The War On The Middle Class
My friend @dwinblood did an excellent article about the shrinking middle class.
https://steemit.com/economy/@dwinblood/in-the-u-s-what-is-happening-to-the-middle-class#.
In it he explains many of the the ramifications. What I want to explore is the how and why. You have to forgive me, but after several years doing lectures on Economics and Social Sciences I came to understand that most people do not understand economics so I tend to make my approach very basic and simple... not because I think the readers are stupid, it's just that econ is not a subject that interests most people. So please forgive me if I seem condescending... please believe that it's not intentional.
The why is fairly simple. A strong middle class is NOT in the best interest of globalists who seek world domination. A perfect example is Africa. I did a whole series about neo-colonialism in Africa- something that absolutely should not be happening considering Africa's wealth of natural resources. Africa's problem is no value added. Let me digress a moment...
What created a strong middle class in America was value added. Each step of production causes value to be added to the end product by creating employment, which in turn, creates consumers. As natural resources in the US were extracted and manufactured turning them into consumer products such as autos, for example, it created layers upon layers of consumers of the end products. Others are exported to consumers abroad. This is value added, simply put.
What should be happening in Africa is this: The African nations should receive zero interest, or low interest loans from the World Bank's IMF (International Monetary Fund). That's the intended purpose of the IMF. Those loans would then be used to extract natural resources and a manufacturing base, thus creating value added and concomitantly a middle class would naturally emerge. The advantage of a strong middle class, it's almost axiomatic, is political/economic/social stability. This is what the globalists do NOT want. They want a small population that they can dominate (see the Georgia Guidestones for further reference). A strong middle class is antithetical, indeed anathema, to the globalists. In the last of my Africa series I explained the globalists one-size-fits-all paradigm for neo-colonialism (see link at end).
What is happening in Africa is the opposite of what should be happening. The globalist bankers and corporations are exploiting Africa's vast natural resources, being extracted by people living in virtual slavery (often children), to be exported to places like China to be manufactured by prison labor or to sweat shops in places like Indonesia where laborers are paid substandard wages preventing value added everywhere. Why? To create a two-tier economic society... with the profits (which are vast) being channeled to the top. This is why the middle class in America must be destroyed.
Typically, global corporations have been exporting jobs overseas seeking "cheap labor to maximize profits for the shareholders." These shareholders are usually said to be retirees, and employees 401K's. But anyone in these positions know this to be untrue. The value of retirement funds have dwindled to virtually nothing- of course the housing bubble bursting in 2007-08 and the attendant bailout is blamed. The fact is that it's all part of the globalist plan. The bailout money went as bonuses to Wall Street bankers and CEO's. Currently, the American economy is based on debt being created out of fiat currency... a bubble that when it bursts will leave nothing behind. Meanwhile,the wealth is being funneled to the top 10% at an alarming rate and it looks like the American Middle Class, the foundation of our society, is doomed.
https://steemit.com/africa/@richq11/raping-africa-the-central-african-republic
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Sadly, conquerors and dominators are looked upon as "good" and certainly taught that way in public and private indoctrination centers. Columbus, conquistadors, Rhodes, and many other dominators who has power are revered.
We even have the Rhodes Scholars for the man who was king of raping African resources. Rhodes is such a great guy!
"Alexander the Great" who tried to conquer all of the known world at that time...
Outsource everything, and then be dependent on others to obtain that. It's a good plan to create dependency on various state powers leading to a one world unification where we can all "get along" and operate like one peaceful country, so we don't need to keep business at home. They want us to buy into the NWO dream of peace and go along with that plan. They want different areas for different things (Barnett's Pentagons New Map) so that you need to comply with regulatory legislation, fees, registrations, etc. in order to get the things you need for your business.
It's a dastardly plot of complexity and multi-generational that few people can think it possible or accept it's implementation. Some people say this is just a causal result of our self-interest and selfish motivations to maximize profits. That may be one large factor, but there is more concerted cooperation to bring about an end-game that makes it more conspiratorial than simply an outcome of greed.
Good that you brought up Rhodes (and wonderful to hear from you again). he's one of the founders of Tavistock Inst. the driving force behind the globalist brainwashing apparatus. I tried to stay away from that facet and focus on the cause & effect to the middle class in this piece. I did a series on Tavistock and one Raping Africa- about 10 episodes each... they show what I believe in total. (Pretty much at least)
Yes. This is a great article and true. I am a small business. A tiny business in fact. There is no room for me anymore because the trickle down is get rid of the middle-class business and therefore people like me can never get out of the position of having a slave job. It's designed that way now.
That's right... trickle down has turned into rush up. That's why all of the regulations of the Obama administration... they were designed to drive people like you out of business and make you dependant on them!
YUK!!!
And into prisons using what you mentioned "prison labor" right under our noses. This can even out compete outsourcing to other countries.
I think you are onto something. It is sad that they have us so dumbed down and receptive to propaganda that often the nails for middle classes' coffin are placed by middle class themselves endorsing movements and ideas that if they truly spent time studying them they wouldn't endorse at all.
The best thing the globalist can do is keep us all making decisions based upon purely emotional and short term memory reasons.
Good post, as I assumed would be the case. Resteemed.
Privatized prisons are a bad idea in the first place.
Anything done by the State should be done by the State...theoretically responsible to the voters...and not by contractors.
Having worked at a company that processed EBT transactions for Texas, I saw growth complex meet crony capitalism head-on.
Once company split into four companies over the course of time; eventually, while the number of workers require to do the job remained, the number of executives, program managers, HR drones, and other "corporate parasite" jobs exploded; raising the costs of the program for the State.
