(Maybe there was a conspiracy to get rid of the middle class starting 30 years ago?
More like a hundred years ago. It was called the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 and the income tax Amendment.
If you are interested, I do a series of post on "Traitors in the White House" in the thread Unions and the Truth by OLD HIPPY DUDE.
The situation is a heck of a lot more serious that most people understand and it was all carefully orchestrated.
History, HACCP and the Food Safety Con Job by Nicole Johnson, carefully documents a sixty-five year old plan to drive independent farmers off their land and into corporate factories.
...In its 1945 report "Agriculture in an Expanding Economy," CED complained that "the excess of human resources engaged in agriculture is probably the most important single factor in the "farm problem'" and describes how agricultural production can be better organized to fit to business needs.[2] A report published in 1962 entitled "An Adaptive Program for Agriculture"[3] is even more blunt in its objectives, leading Time Magazine to remark that CED had a plan for fixing the identified problem: "The essential fact to be faced, argues CED, is that with present high levels farm productivity, more labor is involved in agriculture production that the market demands -- in short, there are too may farmers. To solve that problem, CED offers a program with three main prongs."
Some of the report's authors would go on to work in government to implement CED's policy recommendations. Over the next five years, the political and economic establishment ensured the reduction of "excess human resources engaged in agriculture" by two million, or by 1/3 of their previous number....
CED members were influential in business, government, and agricultural colleges, and their outlook shaped both governmental policies and what farmers were taught. Farmers found themselves encouraged to give up on a farming system that employed minimal outsourced inputs and capital and get "efficient" by adopting instead a system that required they go into debt in order to purchase ever more costly inputs, like fossil-fuel based fertilizers, chemicals, seeds, feed grain, and machinery....
The human cost of CED's plans were exacting and enormous.
CED's plans resulted in widespread social upheaval throughout rural America, ripping apart the fabric of its society destroying its local economies. They also resulted in a massive migration to larger cities. The loss of a farm also means the loss of identity, and many farmers' lives ended in suicide....
The CED is the Committee for Economic Development (formed in 1942) is the sister organization to the Council on Foreign Relations. It is composed of chief executive officers and chairmen from the federal reserve, the banking industry, private equity firms, insurance companies, and other corporations and assisted by university economists. Note the economists come from university departments endowed by the big banking families, J.P Morgan, Rockefeller and also Carnegie.
