Originally Posted by FoxHunter

Hint: Plutocrats have rigged the system so the 99+% of the US population no longer have the disposable income that kept the economy growing during the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.

The light airplane market is one that even pilots should understand. Cessna Aircraft built and sold 12,254 C172 aircraft during years 1962-1972. During those eleven years the production rate average was 1114 with the 1966 high year with 1597 produced and the 1970 low year with 759. Give the fact that the US population has grown 30% since then I would expect a much improved number. The two most recent years available show that the C172 is still manufactured but the production number is not the 1962-72 average of 1114 + 30%. Production has dropped 90% with 113 built in 2012, and 106 built in 2013.
The sad fact is in the days Cessna had customers with enough money to buy a C172 most households had one income, not the two that we consider normal today.