Reply #12: What concerns me is, if we slide downhill for the [View All]

status quo, notch by notch, and accept that as the new norm, many will accept that as just the way it is... young kids, for example, will be far worse off, but they will see the new norm as just the way it is.

When I look at the opportunities I had as a kid, for example, and the opportunities my parents had, I think many youth today would find that a real stretch as the middle class falls. Many of us had opportunities decades ago because one had to really try hard not to be employed. Now, the tables have completely turned.

Educational opportunities are far out of the reach for many today, many youth are left in debt for years trying to get an education, as just one example.

Thanks for the statistics you posted on poverty. When I go through parts of the city here it is blatantly apparent what is occurring, but all I hear mostly is about the middle class falling. It seems to me the lower class of this society has been pretty much written off as a loss. And that is quite pathetic.