What happened to the middle class?

[TalkingDog]

[leftstreet]

1. There was never a 'middle class.' It was well-paid working class

The 'middle class' has always been more or less the same: doctors, lawyers, ceo types etc

Working class Americans enjoyed an unprecedented and brief increase in pay and opportunities. It's over now and we're regressing with austerity

[FreakinDJ]

3. Your Wrong

I am what I consider "Middle Class"

Educated, Highly Skilled, Labor - 160K

These jobs for the most part have been outsourced to increase corporate profits

[leftstreet]

4. "you're" n/t

[FreakinDJ]

5. Doesn't change the fact your post is GOP propaganda

[leftstreet]

7. wtf? A well-paid working class is GOP propaganda?

LOL

[FreakinDJ]

9. Highly Skilled well Paying "Whole Industries" have been Outsourced

and yet you stand ideally by whistling in the dark hoping yours is not the next.

With "Facebook" paying a 0.3% corporate tax rate thanks wholly to the "Corporate Tax Loophole Rich Environment" that has not only encourages but provides lucrative financial incentives to ship American Jobs overseas - you have yet to fully grasp the cause of the shrinking American Middle class

[FreakinDJ]

2. The Middle Class has been Outsourced

[moondust]

10. and/or automated.

[FreakinDJ]

12. and those Automation Expert positions are being filled

by Visa Workers armed with a bogus substandard "Overseas Diploma Mill Sheepskin" at an ever increasing rate

[abelenkpe]

6. Great image

There's this too:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101787700
Who stole the American Dream?

Outlines what made that possible

[Rex]

8. Ronald Wilson Reagan FUCKED EVERYTHING UP

and is the primer for our economic abyss.

[FreakinDJ]

11. Before Reagan/After Reagan = Bye American Dream