Posted on 04/03/2014 9:43:51 AM PDT by Red Badger
Communists hate the middle class - the middle class represents stability.
Nuke 80% of the $4 TRILLION government beast that is eating up America like Godzilla.
It’s a doomed city. It’s Detroit in 10 years.
Exactly. I read this article and immediately thought of Detroit.
Not a chance. It might declare bankruptcy, but that’s about it.
Behold liberalism/socialism at work...
You mean like Detroit, right?
The green areas show tremendous growth....?
Actually, there isn't enough information to conclude that the “rich simply got richer” — unless you're using a strictly relative measure of “richer”.
According to the legend, the graphic is based on the median income in the metro area. If you lower that median income, by substituting middle income families, with low income families, then a higher-income family that remains, will have a higher relative income — without needing to actually have more income. They will be “relatively” richer — but, not necessarily having more income.
‘Income inequality’ is a lie but to the extent it exists it was accelerated by Obama and many other ‘community organizers’ in Chicago.
It seems the rich simply got richer. In later years, the wealthy pushed the poor out of the near West Side. It appears that area bypassed the middle.
Embrace the suck? You get what the wagon riders vote into office?
I never plan on living in an urban area again.
Most big city’s went from Republican mayor to Democrat mayor in the mid ‘60s. This is the result.
Did the middle class leave or did they just become poor? Or both?
Also, if your pay stays the same you are automatically more poor compared to price increases...so not sure how they allocate for that.
This is what the neo-feudal New World Order looks like. A tiny, unaccountable Ruling Elite serviced by a small technocracy and feeding off a huge population of poor and near-poor.
Never happen.
From the time Chicago helped elect JFK to the point at which OBamugabe was fully supported in his POTUS bid, Chicago will ALWAYS stand solvent.
Let all others fail around us, but Chicago will survive; even when Putin conquers the shores of the Great Lakes, Chicago will not fail.
Y’all think about that...MOLON LABE.
The middle class shrunk dramatically, the poor increased significantly, but the rich also increased significantly. It isn’t - as the article states - simply that the rich got richer, but that there are a lot more rich than there used to be, e.g., compare the 1970 green areas to the 2012 green areas. So the economic stratification has changed from a diamond (many in the middle, few at the top or bottom), to kind of a bottom-heavy female torso (heavy hips/thighs, average waist, moderate bust) - kind of a Michelle Obama profile.
The rich leftist elites hate the middle class -- the children of the middle class, who start businesses and invent new technologies, are competition for their own kids.
This is why they try to sabotage the public school systems, and make college so expensive that middle-class graduates are so burdened with student loan debt that they will have to work for big corporations rather than starting their own companies.
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