Does Anyone Speak for the Middle Class Today?

[SeaNap05]

Economic disparity and the unequal distribution of economic resource between the classes are increasing under this lame duck administration. The Bush administration and past conservative administrations have driven economic policies to divide us into the two Americans that Sen. John Edwards has spoke about.

This is to increase power and privileged through out government, no big concept here. The deficit spending is spiraling out of control and the middle class takes the hit. Middle class families are facing all time high levels of debt, worries over their ability to send children to college and the ability to make ends meet. Even worse, the rate of poverty is increasing. The increasing lower middle class teeters on the poverty level.

The middle class suffers the most, yet the middle class spends the most. The middle class is the largest economic spenders in our economy; they buy everything everyday. They should have real tax breaks that make a differenc so that they can have their own economic growth. Who speaks for the middle class today? John Edwards has opened the dialog; does anyone else have anything substantive to say?

[Fridays Child]

1. The Labor Movement does. eom

[kenny blankenship]

2. According to their employers,

their employers are uniquely qualified to represent their interests.
And most middleclass people do not voice their disagreement if any.

[Amy6627]

3. Thom Hartmann speaks everyday about the war on the middle

class that Ronny Reagan started. http://www.thomhartman.com/

Here is a great article from him in Common Dreams:
http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views06/0308-20.htm

[Yavin4]

4. There Is No Middle Class

There are four distinct economic classes in America:

(1) The Upper class
(2) The large debtor class
(3) The Working poor
(4) The Non-Working poor


The large debtor class is what's mistaken for the middle class. In reality, these are just the folks that can borrow huge sums of money to buy things like housing, cars, vacations, college education for the kids, all with the hopes that their future wages will pay them off over time.

Right now, the working poor is the fastest growing economic class in America.

[Warpy]

5. Both parties do. Nobody speaks for the WORKING CLASS.

Remember, it takes well into the six figures for a family to be considered middle class, even though people who are struggling paycheck to paycheck and are one paycheck away from the street consider themselves middle class. The middle class actually got tax cuts. Of course, they're about to be hammered by the AMT, but I doubt they'll connect the dots.

The working class has faced offshored jobs, declining wages for the jobs that remained here, and worsening expectations for two generations now, and neither party has cared one whit about any of this.

The working class is now the largest class. Any party that starts to address working class economic issues will get into power and remain there.

[CarlSheeler4U]

6. Hell yeah some do... but whose paying attention

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