7 Signs America Has Regressed Back To the Harsh, Cruel 19th Century

[signalmankenneth]

http://www.alternet.org/print/economy/7-signs-america-has-regressed-back-harsh-cruel-19th-century

The New Gilded Age?!!

 

[tekkychick]

Washington Times reports, “Americans are working approximately 11 more hours per week now than they did in the 1970s, yet the average income for middle-income families has declined by 13% (when adjusting for inflation).”

and

As Jordan Weissman [12] demonstrated in the Atlantic last year, the top 1 percent and the top 10 percent capture more of our national income now than they did in the 1700s, before we won our nation’s independence. Inequality was worse by 1860, but is even worse today than in either century.

This country enacted a series of laws which enabled Americans to achieve social mobility. But in the wake of cuts to everything from education to childhood nutrition, and with the decline of the American middle-class, those opportunities are fading too.

Here’s one of the main reasons the middle-class is declining: With no strong counterforce representing employees, corporations are also amassing more wealth than ever. The charts Henry Blodget [13] made last year remain essentially unchanged: as corporations amass more and more wealth, they’re sharing less and less of it with workers in the form of wages.

As G. William Domhoff [14] shows, by the end of the Reagan era the percentage of national wealth going to the top 1 percent had returned to pre-1929 levels. It has continued to climb since then. A recent review of 2012 economic data shows, among other things, that the top 1 percent saw their incomes rise by a staggering 32 percent in one year—and that the top 10 percent captured more than half of our nation’s income for the first time since they started tracking this data a century ago.

Yeppers, rich get richer, the rest of us don't.

 

[NOVA]

Makes perfect sense when you consider the country is being flooded, to the tune of 10's of millions, with the uneducated, the poorest, and the criminal elements from every
country in the world......with not only no attempt to stem the flow but more recently with open arms........all with the hope that these people will
become voters for the Democrats in the future.....power over the wellfare of the nation, thats the democrat creed.

 

[Anti-Party]

That sums it up very well. Great post.

 

[Crashk]

Makes perfect sense when you consider the country is being flooded, to the tune of 10's of millions, with the uneducated, the poorest, and the criminal elements from every
country in the world......with not only no attempt to stem the flow but more recently with open arms........all with the hope that these people will
become voters for the Democrats in the future.....power over the wellfare of the nation, thats the democrat creed.

http://vladimiramichalkova.edublogs.org/files/2011/03/3-wise-monkeys-1ow9lqf.png

 

[Crashk]

Maybe I didn't make it clear Nova. You are so blind, deaf and dumb that you can't or won't see the real problem

 

[Anti-Party]

Makes perfect sense when you consider the country is being flooded, to the tune of 10's of millions, with the uneducated, the poorest, and the criminal elements from every
country in the world......with not only no attempt to stem the flow but more recently with open arms........all with the hope that these people will
become voters for the Democrats in the future.....power over the wellfare of the nation, thats the democrat creed.

You mean the Country WAS flooded with these people. Slavery is over. And we did not allow them to get educated, heck, we didn't even allow them to swim in our pools and WEIRD that some still can't swim. Wanna know why? Because no one who knew how to swim taught them how to swim, they didn't have an education because everyone wants to be like mom and dad who happened to be uneducated, and with uneducation comes little money.....

Now I'm thinking I might be wrong though. Everyone knows the Right doesn't really want to stop illegal immigration because they are the new form of slavery. They had many chances to take a strong stance to stop it and didn't. Too focused on war I guess.