What is your STANCE on outsourcing, and the eventual elimination of middle class America? Should action be taken? Is it to late for action? What should the middle class do? Should big business do something (rhetorical)?
2007-02-13 09:51:49 · 11 answers · asked by Melle 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
The middle class was destroyed after the liberals instituted:
-Higher taxes
-The Estate tax
-The Alternative Minimum tax
-Costly welfare systems
2007-02-13 09:56:12 · answer #1 · answered by infobrokernate 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Alrighty, lots of questions, little space so here goes....
The Middle class is still there though you are correct in assuming that it will probably be gone in the next generation or two due largely to the trend toward socialism that the US is heading. This is thanks largely due to liberals and our liberal policy minded president.
Out-sourcing--- I have mixed reviews. I believe in capitalism and the right for a business to minimize expenses where possible in order to seek the highest profit. That said, I also have a tremendous desire for national security and that is not limited to guns and bombs. During the War Between the States, one major advantage the NOrth had over the South was in manufacturing. If we were to out-source our production capabilities too far, we would lose the ability to prosecute a war if a major power threatened the US. We would, in essence, repeat the mistake of the South.
The elimination of the middle-class will not be due to out-sourcing but as a result of the socialization of the US as a nation. Is it too late to stop out-sourcing? No but it would take a concerted effort across the nation. People coming together regardless of ideological differences and saying that we must have laws mandating a certain level of production with-in the US.
Big business should, theoretically, look not only at the bottom line and profit margin but at helping to secure our nation's way-of-life. For example, what would happen to Wal-Mart's profits if the Chinese, in search for resources to fulfill the needs of its explolding population, were to attack the US mainland. How many tanks and planes and bullets would we get if our production of engines were moved to China and they became hostile. This example has a place in history as the reason the Japanes attacked the US in WW2 was because we choked off their supply of oil. They could have actually attacked quite far in-land if they had not backed off after attacking Hawaii.
2007-02-13 18:44:09 · answer #2 · answered by Wookie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Funny thing happened on the way to the forum . We had taxes of around 75% in a graduated tax system right through most of the sixties and a growing middle class .What ended it was civil rights and the thought that blacks would be joining the middle class by working hard . This backlash against blacks is today being seen in the downfall of the working people . A college degree insures that sitting on your butt managing others will insure some whites of success over the black race . February is Black History month so I have tried to include how I feel racism is a key component in education and the middle class as both are falling apart and until the civil rights movement we had steady growth and people where able to own a home and raise a family on one income .
2007-02-13 18:07:44 · answer #3 · answered by -----JAFO---- 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The middle class in this country is going the way of affordable health care, straight into the history books.
Outsourcing stinks, it was just another way for corporations to find cheap labor overseas and make obsence profits that go the large shareholders and the Boards of Directors. I should know, my job was outsourced to India.
The middle class should raise hell and stop letting the those members of Congress get away with their pansy responses, from either party. The previous Republican led Congress used the bogeyman of terrorism, to scare people into keeping them in power so that they could prostrate themselves for special interests. If, this Democratically led Congress does the same thing, vote their a***s out. Stop with this crap that- ooh Congress is bad, but I like my Congressman, (s)he is a nice person, I'll keep him/her. That mindset has been part of the problem. Homeland security begins at home and jobs that involve our personal lives, such as medical records, social security numbers should NEVER have been farmed out to foreign countries. We need to fight and get them back here. We know big business should something about it but corporate greed has been hard to fight. We need to take a stand and buy American. I know it is hard because wages have been stagnant, but we have to draw a line in the sand somewhere. We don't buy crap made in China and India etc. It will be more expensive but we have to do something to give big business a wake up call that they need to take care of here that will help ultimately their bottom line. If the middle class disappears no one will be able to afford to buy the cheaper crap from China and will be two classes of people the rich and the poor- might as well be a third world country then.
2007-02-13 18:20:03 · answer #4 · answered by thequeenreigns 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are being mauled by big business. My land line phone bill has ten dollars worth of fees, taxes and other mumbo jumbo nobody understands, on a twenty six dollar bill. I was also paying a fee to them for their losses because of storms. Who was paying me for my losses? Credit cards, miss a payment and they are worse than owing the mob money. People are being hit with over thirty percent interest rates. Unlawful, no. Ethical, you decide? Exxon-Mobil, seventy five billion in profits the last two years, while we pay three bucks for a gallon of gasoline. We are being feed and hidden charged to death. Bank of America tapping the illegal alien market offering major credit cards. Unlawful, no. Ethical? You decide. Business has become our new religion and Ben Franklin is God. Big business and big government are a tough monopoly to break.
2007-02-13 18:20:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same place the Roman middle class went, to the poor!
The world has the same problems that besieged Rome, too many rich, too many poor & the middle class is sinking fast.
The middle class support both ends of the spectrum & it cannot continue to do so. The rich keep demanding more, & there are more people becoming poor. The middle class is shrinking in size, loss of jobs, loss of benifits, cost of living rising & fewer jobs that pay a living wage. We will go the way of Rome!
2007-02-13 18:12:07 · answer #6 · answered by geegee 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
30 years ago liberals cried we had to join the world community. Well, guess what, we did and this is what happens. Adapt of die. Unions have sucked the life of companies with grandeous benefit packages for years, just look at the auto industry and get your own answer. I am surprised they are still around.
2007-02-13 18:08:09 · answer #7 · answered by zombiefighter1988 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Middle Class has moved on up to the Upper Class.
And many of us Lower Class have moved to the Middle Class.
Thanks to JFK, Reagan, and Bush cutting taxes on us & business.
The Lower Class is still Democrats who are able, but refuse to work.
2007-02-13 17:59:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Whats the idea with the "middleclass"? Are they some big powerfull organisation? nothing....
2007-02-13 19:30:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow, what a bucket of hooey that question is!
2007-02-13 17:54:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