Remember when the Republicans used to cry " class warfare" ?

Question

...when anyone mentioned how Bush's tax cuts only served the wealthy who did not need them? And now under Bush the middle class has virtually disappeared ! Who is warring on whom?

Answer 1

The Unions are NOT to blame.
Start with the COST of Health Insurance premiums and go from there.

NAFTA and free trade agreements are doing in the manufacturing base in the USA. The wealthy are making a dollar from exporting your jobs not creating them as they CLAIM will happen when they get tax breaks.

Thousands of " Educated Conservative Jobs" have vanished, not only the "fifty dollar an hour" light bulb screwers.
Politicians must be forced to address these unpleasant issue's.
Republicans are going to have to "give it up".
They had the power and decided to just line their pockets instead of fixing anything.

Answer 2

What evidence do you have that the middle class is disappearing/ Most of us are doing ok. Yes if you work at a general motors plant and it's closing down, it may seem to you that the world is at war with you but it's really not. Most of the people getting displaced out of thier manufacturing jobs have themselves to blame as well. Why do i say that? I'll tell you why.
I grew up in Dayton, Ohio. When I was born the place was teeming with manufacuring jobs. Dayton tire, half a dozen General motors plant, a chrysler plant, the mccalls company, 9they used to print the magazine here) By the time i reached my early twenties most of those places were gone. In neighboring cities, those places were rapidly disappearing as well. in the mid 80's Gm hired a BUNCH of my friends. My dad worked for GM for 30 years before he died. this was a GM town.
The main assembly plant in dayton, where they make the bravada SUV, is closing at the end of the year. It's sad, but come on. who didn't see this coming??? I have been driving past empty desolated abandonded factories my whole adult life, the older I get the more of them I see. It didn't start with the Bush administration! I'm sorry but you can't jump on an ancient, broken down, sweating horse, and expect the ride to last a lifetime. You can't be taken by surprise when the horse falls dead under you, leaving you with no ride. When you were making that $22 an hour, why didn't you take some night classes at the community college and get a back up plan?

Answer 3

I see no evidence that the middle class has disappeared. I think it is quite possible your definitions of what is lower, middle and upper, have shifted considerably. Where do you put the person -- or family -- that owns (with mortgage, probably) his own home, but probably no other property, and certainly not much more than maybe part interest in his parent's or grandparent's house that was left to him and his brothers and sisters, or maybe cousins, to divide up.

Where do you put the guy who has a paycheck, a car, a home, some few electronic gadgets, and not a great deal to worry about except whether or not he can pay for his kids to go to college.

There are plenty of people who are well past anything that can reasonably be considered low class, and yet cannot reasonably be considered wealthy. That is the middle class, but the 21st century middle class is way better off than the 19th century's wealthy class. That's called progress, my friends. Indeed, our current lower class is even better off than the 19th century's middle class. What with second-hand stores and various other reasons, even a substantial portion of our nation's lower class has considerable creature comforts compared to the 19th century's union man laborer, let alone clerks and retails workers.

The Republicans and the Democrats were both formed in many long years of development. The Republicans basically started with Lincoln. The Democrats had been around longer, but changed radically after the Civil War, so they are no younger. Their modus operandi, their long-entrenched power brokers, and their bloated bureaucracy that survives any change of administration, make them both unsuitable for the 21st century. The Greens are no better; they are the ones who used to dress in red.

The Libertarian Party calls its outreach program "Operation Politically Homeless," because when you look at the two main parties, there's nowhere to turn. You have to start looking further than "because they can win" mentality, which keeps the incumbents winning. Because ANY candidate, any party CAN win. All it takes is numbers. Adding one more to a number makes it larger.

Vote Libertarian for a change.

Answer 4

No. it quite is in simple terms common double talk. it quite is the stable language of the Republican occasion. Obama proposes elevating taxes on suitable salary earners by 4% and that's classification conflict. Republicans write a invoice offering that individuals who deliver jointly the unemployment they paid into on an identical time as they have been working could pass a drug attempt and that's a consequence of the reliable ethical fiber of the occasion. they're procedures.

Answer 5

You are hyperboling. The biggest areas of the middle class that are in trouble are places like the auto industry. Sadly the unions got people with almost no education jobs paying so much that the industry can no longer sustain them. Sorry, but screwing on a door to a car is not a 50 buck per hour job.

Answer 6

Taxation must be equitable wherein it must place the taxpayers in similar situations wherein the rich, middle class and low salaried employees must be rightfully imposed with proportionate taxes.

Answer 7

This is a capitalist country, was the res ponce.when I asked a congressman in my district a question.once, this country is control ed by big business not us, sheeple.,it will go on till there is another revolution, there will be no such revolt, we are damned

Answer 8

the middle class has not disappeared. There are more and more in the middle class and lower class.

Answer 9

Remember when the democrats weren't subversive Bolsheviks?

Answer 10

They all became upper class due to the booming economy.