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To: elmatador who wrote (46215)2/7/2009 12:06:21 PM
From: Chas.  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 217669
 
Middle Class is interested on keeping at the middle of the road. They avoid extremism. All countries with big middle classes are more civilized than countries without it.

The middle class knows what was to be below the middle. Thus they have something to lose, that forces then them to walk the line, obey government and to be docile to measures put upon them by government.

Decimating the middle class has an immediate effect. The daughters and sons of the previous middle class lose those middle class values and deterioration happens really fast.


I suspect the lack of jobs due to Global outsourcing of our manufacturing signals the end of our middle class, I think it is self inflicted and irreversable...