"What has happened to the middle class as the rich got richer from offshoring their jobs?"

It grew. Exponentially.

It's why there are now more middle-class people on earth than not.

#135 | Posted by madbomber

Wrong dumdum.

As the rich got richer, everyone else got poorer.

Back when the rich were just millionaires instead of billionaires, a blue collar job could afford a house, a car, put a kid through college, and have a parent at home to raise the kids properly.

But then reaganomics happened and all economic gains went to the rich, while life got harder and harder for everyone else.

"If the economic benefits of outsourcing had been shared with the people who'd lost their jobs, america would have avoided this downfall. But reaganomics was in full effect and the rich took all the gains."

That's because the rich are the ones who knowledge and investment benefitted consumers. It's why there are now more middle-class people on earth than not.

#102 | Posted by madbomber

The rich would be NOTHING without labor to create and distribute their products.

What has happened to the middle class as the rich got richer from offshoring their jobs?

The comparative advantage of the US is in knowledge and services. Which is exactly why the US should kinda be happy it was able to outsource manufacturing. It's not an economic component that provides value when compares to knowledge.

#95 | Posted by madbomber

If the economic benefits of outsourcing had been shared with the people who'd lost their jobs, america would have avoided this downfall. But reaganomics was in full effect and the rich took all the gains.

Guess laws against murder didn't work....

#36 | Posted by MSgt

Why should laws apply to anyone anymore when trump can attempt a coup with zero consequence?

#10 | POSTED BY SNOOFY AT 2025-05-06 10:30 AM | FLAG: Actually Musk cut about 80%o Twitter staff [now 'X'] and the site is functioning well. Too many private companies, like govt over time end up with a bloated bureaucracy and if you follow business news you see when a company is 'on the ropes' fiscally, the structure down, eliminating positions and letting employees go to get lean and mean to be able to compete.

#15 | Posted by MSgt

Speaking of lean, how much is trump's birthday parade costing?

If responsible budgeting was the concern, why cut the IRS which BRINGS IN MORE MONEY THAN IT COSTS?

And the jobs numbers were great. It's nice to see private job growth increase more than government job increase. Hasn't happened in the last 4 years.

#12 | Posted by fishpaw

Thank Biden. Trump's numbers will be arriving next year.

Wow, look at that virtue signaling. Yet you have a veteran member here who's called hateful, racist things all the time and you choose not to intervene. What a coward you are.

#34 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Yeah because he's a veteran who betrays his oath to the constitution by supporting an insurrectionist.

and if anybody did anything wrong they must have been white. White like the morons saying this...

#25 | Posted by chiligordo

Just like if the headline a was about a robbery in atlanta YOUD assume if anybody did anything wrong they must have been black.

It's logical to assume the shooter is white because: TEXAS + ROAD RAGE + DEAD MINORITY + NO CRIMINAL CHARGERS = white

Of course not, provided she was legitimately adopted and all. Her documents exist even if she doesn't have a hardcopy with her.
Are you a moron to think your friend is legally compromised because she betrayed her benefactors? Help her get copies if you want. Do it right away, before she turns on you too.

#70 | Posted by chiligordo

Does she deserve to get sent to el salvador if she doesn't have this paperwork on her?

Remember when you were a kid watching movies? Were the "show us your papers" characters usually the good guys or the bad guys? Or did you root for the bad guys as a kid too?

'chili means penis and gordo means fat. So Fatpenis to you and your novio C0RNH0LiANUS.

#21 | Posted by chiligordo

Jesus christ republican men think about penises all the time.

But know, legal immigrants have documents showing that they entered the country legally.

#65 | Posted by chiligordo

My friend doesn't. She was a korean adoptee who is estranged from her adoptive parents and doesn't have any of her official paperwork. Is she an illegal?

no crime was committed

#7 | Posted by chiligordo

murder isn't a crime.

climate change isn't real.

Trump weighs 215 lbs.

Russiagate was a hoax.

Epstein killed himself.

Fascists need their violent footsoldiers to know that laws don't apply to them so they don't have to worry about consequences when they get their order to come kill you.

The founders never imagined that a President would break the law by allowing millions of illegal immigrants to illegally flood this country.

#40 | Posted by fishpaw

The founders never imagined a party as corrupt as one that didn't convict a leader who attempted a coup.

But they did imagine a leader so evil that he would simply ACCUSE people of crimes and punish them without due process, and they gave us safeguards against that.

The constitution became a worthless piece of paper when an insurrectionist was allowed to run for president, which the constitution specifically bans.

So where is the harm? I am not seeing it at this time.

#1 | Posted by oneironaut

Trump is richer, everyone else is poorer, and you dont see the problem?

This is why you're lumped in with morons.

Masks don't work. Social distancing was science fiction. Lockdowns where worse than useless.

#36 | Posted by HeliumRat

You sound like you're in church, chanting with a cult of morons to brainwash yourselves.

Lockdowns didn't save lives. The 2020 election was stolen. Tariffs are good. Canada bad. Russia good.

Here: www.trialsitenews.com

It's only part of it, I'll find you more.

#14 | Posted by HeliumRat

Yes please bring us more useless info from a fake news site where anyone can submit an article.

COVID shots - do not stop one from getting it, nor does it stop being passed on once have it. Next you fools till tell us that masks [which only stop bacteria, as virus molecules are small enough to pass through them], or that six foot spacing will help - LOL

#26 | Posted by MSgt

The polio shot didn't guarantee one wouldnt get polio. But everybody getting the polio shot nearly eradicated the disease.

But your cult leader screwed up the pandemic so badly that the entire cult became anti vax just to pretend it wasn't trumps fault.

It's not going to end up good for you.

#5 | Posted by boaz

This fool thinks fascist dictatorship is going to work out well for him.

We did that in 2020. We elected biden to stop this madness. His job was to prosecute the fascists who attempted a coup, but he was too busy being a delusional corporate moderate DNC democrat, worrying about the names fascists would call him if he prosecuted their crimes.

Now it's game over. We don't get anymore real elections to fix this.

You idiots realize that "chilidorko" is just an attention seeking troll, only here to yank chains, right?

#17 | Posted by Angrydad

That's all the republicans left on this site.

I've been here for decades and watched the number of republicans here dwindle as the republican party became harder and harder for an intellectually honest republican to defend.

Now trolls and klansmen are all that's left.

He can't be deported to el sal because rival gang members may k*ll him, but he's not a gang member, you see.
His rival gang members, sure, they're gang members, but he's not. He's a rival gang member, god why can't you understand?!

#11 | Posted by chiligordo

What about the 4 year old american kid with cancer? Which gang did he belong to?

Trump Sucks. Trump Sucks, TRUMP SUCKS......SUCKS.

DID I FORGET TO MENTION?

TRUMP SUCKS.

#2 | Posted by Effeteposer

Nice youre experiencing some clarity after years of parroting the russian propaganda that got trump re elected.

and Trump reiterated that there is a "very good chance" of a deal with China

#13 | Posted by chiligordo

That's the guy who said he had mindblowing proof that obama's birth certificate was fake right?