I vote for the survival of the mainstream middle class and vote against the mainstream media.
Everyone should be given free tuition at Dave Ramsey Financial Peace University. What they do with it is up to them.
Personally, I think what should be sunk is your FR account.
So you think the middle class should give up and let socialism/communism take over then?
The American people were minding their own business, living on farms, feeding themselves and being good God fearing Christians. Then the federal government came by to help them.
Everything you complain about was forced on the American people by the elites.
Let’s return to state control and reduce the federal government to what the Constitution intended.
Then you won’t have to do anything about the middle class.
How about leave them alone and they’ll figure it out for themselves like we’ve done since the beginning. What did RR say about the government?
I think the The People should tell the elites to F.O. Regardless of whatever classe we mat reside in at this particular point in time.
Thanks for posting CorporateStepsister.
Without looking it up, do you know why the Founding States made the Constitutions Section 8 of Article I?
People are flat-out DUMB when it comes to finances and living BELOW their means is so absolutely FOREIGN to people since our High Skrewls are nothing but Indoctrination Centers these days.
Dave Ramsey says to throw YOURSELF a ‘convention’ as NO politician of any stripe is ever going to give you sh#t:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeIMNDvYFaM
I heartily agree!
Tell that (no debt, balanced budget) to the Fed gov’t. Let them set the example.
Makers should be encouraged. Takers should be expunged.
The issue is not as simple as you suggest.
Yes, people who sign on the dotted line for a house, education or credit card should have to pay it back. Period. It is a matter of honor and a matter of civil society. I have borrowed, and remember that paper which said “here is what you are borrowing, here is the interest you will pay on it and here’s the two combined.” I read that, signed, and paid it back.
But there is another factor hampering the middle class. Taxes, be it income, property or the plethora of taxes embedded into so many facets of life. They are being hiked at every chance and more to fund the growth of the state and federal government (in order to support a new class of elites: government workers) and a growing class of people who are considered not to be part of the middle class, but often live better than them because they do not work and get checks in the mail (the entitlement class). I’m not talking social security recipients; I’m talking gibsmedats of every shape and color.
It is not all the fault of the middle class going out and buying Gucci shoes and college degrees in Lesbian Basket Weaving. There are outside forces intent on destroying it.
The whole premise of your statement is flawed. You are conflating several separate issues. Saving the middle class in the sense of encouraging/returning “jobs” to rural & semi-rural America has nothing to with uneconomical “mortgages” & out of control “college loans”. Those are completely separate unrelated issues.
If you have a point it’s well hidden.
Just where do you stand on the corporate stepladder? And define mainstream middle class with some annual incomes so we can judge YOU a little better.
I would be happy if we had true minimalist gov’t that operated per the constitution. This would give all classes a chance to excel. But, this ship has already left and ain’t coming back.
“To be honest, I’m all for letting the mainstream middle class sink or swim”
Do you even know what and who the middle class is?
In your world view the “mainstream middle-class” is a bunch of people with ridiculous mortgages and student debt?
I’m not saying you’re wrong, that just doesn’t sound right to me. I guess I’m just old and don’t socialize with that slice of America so much. The 30-40 y.o. people I know aren’t like that at all. OK, maybe a few, but a minority. Most of the peeps I know in that demographic are like I was at that age, or my parents were at that age. They aren’t all sore losers they are just young parents with typical debt and responsibilities.
Except the ones who drive BMWs, of course :)
You’re way off track, sister.
First punish the note buyers who bundled sub-prime mortgages, and sold these worthless securities to investors via Fannie Mae. Then we can talk about punishing ordinary middle class investors.