War on the middle class in America --Mostly due to Republican policies -Do you agree?

Question

Rich Republicans promote this trend, do nothing to help the middle class --fewer jobs provide health insurane, 46.6 million Americans go without , college tuition up 44% in 4 years, 2nd and 3rd mortgages on houses, median wage is down, good jobs being outsourced to foreign countries
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/03/Dobbs.Oct4/index.html

Answer 1

The neocon tax cuts primarily benefitted the rich.

The middle class and the poor didn't receive maximum benefit. The rich also use the AMT tax, or pay no taxes at all like Welsey Snipes.

Republican policies, like trickle down economics, only helps the rich. And does little to advance the middle class.

Answer 2

Your figures are off...

There is no middle class in America. What few actually qualify dont believe they qualify. Minimum Wage, prices, inflation, interest rates, and employment have all gone up, but the poverty line remains the same. The system is being manipulated. Has that never occurred to you?

Fewer jobs provide health insurance because fewer businesses can AFFORD health insurance. College tuition is up, but so is everything else (except the poverty line). Median wages are not down, they simply havent moved as fast as the minimum wage. Good jobs are being outsourced, but good jobs are also acquired illegally by immigrants that do not belong here.

You're being one-sided and the view is paper thin.

Answer 3

I uncertain the style you come back up with that, as Obama has stopped the pipe line which might have created pastime, He provide up the AT&T merger which might have created jobs, He has larger the fee of hiring those along with his well being care bill i see which will fee each and every enterprise 2,000.00 in line with 3 hundred and sixty 5 days in line with worker can no longer blame them for no longer desirous to take that on. He now refuses to sign the pay-functionality tax destroy, which i factor out he needed, so how is it the republicans fault. additionally once you inspect the actuality that for the 1st 2 years of his term he might have exceeded something he needed he had finished administration. awaken guy your pay attention to plenty to CNN, cbs, abc, msnbc.

Answer 4

Republicans and democrates have proven over the years to be uniformly derelict. Nader, the only true alternative, in the last election got 1%. There is little difference between republican and democrate or liberal and conservative, they are different camp fires in the same camp. Different songs on the same CD. Supporting skewed enterprise and politics causes oppression, something the rest of the world has had to edure much longer then the suffering of those voters in middle class in America who do little more then wine, debate and make claim amidst non committal committal and denial. Both in themselves and their politicians. It is time to face reality and become involved with your communitites, not sit around and cry like babies.

If everyday middle class American citizens do not respond accordingly, then ideals like consensual governance are in shambles.

Is this the kind of democracy our youth die daily to defend?

While republican and democrate, with few exceptions compromise toward financial imbalance through complicit governance.

Now deminishing and destroying innocent lives even at home as well as there, as we make war in commodities defence, while making nobel claim to “democracy’s” supremacy. Much like all of the crusades in human history.

Even middle class Americans are becoming the victims of those deemed “friendly”, of those elected to serve, protect and represent the needs of all. It is imperitive to meet the needs of the many before the wants of the few, but that statement makes most American eyes role..

In the universal scheme of things Americans at 300 millions are a fraction only of the six billion plus who would be happy to have the suffering lives of middle class Americans.

Picking sides is a waste of time. Finding common ground through consensus is democracy, judging by your comments and the state of the entire world the Western world needs to take care at home, in order to understand the universally negative effect our one sided economics are having even on your middle class.

Answer 5

Many years ago Republican agenda turned to big business with the theory of trickle down. Not only did the trickle stop, big business trickled out of the country. Times change change with them.

Answer 6

It never cease to amaze me the things people will try to blame Republicans for. College tuitions now? Uh huh. Seeing that almost all major colleges and universities are run by LIBERALS and employ LIBERALS-you're not selling that one, pal. Liberal unions are the cause of Michigan's flailing job industry and economy-I live here and know first hand. As far as the rest of the country goes-I'd say with record home ownership and overall job growth and lower unemployment rates-I'd also say the conservatives have to be doing something right.

Answer 7

No. I do not agree with you. There is a shrinkage of the Middle Class mainly due to the Democratic Policy of cradle to grave entitlement. The constant undermining of personal responsibility by the Democrats who hold the attitude that they can make better choices for people than the people can themselves is destroying the work ethic required to sustain a strong middle class.

Answer 8

Gee, if the democrats would get their hands out of my wallet I would have quite a bit more money and so would all the other working class people. I suspect this would help lower personal debt and people could afford their insurance and college tuition.

Answer 9

NO, I don't agree. Do you liberal donkeys never stop demanding handouts? No matter how many lies you tell, unemployment is at an all-time low, the stock market is at an all-time high, quality of life is improving and still you're not satisfied because you want someone to give you more. Get off your butt and get a job.

Answer 10

My only comment is that when the Democrats have been in Power I have always had steak for dinner, and when the Republicans are in power I always have hamburger for dinner.