You are not well.informed of educated in history
The middle class predated far and is the result of capitalism
Are you fucking retarded. Tell you what, pick up a history book, and read how most of the working class lived in the 1920's... They lived in crowded tenements, not nice houses.
Before FDR, there was no welfare or entitlement class = class that does not work. Go back to the roots and stop taking more out of the Middle Class paycheck.
Actually, there isn't one now. Most people on assistance have jobs. Just jobs that don't pay enough. The simple solution would be to mandate a living wage, but watch people scream when you insist we pay them fairly.
Here's the funny thing. Assistance to the poor is a very small part of what is taken out of your paycheck. I know it terribly upsets you that you have to, because frankly, with modern conservatism, cruelty has become the point.
The big ticket items are "Middle Class Entitlements", or as I lovingly call them "White People Welfare". Medicare, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, Veteran's Benefits....
Things that if you cut, would actually put a cut in the deficit, but no one is ever going to cut them.