"Most important," he said, "you don't want to pull these complexes out of the hands of the middle class for future generations".
Medical costs are threatening both the middle class and future retirees.
Government can play a role fostering the well-paid jobs that will support the middle class of the future.
"It is absurd to suggest that cosmetic surgery is dead or will not be used by the middle class in the future," she said.
The country reaped the benefits of soaring commodity prices and government spending helped millions of poor Brazilians enter the middle class - the future looked bright.
They will stay in the middle class, building a future on the rock of that government program.
If they did they'd propose much higher taxes for themselves, a major jobs program to get our economy moving again, investment in our crumbling infrastructure, and expanded education funding to build the middle class of the future.
It's too bad that, by the time those in the middle class realize their futures have been sold, Wall Street will have already bundled and sold them on the futures market.
The middle class had a brighter future.
But the main question about the middle class in the immediate future will be different: how badly will it be hit by a global recession?Since the Asian currency crisis of 1997-99, the middle classes in emerging markets have known nothing but success.
