Who is the working class and do they still have a shot at the American dream?
Author Batya Ungar-Sargon joins Morning Joe to discuss her book 'Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women." Newsweek's Tom Rogers also joins the discussion.
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Who is the working class and do they still have a shot at the American dream?
#WorkingClass #MiddleClass #AmericanDream
Robert Reich is profoundly underrated
Inflation is killing the middle class. It’s like a tax.
Cannibal Bidum
It's even higher here in Sweden, geez 😅
Welcome to Bidens America
@@flugsvensounds like you need new leaders
Greedflation. Welcome to late stage capitalism.
The middle class is a dead concept ... There are 2 types today : 1. The ones who worry about money 2. Those who dont
Don't care what party you are; that is the truth (and the simplest breakdown of all.)
@@IMeMineWho. The best majority of Americans are worried about money and being able to make end meet under the Biden economy with high inflation. Inflation is taking money out of the pocketbook of hard-working Americans, which is why many are having to work a part-time job in order to make ends meet.
Words of wisdom
So you’re in favor of a revolt? Because there are far more poor people than rich people. Revolution is inevitable. Just look at history. How about the human race embrace the golden rule and build a fair prosperous society for all? Or are you still obsessed with wealth and power? Both of which don’t bring happiness.
@@Sitchinite420 People just want to be able to afford healthy food, a nice place to live in a safe area. Kinda surprise you read more into that comment than was there!
He points out that the economic immigration issue is manufactured to divide the working class, she agrees, and then continues on trying to push immigration as an issue to divide us.
This was 1994 and how far have we progressed? Yikes
Trumps regressive . FR
Too true - he was an oracle
Gotta keep the shareholders happy. Not the workers.
The problem is Capitalism 🎉
No, it's not.
Democrats arnt to smart
Bread lines back in your Soviet homeland.
Capitalism is eating itself.
the solution? Socialism? WHERE has socialism worked?? what a stupid comment
The working class is the group of people that don’t get any tax breaks no free hand out from the government. The working class is the group of people that pay all the bills for everyone else.
Exactly. That's why the 2017 tax bill that lined the pockets of the already rich at the long-term expense of the working class was so fundamentally cruel.
It's all caused by the monetary system. We left the gold standard in 1971, and its been downhill since.
I think the solution is obvious: UBI. Corporations will always price their products in order to sell the most units, which means that they will price to the middle - the same way teachers teach to the middle. This means that for half the people, the world is affordable, and for the other half, it isn't. Unregulated, untethered capitalism is always unfair to half the people.
Right now McDonald's and others are saying that Americans are tapped out finacially, which means meny CEOs will be losing their jobs soon unless they find a new way to price gouge consumers.
Oh poor CEO’s. Maybe if they studied economics or history they’d knew this was coming.
The American dream is the same in Australia, Japan, Europe, Korea, Scandinavia because the social-economic system is the same and the rich billionaires and corporations are getting richer, while paying little or no taxes.
Stop trashing the rich and our corporate CEOs. We rely on these people to find campaigns for Democrats seeking state and federal office. If you look at all of the super wealthy Americans to include Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and some of the others, you will find that these are all progressive Democrats. The CEOs of major corporation corporate are all progressive Democrats. We gave these people lavage tax breaks and they return to us political donations, which allow us to fun campaigns for Democrats running for state and local office. Our Democrat party needs these wealthy people and corporate CEOs.
The rich pay a lot of taxes. Just because they're paying a lower percentile than the middle and lower classes, it doesn't mean they're not paying a massive amount in taxes.
What about the jobs American citizen don’t care about that lower class immigrants are willing to take. Even tho seasonal/farm workers. Prices go up for us all ( except the elites) when the fruits and vegetables aren’t picked by seasonal/migrate workers.
Wrong biden let 12 million in prices going up gang members dont want to work in the garden
That guy is going to see some very disappointing pole numbers.
I just read 'The Spirit Level - why equality is better for everyone' by Wilkinson and Pickett which details all the measures of a society's health and well being are better in more equal countries. Bottom line - the U.S. has the greatest income inequality of any wealthy western country and are society is the sickest by nearly every measure including such things as infant mortality, education, metal health, physical health, crime, incarceration, social mobility, social stratification, community, cooperation, and the list goes on.
