Middle Class
It’s been clear for quite sometime that our politicians don’t understand the meaning of middle class. Sure today we use it to identify the group between the wealthy and the working class, but the original meaning is much more useful.
Here’s the original meaning from Wikipedia:
“The term “middle class” has a long history and has had many, sometimes contradictory, meanings. It was once defined by exception as an intermediate social class between the nobility and the peasantry of Europe. While the nobility owned the countryside, and the peasantry worked the countryside, a new bourgeoisie (literally “town-dwellers”) arose around mercantile functions in the city. This had the result that the middle class were often the most wealthy stratum of society (whereas today many take the term to refer by definition to the only-moderately wealthy).”
What we’ve been seeing is that incentive to work hard dwindling steadily since ever more of the result is taken to be used by wasteful government programs. The common explanation is that the money is needed to lend a hand or to invest in our future through technology and innovation, or protect us from corrupt corporations. Raise your hand if you believe the government is better at charity, technology, job creation or pretty much any other thing that our taxes support.
What happens when the invisible hand becomes too weak to lift us up again?
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Amen.
I’m feeling so powerless as to what’s happening in gov’t right now. I agree with your statement . . . scary times!
You are incorrect in your assumption in that the hand is lifting. The hand is simply twisting and shifting. At some point the hand is so skewed that it can no long function, or as the government would suggest “help”. At some point the entitlements will go away, and those that are prudent, and are prepared will be given the opportunity to share.