“How Things Have Changed since the 1980s”

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Credit: Ramen Noodle Nation

Just the other day, I discovered a great blog called Ramen Noodle Nation. It’s all about the growing problem of poverty in America. Even 30 years ago, during the “Greed is Good” decade, there was far less poverty and people seemed to obsess less about money and survival. Most normal people still had disposable income to spend on things like miniatures and collectible plates. Now people are just trying to scrape together a decent dinner. The gap between the wealthy and everyone else has widened immensely since he 1980s. The poor still had safety nets and the middle class were far less likely to fall into poverty through circumstances completely outside their control (such as their jobs being shipped overseas). We’re becoming a third world nation, with a few extremely wealthy people–and everyone else, who either struggle to survive or are desperately trying to stay afloat.

This article discusses how things have changed in the past thirty years and also what life was like in the 1980s, for those of you who may not remember.

How Things Have Changed Since the 1980s:
http://ramennoodlenation.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-things-have-changed.html

10 thoughts on ““How Things Have Changed since the 1980s””

    • I just clicked on the Forbes link and read the article. Quoting from that article: “..the wealthiest 400 Americans have the same combined wealth of the nation’s poorest – more than 150 million people, which is almost half the population.”

      My God..

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        • Yes! My loved one, who was treated so badly and then dumped by the high ranking international bank official, told me how he used to gloat about being one of the 1%, whenever he saw news stories about the struggles of the “lower classes.”

          These monsters don’t care, they think it’s funny.

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          • I think the kind of people who pass judgment on the poor and middle class and never had to struggle a day in their lives (not your loved one) are disgusting. In 2011, we had a local “Occupy Wall Street’ march which I participated in. I saw these high falutin’ business types staring down at us from their office balconies, laughing and shouting stuff like “get a job!” Excuse me, I have a job and I work my ass off for peanuts. I can barely afford to live.
            Those people just make me see red.

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  4. This issue (income gap) should make the upcoming elections very interesting and possibly even telling. I think that’s especially true in light of the comments the Trumpster made when announcing his candidacy vis-a-vis what seems to be Hillary’s current approach where her campaign looks to be making its appeal to the average American voter.

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