Topic: When The Middle Class Declines

An indicator a culture is declining is a declining middle class. Politicians have discovered one of the keys to reelection is to advocate more spending and government programs for the poor. The traditional middle class is now defined as rich. The work of the federal government has become the business of redistributing wealth through taxation and new government programs. After years of bureaucratic growth over the last fifty years, the United States has witnessed shrinking numbers of middle class wage earners, many of whom have become the working poor. The family structure has disintegrated over the last twenty-five years in part because of the economic pressure for women to join the workforce. This has lead to the increased polarization of the working class and the wealthy. Earlier this century, Russia witnessed just such a polarization before a revolution ushered in the communist era.

The burgeoning lower class, trapped by low levels of literacy, lack of techno-skills, and low-income jobs, is being pushed into a state of anger, desperation, and lack of self-control. If we should have a down-turn in our economy putting low income persons out of work combined with the growing distrust and even disdain for government among middle to upper class citizens, then fuel would be added to an already explosive situation.

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