For this reason, the middle class will bear much of the burden of rising taxes.
It explicitly protects pork-barrel projects and every single tax loophole that benefits the wealthy, but puts on the table cuts to things like Medicare and education, forcing middle-class families to bear the burden while asking nothing from the wealthiest Americans.
On the one hand, the government gets to reduce its debt by reorganizing Social Security in a way that would severely delay benefits to those who are in need, thereby leaving the poor and middle-class American to bear the brunt of bringing our debt crisis under control.
The President is willing to make tough choices, but he cannot ask the middle class and seniors to bear all the burden for deficit reduction and to sacrifice while millionaires and billionaires and special interests get off the hook -- are let off the hook.
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But we are not willing to accept the "my way or the highway" approach backed by Congressional Republicans that asks the middle class and seniors to bear all the burden while the very wealthiest individuals, big corporations and oil and gas companies continue to enjoy big tax loopholes that are unavailable to middle class Americans and small businesses.
Are we a nation that asks only the middle class and the poor to bear the burden?
It would do it in a way that would protect seniors and middle-class families, and not ask them to bear the sole burden of the need to reduce our deficit.
But what I can't do is ask middle-class families, ask seniors, ask students to bear the entire burden of deficit reduction when we know we've got a bunch of tax loopholes that are benefiting the well-off and the well-connected, aren't contributing to growth, aren't contributing to our economy.
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Bear's work suggests that a specific class of drug already sitting on drug company shelves may help patients with an inherited disease called fragile X syndrome, a common cause of autism.
Tim Bresnan looks well below being a Test-class new-ball bowler, and though we can bear in mind that Stuart Broad and Graham Onions are ahead of him in the reckoning, this is not proving to be a great match for Bresnan.
Although it does not bear out the notion of a terrorised and depressed middle class, theirs is not a complacent picture.
However, I also do not look at one single time period (like the nearly 38 year period from 1972 through 2010) and presume that every asset class just happened to have a proper balance of its bull and bear extremes.
But the main attraction at Clayoquot is the wilderness itself, and a slate of varied activities include horseback riding, river and ocean kayaking, whale watching, grizzly bear watching, hiking, mountain biking and world-class river, ocean, and lake fishing - some guests come primarily for the angling.
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No one in the owner class seems to take notice, however, even after the collapse of Bear Stearns in March.
It hardly comes as a surprise, then, that the firm once worked with class-action attorney and convicted felon Mel Weiss to negotiate a settlement with Bear Stearns.
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Posner brought the big guns to bear, citing the seldom-used All Writs Act to decertify the California class action and accusing Krislov of something close to extortion against Sears.
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Retirees hear things about how crazy the action is in an ETF like the Direxion Daily Financial Bear 3X Shares (NYSE: FAZ) and they wind up ignoring the asset class altogether.
"For many middle-class homeowners, especially those who just lost everything to Sandy, these additional costs will simply be too much to bear, " they said in the Feb. 5 letter.
But the fact is this President is committed to sensible deficit reduction that helps our economy grow and that insulates the middle class from bearing the burden that, unfortunately thus far, Republican proposals -- Republicans would like to see them bear.
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