Posted on 08/21/2014 8:10:45 PM PDT by Nachum
.....and yet the politicians want to pass immigration reform to allow more illegals to take American jobs.
My husband and I sure are feeling the struggle.
Praying.
31. It seems one can make a decent living making a list of 30 items and submitting it to Zerohedge every week or two.
Sister, you are not alone. We are all praying.
and the big corporate cronys are pushing Obama to break the law and establish 800,000 additional “guest worker” Visas by executive fiat
more of the American citizens at the bottom if they are still working will be pushed out of work, again
Ferguson Mo., your “friend” in the WH wants to screw you again
Barack never did love them. They are just useful fools to him.
This whole idea of "strengthening the middle class" is annoying, as if we need the government to pigeonhole us into a 'normal' life with a mortgage, kids, and 2.5 credit cards in our wallet.
I actually happen to live that exact classification (except for the credit cards), but I chose it.
With technology, a global economy, telecommuting, and the coming weaker emphasis on a university education, everyone in this country has the resources to live life on their own terms, provided they avoid debt, graduate high school, and don't have kids out of wedlock. I think that type of freedom is a threat to a lot of people, including those who drone on and on about the shrinking "middle class".
The headline seems true enough, but, as befits Zero Hedge, most of the list is juvenile leftist drivel that proves nothing except that there’s a rarity of thinking skills.
Like ‘diversity’, ‘middle class’ isn’t something that needs to be created by the government. Diversity and a middle-class are the natural result of living in a relatively free society.
Hold up! I was too busy listening to Michael Medved telling me how it is better than it was and isn’t that bad.
Of course I know that life may be better ow than it was sixty years ago, it sure as hell is worse than it was six years ago and a damn sight worse for most!
I’m on complete agreement; I think the “mortgage, kids, and 2.5 credit cards in our wallet” way of life is dying out and to be blunt, I’m okay with it. The major reason the middle class ‘way of life’ is dying out is because people keep creating problems for themselves that interfere with what would normally be a smooth progression to adulthood. It has also made things difficult for those who can’t fit in to that kind of lifestyle or classification. It also stratified society in a huge way.
Student debt and the expectation of a posh desk job are the main issues. In the past, the middle class consisted of tradespeople and were the types that were very hardworking with their hands and industrious, who were often much better off in regards to ready money in their hands than most of the titled/connected upper class.
Yet, for some odd reason, the middle class has viewed trade as lower class and working with one’s hands as ‘common’ and for that reason, the middle class are now snotty about even the most basic way of making a practical living. So yeah, they’re shrinking, but not because of just a lack of jobs, but a lack of being interested in honest hard work. For some reason being in debt, but living well is considered the main priority, not making a real living and working at honest work.
So now, since so many are going to college and getting completely useless degrees and an impractical education, graduating with a mountain of debt and zero skills or even a basic ability to spell. Yet, appearances are what matters. This is why our country is such a mess of a nation.
I believe we’re going to go back to a class structure where if you want a middle class lifestyle, you’re going to have to learn a real trade and put off university. Which makes sense and certainly is more of a reality than what it has been for the past couple of decades.
To be honest, the way things are right now don’t suit me at all either and I look forward to the day when people start leading more singular lives based on ability, connections (not difficult to get in this online world), and of course, your willingness to take responsibility for your life.
Avoiding debt is common sense and as for kids out of wedlock, having to take a more individual approach will end up being normal, so people will likely think twice before doing that. High school, I agree, no matter how bad, just go through it. Graduate and bail out of town if you hate it.
The sources and authorities that provided the figures they use are loosely cited, if at all. Believe I saw the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but no footnotes, the New York Times for statement #2, some ‘Bloomberg’ and of course the 30 assertions which apparently expect you to accept what they say, because they say so.
Yeah—lefty, loosey.
One thing I've witnessed is some women (otherwise middle class) deliberately choosing single motherhood: getting pregnant or adopting. No husband in sight.
I would rather shovel manure all day than sit in a corner office and/or drive an hour each way in traffic to sit in a cubicle.
I'm hoping that more people take the Peter Thiel approach and go from grade school to some sort of trade, military, or just plain getting out into the world. If you aren't going to be an engineer, physician, lawyer, or any of the other half dozen highly specialized fields, you don't need a university education out of the gate.
The middle class system of creative mortgages, Samsung TVs financed at 0% interest by Best Buy, and a "college fund" needs to end.
"Save the middle class!" is the new "Do it for the children!", and I don't trust any politician that pimps it:
WHOO HOO. Obamanomics.
You know what is really depressing. A large majority of people in this situation are mad at Obama for “not doing enough” to help them. They want more socialism.
The only advice I can offer anyone is to be flexible in location and learn a trade. I have been incredibly lucky to have dropped out of college in favor of a tech school. I was on the verge of a masters degree in Industrial Design at Fresno state (where I had the great privilege of having Victor David Hanson as a professor) but ran out of money. Rather than incur the debt to finish I went back and became a certified welder and machinist at the technical school.
By wearing out a lot of shoes, eating ramen, and scraping every penny I could in to savings to buy a couple machines I have built up a fantastic manufacturing business. I still drive a 25 year old car but pay my guys a very good wage.
I wish I had a solution. Well, I DO have a solution, but I’m just one tax paying chump who has no say in the federal government.
Here’s a scary thought to all you Freepers. When you fly on a certain aircraft manufacturer’s aircraft,,, my parts are keeping you in the air.
I’m beginning to wonder just what it is these fools are thinking. Middle class young women don’t have the resources to live the kind of single motherhood life that they see celebrities do. Fools fools fools. These women are setting themselves up for major failure. At some point I hope that single motherhood is no longer indulged or socially acceptable (outside of divorce or widowhood).
Horrendous how being child-free as a single young woman is becoming a rarity.
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