Which party has been more destructive to the middle-class? Democrats or Republicans?

[Lesh]

Lame excuse Trumps inflation was 2% and we had covid. Biden drove up oil costs by suppressing production below demand and spent trillions in debt based money which took inflations from 1.4% to 9.1% in one years. The American Rescue plan was never needed GDP was 6.4%. Democrats tried to buy votes and the 1200 we got cost 5000 in inflation each year. More Biden democrat stupidity. He tried to manilutale us and it exploded in his face

Inflation from Covid hit when Covid was over stupid

 

[Winston]

Nope. Businesses closed thousands and they had employees and they filed for unemployment. You should research

Yep cause businesses closed because of the hoax again the need for the added welfare

All because democrats hated trump they made the globe suffer. Says all about democrats.

Welfare is bad

Yes, filed for unemployment, and got a $600 per week additional benefit due to Covid. For the love of God, they were not making $600 a week working their forty damn hours. They made more money sitting at home. Hell, you couldn't keep flat screens or gaming systems in damn stock. And food, OMG, these people were eating steak and lobster and grocery shopping every damn day.

And that was what kept the economy afloat. If you worked in a vital industry, hell, I carried a special "pass", well you were making bank. If you worked from home, you were ahead of the game. Those stimulus checks, you just banked them. During Covid it was time to put the head down and work. The numbers bear that out. Savings increased during Covid, WTF? Again, nothing like that has ever happened in history.

And sorry, the whole business closing was not a mistake. Like always, the numbers bear that out. Examine state by state differences, like say Georgia and North Carolina. Trump did not handle the Covid crisis well, not at all.

 

[jc456]

Yes, filed for unemployment, and got a $600 per week additional benefit due to Covid. For the love of God, they were not making $600 a week working their forty damn hours. They made more money sitting at home. Hell, you couldn't keep flat screens or gaming systems in damn stock. And food, OMG, these people were eating steak and lobster and grocery shopping every damn day.

And that was what kept the economy afloat. If you worked in a vital industry, hell, I carried a special "pass", well you were making bank. If you worked from home, you were ahead of the game. Those stimulus checks, you just banked them. During Covid it was time to put the head down and work. The numbers bear that out. Savings increased during Covid, WTF? Again, nothing like that has ever happened in history.

And sorry, the whole business closing was not a mistake. Like always, the numbers bear that out. Examine state by state differences, like say Georgia and North Carolina. Trump did not handle the Covid crisis well, not at all.

yep, Trump complimented the businesses to keep those still open, operating successfully for the future beyond the hoax.

 

[jc456]

Inflation from Covid hit when Covid was over stupid

inflation hit after the Biden money laundering infrastructure bill, we know.

 

[TNHarley]

The question posed in the thread title is;

“Which party has been more destructive to the middle-class?​

Please let TNHarley know. Thanks in advance.

I have already replied.

 

[my2¢]

The question posed in the thread title is;

“Which party has been more destructive to the middle-class?​

Please let TNHarley know. Thanks in advance.

And I challenged the premise that the reduction in the middle class as percentage can be rightfully called "destructive" when most of that reduction is attributed to a gain in upper income. I believe premises should be questioned, especially when it comes to the rhetoric being tossed out by the political parties.

Here the start of an article from MoneyWatch posted today on CBS News....

 

[sealybobo]

Fixing it is simple. Legal immigration not border jumpers

That won't make Republican voters happy. Not the uneducated blue collar ones

"We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated," the Republican presidential front-runner boasted after coasting to a decisive victory in the state's caucuses.

He should love them.

Trump overwhelmingly leads his rivals for support among the less educated, and draws more modest backing from college graduates

Half of those with high school diplomas or less schooling said they supported the billionaire.

40 percent of those with some college study favored him.

 

[jc456]

That won't make Republican voters happy. Not the uneducated blue collar ones

"We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated," the Republican presidential front-runner boasted after coasting to a decisive victory in the state's caucuses.

He should love them.

Trump overwhelmingly leads his rivals for support among the less educated, and draws more modest backing from college graduates

Half of those with high school diplomas or less schooling said they supported the billionaire.

