I'll leave you to ponder if you can open your collective minds fiscons and soclibs alike. Imagine an event that wipes out every bridge, sea port, airport and rail line ever funded through gov money or give aways. Who will suffer the most....The people who need those venues to ship and receive goods to maintain a commercial enterprise. So lets consider who truely benifits the most from all the bridges, shipping venues, highways, surface streets, schools and universities. Not me in 2032, because I won't be able to afford the use of any of them anyway. That is I'm afraid the definition of the new middle class for 2032.
Actually, it will not be the rich who suffer in this instance. The will have enough money to make it work.... It will be the milddle and lower class, who will have to either pay exorbitant amount of money for dwindling supplies or go without....
And frankly, such a pessimistic view of America is very disturbing. One would hope citizens would have more faith in the people of this country to make sure it survives. Yes, the income gap is increasing - and during this recession, it is becoming more prevalent. But that always happens during recessions/depressions. It will stabliize again in a few years and the middle class will again grow, as it always has.
And let's talk about why businesses are not hiring and why we continue to find ourselves in a tailspin when we should have been out of this mess early last year....
1. obamacare: small businesses are scared to death over the cost this will have on their companies.
2. threat of tax increases: see #1
3. uncertainty of which way congress and the presidency will go (in 2008, 2010, and now in 2012)
4. fear that they will have to let people go in the near future due to poor revenues.
these are only a few that make me weary of expanding my business. I am sure there are many more, especially for moderately larger businesses.