# Shrinking Middle Class in the US(?)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrinking-middle-class-in-the-us/739992>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [December 9, 2015, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrinking-middle-class-in-the-us/739992 "2015-12-09T23:38:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mr.Nylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2016, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrinking-middle-class-in-the-us/739992/121 "2016-01-13T15:27:19Z")

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I’ve read the first 50 pages so far. It’s a pretty easy to read book. I like a lot of what it says - but that’s probably because it is pretty saying the exact same things I have said earlier in this thread and in other threads on this board. I do think Clinton is given a little bit too much of a pass and the Right is given a bit too much flack - but I’m only 50 pages in so I’ll have to see where it goes.

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**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrinking-middle-class-in-the-us/739992/122 "2016-01-14T11:36:02Z")

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I’m glad to see there is interest in Joseph Stiglitz’s book. One topic it focuses on is the causes of the financial meltdown of 2008. This is a _much_ more important political issue than whether Johnny Bob can have a 20-round magazine for his gun or should be stuck with a 15-round magazine.

Since some low-information voters continue to blame the 2008 crisis on government regulation rather than the lack thereof, let me recommend [a good documentary showing some of the criminal behavior that led to that crisis.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQzEWeGJLP0) The documentary includes excerpts from a speech by Nicolas Sarközy, hitherto a right-wing apologist for American neo-imperialism:

[QUOTE=Nicolas Sarközy]  
Le “_Laissez-faire_” … c’est fini.  
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… showing that even right-wingers, at least outside the English-speaking world, can learn.

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