I read an article today saying that the phrase “the middle class” was only mentioned 3 times in the last Republican debate that inexplicably took place in front of Air Force One, which would be like the Pope giving his address in Washington this week in front of a decommissioned former Popemobile.
“can I catch a ride while the next guy’s on vacation?”
Imagine doing a job interview while standing in front of your dad’s first car.
Yes, it’s cool that the Reagan Library has the real Air Force One there. But you don’t see the President give a speech in the lobby of the National Archives to talk about the Second Amendment.
Mostly because it would give too much cover for a very broke Nicolas Cage to steal and later pawn the Declaration.
Do you know how much it costs to lease a fleet of Rolls-Royces?
watch out lady, nicolas cage might try to have sex with you!
Speaking of things that don’t matter to “the middle class”, the phrase was only said three…THREE times in the debate.
To be fair, that’s 3 more times than “the middle class” needed to be uttered. It’s said far too much and means far too little.
You know what hurts “the middle class”? Talking about “the middle class”.
I don’t want to talk about “the middle class”, or class in general. I don’t want to separate people into class. I don’t believe that to be a principle in line with the values of America. Our whole gig is not upward mobility – it’s the freedom to be upwardly mobile.
Or to not be!
Maybe you’re more concerned with your art than profiting from it.
Good!
You’re pursuing your American Dream – just like the guy staying extra hours at work to get a promotion to earn a manager’s salary by the end of the year.
The more you identify with a class, the more you give others the right to pigeonhole you in that class.
“We’re middle class”, “we’re lower-middle-class”, “we’re upper-middle-class”. You notice how rarely people try to claim that they’re lower class or upper class?
we laugh audibly at your poverty!
There’s a fear of identifying as poor or wealthy.
In fact, instead of “lower class” we use “working class”.
“We’re poor…but we’re working!”
Or the great “I come from a working class background”.
Nobody cops to coming from a “lazy non-working background”.
But looking at the welfare rolls, there’s gotta be a lot of lazy, non-working people to explain the stratospheric increase.
yeah but she can still get it
Like “middle class, “working class” is more of a Soviet idea than an American one.
We lionize an ideal of “middle-class”…why? So we create more taxpayers to subsidize more wasteful government projects?
If you want to work, work. If you don’t want to work, don’t work. We won’t subsidize you. If you can’t work, then we will subsidize you – but have a good reason for it.
Sounds a lot like school, right? We’re slowing down the smart kids to keep pace with the slower kids, we’re ignoring the slower kids because we have to move the whole class along, and everyone gets ignored as the train moves forward.
This isn’t how America is supposed to work. We created a new country to function with participation, not drone along like a complex machine that nobody quite understands how it works and is easily exploitable by anyone who’s clever enough.
When you look at the less-obvious internal versus the obvious reasons why the Soviet Union disintegrated, an ungovernable and unwieldy government combined with widespread and victimless, diffuse, endemic corruption are at the top of the list.
but you wouldn’t know it by their jaunty propaganda posters
One could argue that when government works effectively, it becomes far too susceptible for one person to control. But the real problem is that when it works ineffectively, it becomes far too easy for many people to exploit.
We’ve tried paying government workers more to lure them from the private sector. We’ve tried hiring a purposefully-diverse government workforce. All while blaming decentralization for inefficiencies.
When you have to wait for an answer from “the top”, that’s the largest inefficiency.
And is there anything less efficient than waiting for “answers” from a group of thirsties who want the top job?
except this guy, he’s fun