well the immigration bill they are pushing would have 100 million immigrants come to the US over the next 20 years.
If thats not a middle class buster, I don't know what is.
Very thoughtful.
Specifically what anti-trust, labor, and trade laws are being ignored?
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1. The middle class grew FASTER at the turn of the 19th Century (the era when you say "the rich" were all powerful) then they ever did before or since.
2. The real reason the federal income tax was passed was because the Southrons felt that the Yankees had "too much money." How they now regret this!
3. The era of "high payin' factory jobs" only lasted from the end of WWII (when management had no choice but to buy labor peace) until the early 1970s, and was a phenomomenon limited to the upper midwest and northeast. Sorry if you can no longer get a middle class salary just for "showing up" to polish screws!
You obviously learned history from McLiberal textbooks. Read Hayek work on the industrial revolution for a change! If you still feel as you do, there is a place for you in the Democratic Party with other class warriors and folks jealous of others success.
There's only one reason rich people can logically vote democrat and it's not about compassion for the poor. It's because they've already protected their money and are bent on controlling the rich.
Why some middle class people support the democrats? Because they only think they are in that particular 'class' or are swallowing the propaganda of destructive altruism.
I'm sorry, but I completely diagree with your premise that the rich want to break the middle class.
It is the middle class that makes the wealthy "super rich". Without our buying power, they have no profits. Sounds like sour grapes to me.
There's no conspiracy - it's just simple market forces. Some people abroad make things cheaper than seems to be possible in the West. Net result: the West gets to buy neat stuff cheaper from Indians, Koreans and Chinese-based producers rather than buy expensive stuff from feather-bedded/subsidised internal producers.
I can recall when they did the same thing in England.
Breaking the middle class is essential to making us into a third world country for the gain of socialism.
Complete hogwash.
Manufacturing jobs are being moved overseas simply because the labor costs are significantly less. Labor unions have stopped representing the long-term interest of workers...to the point that union labor is overpriced and mis-represented.
Illegals are taking jobs at $8/hr with no benefits that were formerly union jobs at $17/hr with full benefits, the unions wish to PROTECT illegal aliens, not prohibit them.
Yet you don't hear the union leadership screaming for greater controls on illegal immigrants, do you?
An awful lot of people have gotten "rich" or at least wealthy depending upon your standards for "rich," via the services industry.
I don't see a link between manufacturing and the middle class other than in another era.
I'll take this one step further . . . the USA in the 19th and 20th centuries is one of the few cases in human history where something called "the middle class" even existed at all.
Superman fears nothing.
My thoughts after hearing the Presidents last night.
You heard more than one?
I see. So you thought you'd share them with us. How nice.
If that idea ever comes to you again, I really, really suggest that you check the spelling and grammar in your word before posting it.
That said, you are incorrect in everything you said. Are you tired of being in the middle class? Then fire up your own business and get out of the middle class. You can do that here in the USA (not usa), you know.
Whining that the middle class has been beaten down is the mark of someone who has not examined our society very closely. Everywhere you look, there are middle class folks who have taken up the challenge and have become successful entrepreneurs.
Go thou and do likewise, but do use your spell checker.
Cheap labor and favorable tax laws would be a heck of a lot better guess than some rehash of a Rockafeller/Rothschild/English Monarchy conspiracy.
Wonder no more, the rich want to break the back of the American middle class by taking away the middle classes ability to generate wealth..
By creating a global middle class?