ROGER4314
Been Called "Flash" Since I Was A Kid!
RAPE OF THE US MIDDLE CLASS
Most of you guys know that I’ve been retired for 1-½ years after being forced out of the work force. Companies will not hire older workers regardless of qualifications or abilities. So I ride my bike, listen and observe.
I’ve been riding my bicycles every day and simply observing what I normally drove by in a hurry and ignored. The alarm bells are ringing!
I hear that credit is impossible to get and loans for new homes are locked down yet I see new construction taking place at a rate that is beyond belief! New homes are shooting up like popcorn in areas that offer $200K and minimum 2500 square foot homes. Lots are being snapped up and foundations are poured every day. I have lived here for almost 20 years and have never seen anything like this building boom. Credit for YOU as a middle class worker, is shut off. Someone is damned sure getting financing!
I am not a prejudiced person and love my Hispanic friends and neighbors but something is wrong. I see not one Gringo working on those homes. I stop and chat with the workers, use their porta -potties and get to know them a little bit. Hardly any of the workers speak English. Where are the Gringos in the workforce? There is not ONE!
According to Abraham Maslow in his “Hierarchy of Needs”, we take care of our needs from food, shelter, water etc and when those needs are satisfied, we look to satisfy other needs like giving to others, self fulfillment etc. When folks are starving, their concern for the price of tea in China is very low. The middle class has been destroyed so the Liberal side can defeat their Conservative opponents!
The term used in Economics is “WASP” or White Anglo-Saxon, Protestant. As a class, the “Wasps” are a dying group. Perhaps the term "Murdered" is more appropriate. The numbers are still there but the power is gone because they are frozen out of the workforce. People living under a bridge have no political power. That is no accident!
The Baby Boomers were the largest conservative voting block in America and to disarm their political clout, they are being starved out. We all jumped on the 401K bandwagon, made some money then they kicked the bottom out of the boat. Insiders still make money as they buy and sell along the bumps in the market but folks who are in it for the long haul, get steadily smashed. That is not an accident! The Government wants the middle class to be broke and whipped!
Social Security funds were pissed away instead of being invested. The SS system truly IS a Ponzi Scheme but only because Congress pissed away our money instead of investing it. Had it been managed properly, the SS system would be viable. That was no accident! I made a good income and paid into that system for 50 years while there were few retirees. Millions of my fellow Boomers did, too. Where is that money?
One by one, our middle class members are being wiped out. There are only the workers and the money folks…… a two class system. If you are still in the working middle class, you have a giant target on your back. NAFTA got most of us by shipping our jobs out of the country. The jobs will return when we will work for $5.00 per hour and not one minute sooner. That is by design.
It is no accident that our economy is in the crapper and as Charley Reese; a columnist explains the role of Congress in our economic problems:
“If our tax code is unfair it’s because they want it to be unfair”
“If our budget is in the red it’s because they want it to be in the red.”
To continue his premise, if we are out of work, it is because they WANT us to be out of work.
Our United States Middle Class is being destroyed, exactly as the Liberal Congress wants it to be. The middle class and specifically the “WASP” element, are being starved out of their homes. In that way, the Conservative power of that block of voters is nullified.
Not a WASP and don’t care? If they can do it to us, they can do it to you! Our nation is being redesigned by treachery and deceit. The 2012 elections will not change anything. It’s just too late and the big money boys have won. Things will pick up when we have a society comprised of two classes……..The “Haves” and the “Have Nots”.
Flash
Most of you guys know that I’ve been retired for 1-½ years after being forced out of the work force. Companies will not hire older workers regardless of qualifications or abilities. So I ride my bike, listen and observe.
I’ve been riding my bicycles every day and simply observing what I normally drove by in a hurry and ignored. The alarm bells are ringing!
I hear that credit is impossible to get and loans for new homes are locked down yet I see new construction taking place at a rate that is beyond belief! New homes are shooting up like popcorn in areas that offer $200K and minimum 2500 square foot homes. Lots are being snapped up and foundations are poured every day. I have lived here for almost 20 years and have never seen anything like this building boom. Credit for YOU as a middle class worker, is shut off. Someone is damned sure getting financing!
I am not a prejudiced person and love my Hispanic friends and neighbors but something is wrong. I see not one Gringo working on those homes. I stop and chat with the workers, use their porta -potties and get to know them a little bit. Hardly any of the workers speak English. Where are the Gringos in the workforce? There is not ONE!
According to Abraham Maslow in his “Hierarchy of Needs”, we take care of our needs from food, shelter, water etc and when those needs are satisfied, we look to satisfy other needs like giving to others, self fulfillment etc. When folks are starving, their concern for the price of tea in China is very low. The middle class has been destroyed so the Liberal side can defeat their Conservative opponents!
The term used in Economics is “WASP” or White Anglo-Saxon, Protestant. As a class, the “Wasps” are a dying group. Perhaps the term "Murdered" is more appropriate. The numbers are still there but the power is gone because they are frozen out of the workforce. People living under a bridge have no political power. That is no accident!
The Baby Boomers were the largest conservative voting block in America and to disarm their political clout, they are being starved out. We all jumped on the 401K bandwagon, made some money then they kicked the bottom out of the boat. Insiders still make money as they buy and sell along the bumps in the market but folks who are in it for the long haul, get steadily smashed. That is not an accident! The Government wants the middle class to be broke and whipped!
Social Security funds were pissed away instead of being invested. The SS system truly IS a Ponzi Scheme but only because Congress pissed away our money instead of investing it. Had it been managed properly, the SS system would be viable. That was no accident! I made a good income and paid into that system for 50 years while there were few retirees. Millions of my fellow Boomers did, too. Where is that money?
One by one, our middle class members are being wiped out. There are only the workers and the money folks…… a two class system. If you are still in the working middle class, you have a giant target on your back. NAFTA got most of us by shipping our jobs out of the country. The jobs will return when we will work for $5.00 per hour and not one minute sooner. That is by design.
It is no accident that our economy is in the crapper and as Charley Reese; a columnist explains the role of Congress in our economic problems:
“If our tax code is unfair it’s because they want it to be unfair”
“If our budget is in the red it’s because they want it to be in the red.”
To continue his premise, if we are out of work, it is because they WANT us to be out of work.
Our United States Middle Class is being destroyed, exactly as the Liberal Congress wants it to be. The middle class and specifically the “WASP” element, are being starved out of their homes. In that way, the Conservative power of that block of voters is nullified.
Not a WASP and don’t care? If they can do it to us, they can do it to you! Our nation is being redesigned by treachery and deceit. The 2012 elections will not change anything. It’s just too late and the big money boys have won. Things will pick up when we have a society comprised of two classes……..The “Haves” and the “Have Nots”.
Flash
Neither the far left nor the far right have the solution to the problem that is 2011 America. The solution falls somewhere in the middle.
