Why does obama hate the middle class? Could it be because he grew up wealthy, got everything handed to him, is now very wealthy, and was groomed to believe that he was superior? Probably.

You misspelled the word "******".

you misspelled the word racist.

All my black friends call me "******"! Wutz up wid dat??????

 

[WillowTree]

You misspelled the word "******".

you misspelled the word racist.

All my black friends call me "******"! Wutz up wid dat??????

wigger might me more like it. donchyathink?

 

[francoHFW]

Amazingly, the richest have tripled their wealth while the country goes to Hell.

and so what has BO done about it......? put more people on govt. cheese.....? great plan...
ps: the tax hike on the rich will last about a week....

As much as the "no compromise, un-American Tea Party GOP" (TIME) has allowed, dupe. Including cheap school loans and training, infrastructure, all kinds of intelligence, including supporting new industry and O-care, proved to save money on the worst inflationary problem there is. Try getting off the Pub propaganda machine.

Sorry about not screwing the victims of the Pub Depression and mindless obstruction.