Poverty is due to moral lacking

[denuseri]

You not paranoid thir...and you would may or may not be surprised to know that it isn't a phenomenon that's regulated to any one political party alone...here in the states the democrats are just as guilty as the republicans when it comes to abuse of power and giving in to the wishes of corporate special interest groups.

[Thorne]

the democrats are just as guilty as the republicans when it comes to abuse of power and giving in to the wishes of corporate special interest groups.

There are differences, though. The Republicans want to take money from the middle class and the Poor and give it away to the rich; the Democrats want to take money from the middle class and the rich and give it to the poor. Either way, the middle class gets squeezed, which explains the shrinking middle class in the US.

[denuseri]

There are differences, though. The Republicans want to take money from the middle class and the Poor and give it away to the rich; the Democrats want to take money from the middle class and the rich and give it to the poor. Either way, the middle class gets squeezed, which explains the shrinking middle class in the US.

Not at all, they both like to say they will do things to help the poor and middle class but what they actually do once elected is both take money from the middle class and poor alike and give it to themselves and their rich friends.

[Thorne]

Not at all, they both like to say they will do things to help the poor and middle class but what they actually do once elected is both take money from the middle class and poor alike and give it to themselves and their rich friends.

Yeah, I suppose it works that way, too. Whether they call themselves jackasses or elephants, they're all pigs in the end.

[thir]

There are differences, though. The Republicans want to take money from the middle class and the Poor and give it away to the rich; the Democrats want to take money from the middle class and the rich and give it to the poor. Either way, the middle class gets squeezed, which explains the shrinking middle class in the US.

The middle class seems to have played a real important part many times in history, though. In Europe they meant that the king could join with the them against the nobility with the end of feudal times as a result (but stronger kings) if I got it all right, and it seems to me that many parties do court the middle class - hence all the (in my eyes) rather exaggerated emphasis on family values and so on.

They do get squeezed, I think that is true, but not as much as the really poor. The rich always gets the cream.

[DuncanONeil]

There are differences, though. The Republicans want to take money from the middle class and the Poor and give it away to the rich; the Democrats want to take money from the middle class and the rich and give it to the poor. Either way, the middle class gets squeezed, which explains the shrinking middle class in the US.

The middle class is not shrinking!