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Pretty words are pretty words, and I still have high hopes for Obama. But that's definitely troubling.
He's trying for pleasent as he continues to pillage the federal regulatory landscape. I feel Obama will, in a witty and or dignified way, slice through his 'drink a beer with' BS like a hot knife thru butter...Luv 2 B a fly on the wall there, u betcha!
PS and OT--Some of you may find these work safe photos interesting:
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/45250,arts,busman...
Being "middle class" is a certain attitude as well as dependent on the amount of money you make. So, if your children don't intend to go to college and just want to find a job to make some money to support themselves (which seems to be the point in working), does that make the person less than "middle class?"
Does the person making $20K and supporting a couple of kids in this economy really qualify as "middle class" even though s/he might read the classics or take her kids to art museums every week? Or is the person who makes $100K and reads only Field and Stream and hits the C&W bars every weekend the middle class person?
I am totally confused...
But, often the lucky plucker isn't so very, if you know what I mean?
Had to laugh at Mrs. Greenspan, Mikka and Nicolle Wallace's droopy, bad hair in the post election period...I'm betting NBC cancelled the staff hair stylist election day, the same day the tattered remains of Team McCain let the staff mortician go.
When he says middle class, he means everyone who's not upper class. Those of us who were once middle class and are now struggling just to stay in shelter and food, still consider ourselves middle class, and hope to one day be again. I think the economic problem is much much much much worse than even Obama might realize and that civilization it self might be on tender hooks (what happens if printing more dollars and funneling it into make work programs doesn't work?)
The last 8 years saw the transfer of as much as $4 trillion dollars to the top 0.1% of which maybe $3 trillion went to the top 0.01% Think of it this way. Bush transferred $3 trillion dollars to about 2,000 of the most powerful families in the country.
That kind of wealth transfer has hollowed out the economy - like termites. It may come down to the government just grabbing all that money back and putting it where it was 8 years ago. As it was, the upper echelon was already doing better than they should have for the last 30 years.
Another conspiracy theory goes down in flames.
Drat!