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Middle class decline looms over final years of Obama presidency
Reuters and Yahoo News ^ | 18 Jan 15 | Howard Schneider

Posted on 01/18/2015 11:45:39 AM PST by SkyPilot

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To: Truth29

Blemish on his administration?....this guy Obola, is a carbuncle on the ass of humanity. We will never be rid of him and his legacy of failure, and terrorism by muslims and the government.


41 posted on 01/18/2015 12:40:45 PM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: SkyPilot

More Class warefare with double, nay..... triple punishment taxes for success


42 posted on 01/18/2015 12:44:38 PM PST by dila813
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To: SkyPilot

The children of the Middle Class have not been able to get jobs after graduating from college, so the economy will not recover. This is the group that gets married, buys a home, starts a family, and begins climbing the income ladder. With 25% of graduates unemployed or under employed, this growth has been crippled and the time lost for these earners is irreplaceable.


43 posted on 01/18/2015 12:51:14 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

“All Obama White House policies constitute a 6-year war on the middle class. It’s not an accident.”

It’s all part of the Cliward-Pivan plan to destroy the country.

On a bright note, in another two weeks I will be from Tennessee!


44 posted on 01/18/2015 12:56:53 PM PST by Hardens Hollow (Formerly yorkiemom. I couldn't find Galt's Gulch, so created our own Harden's Hollow. Join us!)
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To: Hardens Hollow

[On a bright note, in another two weeks I will be from Tennessee!]

Welcome! I’ve lived here 25 years and the place gets redder every day.


45 posted on 01/18/2015 1:03:48 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: SkyPilot

0bama’s lying minions and presstitutes just pulled that same crap again, too. Each month—’Numbers look great!’ X 3 then OOPS and OH, WELL by them...and no accountability, either!


46 posted on 01/18/2015 1:06:52 PM PST by W. (Bureaucracy kills enterprise, and communism doesen't work. Any OTHER bright ideas, 0bama?)
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To: SkyPilot
RE: "employment had improved “far beyond expectations.”

That's why I do not bother with the unemployment rate.

However I have discovered that revisions are quite common and I trust that the SES's and GS's will bend only so far.

It's amazing the amount of data available. I omitted the sources here because it took some space to "walk through" how you get data. The link to that FR thread is listed at the beginning of my reply above.

Also I am tired of MSM employees, et al. simply saying this-or-that entity says . . . .

Where's the brief?

47 posted on 01/18/2015 1:10:21 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: SkyPilot

The sole interest Obama has in the middle class is the reduction of economic opportunity so as to addict them to his government programs. In essence, the creation of another dependency class more likely to vote Democrat.


48 posted on 01/18/2015 1:14:28 PM PST by dogcaller
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To: SkyPilot
"Sooo, what are they gonna do?! Take away health insurance for millions now that they have it?"

That is exactly what Pelosi and company were expecting. The idiots are evil but stupid. They did not see the epic backlash against FrankensteinCare. Their M.O. is to give "fee" stuff and dare the Repubs to take it away.

Moreover, they were expecting that every election after the bill was passed to carry the narrative "Dems want to 'give' you more healthcare and Repubs want to take it away".

49 posted on 01/18/2015 1:22:41 PM PST by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers)
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To: SkyPilot

His GOAL was to destroy the American middle class.


50 posted on 01/18/2015 1:22:45 PM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: SkyPilot

Lady Liberty is being RAPED..... AND
Uncle Sam Sodomized and

America does not want get involved..


51 posted on 01/18/2015 1:27:00 PM PST by hosepipe (" This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole.. ")
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To: Hardens Hollow
It’s all part of the Cloward-Piven plan to destroy the country.

Sometimes, I used to wonder if Obama really was going that far (Cloward-Piven). I began to think it was simply too conspiratorial, even for him.

But as the years went by, it became obvious that he was engaging in that evil and Communist strategy.

I was listening to an economist who is a born-again Christian on a radio program. He knew his stuff cold, and was well connected. The host asked him why Obama was doing such and such, and he sighed, and said that the Obama implementation of Cloward-Piven was in fact a reality.

52 posted on 01/18/2015 1:40:53 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

The only goal the Obama administration has for the middle class is to get them on the government teat, for example, Obamacare.

They want the middle class dependent on the government.


53 posted on 01/18/2015 1:42:43 PM PST by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: CyberAnt

Big IF there....


54 posted on 01/18/2015 2:10:29 PM PST by Bigg Red (Congress, do your duty and repo his pen and his phone.)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

Exactly!


55 posted on 01/18/2015 2:13:07 PM PST by Bigg Red (Congress, do your duty and repo his pen and his phone.)
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To: Aria
I was shocked when in 1982-83 the price of a dozen navel oranges went up to $1.00 because of a Florida freeze (and never came down).

Now they are $1.25 apiece, or $15 per dozen (if you can afford to buy a dozen).

My salary at that time was $40,000. Would the same job today be $600,000? I think not.

56 posted on 01/18/2015 3:07:31 PM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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Funny how the prices don’t come back down with the gas prices sinking...

I suppose the EPA, Obamacare, and the thousands of regulations, welfare, etc. have seen to it that it won’t happen. And just think...our “public servants” are trying to raise the gas taxes “for the roads”. What has happened to all the money they already collected for the roads?

Our government’s handling of our money would get them thrown in prison or at least fired if they were not “public servants”.


57 posted on 01/18/2015 3:45:51 PM PST by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coups)
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To: F15Eagle

Not much doubt Hussein wrote it and endorse it, which the book ‘blurb’ stayed that way for at least 16 years.


58 posted on 01/18/2015 4:30:55 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: dogcaller

I wonder how many middle class kids did vote for Obama.

There were a TON of upper middle class, middle class, white kids at those Obama rallies and MANY of them were college students.


59 posted on 01/18/2015 4:41:12 PM PST by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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