Middle Class Quotes - Page 34

• The Black public sector middle class teachers, policeman, firemen, and post office workers, those jobs have been on the decline but there hasn't been a corresponding increase in the private sector. What is especially painful is government policy bailed out the banks without making them make reinvestments for rebuilding. The result is 53-million Americans are food insecure, 50-million Americans are in poverty, 44 million are on food stamps, 26 million are looking for a job.

  Jesse Jackson

  Teacher, Jobs, Insecure

  Source: praisecharlotte.hellobeautiful.com

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• Middle class people, the bourgeoisie, they are also feeling frightened at the moment. Some fear losing their fortunes; some go bankrupt; some are thinking about suicide. They don't know if they will retain the beautiful house that they bought, or what will happen to the five family cars.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Beautiful, Suicide, Thinking

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• At the same time, it's people that are employed - many folks - but they're still not earning enough to get into the middle class.

  Julian Castro

  Class, People, Earning

  "Julian Castro On Obama's Legacy, Latino Voter Turnout". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. July 27, 2016.

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• In America, we're being stripped of our jobs, our good jobs are really good down, and we've got to stop it. And the only way you're going to stop it, the nice way is, we're reducing taxes very substantially for companies so they're not going to have to leave because of taxes. We'll be reducing regulations. Now those are the nice ways of doing it and everyone loves it and everyone's happy. Businesses, way down. Also middle class, but way down, O.K., taxes and regulations.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Nice, America

  Source: time.com

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• Racial, globalist free markets hasn't worked for everybody in America - hasn't worked for at least the white working, or lower middle class in America don't perceive that it has worked very well for them. It hasn't served everybody, and a bit of protectionism - for many American voters - seems like quite an attractive thing.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Attractive Things, Class, White

  Source: thestagblog.com

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• Right now what my job is, and I think the job of Democrats and Republicans, is to protect the middle class and working families of this country from some devastating ideas that [Donald] Trump has proposed.

  John Lewis

  Country, Jobs, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• This is where I think policies do need to be somewhat race-specific, is making sure that institutions are not discriminatory. So you've got something like the FHA [Federal Housing Administration], which was on its face a universal program that involved a huge mechanism for wealth accumulation and people entering into the middle class.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Race, Class

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• It is my view that if society was doing the right thing with respect to you, [and there were] programs targeted at helping people rise into the middle class and have a good income and be able to save and send their kids to school, and you've got a vigorous enforcement of anti-discrimination laws, then I have confidence in the black community's capabilities to then move forward.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, School, Kids

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• There is a certain percentage of the white population ... if they started having more middle-class black kids who are friends with their kids, eating Cheerios in their kitchen, their attitudes start changing.

  Barack Obama

  Attitude, Kids, Class

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Average, middle-class people, the people of Macomb County, couldn't afford health care. Now they can [with Obamacare].

  Rachel Martin

  Average, Class, Obamacare

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Just some days ago in an administrative order, [Donald Trump] overturned what the FHFA had done to reduce the premiums on people with FHA loans. And so if he's going to help poor people, why would he take away about $500 from the average home buyer, middle-class people?

  Michel Martin

  Home, Average, Order

  Source: www.npr.org

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• President Trump ought to realize, he's not campaigning anymore. He's president. And instead of talking about how many people showed up at his inauguration, he ought to be talking about how many people are going to stay into the middle class and move into the middle class.

  Charles Schumer

  Moving, Talking, Class

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• There's a false choice being put forward by some Democrats now. Either we double-down on our progressive values, or we go out there and talk about the middle class and the working class. I've never found them inconsistent. They go together.

  Joe Biden

  Class, Choices, Together

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The reason I talk so much about the middle class is it's the glue that holds America together. It really is. And we don't speak enough to their legitimate concerns.

  Joe Biden

  Class, America, Together

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Comedians are always going to be in the showbiz middle class, you're not Brad Pitt; you're never going to be Sam Rockwell or Shia LaBeouf or Leo DiCaprio. You're a comic.

  Jay Mohr

  Class, Comedian, Comic

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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• I realized early I can manipulate the ceiling in the middle class. The allure becomes how far I can make the ceiling rise.

  Jay Mohr

  Class, Ceilings, Middle

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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• Wages never seem to go up. The whole economy feels stuck, and millions of Americans, millions of Americans, middle-class security is now just a memory. Progressives like to talk like Barack Obama likes to talk forever about poverty in America. And if a talk did any good, we'd have overcome those deep problems long ago. This explains why under the most liberal president we have had so far, poverty in America is worse, especially for our fellow citizens who were promised better and who need it most.

  Paul Ryan

  Memories, Long Ago, Class

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The Supreme Court consistently favors organized money and the political privileges of the corporate class. We have a Senate that is more responsive to affluent constituents than to middle-class constituents, while the opinions of constituents in the bottom third of income distribution have no apparent effect at all on the Senate's roll call votes.

  Bill Moyers

  Class, Political, Favors

  Source: progressive.org

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• I know hedge-fund guys that are making hundreds of millions of dollars a year and pay no tax. And I want to lower [tax] for the middle income. The middle class in this country has been decimated.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Years, Class

  "The Economist interviews Donald Trump". www.economist.com. September 3, 2015.

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• The truth is there are people who are quite informed who still vote against their interests. I would argue that, as a Green Party supporter, I would argue that middle-class black people are voting against their interests oftentimes.

  Marc Lamont Hill

  Party, Class, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The Democrats tell all the poor people and all of the middle class that they're only where they are 'cause the rich have cheated them, exploited them, or stolen all their money. The way they're gonna make it equal is to take from those people who have just won life's lottery, the premise being that the poor and the rich and the middle class are gonna get the money.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Class, People, Way

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• What the Democrats have done is tell the poor and the middle class that the Democrats are looking out for 'em. Democrats are gonna get even with those rich people. They're gonna get there, and they're gonna have theirs taken away. They're gonna lose theirs, and you're supposed to feel good about that. You, who are poor or middle class, are supposed to feel happy, not because you have any more than you had. You're supposed to be happy because the rich that you hate have finally been screwed like you think you were screwed.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hate, Taken, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• As long as there's anybody that's poor or middle class, there will not be satisfaction that there are rich people. Not 'til we get rid of all the rich can we say we have finished the job.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Jobs, Class, Long

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The Democrat Party makes as many people victims as possible because it freezes them right where they are. And that's usually in lower middle class or abject poverty. It makes them resentful.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Class, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Here's Hillary Clinton getting away with tying the Republicans to rich people. She's tying the Republican Party to Wall Street, to the big banks. She's tying the Republican Party to the financial crisis in 2008. It's all their fault. She's tying herself as with the low-income crowd - and the average, ordinary middle class American - as their champion, as their defender. They don't know that it's not the Republicans in bed with banks. They don't know that it's the banks that are practically paying for and underwriting the Democrat Party and Hillary Clinton today.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Wall, Party, Average

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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