10 Ways America Has Come to Resemble a Banana Republic
By Alex Henderson
September 5, 2013
| In the post-New Deal America of the 1950s and '60s, the idea of the
United States becoming a banana republic would have seemed absurd to
most Americans. Problems and all, the U.S. had a lot going for it: a
robust middle-class, an abundance of jobs that paid a living wage, a
strong manufacturing base, a heavily unionized work force, and upward
mobility for both white-collar workers with college degrees and
blue-collar workers who attended trade school. To a large degree, the
nation worked well for cardiologists, accountants, attorneys and
computer programmers as well as electricians, machinists, plumbers and
construction workers.
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