What Does it Mean to Be 'Middle Class'?

Fine Americans wrote:

And before you attempt to add further ignorance to your posts Pat, the word ghetto is:
"an impoverished, neglected, or otherwise disadvantaged residential area of a city"
It is your own racism that causes you to automatically associate a specific race with the word ghetto.

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CHECK SIX wrote:

They Say The Second Thing To Go Is Yer Memory!,When asked what Was The First???? I Reply I Forgot....And so it is with MIDDLE CLASS AMERICAN STYLE!..I FORGOT!....OBAMA had the POWER TO CLOUD MENS MINDS!..AND THE LYING WEASEL STOLE IT!....he in essence CUT THE PECKERS OFF of the MIDDLE CLASS,to give it to His NO CLASS,Mutts!!....
It will take many years to regain that memory...If ever!...All I know is, All I Know Are not Middle Class ..NO MO!!
OBAMA POVERTY RULES THE LAND...In The Streets,On and Off the unemployment lines!..MISERY,DESPAIR,HOPELES SNESS..OBAMA's LEGACY!
AMERICA NEEDS LEADER!..Nothing wrong with AMERICANS..WE HAVE NO LEADER..ONLY an INCOMPETENT!and of Course the perpetual Crazy LOONS who think all this is OK!!!
GOD DAM AMERICA???...LOONS and HUSSEIN HAVE!....LOOKATCHONOW!
He Still is Asking For TWO TRILLION as of TODAY!...MADNESS!.He Has In Three Years OUT SPENT EVERY PRESIDENT EVER!..IN Just Three Years!..When will it Stop???..when OBAMA is KICKED out on his Boney ass in the Election coming!!

Mr_Bill wrote:

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Would someone please put Mr_Bill in for some of that 'pay-for-post'?
Please?

Marine Corp Pat wrote:

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When they hook you up onto that please put in a good word for me… I have a lot of talent here for them to take advantage of to get the word out about the unpatriotic right-wingers vs the historic Presidency of our Osama-killing Commander-in-Chief.

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Fine Americans wrote:

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Typical disingenuous reply by the fake Marine, as the poster never indicated race in their post but the Pat being the liberal race baiter calls racism where none exists.

abby wrote:

middle class is disappearing, thanks to our brilliant government. Nothing left but the poor and the rich.

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Mr_Bill wrote:

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You cannot escape the guilt of ruining our country that envelopes anyone who voted for the national GOP in the last 30 yerars. From Reagan to Bush to now, the GOP has shat on the USA.
The "religious right' and the 'lying neo-conservatives' and the Koch brothers "tea baggers' and the voters for any of the Circus of Fools running in Iowa today. All guilty. All helped set up the system to raid our treasury and ruin the Middle income group.
It is you who did this mess. And to blame "OBAMA" for not cleaning up your 30 year mess up in just three years is just you, living a lie.

PayThat CEO wrote:

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There is an overall stubbornness to a lot of Americans who cannot or will not see the big picture. They refuse to acknowledge that every path we've been led down by Washington over the years has brought us to this point. I call it stubbornness because I simply don't believe most people are so stupid as to not be able to follow the bouncing ball through history and see the failures and mismanagement and calamities that have created what we are not as a nation. Or they only see the ones they want to see.
We all love to blame a current administration for our country's problems, but the country wasn't born yesterday. Each and every decision ever made in Washington has had an affect, positive or negative, on where we are right now. We will forever be making the same mistakes over and over because we refuse to acknowledge our past.
Instead of blaming ALL politicians for our problems, we pick sides and carry out a rivalry that would blow away even the staunchest college football fans. Instead of coming together with the understanding that there have been decades of mismanagement in Washington, we defend our chosen leaders like a mother tiger protects her young. As if those leaders give a rat's butt about any of us.
Nothing will change. Not now, not next year, not the year after. If years and years and years of poor political policy has created the America we see today, exactly what will change in the next few years that will overhaul our country to the point of real betterment for everyone?

CHECK SIX wrote:

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I Disagree with every thing you say and stand for,but will defend your right to say it....Not only Voltaire,but our 1st. amendment....gives us that right!
Democrat,or Republicans we are all Americans...Altho our Politics bring out the worst and the best of us...You know the viciousness of the Jefferson,Addams thing..Foundling Fathers...not to mention Lincolns enemies!...AMERICANS all1
We as Americans have been know to Kill our Leaders....so Yer Sactiomous BS..is invalid.
But TOPIX?...Seriously,You take this insanity FOR REAL??If you do ,like we all its just an exercise in self entertainment...For nobody's like we,can never effect any change..except the ballet Box.
I Personnel y object not to Political extremists,of which we all are,but to the few,who act like Bullys,and are the shallow among us...its not the insults,ignorance, but the Blind unbridled HATE,being passed of as argument...They are the dangerous ones..be it on TOPIX,or a Soap box in a town square.
Soo beat yer gums,I will also,ye,We Are AMERICANS..passing Time and Wind!
For This is anonymity,the cover security blanket of Cowards!
Were we in a Gin Mill?..We then eye to eye,would share views...BUT its TOPIX..Farting in the wind
what we say here is nothing but a mini sec of cyber space meaning SQUAT...LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!
We have so called MODERATORS on TOPIX..who are NOT.And thats the problem here!
mod·er·ate (mdr-t)
adj.
1. Being within reasonable limits; not excessive or extreme: a moderate price.
2. Not violent or subject to extremes; mild or calm; temperate: a moderate climate.
3.
a. Of medium or average quantity or extent.
b. Of limited or average quality; mediocre.
4. Opposed to radical or extreme views or measures, especially in politics or religion.
n.
One who holds or champions moderate views or opinions, especially in politics or religion.
v.(md-rt) mod·er·at·ed, mod·er·at·ing, mod·er·ates
v.tr.
1. To lessen the violence, severity, or extremeness of.
2. To preside over: She was chosen to moderate the convention.
v.intr.
1. To become less violent, severe, or extreme; abate.
2. To act as a moderator.
Sounds like A MOD HERE????I do Not think so,but Rather A Mean Muckraking,incendiary,creating discourse,and disseminating HATE,and SELF SERVING FALSE HOODS!..this we have!

Marine Corp Pat wrote:

If you are middle class/working class then your only hope is to support the Democratic Party by re-electing President Obama and giving him a Democratic House and Senate.

Marine Corp Pat wrote:

<quoted text>Nothing like some good old fashion right-wing racism to ring in the New YearÂ…

But here is a little something that may knock that white hood off of your pointy little head: there are many more White people on welfare than Black. And the percentage that goes to welfare for the poor is nothing compare to the percentage of welfare that goes to the corporations and the military industrial complex.

But hey, how can you spew your hate if you can’t see the “ghetto” as your source to “your” problem?

Marine Corp Pat wrote:

<quoted text>Nothing like some good old fashion right-wing racism to ring in the New YearÂ…

But here is a little something that may knock that white hood off of your pointy little head: there are many more White people on welfare than Black. And the percentage that goes to welfare for the poor is nothing compare to the percentage of welfare that goes to the corporations and the military industrial complex.

But hey, how can you spew your hate if you can’t see the “ghetto” as your source to “your” problem?

YO VINNE wrote:

"For decades, praising the middle class has been a staple of American politics. Candidates vow to defend the middle class and accuse their opponents of betraying it."

BullCrap. The only thing politcians care about is their relection, their insider trading and when the next suitcase full of cash is going to arrive from people who matter to these leeches.