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发帖数: 38600 | 1 Middle Class Destitution – A Devastating Tale From America’s Heartland
http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2016/05/17/middle-class-destitutio
He had made the drive enough times to already suspect what he might find.
Stride Rite had left Huntington for Mexico at the tail end of the recession;
Breyers Ice Cream had closed its doors after 100 years. In the weeks after
each factory closing in his part of Indiana, Lewandowski had listened to
politicians make promises about jobs — high-tech jobs, right-to-work jobs,
clean-energy jobs — but instead Indiana had lost 60,000 middle-class jobs
in the past decade and replaced them with a surge of low-paying work in
health care, hospitality and fast food. Wages of male high school graduates
had dropped 19 percent in the past two decades, and the wealth divide
between the middle class and the upper class had quadrupled.
“These jobs aren’t the solution so much as they’re part of the problem,”
Lewandowski said, and now the result of so much churn was becoming evident
all across Indiana and lately in Huntington, too. Fast-food consumption was
beginning to tick up. Poverty was up. Foreclosures were up. Meth usage up.
Heroin up. Death rate up. In Dan Quayle’s Middle America, one of the
biggest news stories of the year had been the case of a mother who had let
her three-week-old child suck heroin off her finger.
“Despair is our business, and business is booming,” Lewandowski said…
“This is how it feels to be sold out by your country.”
“It’s pure greed.”
“They wanted to add another 6 feet to their yachts.”
“We’re becoming like a third-world country. We’re going to have nothing
left but fast food.”
"Fast food and hedge funds. That’s where we’re going.”
– From the Washington Post article: From Belief to Outrage: The Decline of
the Middle Class Reaches the Next American Town | h*h
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发帖数: 38600 | 3 Now Washington D.C. is just a cesspool of corruption from top to bottom.
Blending the country into one melting pot lowers the standard of living for
everyone but the suber-rich who now have cheap labor.
【在 h*h 的大作中提到】
: globalization的必然后果
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