Tag: middle class

Bait and Switch: Un-Healthcare Insurance and Impoverished Budgets

November 4, 2017

Think about all the struggles over the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and all the “repeal and replace” negation and obscurantism. Think about Obama’s hopeless attempts to compromise with a racist Congress. Think about the many years during which all the Congress could do was to implement their racist policies of saying NO to anything the … More Bait and Switch: Un-Healthcare Insurance and Impoverished Budgets

What Middle Class?

March 3, 2014

In recent memory at least, Americans have been uncomfortable with the idea of class.  That somehow has caused a retreat to the middle.  In the context of the myth of universal opportunity for mobility through achievement, it’s almost like Garrison Keeler’s Lake Woebegone, where “all the children are above average.”  The “lower class” is not … More What Middle Class?