NYT - Working Class Disgust w Democrats at Danger level

Discussion in 'Politics' started by jem, Dec 3, 2014.

  1. jem

    jem

    (and to think boeher is trying to sell us out to Obama right now on amnesty instead of consolidating just about every working tax payer except probably some social workers into the party)

    NYT: WORKING-CLASS DISGUST WITH DEMOCRATS HITTING 'DANGEROUS LEVELS

    Progressive New York Times columnist Thomas B. Edsall wrote on Tuesday that Democrats' embrace of Obamacare's redistribution scheme has angered and alienated working-class and middle-class Americans.

    "Even though midterm elections favor Republicans, the 2014 results show middle and working-class dissatisfaction with the Democratic Party rising to dangerous levels, which threatens the party's growing demographic advantages," wrote Edsall.

    As Breitbart News reported last Wednesday, the latest Gallup poll finds that President Barack Obama's approval rating with working-class white voters has hit an all-time low 27%. Moreover, the Gallup poll's findings were taken from opinion data collected prior to racially-charged riots in Ferguson, Missouri.

    Edsall cites numbers showing that working-class and middle-class Americans fully understand that Obamacare takes money from the working class and gives it away to the lower class, thereby making things "worse for people like you and your family."

    Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer's (D-NY) recent attempt to distance Democrats from the politically disastrous Obamacare debacle has been met with condemnation by some on the left who still support the deeply unpopular health care overhaul. However, given that 29 of the 60 Democratic senators who voted for Obamacare are no longer in office, Edsall concludes Schumer's shift away from Obamacare is understandable.

    "Whatever you think of Senator Schumer, you begin to understand why he spoke out as forcefully as he did," writes Edsall.

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journa...sgust-with-Democrats-Hitting-Dangerous-Levels
     
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  2. Banjo

    Banjo

    jem, in the top right corner of the post box there's a wrench. Click it before you paste the post into the box and it will display as a normal font size. :)
     
  3. jem

    jem

    got it
     
  4. loyek590

    loyek590

    I trade for a living, most days I lose money, oh well, it beats working for a living

    just out of curiosity, who decides who works for living?

    If I wear blue jeans and carry a lunch bucket to work will I qualify?

    If my company requires me to wear a suit and tie will I qualify?

    Who decides who is the working class?

    What does it mean to be a member of the working class?

    If I go to work each day in my suit and tie and eat a bunch of shit do I qualify as a working man?

    Who decides what the working class is?

    well, I'd love to talk to you, but I need to get back to work
     
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  5. jem

    jem

    in general its people who earn/work for a living and pay taxes rather than the takers. of course there are exceptions.
    For instance some minorities and some leftists who feed at the govt trough
     
  6. loyek590

    loyek590

    so if I pay taxes, do I qualify as a "working man"? and does that make me a member of the "working class"?

    I can't afford to join any clubs, it would be nice to know I am a member of something.

    I pay taxes, so I guess that makes me a member of the working class.

    Thanks democrats for looking out for me.
     
  7. jem

    jem

    since your are not a crony, you can be a gruber mushroom if you wish.