The left have wanted to destroy the middle class for a while now
You learn a trade early or take the right major in college and you will get a good middle class job.
Not as easy as it once was, but definitely attainable.
Not one of my 42 first cousins has lost a job through this entire recession. Nor any of my friends.
Imagine how we could rebound with a great president.
However, i live in NYC where, though not as easy as it once was, there is usually a job to be had that pays pretty well if you have the skills.
"....Some of the lowest birthrates are now found in the rich, fully industrialized nations of Europe and in Japan. That’s fortunate in one respect because it is the high-consuming rich nations that place the greatest pressure on humanity’s staggering life-support systems (Ehrlich and Holdren 1971, Ehrlich and Ehrlich 2005).
The big exception is the United States, which is a center of over-consumption and whose population continues growing because of a relatively high birthrate (average family size about 2.1 children, compared with 1.4 in Italy and Spain and 1.3 in Germany and Japan) and high immigra-tion rate (4 per thousand, with Italy the same, Spain 7, Germany 0, and Japan 0). The nation has recently been in the strange position of debating immigration policy without ever discussing population policy...."
Ehrlich P. and J. Holdren. 1971. Impact of population growth. Science 171: 1212-1217.
Ehrlich P., Ehrlich A., and J. Holdren. 1977. Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment . San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Co.
February 19, 2015: GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP NECESSARY & POSSIBLE?
"With the continued buildup of greenhouse gases and the continued apathy of governments towards the lethal results of human population growth, Paul and Anne Ehrlich believe that a potential environmental storm is building up to bring down civilization....
..... Can much of the world population come to understand that humanity’s current dilemmas of environmental destruction, inequities, unemployment, and declining democracy, are not largely an accidental result of cultural evolution, but are rather mostly the consequences of deliberate planning, by those in charge, to increase their own wealth and power? Can they move dramatically to close the gap between the rich and poor that is especially dramatic in developing nations, and growing in many rich ones, especially the United States?....
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.....The MAHB’s [mahb.stanford.edukey] strategy is threefold: foster collaboration between natural scientists and social scientists to better understand the issues; build understanding of what we call ‘foresight intelligence’—the ability of individuals, institutions, governments, and society to act (behave) in ‘future smart’ ways; and engage civil society (individuals and organizations), already concerned about collapse, in ways that ‘strengthen’ the political impact of their endeavors. In short, the MAHB’s main goal could be said to help generate a bottom-up program to produce large numbers of global citizens, who, in turn might be able to divert society from its suicidal course. The odds of success seem small, but what choice does any ethical person have but to try?"
By the way Social Security I paid into, dont make it sound like its a liberal given free bee.
It’s all ok.. Just pay the dregs $15 an hour to have no ambition to actually make something of themselves... Thus bringing what use to be “middle class” into the ranks of poverty with them...
Pretty soon, it will be the haves vs have-nots with a huge void between the two. The ruling class vs the peasant slave class... The socialist utopia.....
Destroying the American family was part of their goal of destroying the American middle class.
And they are trying to destroy home ownership as a desired lifegoal.
‘the Reagan Revolution was pulling the rug out from under the middle class’
The left doesn’t understand the concept of ‘creating value’ thus creating REAL wealth. They believe stealing from each other is a viable alternative.
Reagan and Thatcher told us the party would end when you ran ‘out of other people’s money’. Well, here it is.
There’s a reason that private unions have gone the way of the doo-doo bird. You cannot fiscally support more retirees than you have workers. Epic FAIL.
The left have always wanted to destroy the bourgeoisie, especially the rural bourgeoisie, the kulaks.
Middle class people “do their own thing” far too much.
When you only have the ruling class elite and a dependency class, the society is easier to control.
It is not just the left.
Notice what party is fighting for TPP, and who is advocating for open borders.
The left cannot establish their wet dream of a liberal, fascist police state until the source of any resistance, the middle class, is destroyed.