Democrats and harvard/yale egghead academics look down on Manufacturing because it might be dirty and cause climate change.So 19th century..
Plus its alot nicer pushing paper around in a air conditioned office than being out in a dirty, smelly, sweaty shop, making stuff.Making stuff is so underclass..
Republicans look down on Manufacturing for the simple reason that your middle income Manufacturing job, pays to much.For 30 years they have been running all over the world..NAFTA,CAFTA,TPP.
Sad to see the party of Goldwater,Eisenhower and Regan all over the world sucking foreign dick to get a higher stock price and there elections paid for.
The "advanced economy" is a mandated 15 dollar minimum wage service sector job and chitty goverment heathcare.
And a slow spiral to a lower standard of living.
This is true.
We're becoming a two class society, the upper class of folks earning $200K plus a year, and a lower class that's living on government handouts. The upper class thinks things are OK because their stock portfolios are doing well. Their portfolios are doing well because companies have become super efficient by outsourcing all their production to China/Mexico and getting rid of all their "overpriced" U.S. labor. The lower class thinks things are OK because Obama is sending unprecedented amounts of welfare their way and they don't have to work. Why work when you can make $50K a year sitting on your arse?
The ones in the middle are the one's getting killed. You're not rich if you earn $100K a year in America any more. You're getting the hell taxed out of you to pay for the ones on welfare that end up with as much take home pay as you, and you're working your arse off to make that $100K because if you don't then your company is going to get some chinese guy to do your job at $2 a day.
The sad fact is that both parties are part of the problem when it comes to the decline of the middle class in America. Democrats don't want a strong middle class because they don't reliably vote democrat, much better for them to have 90% of the population drawing a government check. They're democrats for life then. Republicans want businesses to max out their profitability and keep the stock market booming under the trickle down theories of Reagan. As good as Reagan was for the nation, trickle down doesn't work when you've outsourced your middle class, we're trickling to China and Mexico now instead of to our own population.
In the same vein is immigration. The reason we can't get a grasp on our immigration problem is no one in government really wants to stop the flood of illegals, it's all lip service. It just wouldn't be that hard to stop. Quit giving them welfare, driver's licenses, free healthcare. Fine the hell out of people employing them and it'd quit overnight. The reason we have an immigration problem is because democrats want to stack the nation with more democrat voters in the future, and republicans want the cheap labor so their benefactors won't have to pay an American a living wage for labor. It's that simple.
Obama (and Hillary's) policies have gutted the middle class in America and will continue to do so. America is unique in that it's really the only nation in the world that has a real functioning middle class, now that's going away. That has been the draw of this nation for the last 150 years. Many will argue that Europe has a middle class but it really doesn't, it has a small ruling cabal of ultra-rich from the mostly inherited money class and it has a lower class that mostly work but have their well-being tied to the government. Many will argue that Germans are mostly middle class but the average family is going to raise their kids in a 1200 sq. ft. apartment, has at the most one car, has government healthcare and send their kids to a government school. Sure, they get a month of vacation a year and have enough money to go to the beer hall twice a week, but their opportunity for social mobility is very limited. They're happy with their lives for the most part but that's not what I think of when I think "middle class" in a U.S. sense.
