The Death Of The Middle Class

We all know that the ‘recession’ was nothing but a diversion to give the government more time before the ‘real’ collapse happened.. Our government has piled up so much it’s insane! They are systematically trying to wipe out the middle-class in America.. It’s only going to be the super rich and the super poor.. We can already see that happening, lots of foreclosures, not enough jobs to go around and the death of the Dollar.. Below is a list of 40 facts that prove the ‘working-class’ is being systematically wiped out as we speak…

#1 Right now, the U.S. government says that 14.1 million Americans are unemployed.


#2 There are fewer payroll jobs in the United States todaythan there were back in 2000 even though we have added 30 million people to the population since then.


#3 The number of Americans that are “not in the labor force”is at an all-time high.


#4 The United States has never had an employment downturn this deep and this prolonged since World War 2 ended.


#5 There are officially 6.3 million Americans that have been unemployed for more than 6 months. That number has risen by more than 3.5 million in just the past two years.


#6 It now takes the average unemployed worker in America about 40 weeks to find a new job. Just check out this chart….

#7 There are now about 7.25 million fewer jobs in America than when the recession began back in 2007.


#8 Back in 2000, the employment to population ratio was over 64 percent. Today, it is sitting at just 58.2%.


#9 Only 66.8% of American men had a job last year. That was the lowest level that has ever been recorded in all of U.S. history.


#10 During this economic downturn, employee compensation in the United States has been the lowest that it has been relative to gross domestic product in over 50 years.


#11 The number of “low income jobs” in the U.S. has risen steadily over the past 30 years and they now account for 41 percent of all jobs in the United States.


#12 Half of all American workers now earn $505 or less per week.


#13 According to a report released in February from the National Employment Law Project, higher wage industries are accounting for 40 percent of the job losses in America but only 14 percent of the job growth. Lower wage industries are accounting for just 23 percent of the job losses but 49 percent of the job growth.


#14 The United States has lost a staggering 32 percent of its manufacturing jobs since the year 2000.


#15 Between December 2000 and December 2010, 38 percent of the manufacturing jobs in Ohio were lost, 42 percent of the manufacturing jobs in North Carolina were lost and 48 percent of the manufacturing jobs in Michigan were lost.


#16 Back in 1970, 25 percent of all jobs in the United States were manufacturing jobs. Today, only 9 percent of the jobs in the United States are manufacturing jobs.


#17 Do you remember when the United States was the dominant manufacturer of automobiles and trucks on the globe? Well, in 2010 the U.S. ran a trade deficit in automobiles, trucks and parts of $110 billion.


#18 In 2010, South Korea exported 12 times as many automobiles, trucks and parts to us as we exported to them.


#19 The United States now spends more than 4 dollars on goods and services from China for every one dollar that China spends on goods and services from the United States.


#20 Since China entered the WTO in 2001, the U.S. trade deficit with China has grown by an average of 18% per year.


#21 The U.S. trade deficit with China in 2010 was 27 times larger than it was back in 1990.


#22 The United States has lost an average of 50,000manufacturing jobs per month since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001.


#23 In 2002, the United States had a trade deficit in “advanced technology products” of $16 billion with the rest of the world. In 2010, that number skyrocketed to $82 billion.


#24 Manufacturing employment in the U.S. computer industry was actually lower in 2010 than it was in 1975.


#25 Since 2001, over 42,000 manufacturing facilities in the United States have been closed.


#26 There were more manufacturing jobs in the United Statesin 1950 than there are today.


#27 Since the year 2000, we have lost approximately 10% of our middle class jobs. In the year 2000 there were about 72 million middle class jobs in the United States but today there are only about 65 million middle class jobs. Meanwhile, our population has gotten significantly larger.


#28 When you adjust wages for inflation, middle class workers in the United States make less money today than they did back in 1971.


#29 One recent survey found that 9 out of 10 U.S. workers do not expect their wages to keep up with soaring food pricesand soaring gas prices over the next 12 months.


#30 Only the top 5 percent of U.S. households have earned enough additional income to match the rise in housing costs since 1975.


#31 One out of every six elderly Americans now lives below the federal poverty line.


#32 According to one recent study, approximately 21 percent of all children in the United States were living below the poverty line in 2010.


#33 Back in 1965, only one out of every 50 Americans was on Medicaid. Today, one out of every 6 Americans is on Medicaid.


#34 As 2007 began, there were 26 million Americans on food stamps. Today, there are more than 44 million Americans on food stamps, which is an all-time record.


#35 Today, one out of every four American children is on food stamps.


#36 59 percent of all Americans now receive money from the federal government in one form or another.


#37 The number of Americans that are going to food pantries and soup kitchens has increased by 46% since 2006.


#38 In the United States today, the richest one percent of all Americans have a greater net worth than the bottom 90 percent combined.


#39 According to Moody’s Analytics, the wealthiest 5% of all households in the United States now account forapproximately 37% of all consumer spending.


#40 The poorest 50% of all Americans collectively own just 2.5% of all the wealth in the United States.


The cold, hard reality of the matter is that the United States is experiencing a long-term economic decline.


Every single day, more American families fall out of the middle class and into poverty. There are millions of American families out there tonight that are just barely hanging on by their fingernails.


More Americans than ever are constantly borrowing more money just to stay afloat. Even as rampant unemployment plagues this nation and even as wages remain stagnant, middle class Americans are increasing their use of credit.


A CNBC article noted the increase in consumer borrowing that we have seen recently….


The Federal Reserve says consumer borrowing rose $5.1 billion following a revised gain of $5.7 billion in April. Borrowing in the category that covers credit cards increased, as did borrowing in the category for auto and student loans.


It is very hard to live “the American Dream” without going into huge amounts of debt these days.


But for an increasing number of Americans, “the American Dream” is just a distant memory.


Tonight, there are large numbers of people living in the tunnels under the city of Las Vegas. As the wealthy live the high life in the casinos and hotels above them, an increasing number of desperate “tunnel people” are attempting to carve out an existence in the 200 mile long labyrinth of tunnels that stretches beneath Vegas. It is a nightmarish environment, but it is all those people have left.


Don’t look down on them, because you never know who might be next.


If you lost your current job, how long would you be able to survive?


Unfortunately, as bad as things are now, the reality is that this is just the beginning.


You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.


Do what you can to make sure that you and your family are not totally wiped out by the next wave of the economic collapse.