Seriously, folks, we've gone overboard in looking for something to whine about. The group described here were exactly what most of us who grew up in post-war America looked like. It was then called "working class" or even "middle class". It was always viewed as hard-working, honest, frugal and striving to have a better life for their children. They were generally successful in that endeavor.
Census Finds "Near Poor" Startling!
When you find the government creating such a category you must reasonably expect to encounter that terminology with some degree of regularity emerging from the slavering mouths of the class-warfare politicos who will immediately justify increasing taxes to insure the successful will increase their fair share of support for the broadening of dependency on government programs.
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Sounds like they pretty well describe a large segment of the Tea Party. Working, paying taxes, own homes, cars,(but not new ones). Some barely scraping by. Check,check,check,check and check. Congratulations NYT! You realize there really ARE people in the flyover states, and by golly, they're pissed off at the slackers who take without earning, and their enablers the federal bureaucracy.
My personal hope is that the Euro and the EU deservedly collapse well before your next Presidential Elections. Maybe that will give the US the wake up call it needs.
An ugly statement I know, but I believe that the sooner the "chickens come home to roost",
the better.
We here in NZ are not quite in shit street yet but the smell is overpowering. Still, we go to the polls this Saturday with a fairly solid centre right Government, a cause for hope I hope!.
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