A Dying Middle Class

The majority of American citizens are considered middle class working people. People that are hard working, educated, have a comfortable standard of living, and have considerable work autonomy. Whether they are apart of the white collar middle class made up of professionals with high levels of educational achievement which helped them attain great financial security, or if they are apart of the blue collar middle class who may have less education and in return have weaker financial stability; nonetheless, they are still a sub-division in the U.S. middle class.
The term “working class” or “middle class” is known as the backbone of America. Without this percentage of our population, the United States would not be the country it is today. The middle class is defined to a person, household, or family in relation to the production of goods and services   is the primary element of social class.
Consequently, the current state of our economy has made the relevance of the American middle class dwindle. According to the U.S. 2010 census, 35 percent of American households live on $35,000 or less each year and that the median for domestic income is down by 3.6 percent in the past two years. This struggle for average American people to try and stay monetarily secure is due to the painful reality that our nation has been bankrupted by “flat world” globalists and “so-called” conservatives that are selling our nation off piece by piece in order to gain a few extra dollars for their personal wallets.
Thom Hartmann’s essay, “When Americans No Longer Own America,” helps persuade an audience of individuals that are compassionate towards his views because it is directed at middle class Americans that are trying to maintain their lifestyle. He advocates the importance of American companies manufacturing their own goods in order for their profits to be distributed back into America instead of the alternative which has caused our nation to be plundered of its wealth and... [continues]

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