The Cry of the Middle Class........Who will finally Listen?

[SeaNap05]

The current federal budget gives tax breaks on millionaires while it reduces programs that help those who needed it most, which is the Middle Class. People need to wake up and understand that upcoming congressional election could be altered to our advantage. The Middle Class need representatives that will stand up for and our values. There are more of us and offer the most to the American economy. The President try to get 300,000 people off food stamps; 19,000 fewer children will go to Head Start; and low- and moderate- income people will lose $36 billion in Medicare. The Middle Class is treated inconsiderately considering how much work force we produce and spend in the economy. However, we have no voice. We need voices and voices in congress to understand our needs, paying for our children’s college, buying a first home, getting adequate health services and medicine. The Middle Class, also known has the working class spends and behaves differently from the lower and upper, and we should see some that coming back to us in multiple type of tax breaks and tax incentives

Everything people need to get ahead is becoming taken away: student loans, vocational training, childcare, Social Security benefits for widows, and more.

We have the chance to get our country back on track. It's not too late to create a safe, healthy and hopeful future for our children. Speaking out and working with candidates, organizing in your communities, and standing up for the people who have no one to speak for them. If you are upset about the President's policies, get energized. Talk about the decline of the Middle Class and think of what you want your congressional representatives to do for you. We need voices put those voices crucially need to be heard by you and friends and family.


Hopefull North Carolina

[mrcheerful]

1. Not to mention that everything from gasoline to food to heat to electricity

has went up wards in price while wages have went down and fixed incomes only increased by a poultry 2% for cost of living. But hey after all the rich have everything handed to them on gold platters so because 34% of the population that considers themselves the chosen ones will get rich too and they'll need those tax breaks and don't steal their money from their children by having a death tax. Stupid people get what they deserve and when bush co finally drives them into the poor houses, called the city sewers, they will never get it, republican=screw everyone so the rich can get richer.

[regnaD kciN]

2. Same as it ever was...

This is nothing new; it's been the policy of every Republican President since Reagan. And even the sainted Bill Clinton was not immune; one could argue that the two "biggest achievements" of his presidency were gaining approval for NAFTA (which was a major victory for the globalization that has sent formerly decent-paying jobs overseas) and dismantling the welfare system (which allowed for a "race to the bottom" on social services, plus higher competition for entry-level jobs -- it's not an accident that, since welfare "reform," the minimum wage has stayed put for the longest period since its inception).

I don't know if it's "too late" to undo the trend toward stratifying the country into rich and poor, but it is sure going to be a lot harder than if the middle class had smartened up a long time ago and stopped this in its tracks, before the global corporation system and its "profits before people" ideology became so all-encompassing and interwoven in our daily existence.