I'm reading a lot of people getting lost in the statistics and a lot of people not being able to see the big picture. There are actually better statistics than that about this problem but, yes, it's true. The Middle Class in America is dying. One of the biggest reasons why there was a middle class is because outsourcing was unheard of. It was impossile to have instant information, poorer countries could never hope to be trained to fill these jobs, and most people only spoke one language. What's happening in America now which hey don't want you to know is companies are outsourcing every job they can while a lot of the middle-class jobs are being inflated and stolen by immigrants. Even college degrees don't guarantee people jobs anymore. Some people will try and convince people that the middle class has not dissappeared but moved up in income so the upper middle class is now the middle middle class. This is not true also. The Majority is the Middle Middle Class and Lower Middle Class. Upper middle class people are a far smaller group. Also, today even if someone gets a Master's degree or even a doctorate does not guarantee them to be in the Upper middle class income bracket. The truth is the standard of living is going down and the gap between the rich and poor is widening. This is why the rich are getting richer. It's not because of economic growth, that's for sure. If anything, the US has more competition than ever economically. The top guys are getting richer because they're paying less. And the poor guys are getting poorer because they increasingly have to settle for lower and lower income jobs; basically jobs that can't be outsourced. Look at retail stores. They build far more retail stores than anything today because you can't outsource it and everyone wants to sell their crap here. That's the way I see it and by now am pretty convinced of it.

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