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thanks to the Grand Oil Party – yes
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Yes it is and the only thing that would bring the middle class and the economy back would be equal tariffs on all countries who have a tariff on us so we can compete.
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Great article! There are several things we must avoid in order to become financially stable and not retire broke. An interesting article on this subject is:

Worse Financial Decisions You Can Make To Guarantee Bankruptcy During Retirement!

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Giving Tax cuts to the rich will just make the rich get richer.
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Bill Clinton signed NAFTA and started the "giant sucking sound" of jobs leaving the country.

What is Obama doing to stop it?

http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/the-u.s.-middle-class-is-being-wiped-out-here%27s-the-stats-to-prove-it-520657.html?tickers=^DJI,^GSPC,SPY,MCD,WMT,XRT,DIA
The Middle Class in America Is Radically Shrinking. Here Are the Stats to Prove it
"the globalism and "free trade" that our politicians and business leaders insisted would be so good for us have had some rather nasty side effects. It turns out that they didn’t tell us that the "global economy" would mean that middle class American workers would eventually have to directly compete for jobs with people on the other side of the world where there is no minimum wage and very few regulations. The big global corporations have greatly benefited by exploiting third world labor pools over the last several decades, but middle class American workers have increasingly found things to be very tough.

Here are the statistics to prove it:

• 83 percent of all U.S. stocks are in the hands of 1 percent of the people.
• 61 percent of Americans "always or usually" live paycheck to paycheck, which was up from 49 percent in 2008 and 43 percent in 2007.
• 66 percent of the income growth between 2001 and 2007 went to the top 1% of all Americans.
• 36 percent of Americans say that they don’t contribute anything to retirement savings.
• A staggering 43 percent of Americans have less than $10,000 saved up for retirement.
• 24 percent of American workers say that they have postponed their planned retirement age in the past year.
• Over 1.4 million Americans filed for personal bankruptcy in 2009, which represented a 32 percent increase over 2008.
• Only the top 5 percent of U.S. households have earned enough additional income to match the rise in housing costs since 1975.
• For the first time in U.S. history, banks own a greater share of residential housing net worth in the United States than all individual Americans put together.
• In 1950, the ratio of the average executive’s paycheck to the average worker’s paycheck was about 30 to 1. Since the year 2000, that ratio has exploded to between 300 to 500 to one.
• As of 2007, the bottom 80 percent of American households held about 7% of the liquid financial assets.
• The bottom 50 percent of income earners in the United States now collectively own less than 1 percent of the nation’s wealth.
• Average Wall Street bonuses for 2009 were up 17 percent when compared with 2008.
• In the United States, the average federal worker now earns 60% MORE than the average worker in the private sector.
• The top 1 percent of U.S. households own nearly twice as much of America’s corporate wealth as they did just 15 years ago.
• In America today, the average time needed to find a job has risen to a record 35.2 weeks.
• More than 40 percent of Americans who actually are employed are now working in service jobs, which are often very low paying.
• or the first time in U.S. history, more than 40 million Americans are on food stamps, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture projects that number will go up to 43 million Americans in 2011.
• This is what American workers now must compete against: in China a garment worker makes approximately 86 cents an hour and in Cambodia a garment worker makes approximately 22 cents an hour.
• Approximately 21 percent of all children in the United States are living below the poverty line in 2010 – the highest rate in 20 years.
• Despite the financial crisis, the number of millionaires in the United States rose a whopping 16 percent to 7.8 million in 2009.
• The top 10 percent of Americans now earn around 50 percent of our national income.

Giant Sucking Sound

The reality is that no matter how smart, how strong, how educated or how hard working American workers are, they just cannot compete with people who are desperate to put in 10 to 12 hour days at less than a dollar an hour on the other side of the world. After all, what corporation in their right mind is going to pay an American worker 10 times more (plus benefits) to do the same job? The world is fundamentally changing. Wealth and power are rapidly becoming concentrated at the top and the big global corporations are making massive amounts of money. Meanwhile, the American middle class is being systematically wiped out of existence as U.S. workers are slowly being merged into the new "global" labor pool. "
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This current regime is doing it’s damnest to wipe out the middle class. Obama wants two types of people in the US poor and dependent on the government, and the elite wealthy making all the decisions.
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The poor in this country are in general middle class. They own $120,000 homes and eat well. All because of a JOB.

No, robbing the responsible to enrich the government….makes EVERYONE EXTREMELY POOR.
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The wealthy captains of industry want to reintroduce serfdom in this country, by crushing the middle and working class into indebtedness. Hitler wasn’t history’s greatest monster, Reagan was. American class mobility is a myth.
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No. I’m considered middle class and I’m more hopeful for America and feeling much better these days than I’ve felt in a long (8 years) time. The statistics you mentioned hardly ever changes – the rich getting richer, jobs continue to go overseas, Southeast Asian and Asian workers still earn fraction of U.S. wages, etc. I was hoping Reagan’s trickle-down economics would work. Yes, its working mostly for the rich and powerful.
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Yes because the rich get richer while the poor stays poor and middle class gets tax to death.
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