Who killed the "American Dream" of being in the fairly paid middle-income/'middle class' and being able to afford your own home in the US of A ? The Republican Party sure did not help us. And Congress. And most of the last 5-6 Presidents,,,
More people are loosing their jobs now than in the so-called great depression,,,and 'the unemployed' is still a flawed statistic that only counts those that are still looking for work, even in company towns with no work, or the dying rust belt,,,
Medical care is the shits. Back just in the 1980s most SF employers would give you the choice of hospitals and doctors in their medical plans, with dental and optical. Now you get kaiser, which is very poor medical care and expensive for what you get!!
35 banks have failed and been taken over by the FDIC , just so far this year. And next year how many of the small bank shareholders will lose everything while the large bank shareholders ,like Citibank, will be unfairly bailed out by the taxpayers ,without their permission.
Our industrial base has been abandoned,left to rust, and or shipped overseas, even to our southern border on the mexican side with very dirty polluting factories called macilladoros. Like Iceland, we were told by the experts that all we needed was a big unregulated profit-churning Wall Street and high finance in the United States, not old school factories that actually made stuff. Boy, were they wrong.
How else will our tax money be wasted? Distant foreign wars with no hope , no chance of success, and terrible terrible costs in American lives and disabled Americans, and of course billions and trillions of tax dollars,,,such as the 'Korean War'(against China) and the Viet Nam war(against Chinese communists again,,,get it?) and Somalia,,,and the various Gulf wars that should not have been our blood, but the Saudis and other arabs to fight,,,and Afghanistan,,,creating more and more terrorists by having our bases where we are not welcome and do not have a vital interest, an economic interest maybe, but not a vital interest. What is N.Korea(backed by China,,,) goes nuclear?
Now we have 8-9 thousand people on the verge of losing their homes because of banker's toxic unfair mortgages,,,and the Congress is too busy procrastinating with the unethical and irresponsible banker lobbyists, who just ruined our national economy and the big three auto makers, oh and the international finance system.
So forget about a middle cash/class in America. And forget about owning your own home, unless you are part of the small minority rich and superrich. And the working poor can pretty much forget about Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid,,,oh, and pensions of the 'db' variety,,,and lousy idea of 401k retirement plans that don't have professional management,,,and forget about 'retirement' cuz they keep raising the 'senior' age and it will probably be 99 by the time the last baby boomer gets there.
Also forget the successful and rich giving a hoot / damn about you less fortunate or as they see it, 'lazy' and 'making bad choices' and definitely 'not hard working like us'. I know and limo drive alot of rich and superrich people and it is always amazing how easily hooked on making more and more money when they have millions and many houses it is for the 'successful' superrich and rich. They don't think luck or limited room at the top has anything to do with it because their egos are so inflated. They equate rich with personal success and being good/doing good and being useful in life; So shallow !!
Yep, there they go ignoring their families to make another 10 million. There they go with their tax shelters not paying their fair share. There they go doing as little as possible to give back to their community(what's that?!!), their family and their Nation. All the while patting themselves on their back, thinking they can buy their way into Heaven with a big funeral gift to some charity after a very selfish life.
And the president, congress and the public are encouraging them, fascinated with just being rich,,,what an american trajedy. Whether this was done intentionally or by accident , this is a terrible time to live in the USA.
