Death to the Middle Class
Posted: Tuesday, December 08, 2009
by Joel Hirschhorn
http://www.delusionaldemocracy.com
The American middle class is an endangered species. It is being squeezed to death. Middle class Americans are being pushed against their will into the Lower Class. Such is the nature of all the trends in the American economy over many years, not just a consequence of the current Great Recession. This is happening as the rich and powerful Upper Class continues to enjoy their incredible wealth.
Older Americans facing major losses in their savings and higher costs face precarious golden-turned-to-lead years, especially as they worry about reduced Medicare benefits and increasingly look for food banks and pantries to get some free food.
Absolutely nothing being done by Congress and President Obama is doing anything useful to save the middle class. Nothing will rebuild the once great manufacturing sector that offered good jobs and the route to middle class comfort and security. And professional jobs requiring college degrees will continue to be outsourced to lower cost educated people in many foreign countries. All that is left for the majority of Americans are low pay jobs in the retail and service sectors. For the lucky few there are jobs in government and health care, but the odds are thousands to one against getting good ones.
In years past people could borrow money outright, use credit cards and use their homes to get loans and offset the lower economic status from good paying jobs, but those days are gone. You hear a lot about people saving more, but that is desperation and also means lower consumer spending that keeps the economy depressed and means still less jobs.
Sound bad? You better believe it. Connect all the dots and what you should understand is that the political system has become a willing partner in a class war of the rich and powerful against the middle class. All we have is misrepresentatives in Congress who, like those in the Executive Branch, are primarily serving the interests of the Upper Class which provides the money to keep them in office.
Welcome to the delusional democracy where even delusional prosperity is gone. And smart people know that they cannot vote the nation out of this misery, not as long as the corrupt two-party plutocracy maintains its iron grip on our political system and government. There must be some way out of this, you think. Think again. Take a serious look at the materials at the website of Friends of the Article V Convention foavc.org and the goal of using what the Constitution offers as the way out. Join our group and help us make Congress obey the Constitution. Because Congress will never truly reform the political system, but a convention of state delegates could. At least it's worth trying rather than sticking with the status quo.
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Top-level comments on this article: (9 total)"Welcome to the delusional democracy where even delusional prosperity is gone."Disturbing, but the evidence doesn't look good. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer. Since we've been saying that for a few decades now, we've just about approached the point of collapse.
I am in complete agreement with Hirschorn. I think that maybe we should be meeting in small working groups to become acquainted and develop working relationships. Maybe regional strategy sessions. Think of the Whigs and other marginalized political groups who met and organized themselves into the Republican Party. Times awasting! Peace Khary Sudan
I joined the FOAVC
While it may not be possible to vote our way out of this, it doesn't even pay to vote all incumbents out of it. We end up with another politician's pension on the books, the replacement politician's salary, and his (hers/its) pension if we then vote him (her/it) out. All we ever get is another cog from the same machine.
When we say we are a nation of laws, what can else can be expected of a nation of lawyers? (Constipated constitutionality?)
Democracy has been eroded from countries in the West. Instead you have menu based politics. The parties decide what you may choose and you merely choose from the menu. You do not get to state what you want to see in your country. Freedom unfortunately is something that when people stop fighting for it it tends to go away. And that is what has been happening. We need to reclaim our democratic rights out of the hands of the benevolent dictators running the west.
Excellent article sir. The middle class, and Western Civilization will commit economic suicide if we follow through on the cap and trade bill (as well as the proposed agreement from Copenhagen) that has since passed the House of Rep's and is awaiting passage in the US Senate.When you throw in the wonderful possibility of government seizure of health care and the resulting spike in costs (Blue Cross, Blue Shield estimates rise in costs of 43% in the first five years) there just won't be much left. Additionally, small business, at least where I live in Maryland is terrified of the above bills and are presently refusing to make any new hires...because they don't want to be stuck with expensive new mandates imposed by the Federal government. I've written about this extensively on my blog thevailspot at blogspot dot com.thanks,Rich
Well done. If the payoffs to the banks were instead used for the middle class, all of the delinquent mortgages in this country could have been paid off with money (billions) to spare. That is something that should have been done, and the reason it wasn't is something that perplexes me. Is it the government's plan to do away with all of those who have the ability to rise above the poverty class? I want to believe not, yet their actions are screaming otherwise.Again, well done.
Hi Joel! I just copy and pasted your requested link:As a very concerned person I promise to give it a look.
Agreed! We all live in our own delusion in one way or another. This is a great article for jarring people to wake the hell up!
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