Income Divisions Growing : Middle Class Shrinking - The Plan is Working

The new strategy of the progressives is to make the divide between those that have and those that don't as large as possible so that the largest group, those that don't have can be controlled to do the bidding of those that have the reigns of power. The true face of socialism.

This been the aim of progressive socialsit liberal Democrats for decades and is now coming into full bloom under Mr Obama's progressive socialist liberal administration. ObamaCare is a good example of how Mr Obama is dividing the country through chaos. And let's not forget Harry Reid taking control of the Senate with the Nuclear Option, eliminating the Republican opposition completely. Harry Reid and Mr Obama now have free reign over two thirds of the government. There is no one to stop them from totally "fundamentally changing America". Those words spoken by Mr Obama in 2008.

If this doesn't scare you into action by voting out these people next November, then we all will have to suffer the consequences of our inability to act, a country with no prosperity, a country with no future. Is this something we can accept as the new norm? I sure as hell can't and won't!

Income: The New Segregation
Source: Kevin D. Williamson, "The New Segregation," National Review, November 11, 2013. Sean F. Reardon and Kendra Bischoff
November 26, 2013

Income is the new boundary line in U.S. neighborhoods, but money is not the answer, says Kevin D. Williamson, a roving correspondent for National Review.

If you divided American families into six graduated income groups -- poor, low-income, lower-middle, upper-middle, high-income and affluent -- and took a trip in time back to the Age of Disco, you'd find that nearly two-thirds of all American families lived in neighborhoods with median incomes in the middle two groups: lower-middle and upper-middle. Return to the present day and you'll find that fewer than half of American families live in middle-income neighborhoods.

Those are the findings of Kendra Bischoff of Cornell University and Sean F. Reardon of Stanford University in their recent study "Residential Segregation by Income, 1970-2009," published by the Russell Sage Foundation. The results, if not exactly surprising, are nonetheless troubling.

• Neighborhoods marked by a mix of residents in the fat middle of the economic bell curve are growing proportionally smaller, while both high-income and low-income neighborhoods grow proportionally more populous.
• The consequences of income segregation are likely to be felt most strongly by children.

While the research is mixed on how great an impact things like school funding and peer-group composition have on long-term outcomes for children, it seems likely that the effects of these factors is large, at least for some significant group of children, namely potential high-performers who may not develop their talents and interests unless and until they discover the right opportunities.

The most important social habits are learned, they are not taught; children pick them up from those around them, the same way they pick up language.