Yes, and to be clear. I agree with @richq11's post completely. I even agree with "Buy American". Pointing out the consourcing/insourcing that is in the prison slave labor complex just happens to be one of the windmills I like to tilt at. So he used one of the phrases that makes me want to add the caveat that there can be some bad cases for "Buy American" and most of society is totally unaware these things are even happening. So my statement was purely about awareness of this issue and was not intended to hijack @richq11's post.
I don't think you did ;> (maybe I did ;> privatization of State functions is one of my many pet peeves!))
Your comment added value to Rich's discussion because the loss of any job affects the middle class; it's also part of the pattern of job loss
So we have the leftists, who bragged about their plans to do exactly this to America, and we have the globalists, who get rich doing this, and we have the corruptocrats, for whom no bribe is too small regardless of ideology.
People get too worked up trying to fix an exact blame on which cause is primary, instead of fighting the policies that have these bad effects, and the specific individuals pushing those policies.
Thanks, my friend! I'm afraid nobody will wake up until it's too late. I keep seeing "Buy American" which is a wonderful idea... the problem is nobody can afford anything except Walmart!
Inmate labor is still technically "American" so because that is an increasing form of product and service production that amounts to basically slave labor "Buy American" is not a good thing if that is how the product is made. :(
I know... That's not the buy American I was talking about. I'm talking about the one that creates value added. That's the foundation of building and sustaining a middle class.
Yes. I know what you were talking about. I wasn't attempting to attack what you were saying. I was simply adding something I try to bring to awareness these days because it appears to be very hidden from the public. "Buy American" is not a good thing if it is being fueled by slave labor and people imprisoned for victimless crimes. I realize some inmates are there with good reason. I also realize hard labor is a good thing. Yet a couple of decades ago it started moving away from hard labor and into an ever increasing number of products and services. At the same time the products and services they would go into business in would eventually result in some types of businesses no longer being viable for people trying to do them outside of prisons. They couldn't compete. Many of them didn't even know why they couldn't compete. Their market simply dried up.
So when I hear "Made in America" or "Buy American" I too want people to be purchasing American products. I simply do not want it to be the products manufactured by the prisons. That is no better, and perhaps even worse than out sourcing to other countries as it gives motivations for enslaving more people with victimless crimes. Prison jobs as far as I am concerned should be the jobs no one else wants to do.
You got that right! Over 60% of prisoners are there for victimless crimes- a lot of them for pot because of mandatory sentencing.
The idea that China is exploiting Africa is Fake News
They are building roads, offer the 0-interest credits you asked for and employ local Africans in their companies for a fair wage.
No, the other way round. Because there is natural richness, there a dictatorship with a few rich and lots of very poor people.
Because the dictator does not need his people. He does not need them educated and free (as in free trade, free speech etc. which is the core of commerce), quite contrary that would be a thread. So the dictator presses out as much as he can from the people.
Poor, uneducated people make bad revolutionaries.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say... sounds like you didn't understand what I wrote. Sounds like we're saying the same thing. Also I'm not advocating revolution- not a violent one at least!
You are looking at the outside forces, I am looking at the inside forces.
Generalized example: Without the big oil industry from US (or whereever) Dictator Bighead in SmallAfricaCountry would not be able to extract and sell oil.
He would instead need to rely on local people. Means he has to educate them and allow them to meet and travel etc.
But he does not need them. So he extracts as much money out of them as possible, with an army paid for by the oil. He has to because if he does not, some general or other cronie would promse more money to the other cronies and kick him out to be BigBoss instead.
see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse
@dwinblood yes, I really should do this series ;)
Also this community is amazing. You and I refer to each other as friends and MEAN it. We have other friends here too. Yet we've never met in person or outside of steemit. We are friends simply due to the great exchanges we have on steemit.
I love this place. Oh, I was also really happy to hear what @papa-pepper and his family did for you. That was top notch!
It is wonderful to have friends like this. I felt really bad when @papa-pepper and his family came... The guy I take care of, Mr. Burns, (he looks and acts just like him) kept expecting me to run the Peppers away so he could come home. I really would have liked them to stick around... Papa is so easy to talk to and his kids are awesome!
This truly is a Community!
I think it was Aaron Russo who answered to the question: "Why are the globalists destroying the middle class in the US?"
"Because when they're able to do so it in America, they can do it everywhere!"
It's the same in Europe... - George Soros is financing the illegal shipping of North-African refugees to Europe to destroy the stabilty in Italy. Italy is lost already, not only because of the banking crisis, they've lost their identity!
The conflict in the Ukraine is also a creation of the globalists; their goal was to set up the Russian trading sanctions! Why? Their purpose was to weaken the European middle-class companies; throughout the sanctions they've lost their Russian trading partners, so that some of them are already bankrupt. Another attempt to weaken Europe, so they can install a global governement, a global currency and a global taxation model!
"Wake up, people... - face the facts! Face the CONSPIRACY FACTS of this bullshiteteers!"
I miss Aaron! He gave up his career and became a pariah in Hollywood for the Truth!
He was a great man. He had the opportunity, offered by Nick Rockefeller to join them but he refused. I admire his overwhelming wisdom and his loyalty to ethical principals. But like Keith Moon, Aaron has a place right in our hearts. He's just like a lighthouse shining through the storm so that we can follow the right path! Brilliant article by the way; I appreciate the wide variety you share with us!
Thank you I'm going to do a tribute to Alvin Lee soon... he's my favorite guitarist from "back in the day." When I was in college a professor tried to recruit me into the CFR... I turned them down- I said Ted, I'm the enemy. I'll tell everything I can... Funny- things started going bad around then... can't figure out why!!!
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