Sunday, August 22, 2010

Top Reasons The Middle Class Is Disappearing


Middle Class Rut by sasa huzjak




Where have you gone middle class American family? Are you hiding in the gas tank of your new hybrid? Are you buried under the wood that sits and waits for the first snow flake to fall. Or are you in the fridge, next to the five dollar gallon of milk? My answer is, all of the above.

I was once firmly ensconced in the comfy of middle class America. I slept very well back then. I ate well too. I only took aspirin when I had a cold. Now, I seldom sleep, eat mounds of inexpensive junk foods and take my Motrin just to get through the stress of the day. The sad thing is, there are millions just like me out there who have been shifted down not one but two financial classes during the last 8 years. What was Upper/Middle is barely holding on to Lower/Middle these days.Those who were Upper/Lower are now staring poverty straight in the face. Was this simply the result of an inept president or was it a more than that. Was this the first truly "perfect storm" of financial proportions since the Great Depression. Sure there have been other rough times but seldom have the ugly fingers of economic despair reached so far, so deep and so griping. I know consider myself Upper/Lower class.

My wife and I both have well paying jobs, her in administration and I in Radio advertising yet we have been brutalized by the power of this omni-present black
cloud called the American Economy. What many people fail to realize is that the double edged sword of inflation and a bad market place is the fact that wages are often stagnant while prices continue to climb. Businesses can't afford to offer there employees higher pay for the simple fact that they have less customers. This is especially prevalent in sales based professions.

I was recently asked by my manager what I was planning on doing to counteract this economical spiral. I looked him in the eye and told him that if I had the answer to that question my name would be on the ballot in November.

Where have you gone middle class. We sure do miss you.



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