Gone with the Globalization, that is the US Middle Class

[carlsbadworker]

[quote=joec]I forget where, but I’ve read before that the middle class is actually an anomaly. This doesn’t pertain to what’s going on now or in the last 5/10 years. But going back hundreds/thousands of years, society was primarily composed of a few elite wealthy and a very large poor class. It was always that way in history and we are merely reverting back to the norm.

The middle class in America arose after WWII with the baby boomers and peace time after the war. The boom from early technology, cars, electronics, appliances, etc…helped put a lot of folks get decent middle class jobs.

How true this really is, I don’t know. Maybe someone can find the article since I didn’t see it on a quick search.[/quote]

I think this is the article that you referred:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thom-hartmann/theres-nothing-normal-abo_b_32532.html

[Dukehorn]

There’s more than a little irony about a realtor in one of the wealthiest cities in the US talking about his views on poverty (and telling us it’s all good).

How about you head over to Detroit or the Rust Belt or some of the cities in Pennsylvania and then comment on the growth/stagnation of those blue collar cities? Have you ever been to some of the small towns in rural West Virginia or North Carolina? As for living like a “king” in these towns, where am I suppose to be employed?

Not trying to be an arse but you’re seriously out of touch with certain aspects of our society (and I’m not just talking about the microsm that is San Diego).

[Dukehorn]

There’s more than a little irony about a realtor in one of the wealthiest cities in the US talking about his views on poverty (and telling us it’s all good).

How about you head over to Detroit or the Rust Belt or some of the cities in Pennsylvania and then comment on the growth/stagnation of those blue collar cities? Have you ever been to some of the small towns in rural West Virginia or North Carolina? As for living like a “king” in these towns, where am I suppose to be employed?

Not trying to be an arse but you’re seriously out of touch with certain aspects of our society (and I’m not just talking about the microsm that is San Diego).

[Dukehorn]

There’s more than a little irony about a realtor in one of the wealthiest cities in the US talking about his views on poverty (and telling us it’s all good).

How about you head over to Detroit or the Rust Belt or some of the cities in Pennsylvania and then comment on the growth/stagnation of those blue collar cities? Have you ever been to some of the small towns in rural West Virginia or North Carolina? As for living like a “king” in these towns, where am I suppose to be employed?

Not trying to be an arse but you’re seriously out of touch with certain aspects of our society (and I’m not just talking about the microsm that is San Diego).

[Dukehorn]

There’s more than a little irony about a realtor in one of the wealthiest cities in the US talking about his views on poverty (and telling us it’s all good).

How about you head over to Detroit or the Rust Belt or some of the cities in Pennsylvania and then comment on the growth/stagnation of those blue collar cities? Have you ever been to some of the small towns in rural West Virginia or North Carolina? As for living like a “king” in these towns, where am I suppose to be employed?

Not trying to be an arse but you’re seriously out of touch with certain aspects of our society (and I’m not just talking about the microsm that is San Diego).

[Dukehorn]

There’s more than a little irony about a realtor in one of the wealthiest cities in the US talking about his views on poverty (and telling us it’s all good).

How about you head over to Detroit or the Rust Belt or some of the cities in Pennsylvania and then comment on the growth/stagnation of those blue collar cities? Have you ever been to some of the small towns in rural West Virginia or North Carolina? As for living like a “king” in these towns, where am I suppose to be employed?

Not trying to be an arse but you’re seriously out of touch with certain aspects of our society (and I’m not just talking about the microsm that is San Diego).

[sdrealtor]

Duke
Before I was a realtor I worked in corporate america. I worked as a roofer through high school and grew up in NJ/PA. I have been all over this fair country and travel through out it often. Yes Detroit has been descimated but there are now automakers with operations in NC, Alabama so alot of those jobs have been shifted from US auto companies in MI to foreign auto companies with ops in other states. I’ve driven cross country several times always stopping in small towns and enjoying the local color as well as talking to folks about small town life. I’ve been to Charleston W.V. (a beautiful town in a the Blue Ridge mountains with a river winding through it) as well as up and down the blue ridge mountains. I have a friend in Southern Pines, NC who I visit to play golf and have seen the abject poverty that has existed there…well forever.

Some towns die while others are born. It is the natural order of things. I am in no way out fo touch with our society in SD or beyond. In fact, I probably have as good a perspective on it as anyone on this board.

[sdrealtor]

Duke
Before I was a realtor I worked in corporate america. I worked as a roofer through high school and grew up in NJ/PA. I have been all over this fair country and travel through out it often. Yes Detroit has been descimated but there are now automakers with operations in NC, Alabama so alot of those jobs have been shifted from US auto companies in MI to foreign auto companies with ops in other states. I’ve driven cross country several times always stopping in small towns and enjoying the local color as well as talking to folks about small town life. I’ve been to Charleston W.V. (a beautiful town in a the Blue Ridge mountains with a river winding through it) as well as up and down the blue ridge mountains. I have a friend in Southern Pines, NC who I visit to play golf and have seen the abject poverty that has existed there…well forever.

