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The Myth of the Stagnating Middle Class
National Review ^ | January 18, 2017 4:00 AM | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 01/19/2017 6:00:52 AM PST by expat_panama

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Top Ten Reasons why this is bunk and the Middle Class is Dead:

10.  Everyone knows it's true.

9.  We're hearing that this is a myth from the National Review and those clowns are always wrong.

8.  Trump says the Middle Class is dead.

7.  It's what Rush says too.

6.  Statistics are damn lies.

5.  Just open your eyes and look around.

4.  Anyone who says it's a myth is a Traitor.

3.  Yeah.

 

 

OK, that's ten.

1 posted on 01/19/2017 6:00:52 AM PST by expat_panama
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To: expat_panama

NATIONAL REVIEW SUCKS.


2 posted on 01/19/2017 6:02:49 AM PST by Mamzelle
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To: expat_panama

Fake News


3 posted on 01/19/2017 6:04:04 AM PST by tomkat
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To: expat_panama

Separating the government from the economy, a free market capitalist system, is what creates class mobility. It allows the poor to work themselves up gradually instead of being stuck in pre-defined roles.

Under socialist systems, the only way to improve is to go into government or come up w/something “big” in the private sector, like a Bill Gates.

If you like separation of church and state, you should favor separation of economy and state.


4 posted on 01/19/2017 6:07:07 AM PST by fruser1
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tx. It’s so nice to focus on issues —and when we do the answers become obvious.


5 posted on 01/19/2017 6:11:26 AM PST by expat_panama
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To: tomkat; Mamzelle
Fake News

Yeah!

NATIONAL REVIEW SUCKS.

You tell 'em!

6 posted on 01/19/2017 6:13:29 AM PST by expat_panama
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To: fruser1
If you like separation of church and state, you should favor separation of economy and state.

Good post.

7 posted on 01/19/2017 6:17:05 AM PST by Tax-chick ("The less free you are, the more you are obliged to applaud.")
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To: expat_panama
I'm willing to accept the author's general point, but there's a hidden problem there:

The typical "middle class" American 50 years ago worked for a major U.S. company -- maybe even in a union job.

The typical "middle class" American today works for the government.

I don't think this bodes well for the U.S. economy at all.

8 posted on 01/19/2017 6:21:31 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Yo, bartender -- Jobu needs a refill!")
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To: expat_panama

From where I sit, it looks like the middle class may not be dead, but it has taken a heck of a beating over the past two decades.


9 posted on 01/19/2017 6:25:39 AM PST by Oberon (John 12:5-6)
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To: expat_panama
A globalist elites telling us everything is ok.

Don't pee down my back and tell me it's raining.

10 posted on 01/19/2017 6:28:51 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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Ben Shapiro is a light weight. Does he mention how many people work contract/temporary jobs? As a conservative, I also think it’s lame that he’s writing this as Obama’s presidency is about to end.


11 posted on 01/19/2017 6:31:44 AM PST by TakebackGOP
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The types of statistics he cites are no meaningful....look at the number of single income households over the years. Those wonderful numbers he claims are from two income households . Many folks work multiple part time jobs to earn enough to live on.

A house today costs way more than a house in years gone by.

Again tell me the numbers on single income households. That has always been a better indicator. That and the number of people working


12 posted on 01/19/2017 6:33:10 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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Wage Stagnation in Nine Charts
13 posted on 01/19/2017 6:34:27 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: expat_panama

The free traitors are cranking up, explaining to us that nothing is wrong. This of course, will mean that nothing needs to be done about open borders and the so called free trade treaties. Very transparent.


14 posted on 01/19/2017 6:38:39 AM PST by DesertRhino
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To: Mase; 1rudeboy
http://www.epi.org/about/board/

EPI!!!

15 posted on 01/19/2017 6:41:08 AM PST by Toddsterpatriot ("Telling the government to lower trade barriers to zero...is government interference" central_va)
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It is unfortunate the all the major economic media outlets are in the tank for the globalist cartel and we have to go to less than desirable sources to get the other side of the economic story.

Data is data.

16 posted on 01/19/2017 6:46:45 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

Oh my. That is some Board at EPI..
All government drones


17 posted on 01/19/2017 6:49:57 AM PST by goodnesswins (Say hello to President Trump)
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To: expat_panama

Ben Shapiro should get out in the real world.
These ivory tower “conservatives” would also like us to believe that we need to have our country overrun with fraudulently documented foreigners.
That abandoning the rule of law is the only way to solve the problem of illegal aliens, which isn’t really a problem, except for those complaining about it.


18 posted on 01/19/2017 6:50:23 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents)
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To: expat_panama

http://www.nationalreview.com/author/ben-shapiro

this guy is not worth our time


19 posted on 01/19/2017 6:52:15 AM PST by thoughtomator (Purple: the color of sedition)
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Things are so great out here in the heartland that the voters went 70-30 for change.

But I'm sure none of those folks know what's REALLY going on w/ the middle class. Those whiners never had it so good.

No, I'll listen to the pencil dicks at NR that recommend we just pick up and leave our home towns and go where the work is, you know like to DC; it looks nice there.

20 posted on 01/19/2017 6:53:19 AM PST by Pietro
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