I have been fortunate enough to travel to 31 other countries from Vietnam to Africa. In the process, I have at various times worked for the US government, major oil companies, or myself.
In the process, I have seen some of the worst and most unsanitary, slums in the world. On other occasions, I have stayed in elaborate resorts, where I rested in five star hotels.
One of my key observations relates to a big difference between what I saw in the Orient, Caribbean, Europe, Africa; and here in the United States. As many others have commented before, the good old USA has always been different because we have a middle class.
We have also been one of the few places in the world where an individual can climb to a better economic status largely based upon ability and willingness to work.
The absence of any real middle class is a striking feature of foreign countries. You often see pedestrians walking because they are too poor to buy a bicycle, much less a motorcycle. It is not uncommon to see that same pedestrian passed along the highway by someone else in the back seat of an expensive chauffeur driven automobile.
In America I have lived to see upward mobility based upon ability and effort, replaced by upward mobility based upon group identification and political correctness.
It has taken fifty years of such malarkey, but the left has progressively destroyed our educational system, the family as an institution, the influence of religion and finally the American middle class.
“Mamma stayed home and raised our family. We were solidly middle class and did not want for any necessity of life.”
My Daddy had a seventh grade education, worked with his hands and was proud to be a blue collar member of a labor union. In 1956 he had our first house built. Every four or five years he bought a new car. Mamma stayed home and raised our family. We were solidly middle class and did not want for any necessity of life.
Eventually we even began to acquire some of the luxuries of life like color TV, and a second motor vehicle. Air conditioning replaced our attic fan as the preferred method of home ventilation.
Daddy bought more land for his growing garden, which was his passion in life. He was able to add a new pickup truck once in a while and build an elaborate greenhouse.
After almost twenty years of happy retirement, when my Daddy died in 1999 he owned one of the finest mansions in Crockett, Texas.
As a small boy in 1956, I watched the carpenters build that first little house for my Daddy. That house too is still there at 3403 Palm Avenue in Texas City.
Go to any bank in Texas, tell them you want a 100% mortgage to buy that house today. Tell them about your associate degree from the community college and your $15 an hour job as a management trainee at Wal-Mart.
Be sure to let them know your other expenses are going to include a stay at home wife and feeding and caring for two children. The banker will laugh at you and ask if you are daft?
At one time the middle class was the bulk of the American people and prosperous. This photo of San Antonio, Texas, in 1956 shows a bustling main street and lots of people out enjoying and contributing to a prosperous economy. That largely changed under many administrations starting with Lyndon Baines Johnson and culminating with a knife in the back of most Americans by Barack Hussein Obama.
The once vibrant American middle class is now the working dead. You have jobs, thanks largely to the president; but no purchasing power thanks to fifty years of deep state rot known as political correctness!
On paper, you now have college degrees and are gainfully employed. You lack the purchasing power of a manual laborer in 1956 who dropped out of grade school.
Do not rest in peace. Rise up and demand forty million non English speaking aliens* be deported!
*A 2010 census question asked what language was spoken by the people they counted? Forty million were found to be without English skills. That should put to rest the myth there are only 11 million illegal aliens in America!
Dean Allen is a decorated Vietnam veteran and book author.
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