Will there come a time when the middle class in the USA is so used

[applegrove]

to getting the short end of the stick that when a corporate bubble economy bursts the people will say "don't socialize the losses, let them fail, we will thankfully go through a recession as long as many of those corporations die!!".

[PDJane]

1. You're not there yet???

[applegrove]

4. I have job security for now. I wouldn't want to tell someone who is unemployed that things

are going to get a whole lot worse for them.

[JDPriestly]

5. If the big corporations failed, the unemployed would be worse off?

That might be the case if the big corporations were paying taxes that helped the unemployed, but as it is, I don't see much of a connection.

The economy of the poor and the economy of the rich become more and more separated so that one does not affect the other all that much.

The 99 Cents Store will probably survive almost anything. That, and places like it are where the poor shop in case you didn't know.

I live in an area of LA with lots of payday loan places and cheap stores. There are two items that I buy from the store that caters to wealthy people. When I go the expensive store, I am just amazed by the prices. Why do people pay so much money for what we get in our area of the city for less? Because they live in a different, granted more convenient, world. Their world and the world of the poor are like different planets.

[applegrove]

6. Yes they are more and more separated. Part of my question was wonder

at how long the GOP think these two worlds can go on.

[truedelphi]

2. The middle class is already totally finished with

The banking class - but just how do we go about changing anything?

The people we have put before us for almost all major office choices are from the Corporate ruled political parties.

Even if we got it together and put together a strong third party that could over a decade's time finally carry the election - would not the Powers that Be award it to themselves, just as they gave Kerry's victory in 2004 away to George W...

[Rex]

3. Multi-billionaires love to fuck up the middle class and piss on the working poor.

They are idols, they are prophets that can Save America First(tm) and we already eat it up and ask for seconds. They own everything and make us feel guilty when asking for help. You are not supposed to help anymore, just fuck over as many people as you can while getting as rich as you can. That is now the American way and fits right into the Me First crowd.