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USA: Most Citizens in 3rd World Conditions
By:Yossarian Johnson, The Intellectualist 30 January 2019

A study by an MIT economist shows that the United States of America has regressed materially to a third-world nation for most of its citizens.

America divided: This concept increasingly graces political discourse in the U.S., pitting left against right, conservative thought against the liberal agenda. But for decades, [U.S.] Americans have been rearranging along another divide, one just as stark if not far more significant—a chasm once bridged by a flourishing middle class.

Peter Temin, Professor Emeritus of Economics at MIT, believes the ongoing death of “middle America” has sparked the emergence of two countries within one, the hallmark of developing nations.

In his new book, The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy, Temin paints a bleak picture where one country has a bounty of resources and power, and the other toils day after day with minimal access to the long-coveted “American dream.”

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In his view, the United States is shifting toward an economic and political makeup more similar to developing nations than the wealthy, economically stable nation it has long been.

Temin applied W. Arthur Lewis’s economic model, designed to understand the workings of developing countries, to the United States in an effort to document how inequality has grown in [U.S.] America.

The parallels are unsettling. As noted by the Institute for New Economic Thinking: In the Lewis model of a dual economy, much of the low-wage sector has little influence over public policy. The high-income sector will keep wages down in the other sector to provide cheap labor for its businesses. Social control is used to keep the low-wage sector from challenging the policies favored by the high-income sector.

The primary goal of the richest members of the high-income sector is to lower taxes. Social and economic mobility is low.

Temin describes multiple contributing factors in the nation’s arrival at this place, from exchanging the War on Poverty for the War on Drugs to money in politics and systemic racism. He outlines the ways in which racial prejudice continues to lurk below the surface, allowing politicians to appeal to the age old “desire to preserve the inferior status of Blacks,” encouraging white low-wage workers to accept their lesser place in society.

“We have a structure that predetermines winners and losers. We are not getting the benefits of all the people who could contribute to the growth of the economy, to advances in medicine or science which could improve the quality of life for everyone, including some of the rich people,” he laments.

The antidote, as prescribed by Temin, is likely a tough sell in today’s political climate.

Expanding education, updating infrastructure, forgiving mortgage and student loan debt, and overall working to boost social mobility for all [U.S.] Americans are bound to be seen as too liberal by many policy makers.

The people of Oregon suffered enough last time authoritarian narcissist politicians tried to lock us in our houses and shut our schools and businesses.

More Oregonians died from covid due to Governor Brown’s lockdown than if we were not locked down.

A better solution was simple: tell folks to go outside and be healthy.

She and the Oregon Health Authority killed people by telling them to stay inside. More children got hooked on drugs; more children committed suicide from the fascistic anti-science science lockdowns from the OHA and Governor Brown than if they hadn’t locked them in their houses. That is a crime.

Instead of making children’s lives hell, the governor should have simply told them to go outside and play.

Take heed those listed above!

WE WILL NOT LAY DOWN LIKE A BUNCH OF BEAT-DOWN PANSIES AND LET YOU KILL US AND OUR CHILDREN AGAIN WITH YOUR ANTI-LIFE LOCKDOWNS

THAT SH*T IS OVER

And now you know about Sweden. I will assume this is news to most of Oregon’s narcissist politicians: THE SCIENCE IS IN, LOCKDOWNS DON’T WORK.

AND NOW THE PEOPLE OF OREGON KNOW THAT YOU KNOW THE TRUTH.

DON’T TRY TO LOCK US IN OUR HOUSES AGAIN

DO NOT CLOSE OUR SCHOOLS OR MASK OUR CHILDREN AGAIN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWckuirMgcst

Beginning on Wednesday, September 6th, Friends of NCRD will have a table set up in the lobby of NCRD, next to the Welcome Center, selling their fall planted/spring blooming bulbs. Friends is featuring nine unusual types of alliums, from exceptionally large to somewhat small. You will also see crocus, snake’s head and hyacinth for sale. We have pictures of what these bulb flowers will look like when they come up in the spring. At this time Friends is taking cash or checks for the bulbs-which will be delivered about mid-October. Friends also have amaryllis and paper whites coming about mid-November. You can see pictures of these flowers too. All the above bulbs will come with planting and growing instructions. To get a sneak peek of all the flowers via email contact Gail at gailmyoung@mac.com or call her at 503-830-3759 and she will get you a booklet. Or you can also call Patty, 503-368-6081, and leave a message. Thanks for supporting Friends of NCRD.

Here is another edition of ‘Common Sense”, with a bonus speech by Dr. Peter McCullough, who if you have never heard, now would be a good time.

www.sott.net/article/484081-Happenings-await