Who deserves a break more these days: a struggling working family, or the heir to a billion-dollar fortune?
But it is not a policy to revive a struggling working class.
Our politics are polarized, our finances are still overleveraged, and our society is increasingly segregated — by income, education and family structure — between a thriving elite and a struggling working class.
The same was true for Tom and Barbara Smith, a struggling working-class couple in Saugerties, N.Y., who watched the debate from their local firehouse.
In the 17th Precinct on the southwest side of Council Bluffs, with the towers of downtown Omaha just visible on the western horizon, is a struggling working-class community of factory workers, casino employees and railroad people.
Tom and Barbara Smith, a struggling working-class couple from Saugerties, say they still do not feel that they know enough about the candidates, partly because they live in a part of the state without the saturation news coverage of New York City, Albany, Syracuse, Rochester or Buffalo.
St. Claude Avenue, which experienced light flooding after Katrina, traverses a struggling, working-class downtown neighborhood; Magazine Street serves middle- to upper-class uptown neighborhoods and suffered no flooding; Carrollton Avenue traverses both middle-class and working-class neighborhoods and suffered extreme flooding in some areas, some flooding in most areas, and none in others.
Instead, he demands sacrifices from the poor, a section of the struggling working and lower middle classes and, most of all, from the young, who are having to cope with a society without precedent.
But many French citizens saw the situation differently: Kerviel was the victim of a profit-obsessed bank, which largely existed to extract revenue from the struggling working and middle classes while enriching its top officers and shareholders.
We were living out our fantasies and yours: so what if no struggling working girl could afford the wardrobe of Ann Marie; so what if she couldn't have afforded that gorgeous apartment in reality?
The National Review's Victor Davis Hanson put it more succinctly in a column last week, arguing that Democrats' "out-of-touch privilege... led to agendas — radical green politics, hyper-feminism, transgender advocacy, forced multiculturalism, open borders — that were not principle concerns of the struggling working classes".
