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Mainecoons
12-31-2013, 11:40 AM
A very interesting read from Stratfor.

I've been saying this all along:


The agility of the American corporation is critical. The right will argue that allowing the free market (http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/financial-markets-politics-and-new-reality) to function will fix the problem. The free market doesn't guarantee social outcomes, merely economic ones. In other words, it may give more efficiency on the whole and grow the economy as a whole, but by itself it doesn't guarantee how wealth is distributed. The left cannot be indifferent to the historical consequences of extreme redistribution of wealth. The right cannot be indifferent to the political consequences of a middle-class life undermined, nor can it be indifferent to half the population's inability to buy the products and services that businesses sell.

Read more: The Crisis of the Middle Class and American Power | Stratfor (http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/crisis-middle-class-and-american-power#ixzz2p4UJOq99)

Cigar
12-31-2013, 11:46 AM
When did you start giving a shit about the middle class ?

lynn
12-31-2013, 12:11 PM
The solution to the middle class crisis is we need new innovations for jobs that can employ lots of low educated people. Where we once had many factories that built the steps to the middle class, we need something to replace it otherwise there will be eventually no middle class.