Manufacturing built the middle class and now we see the middle class dying a slow death.
American Enterprise Institute scholar Charles Murray noted that we now have a political class where many, if not most of its members, never worked for a relevant period of time in private business.
For now, we have a CSR class and a nonprofit management class.
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"We now think there is a new class of ocean-covered - and possibly habitable - planets in solar systems unlike our own, " said Dr Raymond.
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That's why he has urged Congress to give economic security to the middle class, to 98 percent of taxpaying Americans, by extending tax cuts for the middle class now, because we all agree on it.
But he hopes that the 'Linford Christie' affect may be felt and a new generation of hurdlers come through as we now have an era of top-class sprinters with the likes of Dwain Chambers, Mark Lewis-Francis, Christian Malcolm and Darren Campbell.
The last thing we can afford to do right now is raise taxes on middle-class families. (Applause.) If we allow these taxes to go up, the result would be that a lot of people most likely would spend less, and that means that the economy would grow less.
And what we should do right now is give middle-class families and small business owners a guarantee that their taxes will not go up next year.
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By raising income tax rates on the wealthiest and keeping taxes low for the middle class, it means we will now have the most progressive tax code in decades.
The only question now is are we going to hold the middle class hostage in order to go ahead and let that happen?
Now the larger version, a new class we dubbed the F-class, has been specially configured for being able to carry very large and over-dimensional pieces, and has no line-of-sight issues.
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Right now, we could decide to extend tax relief for the middle class.
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Now, I believe we ought to make the tax cuts for the middle class permanent. (Applause.) For the middle class, permanent.
And this is important, because the health of our economy depends in part on what we do right now to create the conditions where businesses can hire and middle-class families can feel a basic measure of economic security.
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Our top priority as a country right now should be doing everything we can to grow our economy and create good, middle class jobs.
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As momentum changers go, I think we can all agree the 30 minute mass power outage now goes to the head of the class.
And in the absence of a decision on the part of the Speaker of the House and others to put middle-class families ahead of whatever political imperatives he might have right now, we're going to have these cuts in place.
Even as we negotiate a broader deficit reduction package, Congress should extend middle-class tax cuts right now.
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And now that America is finally talking about the depth of class crisis, Edwards believes we must act soon to make real change.
When I look back at high school, or even junior high, we had all the things that kids don't have now: woodshop, ceramics, metal class, electric class, graphic arts, graphic design.
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"We would urge people to start thinking about Christmas post and stocking up on second-class stamps now, " said Robert Hammond, of Consumer Focus.
Now, we can do all this and we can reduce our deficit without sticking it to the middle class.
But there are steps we can take right now to put people back to work and restore some of the security that middle-class Americans have lost over the last few decades.
Now, I believe that the biggest issue in this election is how do we rebuild a strong middle class and provide ladders for opportunity -- all those who want to get into the middle class, who are willing to work hard, willing to take responsibility.
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Now, with these teachers -- listen, with these teachers, we will actually be able to reduce class size in the first, second and third grades to an average of 18 students a class all across America.
Now two World Cup players, we lost Gerard before the tournament, a really top-notch outstanding world-class player, you need your world-class players to perform, so yes we do need that type of player, we need this leadership quality.
Now that we are about to complete a full year of operating Pfizer and Wyeth together, with our world-class team fully in place, I have concluded the time is right to turn the leadership of the company over to Ian Read.
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