Comments on: Middle Class Woes?

By: Cappy

Cappy — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:43:34 +0000

Good ol’ Drew! A hometown boy from good ol’ Cleveland! We’re proud to claim him as the Pride of Cleveland, or POC. (Don’t even think of saying it!)

Cappy declares “Have a Brew on Drew” day for all of Greater Cleveland.

By: Ken Adams

Ken Adams — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:45:10 +0000

The reality is, the middle class is being squeezed by "evil money-grubbing ~~corporations~~ politicians."

By: Mike R.

Mike R. — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:37:55 +0000

Drew Carey… I knew I liked that guy.

By: Erica

Erica — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:53:04 +0000

Ahhhhh, the ol’ champagne tastes on a beer budget. Honestly, I’ve no clue what class I am, middle, lower, or otherwise, but if I am middle class, and if I could swing three blogmeets in five months, and look the way I do (meaning, like someone who’s never gone hungry in her life, and who, more or less has a mostly stocked fridge), then the middle class thing is definitely working out for me. Either that, or I haven’t used up all my nine lives yet. I always seem to manage to land on my two feet.

By: dogette

dogette — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:18:45 +0000

I loved it. Thanks for posting this.

BTW. Re: cell phones. Reminds me of the time about 5 years ago, I was “dining” at Taco Bell at noon and this apparently HOMELESS ratty-looking barefoot guy begged me for a buck so he could “get something to eat.” He looked so pathetic. I felt so bad I gave him not one but TWO dollar bills, because after all I’m a “rich” evil conservative and all.

He blessed me repeatedly and ran outside with the 2 bucks.

Then I saw him dial up someone on his cell phone as he rode off into the sunset on his bicycle. Poor starving wretch.

By: Jersey

Jersey — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 02:45:31 +0000

Well, a cut in the AMT would be nice…and since we are apparently a “consumer class”, wouldn’t lower taxes on us be the best thing for the economy?

But what really drives me crazy when I hear about “poverty” in America. Sure, there are poor people in this country, but did you know 97% of them own a color TV, and that the average dwelling of a poor person in America is larger than an average middle class citizen’s in Paris and London? And trust me, with a myriad of food stamp-type programs and $1 menus at Burget King, there is no reason for anyone to “go hungry” in America. True poverty – wearing rags, hand- to-mouth eating, families begging to survive on the street – has just about been eradicated in this country.

So when I hear politicians telling me my taxes need to go up to help all the poor folk, I know I am being sold a bill of goods. And once the discretionary income of the middle class goes down, they stop spending, and people lose their jobs. Incidentally, that’s how you create “the poor” (as well as foreclosures, bankruptcies, etc…)

Wow. Sorry about the rant….