Monday, July 24, 2023

Where has the Middle Class Gone?

Al Ritter


Over the last 3 decades the middle class has slowly been dissolving. The working class of blue collar workers used to be the most prevalent group in America. They outnumbered the rich and the poor by many times over and yet they are disappearing daily, but why?

The middle class were factory workers they were laborers they were proud union members, they were the moderates of our society. They were from both conservative and liberal households and they were proud to be Americans and were equally proud to serve in the Armed Forces.

They were the small business owners, the Mom and Pop drug store owners, the hardware store owners, the gas station owners, in short the entrepreneurs of America.

Where have they gone? What happened to them? Most were eaten up by the glut of the big box stores and online sales groups. Gone is the personal touch, and the customer service of yesterday.

The push for college educations is partly to blame, kids getting degrees in useless subjects and then entering the working world with only liberal indoctrination to show for their 4 years of saddled student debt.

Gone are the electricians, the plumbers, the construction workers and almost all manual labor workforce, only to be outsourced by the influx of illegal alien workers that will work for pennies on the dollar under their American citizen counterparts.

If you talk to a man who owns a plumbing company, a construction company, or landscape contractor, they will all tell you the same thing, they can’t find anyone to work. It seems that nobody is entering the trades anymore.

Jobs are being outsourced, products are being outsourced to China. America makes very little anymore because of the loss of the middle class. Homelessness has taken over the country, California now encompasses the downfall of the country to an extreme.

While the number of millionaires has increased in America, along with the poor, the numbers of the middle class is dwindling.

What was one the logical voice of America is now gone, they were the moderates the conscience of America. They told the lawmakers what they expected from our country.

So with the loss of reason and conscience, the country has turned into a county of the oppressed and the oppressors.

Sadly I don’t see us coming back from the abyss.

Watch these two videos for an in depth explanation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTgEq0aa6XY&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r0m4UCPKHw

7 comments:

Georgia Peach said...

I've been saying this for years, thanks for confirming my theory

Slyfox said...

It's disgusting to see what this great nation has become

Terri o said...

So sad that our country continues to go down this dark hole!

Moy918 said...

Because dumbasses keep voting democrap, who are communists and in communist countries a person is either rich or poor.

Ray in Lubbock said...

This is the reason so many great democracies such as Rome failed

Justin H said...

There is no middle class now FJB HAS RUINED IT PURPOSELY WITH OBAMA’S. GUIDANCE !!!

Dave R said...

Great Post!