A Memo to Joe Biden from the Middle Class
” I guess I qualify. Though a two-story house in the suburbs has eluded me, I am by no means impoverished. But therein lies my point — I do not know where I rank economically, at least not down to the dollar. Furthermore, with a focus on long-range financial independence, it really doesn’t matter.
The most annoying aspects of Vice-President Biden’s debate performance were not his smirks, interruptions and condescending air but rather his numerous references to the middle class. His chest-pounding blather about dedicating his life to leveling the playing field typifies what makes political discourse so lame and predictable. Even conservatives take that all-too easy path, a.k.a. pandering, as if unaware that, constitutionally, government’s role is to ensure equal justice under the law for every American, not to promote the economic interests of one segment of society over another.
Middle-class Americans are, indeed, hurting, but not because the rich aren’t taxed enough, rather, the federal government is too big and spends way too much. To truly feel the American pulse, maybe the vice-president would consider spending some time with those out there who actually punch a time clock for a living to subsidize his so-called noble intentions. “
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