The poor don't feel entitled, but the middle class does

[Nikia]

Having grown up in a mixed class background and going to work at a company where most employees are working poor, I know this is true. They don't feel entitled to a good education and certainly not higher education. They don't feel entitled to: a job that pays more than $12.00/hour, $9.00/hour, minimum wage, or any job at all depending on how poor they are. The very poor often have given up on the very idea that they could be helped and are just hoping to survive day to day. Some of the people in the $9.00-$12.00 category seem to identify with conservatives because of this sense of unentitlement, "I have what I got by hard work and no one owes me anything nor any of those people who don't work as hard as me."
The middle class feels entitled. They think that education and/or hard work should allow them to live a decent life. This is why we see protests in Wisconsin and other states.
The Republicans made a mistake in attacking the middle class because they feel entitled to what they have. I hope that Americans of all economic classes will realize that when this country is so rich in total number of dollars that we should all be entitled to do more than survive. If we accept that all except the rich are entitled, we will become a third world country within a generation.

[DaisyDeedles]

1. Thom Hartmann talks about how the neocons have been plotting to destroy the middle class

For exactly the reason you state. A comfortable middle class is where the rabble rousers come from.

[bobbolink]

4. And Thom doesn't talk about poverty at all....

...except the very few times he has briefly mentioned homelessness, and quotes the erroneous misconceptions that the RW pushes!

:wtf:

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

2. For the first half of my life I worked hard, very hard,

just not smart, always low pay, no benefits. Then I woke up, got a job with the University of California, good benefits, OK pay. But the main point here is that I WAS entitled to it, thats what the university agreed to do when I was hired on. Now I'm retired and getting paid what they agreed to pay, thats a contract we both agreed on and because of that I am able to purchase goods that the rich produce. Keeping the poor and now the middle class down will result in class warfare. How sad.

[RKP5637]

3. USA! Working hard to be #1! As a third world country. n/t