But you can't achieve world-class public services on the cheap.
If Congress doesn't act, middle-class families will see their income taxes go up on January 1st.
They've done a spectacular job for their clients and we continue--we're very excited about, one, we're excited about the region and two, we're excited to have a team of that quality doing real, on the ground research throughout China, which is, now, if you sort of look at the larger Chinese market, it's the second-largest market in the world, and there just aren't--there are many more world-class U.S. teams than there are world-class Chinese teams.
We've got to make sure that taxes don't go up on middle-class families, that our economy remains strong, that we're creating jobs.
"Manufacturers aren't looking for great Class-A space, " PPR's Mr. Affleck says.
In a sense, these expected returns reflect what the market is estimating will be a fair payment for each asset class over T-bills over the long-term.
Marler wasn't about to pay first-class wages for lackluster skills.
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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So he started off his lecture by saying: there is no way of avoiding this, we can't avoid talking about what happened yesterday and the whole class apparently - I wasn't there, he was there - was just utterly silent from the start.
What's more, long-distance travelers can't do the quick in-and-out for class that most closer attendees do.
And I don't want it to be middle-class families who are just barely making ends meet.
The number of years it could take for a risky asset class to outperform T-notes or another less risky market will astound you.
South Boston's city councillor, Jimmy Kelly, says the motives for the deals are noble ones: to make sure gentrification doesn't displace his longtime, working-class constituents.
And in-flight showers aren't the only perks offered to today's first-class travelers.
Not that Obama's choice of Biden wasn't political, too: Biden is a Catholic with appeal to those working-class voters in battleground states who still can't connect with Obama.
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By contrast, he is astounded by the kind of liberalism he sees in his adopted state of California and his native New York, where a mayor who jets down to his mansion in Bermuda on weekends tells working- and middle-class New Yorkers that they really shouldn't be driving to work or living in single-family homes.
Most middle-class parents can't afford a few hundred bucks a week for a private preschool.
But most business-class beds aren't wide enough for deep sleep because passengers can't change positions without waking up.
But the modern towers amid a neighborhood that still feels like a cozy, middle-class suburb didn't always win praise.
These three factors tell us that flat average wages over time don't necessarily support a narrative of middle-class stagnation.
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That means middle-class families won't see an increase in their income tax rates.
I'm hopeful that November 7 was also a declaration that middle-class Americans won't be taken for granted by either political party.
And, look, we're still trying to debate whether we can just make sure that middle-class families don't get a tax hike.
Senator McCain's economic plan gives nearly four billion dollars in tax breaks to the oil companies but doesn't provide any tax relief to middle-class families.
But they also want to make sure that middle-class folks aren't bearing the entire burden and sacrifice when it comes to some of these big challenges.
Startup time and disc load times are comparable to most dedicated home Blu-ray players -- certainly not best in class, but passable -- and we couldn't get the player to skip despite our best efforts.
Most working- and middle-class white Americans don't feel that they have been particularly privileged by their race.
And all the new money generated in this plan goes back to small businesses and middle-class families who can't afford health insurance.
But Crofty is a world-class player who hadn't seen action for ages.
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