Pelosi: Dems focused on middle class

[sabra]

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Pelosi: Dems focused on middle class

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Congressional Democrats would take steps to ease a crunch on middle-class Americans if they gain a majority in the Nov. 7 midterm elections, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Thursday.

"Today, this economy is making the super-rich richer and leaving middle-income American families further behind, deeper in debt and struggling to make ends meet. Make no mistake, this is the result of a choice, not chance," the California Democrat said in a speech at Georgetown University.

Pelosi said Democrats would take action to raise the minimum wage, pass middle-class-oriented tax breaks, reform the alternative minimum tax, and simplify the tax code.

[Demeter]

1. Our Goal IS To Bring All Into the Middle Class

Elevate the poor, and make the rich pay taxes. Then and only then does one have a fully functioning democratic republic where all are created equal, treated equally, and the common welfare is secured.

[allisonthegreat]

2. Amen... Nancy rocks n/t

:kick:

[Megahurtz]

3. Agreed! n/t

[MannyGoldstein]

4. The Biggest Flip-Flop of All Time?

For almost 20 years, the "Democrats" have brutally sodomized the Middle Class - passing NAFTA and other "free trade" bills, a draconian bankruptcy law, destroying unions, slashing corporate and "capitol gains" taxes and doing all manner of other favors for the Predator Class.

Now they say they want to help the Middle Class? Holy crap. Anyone who believes this deserves exactly what they get.

[Massachusetts]

5. Pelosi: Dems focused on middle class

Its about time, this is LONNNNNGGGGG overdue.

"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few"
-Star Trek ?

This quote hurts many progressives I'm sure, but the truth will hurt us all sooner or later.
The Middle Class IS the Main Gear in OUR society everything moves and operates off of it. If it is broken or malfunctioning nothing else will work. (VERY simple but true)

Don't bash me to hard!

[Exiled in America]

6. Some false assumptions.

I'm assuming that the reason you think that quote will hurt progressives has to do with progressives being focused on easing the burden of the poor?

The false assumption is that what will be in the interests of the "many" which I believe you take to be the middle-class are at odds with the news of the "few" which I believe you take to be the poor in America.

That is far from an axiomatic statement. The "many" in America are the 80% of the country who make less than 200,000 dollars a year. The "few" are by far not the substantial number of americans living below the poverty line, but the tiny percentile of Americans living at the top and dictating government economic policy. That's what needs to change.

[Massachusetts]

7. Some false assumptions.

"The "many" in America are the 80% of the country who make less than 200,000 dollars"
Sounds to me like the middle Class.

"That's what needs to change"
That will happen when Middle Class individuals feels they aren't being disenfranchised (maybe a little over the top),anymore. The reality is, thats how most individuals feel, everyone wants their piece of the pie, especially those who carry the burden (Middle Class).

[Exiled in America]

8. No, there are no false assumptions - only statistically verifiable fact.

The "middle class" by definition refers to a group of income earners somewhere below the richest and above the poorest. Someone making below $200,000 a year may be considered middle class, but not if the income he/she is making is $16,000 a year. So sorry the "sounds to me like the middle class" statement is just wrong.

80% of America includes the working class and the desperately poor as well as those in the middle who have managed to find some financial independence while still not having much influence or power. 80% of American is not "middle class."

Whatever "disenfrancisment" the Middle Class feel, its not aimed at poor people. No middle class person, including myself, is unaware about who is benefiting from a goverment that has turned away from the majority of its citizens. The benefactors are members of the oligarchical society America has become, and they are the ultra wealthy and ultra powerful.

So my only point was that the idea that social and economic policies that were Just, Fair, and Empowering for the poorest american would somehow be at odds or in conflict with social and economic policies that are Just, Fair and Empowering for the middle class american is a myth regularly perpetuated by the most extreme of conservatives in order to justify the continuing pilliaging of America by the extremely powerful and wealthy.