With so many of our 30-60,000 dollar a year jobs going abroad what is going to save the middle class .
The only options they have are if the retail market of cheap imported goods remains strong and indications are that retail sales are down at all major low cost retailers .
SO even the 10-$15. an hour jobs are in danger of being lost .
Hand me downs and thrift stores are becoming the poor mans answer who can work at target but not afford the $6.00 shirts but instead goes to the salvation army for 5 shirts for $10.00 or $3.00 each .
So many Americans are making due with less and trying to hold on to homes and Good men are working two jobs . One all day to pay the bills and a second jobs as a security guard or night watchman just to keep food on the table .
They never see there family .
IS this what the american dream really is .7 years ago they worked at an auto plant or a machine shop or as foreman on construction jobs and now those jobs are gone .
Whats happened to our country .
2007-05-19 10:30:20 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Yes
But it's actually going to backfire on the rich.
See, I'm already compeating against my previous employer.
I'm dealing directly with my old bosses customers and actually taking them away from him. I can do it better and faster than he could, the money is the same but I'm better and faster.
The rich just caused a whole lot more competition against there own selves and are just too stupid to understand that.
2007-05-19 10:35:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Since:
1) Manufacturing jobs are decresaing world wide.
2) Manufactuing is moving off shore.
3) Both have been iccuring for decades independent of who controls the Whitehouse or Congress.
He had better find a way. The same thing happened to agricultural jobs in the 19th century. It is & will always be adapt or perish.
2007-05-19 10:48:30 · answer #2 · answered by yupchagee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about "doomed" but things need to change, or people will vote in people that will change things, maybe even extremists...
but, haven't you heard the Republicans... if you're not rich, you're lazy (many say it constantly on here), which apparently means that if you're working two jobs, you're lazy...
don't you just love that propaganda...they keep telling you you're lazy until you're working 24-7... who cares about quality of life... right?
I remember when a man could supprt his family on one income... now the wife has to work 40 hours, the man 70 hours, at two jobs, and if they are apparently still called lazy for not being rich in today's world...
but, who's benifiting from all this? maybe the companies that get thousands of hours of labor out of each employeee, paying them less on the value of the dollar than they did 20 years ago, for more work... but don't dare call them the bad guy, right...
but these same people go back into the booths and vote Republican again and again, because they say they are "moral"... hey, if they want to work all day and get called lazy for it... go crazy....
2007-05-19 11:00:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well people with degrees in engineering, law, medicine, will be fine. It's the working class that's suffering. They used to have nice union paid jobs that could support a family. Now they're losing those jobs to outsourcing and other "free trade" rules. The service jobs they're getting just aren't cutting it. That's why the poverty rate has gone up and median inflation adjusted household incomes have been going down.
2007-05-19 10:34:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Corporations exist to please shareholders and often cut labor costs to maximize profits. In order to compete with foreign laborers, American workers must work for less or lose their jobs.
It would be nice if corporations felt that its workers, the community and America were important, but the greed of the shareholders, in most cases the wealthy always wins in the end.
The middle class will soon be gone, and with it America as we know it.
You will never see this view in the media, as the media is run by corporations. It is a vicious circle.
2007-05-19 10:53:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Obama? LOL. It is the Republicans trying to bury the middle class. Who do you think will be picking up the slack again when the top 2% get another tax cut. Us, the middle class.
2016-05-17 18:05:00 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not only the middle class but the working class too.
2007-05-19 10:46:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The traditional middle class is doomed.
2007-05-19 10:39:35 · answer #8 · answered by msi_cord 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No... the middle class will be doomed by excessive taxation and unrestrained immigration.
2007-05-19 11:06:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's not doomed, but it will shrink to a fraction of what it once was.
2007-05-19 10:45:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