The focus on the urban middle class gave the industry an artistic direction.
"We didn't struggle for so many years just to have some rich kid and his friends ride into town and take over City Hall," said Manfred Jackson, 71, a retired factory worker who bitterly recalled the years after the 1967 riots, when mass abandonment by the middle class gave way to decades of economic and social turmoil.
Chrysler has not only been an icon of America's auto industry and a source of pride for generations of American workers; it's been responsible for helping build our middle class, giving countless Americans the chance to provide for their families, sending their kids to college, saving for a secure retirement.
This split the alliance between the working class and the middle class, giving rise to the Chartist Movement.
Of course, some may question Baldwin's connecting with today's middle class, given his fame and fortune as a prominent, award-winning actor.
In 1833, William signed a new constitution for Hanover, which empowered the middle class, gave limited power to the lower classes, and expanded the role of the parliament of Hanover.
In order to pay for their tax break--a giant handout to the wealthiest among us--they'll need to welsh on the loan the American middle class gave to the government through its payments to the Social Security Trust Fund.
To what extent does the middle class give lip-service to freedom, while wearing an all-controlling "ankle bracelet" of captivity to a consumerist identity that, always, like a self-destructive addict, goes for the good deal?
Each party will sing the obligatory hosannas to the middle class, give the silent treatment to the working poor, and bellow forth the platitudes of America's "spirit of enterprise and innovation" that will restore our robust economy and world leadership.
