Some very sobering numbers. As a former member of the middle class it is something I have known personally since 1973 when I came home from the Marine Corps and watched 4 factories with thousands of middle class jobs vanish is less than 12 months, and unemployment climb to 24% in a city of 100,000 called Decatur Il. Many of those laid off workers were guys I had graduated with in 1971, they went to the factories, I volunteered for the Marines. I survived a war to come home to an economic war I didn't understand for years. These are just the harvest of that war started in 1973. The aggressors were Borg Warner, G.E., Firestone, and a couple of other corporations that were transferring jobs overseas. What's crazy is the millions of Americans that are either unaware or refuse to acknowledge these numbers and vote against their own interests and allow the corporations to continue to wage economic warfare against the working classes in America. No other industrialized democracy allows this sort of corporate behavior in their own countries. That's how we are now the 19th country in the world in median income. America's real exceptional distinction shows itself to be a vanishing middle class and a flow of income to the top. Nothing exceptional about that unless you are one of the rich getting richer keeping the poor, poor.
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20 Super Wealthy Individuals Have More Money Than The Poorest 152 Million Americans Combined
Some very sobering numbers. As a former member of the middle class it is something I have known personally since 1973 when I came home from the Marine Corps and watched 4 factories with thousands of middle class jobs vanish is less than 12 months, and unemployment climb to 24% in a city of 100,000 called Decatur Il. Many of those laid off workers were guys I had graduated with in 1971, they went to the factories, I volunteered for the Marines. I survived a war to come home to an economic war I didn't understand for years. These are just the harvest of that war started in 1973. The aggressors were Borg Warner, G.E., Firestone, and a couple of other corporations that were transferring jobs overseas. What's crazy is the millions of Americans that are either unaware or refuse to acknowledge these numbers and vote against their own interests and allow the corporations to continue to wage economic warfare against the working classes in America. No other industrialized democracy allows this sort of corporate behavior in their own countries. That's how we are now the 19th country in the world in median income. America's real exceptional distinction shows itself to be a vanishing middle class and a flow of income to the top. Nothing exceptional about that unless you are one of the rich getting richer keeping the poor, poor.