[Tarpon]

Hey amazingly the same thing happened in Venezuela. Equal misery for all ... The liberal utopia.

[Tarpon]

Hey amazingly the same thing happened in Venezuela. Equal misery for all ... The liberal utopia.

[the_Watchman]

But some experts pointed out that as the lower class' proportion to the population is growing, that doesn't necessarily mean that the middle class is vanishing, but simply that the lower income class is increasing

Clearly some "experts" who are barely qualified to fill out income tax returns! They must want cushy jobs in the Obama administration.

[elcid1970]

Lebe wohl, Deutschland! Das ist das Ende....das Ende.

[Bob Buchholz]

I’m not a math major, simply a computer science major, but if the middle class dropped by 2.5% and the lower class went up by 4% and the upper class also went up by 3%, either we now have 105.5% of the people is all classes or else there are about 5.5% of classless people.

[US Navy Vet]

Germany went into the toilet when Otto Von Bismark took over. Never forget Germany “gave(inflicted)” on us(the World) Engels and Marx.

[ken5050]

Germany went through a huge upheaval with reunification...the cost was tremendous, but the west was near unanimous in the need/obligation todo so. I wonder how this has skewed the stats...

[LeonardFMason]

Mein Kampf2 coming soon to a Germany near you.

[Wuli]

There is something fishy in the stats.

The decline in the Middle Class represented only 2.5% of the population. Yet, the lowest income group grew by 4% of the population and the highest income group grew by 3% of the population??? A net gain of 4.5%??? (-2.5 + 4 + 3 = 4.5).

And the error shows in the totals, 64% + (22% - 4%) + (19% - 3%) = 98.5%; 61.5% + 22% + 19% = 102.5%; 102.5% - 98% = 4.5%.