If you cared more you'd understand the situation better. The changes in the economy over the last 35 years or so have left upper middle class families largely untouched while the lower 70% or so gets a smaller piece of the pie & the financial elite get a much bigger one. A fat slice has been taken off of the middle & lower end & piled up high in a narrow band at the top, particularly the tippy-top. That trend is continuing.
What tends to compensate somewhat has been the massive increase in credit, a highly imperfect answer at best but one that still benefits the tippy top the most. It also increases instability. The financial lite thrives on that, on market movement, because they can beat the cash out of everybody else's investments whichever way it moves due to their insider position & enormous financial cushions.
Most families don't have much of a cushion so the situation for them can go to hell in a hurry because of high overhead relative to income. They're subject to forces beyond their control to a much greater degree than people who've done well over the decades. They need growth with stability, not a financial roller coaster ride where every downturn gets bigger & the financial beating worse.
If you think that throwing out the illegals so we can have their jobs will correct that, you're delusional.
If you think that Trump's harder & deeper trickledown tax plan will help, you're also delusional.
If you think that the jobs are coming back you're out of your fucking mind. The only way we'll get more decent paying jobs is to create more govt jobs, not less, and the only way to pay for that is with higher taxes at the top. Otherwise, we'll continue to be ground down to the lowest common denominator that global labor arbitrage creates.
