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sinkingfeeling

(51,454 posts)
Mon Jan 9, 2012, 12:04 PM Jan 2012

Let's help Rick Santorum find another term for 'middle class'.

I guess since the GOP developed a liking for 'job creators' instead of 'wealthy' or 'rich' or 'upper class', we should help Rick come up with another term for 'middle class'.

How about 'middle-income consumers'? Or 'formerly-financially-okay-until- the-Wall-Street-mess group' ?




http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/01/what-is-rick-santorums-problem-with-the-term-middle-class/251061/


"....And the governor used a term earlier that I shrink from. It's one that I don't think we should be using as Republicans, "middle class." There are no classes in America. We are a country that don't allow for titles. We don't put people in classes. There may be middle-income people, but the idea that somehow or another we're going to buy into the class-warfare arguments of Barack Obama is something that should not be part of the Republican lexicon."

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Let's help Rick Santorum find another term for 'middle class'. (Original Post) sinkingfeeling Jan 2012 OP
How about "serfs" and "slaves"? tridim Jan 2012 #1
Playing semantics once again... Hulk Jan 2012 #2
the expendable and cannon fodder think Jan 2012 #3
Self Employed Rat Fuckers izquierdista Jan 2012 #4
"We are a country that don't allow for titles" VWolf Jan 2012 #5
 

Hulk

(6,699 posts)
2. Playing semantics once again...
Mon Jan 9, 2012, 12:11 PM
Jan 2012

I'm sorry Man-on-dog, we are a country of classes. YOU might not think so, as you flit around to all the repug teas, but facts are facts...something you teabagger neocons prefer to ignore. We ARE a nation of classes....and more so everyday, like it or not.

VWolf

(3,944 posts)
5. "We are a country that don't allow for titles"
Mon Jan 9, 2012, 02:32 PM
Jan 2012

Huh? Is that a typo, or is he really THAT grammatically challenged???

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