Is there really a war on the middle class?

Question

Does the middle class really have worst of both worlds. They don't recieve handouts from the government and they aren't rich enough to do what ever they want. Does the middle class get the short end of the stick?

Answer 1

You are going to get it. We are being killed by paying more than our share of taxes, out sourcing our jobs, Selling out our retirements, Reducing our health care, and importing labor to take our jobs at home. We are the ones that send our children to the war. Our voice is not heard by politicians because the money speaks louder, and we have no one to lobby our causes and issues. We need a government that takes the working poor serious.

Answer 2

Yes there is! The middle class must be knocked down practically to poverty level for the North American Union to work so we can be slaves to the new world order. If you don't think this has relevance in your life you better wake up to just what is really going on with things like the value of our money and things like the takeover of our infrastructure by foreign corporations.
The link below is a place to start but by no means the only source of the truth.

Answer 3

Do you know many middle class anxious to become poor? Then obviously they'd prefer to be rich enough not to get handouts from the gov't.

Answer 4

Yes there is a war on the middle class. As more jobs go off shore, the once middle class is becoming a poorer class. NAFTA in the 1990's and current trade relationships in the far east are living proof of jobs leaving this nation. And if one doesn't believe this, then talk to the millions of workers who have lost their jobs around the country (i.e, Detroit - auto workers or computer programmers who have lost their jobs to those in India).

Ninety-eight percent of this nation's wealth is owned by 7% of the population, yet 90+% of the taxes are paid by middle class Americans. Something is wrong with this picture.

Answer 5

Yes, the Dems tax us into oblivion and the Repubs export our jobs to Mexico and Malaysia/China.

Yeah, there is a war on us, Neat that I am no longer middle class since we only make 50K in the household of 4. No joke we have a home but really can't afford any new cars. 3.00 gas is fun too!

Old Guy

Answer 6

Yes. Exactly as you put it. We don't make enough money for some things, we make too money for other things. Our govt serves the rich (who donates money to campaigns) and the poor but forget about the middle class.

Answer 7

As long as people continue to vote for Democrats, (and thier intervention into the free market) it is going to continue. Through absurd laws, policys, taxes, and government schools indoctrinating young people to a progressive agenda, who will soon be old enough to vote, nothing is going to change in this regard.

Answer 8

I'm tired of "WAr on ..." rhetoric. It's rhetorical excess.

There IS a Middle Class Squeeze, though. The costs of energy, education, and health care keep going up in excess of inflation, while wages remain stagnant. And a lot of high-paying jobs are outsourced.

The challenge of the Republican Party is to distract the Middle Class with irrelevant social issues and to keep them resenting the pittance given to the lower class, so they don't vote for real change. Instead they vote against their own economic self-interest by voting Republican, the party of the rich and corporations.

Answer 9

The middle class does get handouts; from meals at school for their children to tax breaks the poor can't afford. I can't write anything off on my taxes, because I am too poor to pay any taxes.
If there is a war on any of the classes, it is the same one that it has always been: war on the lower class, the poor. (I am not referring to the "Welfare Queens" and those with "Welfare Cadilacs"; I am referring to the working poor!)

Answer 10

I agree with you to a large extent

My solution is to end those free handouts completely (to anyone)