Outsourcing, trade deficits, high GDP, job losses. Class warfare?

[gulliver]

This recovery is starting to look like a "class warfare recovery" to me.

Manufacturing, technical, and accounting jobs are being outsourced. Corporate taxes are being avoided by off-shoring corporate HQ's to Bermuda. The GDP is up, but jobs are down, and the jobs that remain are lower paying.

Health care costs are up and are being passed along to the insured. College costs are going through the roof.

China and India are experiencing major economic booms that include tremendous job growth in manufacturing and IT. They are buying cars and competing with us for gasoline.

The Bush tax cuts shifted the burden a percentage or two from the very wealthy to the middle and upper middle class. The responsibility for the accumulated deficit (over $7 trillion at last check) shifted immediately too, of course.

This isn't a middle class squeeze. We are being attacked.

[XanaDUer]

1. It's this kind of stuff that makes me shake

my head over those who just "love Bush" and will vote for him no matter what.

I mean, who are these dumb people?

[rfkrocks]

2. But still the USA sleeps

I cannot imagine your scary and accurate list not causing a Bush defeat which should be manifest now in the polls-however we have lost the ability to think in this country (ahem sorry-"homeland")-It may take the great Bush depression to wake everyone up but by then it will be too late-a very frustrating time indeed

[SemperEadem]

3. straight up... it goes right to class warfare...

certain segments of this society feel that others who don't look like, talk like, spend like, believe like them, that they are not entitled to full rights in this country. More times than not, the strata of society called the "haves" feel that because they 'have', they get to dictate terms.

I'm finding more and more of the people who gravitate towards that mindset are republicans or people with an overblown worship of corporation mentality. As Lou Dobbs pointed out in an interview with Bill Moyers, the Bush administration's fiscal policies pit the working middle class people of this country against the cheap labor markets of all of the 3rd world developing countries, forcing an unfair balance and then derriding US workers who've lost their jobs on account of this unfair playing field. It is set up to wipe out the middle class and widen the abyss between rich and poor in this country, making it difficult for the most frugal poor person to map their way to financial solvency.

So as people lose their homes, cars and sometimes families over this, the 'haves' want to look down their noses and believe that they are a better, more worthy human because they 'have' (and horde). The 'have nots' are of less worth than them because they don't 'have' like they do.

Unfortunately, government listens to those with money and only gives lip service when they're pimping the 'have nots' for the most expensive thing they've got---their vote.

[bvar22]

4. The CLASS WAR started under Reagan....

...and the RICH are winning.