Are public schools are run by democrats the teachers union
I've always found the label "working class" to be ironically amusing, because it implies that these are the people who do all the work. Not far from the truth, is it. "After mass layoffs, Tesla asks again to approve Elon Musk's $56 billion pay package."
It is not so much about working class..... ..... now it is about transfer of wealth from younger generations to the older ones.
Dumb comment, Bidum supporter?
@@Americasinertia How old are you? Can you afford to buy a house like your parents did?
@@AbbyNonI own 2 houses. Now gimme the rent.
I agree, generational wealth has being pivotal in class movement since the mid 20th century.
@@AbbyNon one of the causes of high house prices/down payment amounts is the lengthy period of ultra-low interest rates. This made it easier for speculators to buy up more properties and convert them to rentals, and it also led to bidding wars where people would pay over asking to out-bid others doing the same because "the monthly payments are affordable" Now that interest rates had to go up to control inflation, this economic time bomb is ticking much louder.
Why work walk across the border and everything is free
Little disagreement on the issues? People could not be more opposite of each other on almost all issues right now. Even when people do agree that there is an issue they are still wildly far apart as to what to do about the issue, as well as what is causing you the issue.
The American dream can be achieved by only few billionaires and the rest have to support the billionaires dream.
Robert 4th Riech
no
In the days of our iconic JFK hard-working everyday Americans where is supported by our Democratic Party and we worked tirelessly to make their lives better. Unfortunately, unfortunately today, our Democrat party has walked off the sidewalk and into the weeds, and we are now supporting the political class. We need to get our Democrat party back on track.
Don't you mean "hard-working everyday WHITE Americans"?
Give US adult citizens a UBI of $3k a month and the millions of migrants can have our dead-end jobs.
🤣 Delusional!
You are talking about $800-billion every month. That’s $9.6-trillion every year. Where does that money come from? Even if you can find a way, what makes you think people would spend it responsibly? Think of the Covid stimulus checks… people spent them but still fell behind in their bills.
We need to give Democrats a chance to finally address immigration, gun control issues and Roe v Wade.
They've failed on immigration. They want to re-write the second amendment. They want to reinstate Roe v Wade.
Absolutely 💙 💙 💙 💙 💙 get OUT and VOTE every Vote counts 👍 Pro-Democracy and Pro-Choice 🎉🎉🌊🌊🌊🌊
Democrats fail on all of those issues.
@@sandyd3686 Voting blue has done nothing but harm to this country.
@@pc4mlc451 Tell it to women voters .... if you know what I mean
BIDEN DID THIS!! WORKING CLASS FOR TRUMP 2024.
Can you explain how the tax cuts for the wealthiest helped the working class? Or forcing them to have children which is expensive while not raising the minimum wage in 40+ years…yeah that REALLY helps the working class. 🙄
How do more tax cuts for the rich , help the middle class ? While Biden wants the rich to pay more taxes.
So much over generalization in this piece
Nope
As compared to turtles Chinese wife ?
Lol Give the land back to native Americans
User, Give YOUR land to savages!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Which tribe? I guess the Comanches, huh? They conquered and annihilated and took more land than any other tribe. Oh, they thrived using slavery too. All before the white man show up😂
Yep. My bestie would agree with that. She is First Nations!
So.... The Chinese?
Yes, and all they need to do is give up everything invented by the white man: Cars, trains, planes, electricity, phones, the wheel, ...
Indian here - we are a 1.4 bn population… happy to start an exchange program send 1 immigrant here from a deprived place and take 2 to the first world ….
gag testify .... not taught at trump u ?
Fascism, taught at bidum U?
trumpflation spent money like a mad man 8 trillion added to the debt, trumper think that reduce spending.
@@firstgopinbredhillbilliesl6100 he promised to balance budget 2016 Day1
@@firstgopinbredhillbilliesl6100hey fentanyl blue, Bidum passed that so did war criminal, obummer
@@tomcassidy2525 but he failed that also.
trumpflation spent money like a mad man 8 trillion added to the debt, trumper think that reduce spending.
Bidum passed that. So did war criminal obummer
Did you return your stimulus checks?
Don’t forget that trump pressured the fed to lower interest rates during a good economy. The fed regulates inflation through interest rates, “printing money”. The government spending money just goes against the national debt.
Under. Trump total inflation 3.5 percent. Under biden 19 .5 percent have somebody do the math for u because your not capable this is iran joes inflation tax
@@jimmyjames6487 i didn't get one, some of us made too much money. what did you buy with yours trump check?
