just because statistic say most people are earning below poverty level soesnt mean that they arent at fault for cooking fries in their 40's lets be honest here and nothing to do with race I see white folks and others working as a clerk at the gas station, missing half their teeth, they hate it but dont do anything to improve their situation
Heckler,
The truth is, since the great recession started many people lost their jobs, their income, their homes, their health insurance and those people were then 'dumped' into the job market.
This happened during a time that companies stopped hiring in the U.S. and huge layoffs occurred in multiple sectors.
People with college degrees that were making good incomes with skills, found themselves lay-offed and competing in a job market in which there were no jobs at their former level of income and benefits.
Recent college graduates hoping to 'improve themselves' could not find jobs that required a college degree.
All of these people were completing with people with no college degree, for any jobs available.
Over the past 20 years, large transnational corporations like IBM have escalated moving jobs offshore to trade jobs that were located in the U.S., for profits.
Whole sectors of the American job market/economy, like manufacturing that formally provided work and decent incomes for the middle class, have been off-shored over the past 20+ years.
Wage harmonization associated with globalization, aka downsizing the U.S. middle class worker into lower levels of compensation, has been implemented by corporations and Wall-Street to increase corporate profits and increase the return of capital to the upper economic classes at the expense of the middle and lower economic classes.
Many of the jobs created since the start of the 'great recession' have been low wage service sector jobs.
The combination off all of the above, have been to induce huge shifts in U.S. job market dynamics and reduce the opportunities for people to 'improve' themselves.
There is now a increasing income inequality problem due to but not all inclusive as to what was indicated above, and it is not the fault of people that have been impacted by the decisions of business driven by Wall-Street, to trade jobs for profits and downsize the middle class so that the capital that is generated accumulates at the top, instead of trickling down.
The opportunity for advance and improving oneself, have been greatly reduced.
The American Dream, is now over for many, and many people in the working poor economic class working in service sectors for companies like Wal-Mart, are now considered by their employers as discardable means of production.
The above also illustrates why many large U.S. corporations now have balance sheets that indicate that those corporations have more cash in reserve than at any other time in history.
Its class warfare being waged by Wall-Street, the upper economic classes, corporate executives, corporate owners who are gaining all of the capital, against the lower economic classes.