Some towns die while others are born. It is the natural order of things. I am in no way out fo touch with our society in SD or beyond. In fact, I probably have as good a perspective on it as anyone on this board.

[sdrealtor]

Duke
Before I was a realtor I worked in corporate america. I worked as a roofer through high school and grew up in NJ/PA. I have been all over this fair country and travel through out it often. Yes Detroit has been descimated but there are now automakers with operations in NC, Alabama so alot of those jobs have been shifted from US auto companies in MI to foreign auto companies with ops in other states. I’ve driven cross country several times always stopping in small towns and enjoying the local color as well as talking to folks about small town life. I’ve been to Charleston W.V. (a beautiful town in a the Blue Ridge mountains with a river winding through it) as well as up and down the blue ridge mountains. I have a friend in Southern Pines, NC who I visit to play golf and have seen the abject poverty that has existed there…well forever.

Some towns die while others are born. It is the natural order of things. I am in no way out fo touch with our society in SD or beyond. In fact, I probably have as good a perspective on it as anyone on this board.

[sdrealtor]

Duke
Before I was a realtor I worked in corporate america. I worked as a roofer through high school and grew up in NJ/PA. I have been all over this fair country and travel through out it often. Yes Detroit has been descimated but there are now automakers with operations in NC, Alabama so alot of those jobs have been shifted from US auto companies in MI to foreign auto companies with ops in other states. I’ve driven cross country several times always stopping in small towns and enjoying the local color as well as talking to folks about small town life. I’ve been to Charleston W.V. (a beautiful town in a the Blue Ridge mountains with a river winding through it) as well as up and down the blue ridge mountains. I have a friend in Southern Pines, NC who I visit to play golf and have seen the abject poverty that has existed there…well forever.

Some towns die while others are born. It is the natural order of things. I am in no way out fo touch with our society in SD or beyond. In fact, I probably have as good a perspective on it as anyone on this board.

[sdrealtor]

Duke
Before I was a realtor I worked in corporate america. I worked as a roofer through high school and grew up in NJ/PA. I have been all over this fair country and travel through out it often. Yes Detroit has been descimated but there are now automakers with operations in NC, Alabama so alot of those jobs have been shifted from US auto companies in MI to foreign auto companies with ops in other states. I’ve driven cross country several times always stopping in small towns and enjoying the local color as well as talking to folks about small town life. I’ve been to Charleston W.V. (a beautiful town in a the Blue Ridge mountains with a river winding through it) as well as up and down the blue ridge mountains. I have a friend in Southern Pines, NC who I visit to play golf and have seen the abject poverty that has existed there…well forever.

Some towns die while others are born. It is the natural order of things. I am in no way out fo touch with our society in SD or beyond. In fact, I probably have as good a perspective on it as anyone on this board.

[briansd1]

[quote=SK in CV]
The African-American population, which is roughly 15% of the total population currently owns only approximately 1% of the wealth. And possibly more troubling, only 1/2% more than that population owned the year after the Civil War, though it’s percentage of the total population isn’t significantly different today than it was then. [/quote]

That’s very true. That’s why I support policies to provide opportunities to those who never had it.

That problem of inequity is not because of globalization.

[briansd1]

[quote=SK in CV]
The African-American population, which is roughly 15% of the total population currently owns only approximately 1% of the wealth. And possibly more troubling, only 1/2% more than that population owned the year after the Civil War, though it’s percentage of the total population isn’t significantly different today than it was then. [/quote]

That’s very true. That’s why I support policies to provide opportunities to those who never had it.

That problem of inequity is not because of globalization.

[briansd1]

[quote=SK in CV]
The African-American population, which is roughly 15% of the total population currently owns only approximately 1% of the wealth. And possibly more troubling, only 1/2% more than that population owned the year after the Civil War, though it’s percentage of the total population isn’t significantly different today than it was then. [/quote]

That’s very true. That’s why I support policies to provide opportunities to those who never had it.

That problem of inequity is not because of globalization.

[briansd1]

[quote=SK in CV]
The African-American population, which is roughly 15% of the total population currently owns only approximately 1% of the wealth. And possibly more troubling, only 1/2% more than that population owned the year after the Civil War, though it’s percentage of the total population isn’t significantly different today than it was then. [/quote]

That’s very true. That’s why I support policies to provide opportunities to those who never had it.

That problem of inequity is not because of globalization.

[Author]

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