The American middle class isn’t coming back
Posted on 06/15/2015 12:22:04 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Add in import tariffs and you have a winner. No more free access to US markets, especially if they are charging us. We must retaliate.
The American middle class isn’t coming back
Boomers range in age from 51 through 69. From Sarah Palin (age 51) through Shelby Steele (age 69).
“Baby boomers are people born during the demographic Post–World War II baby boom between the years 1946 and 1964. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the term “baby boomer” is also used in a cultural context.”
I hit a home run but got sent back to first to make it fair for the losers batting behind me.
I think India’s doing better than the U.S. economically.
By the way Social Security I paid into, dont make it sound like its a liberal given free bee.
Energy is not depleted.
Just regulated away.
Stopped reading right there. The author is a clueless dolt. Oh, it's Salon?
I still think as the boomers retire and die off demand will drop and prices will fall as a result on nearly everything
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.....
“Urban seniors are more likely to vote for a Democratic Congressional candidate (DEM: 50%, GOP: 33%), while Suburban (DEM: 31%, GOP: 46%) and Rural seniors (DEM: 28%, GOP: 52%) more likely to vote Republican”
http://morningconsult.com/polls/bring-the-vote-home-poll-seniors-lean-toward-republicans-in-2016/
...... Do these Leftists really think that money grows on trees in D. C.?
Nope! They think it "grows" out of printing presses.....
Need more money? Just crank up the presses....
Simple....
Their folks were buying brand new homes on ONE income, and Mom stayed home to actually raise the kids. Try that in today's America.
In fact, so bad today, what many of their folks paid for a new home in total, equates to just 3 or 4 mortgage payments for today's home.
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.
This guy is blaming Reagan and the Air Controllers Strike for Obama’s failed Policies and the fake Recovery?
Talk about a Leap. Geez...
I’ll bet he blames Reagan for AIDS too.
On the plus side, the CEO’s have 5 vacation homes instead of just 2. So it all balances out.
“If you get sick in America, this is what the Republicans want you to do. If you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: “Die quickly.” [Alan Grayson projecting]
What do you call the people born before 1946?
I know...... Old farts!
1 get rid of the disincentive of working hard to gain wealth -- Eliminate the progressive income tax.
2 get rid of the disincentive to holding wealth -- Eliminate property and excise taxes.
3 Eliminate the disincentive to entrepreneurship Eliminate business licensing and excessive bonding requirements.
Not a magic bullet but a good start and therefore never going to happen
Well, one thing that can be done is to learn the lessons the people who raised the hippies tried (and failed) to pass onto them. “Don’t live beyond your means”, and “family sticks together”. We need to cease and desist with naming every decade or two and start realizing that we are all on the same team. If you can’t be divided, you are harder to conquer :)
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