O’s idea of the middle class isn’t the traditional one.
It’s people just barely above complete government teat-suck.
It’s not a notion of independence and being a bit ahead of the game through effort.
Look at his college initiative: steal from savings plans to fund (and unionize later) community colleges, many of which are remedial.
That’s confusing “college” with “education” the same way he confuses “insurance” with “health care.”
Community colleges are already unionized in some States. They need this to pay for their pensions. More comments on this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3248824/posts
When you have lost the control of the language, every argument later is already forfeit.
“Pledge” probably means something altogether different from what has been generally accepted historically and by definition in the dictionary. By pledging the revenues from these new taxes to “relieve” the distress visited upon those upon whom the taxes were imposed, it is supposed to make everything all right again.
It does not. Like the lady who wanted to make the blanket a little longer, by cutting off one end of the blanket and stitching it on the other end, the blanket ends up being a little shorter each time this “solution” is attempted.