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we will look like every other socialist state.
Big state-subsidized industries without much competition, super wealthy friends of the political class and the politicians all at the top
everyone else dirt poor.
Leftist utopia!!
The media is selling us Jimmy Carter’s prognosis for the nation for the second time.
A good leader will turn this around in short order.
The biggest obstacles we have right now are the golf pro in lieu of a president sitting in the white house, a mostly Marxist congress , a bunch of useless czars and an army of bureaucrats. In other words our government is working against us.
I have an idea... they wipe us out, then we wipe them out.
And we can THANK Obama’s entire economic team that left town under the cloak of darkness. All that Theory they’ve been teaching for decades blew up in their face, and they didn’t have the guts to stick around and face the music. We Get To face it...but THEY are “protected by tenure in Harvardland”!!!
Barefoot, pregnant, unemployed and forever beholden to the Dems for scraps. Utopia indeed.
The solution is actually very easy...Get enough truly conservatives in office to lower coporate and personal taxes that will encourage US businesses to employ here.
LISTEN TO THIS.
I bought some Travelpro luggage via the internet last week. It’s beautiful luggage....the best I’ve ever owned. I bragged about it, showed it to my friends...Buying it through Amazon, I got a good price...didn’t pay tax on it... etc....
GUESS WHERE TRAVELPRO LUGGAGE IS MADE my friends?
socialism is a poison, it just takes decades to kill it’s host.
Whenever i read this propaganda, i realize we are right where the collectivists want us.I started my business at a time when you couldn’t buy a job. There was a time when the force generating the economy was, “Find a need and fill it.” Have all our needs been fulfilled? Isn’t there still work to do?
God help us find that we still can help ourselves
First, I disagree with blaming "the Rich", which seems to be the focus of the first part of this article.
Back up and see that some of "the rich" got that way, a few pennies at a time, providing goods and or services to people who aren't "the rich". They weren't 'the rich' when they started, they had an idea and pursued it.
Walmart is a prime example.
The middle class created the demand for those services and items, and collectively, the middle class, even in dwindling numbers, can alter the equation.
If it isn't made here, leave it on the shelf.
Don't buy it.
Change the equation.
Demand things made here, and make the origin of the labor part of the equation. If the demand for American made is high enough, the rest will follow--as will jobs.
American jobs left because of a combination of regulation, taxation, and the consumer demand for 'cheaper', regardless of where 'cheaper' came from. Now, we are paying the price for 'cheaper'.
The other part of the equation is simple. Provide something the 'rich' want, and you're in business.
There are, of course, impediments, regulatory and otherwise, to be overcome.
The Marxists have been putting the squeeze on the Middle Class for decades. After all, without a maleable 'proletariat' their whole line of crap won't fly. Marxism sells best to peasants and people completely intellectually detached from the trenches of the workaday world, and relies on the dissatisfaction of the former to produce the violent upheavals needed to emplace a system even more onerous than the status quo.
Marketing the status quo as unliveable, unchangeable, and the result of someone else is key to fomenting unrest. Blame someone, and why not those who are the targets of collective envy?--even if they started out with far less.
The promise of 'fairness', of redistributed wealth from 'the rich' (which either does not happen, or, if evenly divided works out to a pittance per persson) is scant promise for a nation to sell its soul, but there are those who envision themselves living as if they were rolling in lucre, when in fact, Marxist 'equality' merely brings all (but the party elite) down to the same dirt-grubbing poverty and squalor while convincing (at gunpoint, if necessary) the masses they are so much better off.
We must ever guard against the fallacies inherent in that philosophy, and remove the impediments to creating wealth right here at home if our nation is to survive.
Whether the already-programmed masses of disaffected youth and discouraged elders and the race-baiters and professional victims can ever be salvaged is up to them, and I pray daily they will see the light. For as their numbers grow, the prognosis for this nation becomes ever more grim if they do not see that freedom from the lash of regulation and the chains of taxation is the key to economic emancipation, not the enslavement of those who have prospered providing what they, the masses, have demanded in the marketplace.
There are many reasons for loss of “good” jobs. But I wonder if the 99 weeks (almost 2 years) of unemployment benefit is not one of them. I personally know 2 individuals who were laid off and decided to not look for jobs for several months because of the unemployment checks.
The other obvious reason of course is too many regulations on small businesses. The paper work required to run a small business is daunting.
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The swindle that has been perpetuated is that they can use that cheap labor and bribe the pols into lowering our tariffs so they can sell to the once lucrative American consumer market. Again, unfortunately, they laid off each others customers and the middle class pays for it.
**When Perot was running he showed a picture of a Ford plant in Mexico and asked "What's wrong with this picture?" I didn't see anything but a factory. He then pointed out that there were no parking lots - the workers were all bused in from the barrios as they couldn't afford to buy the cars they made.
“Working class” suggests anyone with money is not working class and somehow gets their money for nothing.
“They can hire all the labor they want on the other side of the globe for a fraction of the cost. So the rich don’t really have that much use for the working class in America anymore.”
Hmmm. All the electrical contractors in my area are firing all their employees, but I must have missed all the Asians they brought in to take their jobs. The boss must have been lying to me when he said government regulations and the threat of Obamacare were what was putting him out of business.
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“many are now wondering if we are actually witnessing the slow death of the middle class.”
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Of course not! This is ridiculous nonsense, where do people get such crazy ideas? We are actually witnessing the RAPID DEATH of the middle class.
Are all of the teachers, social workers, environmentalists, lawyers, regulatory employees and most of the police in your locale laid off, yet? Are your property taxes way down? Has your HOA ceased bothering to have meetings? If not, then the consequence of their stealing and spending hasn’t progressed far enough for a good housecleaning.
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