Even what's left of the middle class disdains a middle-class life.
Last week I wrote about a bill making its way through Congress that would potentially result in tax breaks for the rich and higher taxes for the poor, working class, and what's left of the middle class.
Unless someone with the authority and clout to do so starts shaming our elected officials into addressing the issue, it will simply go around and around while what's left of the middle class disappears.
"I don't think there's a high probability that this will be an explosive event where the average American says, 'Wait, this is what's left of the middle class — what are you doing?' " 1 2 Next Page » Sabrina Tavernise reported from Columbus, and A. G. Sulzberger from Madison, Wis.
Protective Edge, wrote UNCTAD, "effectively eliminated what was left of the middle class, sending almost all of the population into destitution and dependence on international aid".
Her cursive is sometimes difficult to read, but plenty of time is left for the class to take notes.
What's new is the Republican crackup -- opening the way for a new Democratic coalition of socially liberal young people, women, minorities, middle-class professionals, and what's left of the anti-corporate working class.
Made up largely of what's left of the city's middle class, they called on the government not to abandon them to the city's criminals.
Those roughly above that line constitute what is left of the traditional American middle class.
That's the politics of gesture and routine, balanced out by announcements like one noting that the pace of expulsions of illegal immigrants is now ahead of last year's — public relations not just incidentally aimed at looking tough for what's left of the Socialists' white working-class constituency.
