If you stand back and assess what's happening in America today, the triple class society is rapidly changing into just the have and the have not classes. There is the highly educated class and the under-educated class and by that, I mean the Ivy League graduates and the rest of us.
The backbone of the U.S. has always been the middle class technical and factory workers who designed and made the products that we sold to the world. Now, the technology has moved to emerging countries and we can't continue to compete with them and pay high wages, or so the party line goes. Japan was once the China of today and they built cheap goods and sold them to subsist. As their people became educated and more experienced in the business world, the quality of the goods increased and those goods commanded higher prices. That translated to higher wages and soon Japanese workers were on the same standard of living as U.S. workers,
The cycle will repeat with China as their people gain status in the World as efficient workers who make quality products. The problem is that there will always be another emerging country whose people will work for peanuts and the prices will fall again. The U.S. has had its heyday and needs to develop a means of generating income through technology again.
U.S. companies aren't necessarily doing bad. They are manufacturing goods overseas and reaping enormous profits. The problem is that Americans aren't getting paychecks from that end of the manufacturing process. At most, they are making money through related service industries such as package delivery, shipping and receiving, packaging, and warehousing of the products coming from other countries.
Now, the kicker! Education is key to survival. You have to look at what types of jobs are out there that pay the salary you'd like to receive and hit the books again and get the education to match the requirements! No longer will a high school education pay you more than $15 per hour. If you want a $30 or $40 per hour job, you have to have the credentials and the drive to land that job and keep it.
To stay on topic, there's always been an agenda in government and it changes with the leaders we elect. If you want to live in a Socialist society, then vote for the one who promises a "chicken in every pot" to quote Herbert Hoover. If you want fair government that remains a little closer to the words of the Constitution, vote for the one that says that we need smaller government, fewer social programs, and a balanced budget. I'm not sure who that is, but the theory is sound. We can't afford to continue to borrow money to fight wars with people who don't invade our shores and fund social programs that don't create a working class of people. I realize that no jobs equals a poor society, but a good leader will find a way to create jobs and sustain real growth in the economy.
