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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-17-10 03:25 PM Original message |
Why is the bulk of the top 20%, "the middle class"? How did everyone outside of the top 2% become |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-17-10 03:31 PM Response to Original message |
1. The stuff in the bill that supposedly goes to the middle and working class |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-17-10 03:38 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. The cuts for the bottom 40% that desperately needs resources are token |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-17-10 03:44 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. It's the American Dream. Take from the poor, give to the rich! n/t |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-17-10 03:46 PM Response to Original message |
4. Because, people making $100k/yr have more in common with people making $30k/yr & less |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-17-10 04:05 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. That's an excellent point |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-18-10 09:06 AM Response to Reply #7 |
15. If only people understood the L-curve. |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-17-10 04:59 PM Response to Reply #4 |
13. You are SPOT ON! |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-17-10 03:46 PM Response to Original message |
5. how? Just as the right wing became centrist |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-17-10 03:47 PM Response to Original message |
6. beats me, but I always have arguments on DU about that too |
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Nicholas D Wolfwood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-17-10 04:27 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. That's exactly it. |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-17-10 05:10 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. except it is amazing how many people live in those same urban areas |
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Nicholas D Wolfwood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-18-10 03:14 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Have you seen their living conditions? |
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stray cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-17-10 04:11 PM Response to Original message |
8. the rich is anyone who makes more money than me? |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-17-10 04:54 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. If you are in the top 20% you are not in any reasonable middle. |
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tk2kewl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-17-10 04:18 PM Response to Original message |
9. its the new math |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-17-10 04:57 PM Response to Original message |
12. It's that magical framing that makes Bubba think "he" is the one that "we" are after |
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Johonny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-18-10 09:29 AM Response to Original message |
16. That's how voters see themselves, most people think they're middle class |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 02:01 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. I dig that. I'm talking for making tax policy. |
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