What can we do to help the struggling middle class?

Question

America's middle class is under siege and ready for a change. People are working harder and longer for less and less.

Corporate profits are up. CEO pay is up. Wages are lagging. Household debt is soaring. At the same time, health care, energy, and education costs are rising. Last year, more people went bankrupt in our country than graduated from college.

For six long years, it's like America's middle class and working families have been invisible to our president. He's looked right through them.

If you're a worker who can't organize for fair wages and safe working conditions, you're invisible. If you're a grandmother who has watched this administration try to privatize Social Security and dump piles of debt on your grandchildren, you're invisible. If you're a mother who can't afford child care, a kid who can't afford college, a family that can't afford to get by on the minimum wage, you're invisible.

When Hillary is in the White House, no American will be invisible to the president

Answer 1

Hillary is the only candidate talking about the middle class, and the only candidate that is a moderate.

Hillary's critics never bother to read her policies, they just blast away with rhetoric so false and tired it sounds like beating a drum with a loose skin. Hillary's critics don't even seem to believe their own nonsense as they parrot it over and over again.

Answer 2

You can't help the middle class or any other class in America - doing so would appear to be socialist and therefore un-American.

It is the American way which started in the 80s with Reaganonoimics and trickle-down economics. If only grew more selfish and corrupt through the 90s and today it's even worse, the greed of the 80s and 90s added together to make the greed of today's politicians and business leaders.

Unions had a purpose at one time ......but they've become selfish, lazy and useless.

In today's America, you are either rich or poor - there is no in-between.

Sucks to be American.

Answer 3

Hillary and the democrats have to realize that the government cannot do everything for people, and that government services come at a cost to everybody and the national deficit. Smart,privatized investing is the way to go. Even with a democrat in office I don't plan on seeing a penny of social security when I retire because with so many new retirees and so few laborers. There isn't enough money to go around, tax cuts help to stimulate the economy and allow people to do what they choose with their money. People who rely on the govermnment for anything will usually be disappointed, It's not a good thing but it's the way things are.

P.S. Hillary and her spending and policies will drive america into the ground in a big firey ball of what used to be a great country.

Answer 4

The path to success in this country is pretty clear. To blame the failures of some on the actions of others is incorrect. The majority of people are victims of their own decisions and self imposed limitations. When Hillary is is in the White House (to see the President) America will be great full the visit will will be short and unremarkable. It will truly be an invisible moment.

Answer 5

OK! So, you are not asking a question; you are making a political statement for Clinton.
If you are really concerned for the middle class, and I am middle class, you would support the the reduction of confiscatory taxation that impacts the middle class.
Clinton supports higher taxes and more government spending, and the middle class is paying and will pay if this mindset is not reversed.
My payroll taxes add up to 30% of my $60,000 income and increase to almost 40% when I work overtime. Then, add 8 1/4% sales tax when I spend my money. Gasoline tax, telephone tax, utilities tax, alcohol tax, toll road fees, and the list goes on.....!
Our nation is $8 trillion in debt. And all you liberals can do is think up new ways to spend money. Much of this spending is on individuals that are irresponsible or refuse to be independent.
So, let's sum up your philosophy !
Elect Hillary-- increase taxes on anyone making more than $25,000 a year. Give amnesty to "illegal aliens" who will work for $25,000 a year + government assistance and eliminate the $60,000 a year jobs + independence. The corporations you whine about get cheaper labor and pay some more taxes to make it look good. Of course, the corporations will continue the charade and continue sending money to the Clinton campaign. Also, less payroll tax revenue will result in lowered social security benefits to people like me, after all, my employer and myself have only contributed $162,000 so far to social security, and since this ill-conceived system doesn't earn interest, the tax will have to be increased and my benefits will be reduced. "It gets Better !" The parents of the illegal that got my job and are living in the U.S. will begin receiving social security even though they never paid a dime to the SS system.( Thank you Jimmy Carter ) After a couple of years, they move back home (country of origin) and the U.S. government continues to send the SS check to them anyway. I will have to sell my house and spend all of my savings during my remaining years to survive. But, I will receive a meager SS check when all of my money is gone. Unfortunately for me, I'll have to go to the SS office to validate my identity because someone tried to steal it and I could no longer afford to protect it. While leaving the SS office, a thief, who has been supressed by our racist system, sees an old white man (me), and believes I have some money or a SS check. While robbing me, he accidentally kills me, but he receives probation because of the decades of suffering he has had to endure by selfish white people like me (the victim). Thank God, I served my country, the government provides a decent burial for me, but after they harvest my organs for scientific research.

Answer 6

Lower taxes and an interest group of the middle class must be organized to represent them in the White House and Congress.

Answer 7

America is a free country and just for that you shouldlove your president. Other countries got it way worse. Nothing can always be perfect so don't act like America is in a big cry of help. What you can do though i contact the governement freely about your concern or gather a protest. It's a free country and your speach counts so do somthing about it.

Answer 8

no when hillary is president there will no longer be a middle class. she will go about fairly stealing all of their money and redistributing it to the masses. it has never worked and never will! but maybe if you like the socialistic, communistic ideas she embraces, you should take a long study of the former soviet union.

Answer 9

They are middle calss for a reason its b/c they didt assert themselves in school and get a good education. Everyone has the same chances to get scholarships, grants, and loans to go to college. Americans shouldnt be responsible for anyone other than thereselves.

Answer 10

The only time the republicans care about the average American is when they need their vote!