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2017-04-23 -Land of the Free

US regressing into a developing nation for most people, MIT professor warns

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Posted by Fred 2017-04-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Excellent! The left has long wanted to get rid of the middle class. A long awaited victory by them.

Posted by Harcourt Angoluting9366 2017-04-23 01:16|| 2017-04-23 01:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Simply a natural by-product of tyrannical, third-world leadership. Similar examples are readily found throughout Africa and Latin America. With all due respect to professor Temin, it hardly takes staff tenure at MIT to figure this one out.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-04-23 04:31|| 2017-04-23 04:31|| Front Page Top

#3 The professor has a point. We have seen and felt the erosion of the middle class for a long time thanks to progressive policies. The middle class was the strength of this country; the people who put Trump in office.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-04-23 09:24|| 2017-04-23 09:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Needs to vastly cut taxes on the middle classes then.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-04-23 10:50|| 2017-04-23 10:50|| Front Page Top

#5 The evident solution to this would be to 'break up' the concentrations of wealth accumulation zones, if you can't raise the wealth index of the lower end. This would require forcible resettlement of persons from high earning areas to areas where they can raise the local average to an equitable median.
The actual cause of this is the legal plundering of assets by the wealthy, but let's don't discuss that.

Posted by ed in texas 2017-04-23 11:03|| 2017-04-23 11:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Do not ever bring up "rent seeking".

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-04-23 11:09|| 2017-04-23 11:09|| Front Page Top

#7 The actual cause of this is the legal plundering of assets by the wealthy, but let's don't discuss that.

Is the banker's bank, the Federal Reserve, going to be examined for its role in the demise of the middle class?

Posted by JohnQC 2017-04-23 11:17|| 2017-04-23 11:17|| Front Page Top

#8 Is the banker's bank, the Federal Reserve, going to be examined for its role in the demise of the middle class? Posted by: JohnQC

As evidenced by my paltry savings account interest rate, the banks (at all levels) no longer need the common man.The government borrower has become their favoured customer.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-04-23 11:59|| 2017-04-23 11:59|| Front Page Top

#9 democrats

Posted by newc 2017-04-23 14:35|| 2017-04-23 14:35|| Front Page Top

#10 Demons

FIFY

Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-04-23 17:27|| 2017-04-23 17:27|| Front Page Top

#11 He's not wrong about the problem, but his solution is to raise taxes (of course) and to spend more Federal dollars on education (of course).

Posted by KBK 2017-04-23 20:34|| 2017-04-23 20:34|| Front Page Top

#12 bush 2 started this one

Posted by 746 2017-04-23 23:21|| 2017-04-23 23:21|| Front Page Top

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