McManus: The Middle Class Is History

Yesterday — a bucolic suburb with sturdy, sensible houses. Today — a housing project in a big city, or a condo near the interstate. Tomorrow — a shantytown.

Over at the Los Angeles Times, Doyle McManus predicts that this is the fate of the former American middle class, if something radical isn’t done soon to stop their inexorable, demonstrable slide toward poverty.

And he has a salient point. In fact, it’s one of the central scenarios that informs the progressive agenda:

Imagine a future in which real wages for most workers decline year after year; a future in which middle-class jobs that disappeared in the Great Recession won’t be coming back; a future in which young Americans either squeeze into an increasingly wealthy elite or tumble to the bottom, with fewer and fewer in what we once called the middle class.

Solutions? Not in this think piece. McManus is in full fright-mode, and paints a far scarier, far more inhumane picture than the above. it’s worth a few minutes of your time, we think.

By: rhb

Rob is a NYC-based Internet entrepreneur. He's also a businessman and job creator (wait: doesn't demand create jobs?) who understands the sense, and the eventual predominance, of the progressive agenda.