The Late, Great Middle Class

"facilitated" is too kind a word for what O has done.

Destroying the middle class and having a society of compliant and dependent citizens is by design. Of course those at the top that are just a little more equal will shepherd the flock.

The middle class has been declining way back to the early '90's. My experience running a business told me that the impact of computerization was transformational. It was eliminating layers of management as well as labour on production lines. The USA has had the highest level of computer chip integration into their economy as a % of GDP for decades. Canada as a much more primitive economy but the impact is still hugh.

The middle class was not invented by Henry Ford but certainly kicked into high gear with his production line. Unions led the charge to leverage incomes by holding capital at ransom by shutting plants down. IMO the issue is whether this period was an anomaly in human development or not. No matter how unions want to interpret labours role in society the bottom line is workers are selling their time, usually by the hour. It is a commodity. It can be replaced.

The role of government, especially by politicans of Obama's ilk, has increased as a % of GDP in an effort to appease a middle class which is sliding backward. What does not get discussed is the real cost of social safety nets and the eventual result. Progressives like Obama are no different than a Turdeau or Mulchair. For me the real issue is how different are they from a Harper or Romney. As time passes it looks to me like the difference is not that great. In a one man one vote system the politicans have to do a better job of explaining the bottom line. I do not see that happening.

When the eventual collapse happens all sorts of nasty fallout will happen as citizens will look for someone to blame. I suspect the political system will take the greatest hit which might be deserved but has great risk. At the end of the day the fall will be the individual's responsibility but we all know that will never be acknowledged.

The middle class is most certainly in decline because it has been the primary target of global socialism (and the political leaders and parties they work through in the western nation). Because socialism is all about victimhood and omnipotent big government focused on entitlement to a dependent underclass. Well you can't have victimhood or a needy underclass with a large financially independent middle class can you? So you set out to destroy it - regulate, tax, confiscate and depress it into subservient dependency.

Here i a prime example of predatory big government targting those who are independent and self reliant. -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BM73IRFDJQ&feature=c4-overview&list=UUGQ29J4BOwYWcQWMx_lMiWw

We are all Europe now?

the middle class worker is declining for the same reason
the farm workers declined in the 1920s..
they are being replaced by machinery..

Yeah well, I still maintain it's all a communist plot.....

War on the kulacks: part ?

Oh yes, it does implode one day.

It's "unsustainable".

One that day, many people will wake up.

Amazing how he wrote that without once mentioning Bush. It's like the fact that GWB was in charge during the worst economic collapse since the Depression couldn't possibly have played a roll in the continuing challenges.

That alone makes Victor about as worthwhile listening to as a Creationist evolutionary biologist. Neither he, nor any of you people are capable of a rational conversation. Oh... you think you are out here on the fringe, but mostly you're just a joke. Too bad so many people continue to take you seriously.