Get advanced college degrees
Things are so bad under biden were literally asking if he destroyed the American dream 😢
How so?
People have been asking this question for way longer than Biden's presidency.
Your cult wanted Trump country over America. 🤦♂
“By the way, I actually taught for a number of years in law school and then I was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania,” - Bidumb
MY GIRLFRIEND SYBIL IS REALLY TWISTED TODAY!🤬
You know really sucks about this, is that I took my morning dump 💩 as usual and now that I am at the office I realize I didn’t get it all out. 😢
Let's bring on the tax evader to talk about the working class. Way to read the room
MY GIRLFRIEND SYBIL GOES BONKERS OVER THE SLIGHTEST RUMOR!🤬
@@DebORahDramaticabidums great. 👎👎👎
@@Americasinertiammmm trump tears, thanks for the refill
@@Cmunic8is there a nice tall bridge near you?
@@chriscoff835 there’s one down the road going over a river of trump tears. Why do you ask?
Two words "Cheap oil". Once oil reaches $25.00 a barrel it will drive the economy fast and hard. That $25 a barrel only comes when we drill baby drill. We need to go from 15.25 million barrels domestically daily to 29 million barrels domestically daily. Oil is out only economic engine.
It’s never going back. Once they realized we will pay anything for gas, they will keep it just below the point where we take to the streets.
Price is really about cost to the consumer. Most of us can control our fuel costs dramatically by slowing down to nearer to the speed limit, keeping our tires inflated and car in good condition, accelerating a little more gently in the city, coasting up to red lights instead of coming up to them full speed and then hitting the brakes closer to the stopping point. We can plan our trips in loops and incorporate several stops in a loop instead of taking several 2-way trips. Or... and this is a really big one... we can fill more of the seats whenever possible, thus taking a second car off the road for that trip, which helps with traffic and cuts the fuel used in half. If we all lower our fuel use in these easy ways, not only do we directly save $$$, but we also decrease demand, which will lower prices by creating a glut of fuel on the market.
@@rondaniels9974 I can tell you are not truly understanding of how important oil is beyond fuel. We use oil to grow food, to keep pest and other plants from our crops. We eat oil in pharmaceuticals. We wear oil in the clothes we have on. Our food is packed in oil. Savas and pastes we use on our skin are made from oil. Cheaper oil means that farmers can grow food and raise livestock at a cheaper rate which is passed in to us. Transportation of those products are going to be cheaper, and passed onto us. Cheaper packages means that end products cost less. Gas and diesel are only part of the refined oil.
Actually, I’m a trained chemist with an MBA so I fully understand how many products are made with oil and how many of them, like gasoline and raw PP for car plastics are spot priced. But, if you talk to the average voter, what concerns them is the cost of filling their tank. Considering that at one point when gas was 2/3 what it costs now our annual gasoline bill was 10% of our gross family income, changing the part that we had the power to change had a huge impact on our family bottom line You could campaign by showing people spreadsheets and economic charts but when the people you need to reach think someone can simultaneously be a champion of law and order and Indicted on 88 charges, they’re not going to understand that their new $40,000 car will cost $237 less if oil prices go down by 25%
@@rondaniels9974 an electric car will cost a family less over the life of the vehicle. However not everyone has the ability or desire to take out a loan. Speaking from experience I'll keep my three 1990s GMC 400 trucks as long as they run.
Bidenomics🥴
The middle class has been fading since Reagan and trickle down economics The idea that if you give rich people money they would share it with the lower classes is just flawed logic You don't get rich by giving away money, you get rich by hording it
MY GIRLFRIEND SYBIL IS NOT BRILLIANT!🤬
@@DebORahDramaticacannibal bidums great
He dropped that one, MSNBC did too on orders to do so from the left.
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I think it's hilarious these bozos are reporting on this. They are the ones who make sure we always paying attention to anything but this.
True. Bidum shipping jobs overseas
We don't with Biden in office maybe next year
If the working class votes Trump for 2024, then yes, they have a shot a the American dream.
How is all those shutdown businesses the American dream?
Why would the working class vote for the personification of everything that’s wrong with capitalism?
_Nightmare_
You mean they have shot the American dream
Corporate greed🇷🇺☠️🇨🇳