I'm not for the rich nor am I for the poor. I dont care if the rich makes $5 million or $10 million. How much is too much? I don't really care that much about the poor either except to provide a safety net for those having bad luck due to things like lost jobs, poor health, etc.
My main concern is for the middle class. The lower middle class, the middle middle class and the upper middle class. There is no one with power that seems to care in DC about the middle class, except Trump. Without the middle class, we have no freedom. Without them,....
...we have either Marxism or feudalism. Without the middle class, we don't have an economy. Without the middle class, we don't have a world class military. Without the middle class, we are reduced to Serfs & Lords and the only thing to fight over is who becomes the Serfs & Lords.
There are many issues that the middle class can find common ground on with the rich and the poor but the middle class has to come first or everything else goes to hell in a hand basket. There is nothing evil about being rich and there is nothing Noble about being poor.
Having a strong middle class allows people to move up from poor to rich and back down from rich to poor. It allows people to think for themselves, to see the benefits of hard work, effort. It allows for community. It allows for charity. It allows for hope and dreams.
So, I'm not excited about if the rich gets another tax cut or a sweet trade deal and I'm not excited if the poor get even more money redistributed to them. No, I'm far more concerned that the middle class have jobs, that their wages rise, that their kids can afford college.
It's important to me that the middle class has access to great reasonable healthcare, that they have an ability to save for retirement, that their energy costs are low, that food prices are low, that they can afford a home and the cost of having a family.
Wouldn't it be great if DC once again cared about the middle class, instead of their donors, PACs, and the media? I know pipedreams but it's not out of the realm of possibility that we can have a government that puts the middle class, if not first at least on the playing field.
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