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28 Signs That The Middle Class Is Heading Towards Extinction
zero hedge ^ | 2/6/14 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 02/06/2014 5:34:02 PM PST by Nachum

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21 posted on 02/06/2014 9:24:38 PM PST by AllAmericanGirl44
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Thanks for the list.


22 posted on 02/07/2014 3:34:14 AM PST by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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You don't have to ask major U.S. corporations if the middle class is dying. This fact is showing up plain as day in their sales numbers. The following is from a recent New York Times article entitled "The Middle Class Is Steadily Eroding. Just Ask the Business World".

Stealing this from 2ndDivisionVet:

Back when NAFTA first went through, and businesses were stampeding down to Mexico, I started writing the politicians, media, and CEOs, telling them that in this short-sidedness, they were overlooking the fact that they were laying off each others customers. Either silence or a paternalistic pat on the head boilerplate letter on how good "Global Competition" (i.e. a race to the bottom) would be for American workers. That and "right-wing kook" from the workers I contacted.

Fast forward to China, India, et al and I kept up the campaign, more as a spleen-venting exercise, as the replies were all the same from everyone.

Now, like Capt. Renault, they are shocked, I tell you, shocked that this is happening. Bullshot, they knew what they were doing and didn't care as long as the bottom-line wasn't affected. Now, those guys have retired with plush pensions and the Newbies are having a Holy Sh!t moment.

23 posted on 02/07/2014 5:32:22 AM PST by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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Start raising your own food, folks. Grow a big garden.

If your yard is too shady for a garden, install a chicken coop.


24 posted on 02/07/2014 6:33:11 AM PST by Renfield (Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
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