Originally Posted by Shotsie

Lots of reasons: Deindustrialization, the decline of labor unions, globalization, one-way free trade policies, foreign takeovers of corporations, out sourcing of jobs and massive debts, family breakdown, unfettered capitalism/vulture capitalism, etc.

I think it would do well to address those issues before parroting some bullshit about "makers" and "takers", "winners" and "losers", in some kind of twisted attempt to validate your own achievements, like some people do. Not saying any names.