Comments on: Drew Carey Offers Some Perspective on the “Middle Class Squeeze”

By: Karen

Karen — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:42:16 +0000

The “real” culprits are those whom are so wrapped up in justifying their station in life that they dont realize this video itself is propaganda. Take off your blinders and look at the big picture because we are all in it together and whether one choses to join the rat race or not the “facts” are staring us in the face. By selling most of corporate America, real estate, jobs etc to wealthy chinese businesses for political favors the very definition of quality of life has changed dramaticaly. humm Do we have the republican upper class and politicians such as Nixon and Reagan to thank for selling us that great idea or do we put our heads in the sand and blame the media again. Cheers to Lou Dobbs and his minions !

By: NotYourDaddy

NotYourDaddy — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:56:30 +0000

“Rather than telling middle class people to stop whining, I think the video should have pointed out the real culprits in the ‘war on the middle class’.”

Gee, Robert, and who might those real culprits be?

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:34:44 +0000

I read a lot of the comments on Radley’s blog, and I didn’t get the impression that the commenters were asking for the government to take money from anyone and give it to them. What I did see was several people in the middle class commenting that in the past 5 to 10 years, the price for common necessities has gone up, while their income levels haven’t increased to match prices.

What I took from the video was something along the lines of “Everything is just fine, there are no problems, stop whining!”. The fact of the matter is that the bad times for the middle class are just beginning. 35 years of bad monetary policy are going to come down on the middle class like an avalanche. You think people are complaining now? Just wait 5 years when gas is $5 to $7 a gallon (if not more), and food prices have doubled from what they are today. Then you’ll really hear about the war on the middle class. Of course the government doesn’t take food or energy prices into account when it calculates inflation, so they’ll be trying to sell us on the fact that inflation has never been more than 2 to 3 percent.

The price of cell phones and big screen TV’s will probably continue to fall (unless the government gets involved with them), but you can’t eat a cell phone, or use it to heat your house in the winter. Our nation’s policies are going to wreak havoc on the poor and middle class. Unfortunately, the front runner candidates are only going to make the problem worse.

Rather than telling middle class people to stop whining, I think the video should have pointed out the real culprits in the “war on the middle class”.