Comments on: Middle-class areas shrinking in US

By: Jack Longchamps

Jack Longchamps — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:34:03 +0000

Yep it´s no different in Europe – the jobs
here of course have all moved to China.

I am however not so sure if the upper echelons
of society live such fundamentally different lives –
I mean a 100 $ meal will be much better
than a 10 $ one, but will a 10 k $ meal
be so much better than a 1 k $ one ?
Hardly possible, it´s all in the mind.

So this is all pretty bad and teaches us how
awfully much influence a citizen has
in our democracies, meaning none at all.
However it is a logical result of globalization
and general human condition (greed),
not necessarily of a sinister plot.

Everyone who still has the means should try
to go as independant as possible (off-grid etc.)
and start stowing away necessities…
because there´s more to come.

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By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:55:01 +0000

That city in the photo looks like it might be Pheonix,Arizona or Las Vagas,Nevada.Looks like those people in that photo look like the future of middle-class white America,destitute and living in tent cities.Soon the African-Americans will be joining them!

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By: Jean-Francois Morf

Jean-Francois Morf — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 09:44:37 +0000

1% chanting Allelujah:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp_RHnQ-jgU

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By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:03:31 +0000

To many manufacturing jobs have been transferred to northern Mexico and China and the pacific rim.I remember back in 1984 I would see advertisements in the wall street journal in one section of the wsj.Foreign governments from the pacific rim countries would encourage American companies to relocate to their countries and receive twenty year tax holidays.In 2008 the Hershey’s candy company opened a new faciliy to make some of their candy in Monterrey,Mexico,they shut down some manufacturing plants and consolidated some other plants and terminated employment with some of their unionized employees and move the jobs to Mexico and now Hershey’s pays there Mexican peasants $5 a day.The Reese’s peanut butter cups and the York peppermint pattys and the kool-aid powdered drink mix and some Nabisco crackers are manufactured in Mexico.This means that the jobs have moved to Mexico and pay starvation wages to the Mexican peasants.It’s up to the congress and Obama to stop all this outsourcing ofmiddle-class jobs to Mexico and China and CAFTA countries.Makes more sense to me if these jobs stayed in the U.S.A.,because the money earned by U.S. citizens pays for the different types of taxes to support state and municipal governments and retirees.The OWS protestors should be protesting the outsourcing of middle-class American jobs.

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