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indago
05-14-2016, 06:53 PM
From The Associated Press 11 May 2016:
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A widening wealth gap is moving more households into either higher- or lower-income groups in major metro areas, with fewer remaining in the middle, according to a report released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center. ..."The shrinking of the American middle class is a pervasive phenomenon," said Rakesh Kochhar, associate research director for Pew and the lead author of the report.

...Wendell Nolen, 52, has experienced the slide from middle-class status first-hand. Eight years ago, he was earning $28 an hour as a factory worker for Detroit's American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings, assembling axles for pickup trucks and SUVs. But early in 2008, the good life unraveled. After a three-month strike, Nolen took a buyout rather than a pay cut. Less than a year later, the plant was closed and American Axle shipped much of its work to Mexico.

Now Nolen makes $17 an hour in the shipping department of a Detroit steel fabricator, about 40 percent less than he made at the axle plant.
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article (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MIDDLE_CLASS_DECLINE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-05-11-21-18-31)

Like we didn't know this already...

We're well on our way in our RACE TO THE BOTTOM so that we can compete with the lessor developed countries, but we still have a long way to go...

fj1200
05-15-2016, 06:08 AM
Damn corporate income tax. :shakesfist:

namvet
05-15-2016, 08:47 AM
damned niggers

Tyr-Ziu Saxnot
05-15-2016, 08:52 AM
damned niggers

Most will shun such words but truth should not be shunned methinks..
Globalists and dems have used the so-called black cause to wreck havoc upon this nation.
White women voters and blacks gave obama the office twice..
Truth may sting but thats the truth..--Tyr

namvet
05-15-2016, 09:03 AM
Most will shun such words but truth should not be shunned methinks..
Globalists and dems have used the so-called black cause to wreck havoc upon this nation.
White women voters and blacks gave obama the office twice..
Truth may sting but thats the truth..--Tyr

when Trump walks in the WH you'll see coons jumping out windows. there enough of em there to make a Tarzan movie

fj1200
05-16-2016, 08:54 AM
damned niggers

Beg pardon?

Gunny
05-16-2016, 02:15 PM
when Trump walks in the WH you'll see coons jumping out windows. there enough of em there to make a Tarzan movie

So un-PC. But funny as Hell. :laugh:

fj1200
05-17-2016, 09:31 AM
Like we didn't know this already...

We're well on our way in our RACE TO THE BOTTOM so that we can compete with the lessor developed countries, but we still have a long way to go...

A follow up question; who is leading/directing the race?

indago
05-17-2016, 09:43 AM
A follow up question; who is leading/directing the race?

My first guess would be the "cosmopolitan financiers", as noted by Alexander Del Mar (http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Alexander+Del+Mar%22&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjT0cS4q-HMAhUm0oMKHeL_BYIQ9AgIHjAD)

fj1200
05-17-2016, 09:49 AM
My first guess would be the "cosmopolitan financiers", as noted by Alexander Del Mar (http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Alexander+Del+Mar%22&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjT0cS4q-HMAhUm0oMKHeL_BYIQ9AgIHjAD)

You claim we're in a race but you can only guess were running at whose behest?

indago
05-17-2016, 09:52 AM
You claim we're in a race but you can only guess were running at whose behest?

Now, what did I just get through saying?

fj1200
05-17-2016, 10:00 AM
Now, what did I just get through saying?

Not much. So far. :poke:

Trigg
05-17-2016, 11:57 AM
From The Associated Press 11 May 2016:
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A widening wealth gap is moving more households into either higher- or lower-income groups in major metro areas, with fewer remaining in the middle, according to a report released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center. ..."The shrinking of the American middle class is a pervasive phenomenon," said Rakesh Kochhar, associate research director for Pew and the lead author of the report.

...Wendell Nolen, 52, has experienced the slide from middle-class status first-hand. Eight years ago, he was earning $28 an hour as a factory worker for Detroit's American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings, assembling axles for pickup trucks and SUVs. But early in 2008, the good life unraveled. After a three-month strike, Nolen took a buyout rather than a pay cut. Less than a year later, the plant was closed and American Axle shipped much of its work to Mexico.

Now Nolen makes $17 an hour in the shipping department of a Detroit steel fabricator, about 40 percent less than he made at the axle plant.
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article (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MIDDLE_CLASS_DECLINE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-05-11-21-18-31)

Like we didn't know this already...

We're well on our way in our RACE TO THE BOTTOM so that we can compete with the lessor developed countries, but we still have a long way to go...

So Wendell was grossly overpaid for an position that required NO education. The company tried to work with it's employees in order to possibly save the company and prevent them from having to move the operations out of the country. He, and others, refused.......company moves south.

HE's now making 17$........This is a reasonable pay for a position that again, requires NO EDUCATION.


Unions killed the jobs.