Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.
The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.
If you want to do something to destroy consumer spending, just eat away at the middle class because the other problem we have is the structural problem of middle class America.
The middle class creates us rich people, not the other way around.
There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class.
America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.
A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.
The real people who suffer when business is leaving or not successful are the people in the middle class.
The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly mobile group of people. They're not like the people that want to be shopkeepers forever, have always been shopkeepers and want always to be shopkeepers. These people mostly are insulted by being called middle class.
The middle class has disappeared. We have a highway to poverty and no roads coming out.