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In reply to the discussion: Why They Get Away With Cutting Welfare [View all]LiberalArkie
(15,713 posts)31. It is my belief that those at the bottom and all the way up to the middle middle class really
do not have that much to loose in the events coming up. Those in the upper middle, the top 40%-90%, I think are going to loose their shirts. Look at history, even here in the US, it was the bottom and the very top. The ones in middle just enlarged the numbers of people at the bottom. The poor people who think they are upper middle class, even those that think they are wealthy are going to think they are having a nightmare. Remember the depression, it was not the middle class jumping out of the windows, it was those who were wealthy, just not a Getty or Vanderbilt or Morgan wealthy.
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Rather than "the winners and the losers"...we should say "the lucky and the unlucky".
Ken Burch
Dec 2014
#12
We have idiots who rail about foreign aid saying we should care for our own people first....
Spitfire of ATJ
Dec 2014
#18
Krugman: Racism: "our unique suspicion of and hostility to social insurance and anti-poverty
pampango
Dec 2014
#20
It is my belief that those at the bottom and all the way up to the middle middle class really
LiberalArkie
Dec 2014
#31
The monkey wrench in your "rinse and repeat" history lesson is climate change
riderinthestorm
Dec 2014
#35
K&R! We have many people living, working, investing and dying for conservative (corporate) ends.
raouldukelives
Dec 2014
#43