"I think Parliament is too middle class and doesn't have that diversity it needs, " he told the House magazine.
COPE, though also widely seen as too middle-class, is drawing support from across the racial divide.
And there are too many middle-class families that are still struggling to pay the bills -- they were struggling long before the crisis hit.
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It's not without its flaws - too many middle-class white men in endless discussions about the euro, if you ask me - but the producers, reporters and editors I worked with are among the most experienced, thorough and dedicated I have met.
Obviously it hasn't left behind the death and destruction that Katrina and Rita left behind, but it's caused incredible pain and hardship for communities all across this country -- communities that have seen too many jobs disappear, too many businesses close, too many middle-class families who are just barely making it.
And the result was an economy where some made out well, but the middle class too often took a beating.
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Student groups in the third world are riot prone, too, but the middle class is usually riot averse, because it has something to lose.
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Obama and Democrats say they want to protect Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, and that comprehensive deficit reduction must include increased taxes on wealthy Americans to prevent the burden of austerity steps from shifting too much to the middle class, the elderly and other vulnerable demographics.
That's surrender to the same status quo that has hurt middle-class families and everybody who is striving to get into the middle class for way too long.
Saying education is the solution to the shrinking middle class is too vague and naive.
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You have to go back and raise income taxes on the middle class, too.
We still have too many folks in the middle class that are searching for that security that started slipping away years before the recession hit.
It is just possible to justify the disparity between Ms Blanchett's exquisite intelligence and Robyn Nevin's mediocre production since Ibsen's pioneering (and crazy) housewife is meant to be too good for the middle-class mundanities into which she married.
If you remember, that was when we created 23 million new jobs, we went from deficits to surplus, and folks at the top did well, too -- because when middle-class families have money in their pockets, they go out and buy that new car, or that new appliance, or that new computer for their kids, or they go out to a restaurant, or, heaven forbid, they take a vacation once in a while.
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Nursing-homes are scarce and privately run ones are usually too expensive, even for the middle-class.
Obama and Democrats argue that increased revenue, including higher tax rates on the wealthy, must be part of broader deficit reduction to prevent the middle class from getting hit too hard.
Obama and Democrats argue that increased revenue, including higher tax rates on the wealthy, must be part of broader deficit reduction to avoid the middle class from getting hit too hard.
That's surrender to the same status quo that's hurt middle-class families for way too long.
That is surrender to the same status quo that has squeezed middle-class families for way too long.
The focus on tax policy, too, will be more on helping the middle class than punishing the wealthy.
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In fact, they want to go back to the same policies that stacked the deck against middle-class Americans for way too many years.
Our middle class is still shaken, and too many folks are still locked in poverty.
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Yet politicians of all stripes are vowing to preserve the tax cuts for the middle class and add to them, too.
Tom Friedman, a columnist for the New York Times, has declared that countries with McDonald's do not go to war against each other: with the burgers comes an established middle class, which makes a country too sensible to cause trouble.
Is it because that somehow middle-class families are going to benefit too much from them?
Many middle-class Vietnamese are feeling the pinch too after putting their savings into Vietnam's sizzling stock market last year, then watching it plummet more than 60 percent since January.
Too many Americans worked too hard over the past six years to ensure that the middle class gets a fair shot to stop now.
As tourism, businesses and a new middle class continues to expand throughout the country, so too, one imagines, will the market for continuing education.
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Too many jobs that provided a steady, stable life, a middle-class life for people, got shipped overseas.
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