40 percent of those with some college study favored him.

How is this relevant?

 

[Hafar1014]

Inflation from Covid hit when Covid was over stupid

And Biden was president suppressing oil production and spending trillions. A virus cant cause inflation. A senile impaired president can with economic and energy policies that increased the cost of everything

 

[Winston]

And I challenged the premise that the reduction in the middle class as percentage can be rightfully called "destructive" when most of that reduction is attributed to a gain in upper income. I believe premises should be questioned, especially when it comes to the rhetoric being tossed out by the political parties.

Here the start of an article from MoneyWatch posted today on CBS News....

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LMAO. AEI? Really now, nonpartisan? The study is here,

The Middle Class Is Shrinking Because of a Booming Upper-Middle Class

Decrying a shrinking or hollowed-out middle class is just a gloomy way of saying the upper-middle class has boomed and fewer families are in hardship.

www.aei.org

In contrast, rather than define middle-class thresholds relative to median income, other analyses set what might be called “absolute” thresholds for class membership.3 Absolute thresholds reflect a constant level of purchasing power over time.
In other words, first, they change the definition of each of the classes.

We convert incomes into family-of-three equivalents, which, under conventional assumptions about how incomes and needs are related, represent the amount of income a family would need to be equally well-off if it had three members instead of however many it actually has.

Then we change the definition of "family". Family of three, family of five, hell, kids cheaper by the dozen anyway. We will just cap all family sizes at three.

You want more?

 

[sealybobo]

How is this relevant?

It reminds me of Christianity. Sure, even a lot of rich and smart people fall for it. But who do you start with? Win over the masses. The dummies. They say the Apprentice did a lot for Trump. Made him look like he wasn't a total idiot loser. Made him seem like a CEO. A boss. A PRESIDENT. That's how dumb America is.

And I'm starting to hear my MAGA friends voicing their concerns over this Iran thing.

'25TH AMENDMENT!!!' Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls For Trump's Removal Over Iran Threat​

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) called for President Donald Trump's removal from office in response to his maniacal threat to destroy "a whole civilization" on Tuesday.

"25TH AMENDMENT!!! Not a single bomb has dropped on America. We cannot kill an entire civilization. This is evil and madness," Greene said on social media.

 

[Lesh]

And Biden was president suppressing oil production and spending trillions. A virus cant cause inflation. A senile impaired president can with economic and energy policies that increased the cost of everything

Suppressing oil production??

We had RECORD oil production under Biden

 

[Failzero]

Which party wants an actual Color Revolution ( And not some uppity Chimp Shit like 1/6 )

 

[BrokeLoser]

Hard to say which one is worse. They both seem to hate the middle class' guts.
Immigration wise, reagan and bush created many incentives for them to come. But that would actually require you to think.

hahahaha…What are the odds? Somehow someway the parties ALWAYS seem to suck perfectly and exactly equally on every single issue. How phucking bizarre is that dblack and MisterBeale ?
HTF do the parties tie on every single issue?

 

[MisterBeale]

hahahaha…What are the odds? Somehow someway the parties ALWAYS seem to suck perfectly and exactly equally on every single issue. How phucking bizarre is that dblack and MisterBeale ?
HTF do the parties tie on every single issue?

Trump had great rhetoric, and the lefties seem to be losing their shit over ICE actions, but when you look at absolute numbers?

meh, its a psy-op. At most Trump has deported a million, which is a drop in the Bucket compared to what Biden let in. And yet, Trump's H-1B policy belies his rhetoric. Only stoopid racists still believe him on immigration.

https://x.com/tyleraloevera/status/2040917168934551970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2040917168934551970%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=

 

[BrokeLoser]

Trump had great rhetoric, and the lefties seem to be losing their shit over ICE actions, but when you look at absolute numbers?

meh, its a psy-op. At most Trump has deported a million, which is a drop in the Bucket compared to what Biden let in. And yet, Trump's H-1B policy belies his rhetoric. Only stoopid racists still believe him on immigration.

https://x.com/tyleraloevera/status/2040917168934551970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2040917168934551970%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=

There you have it folks…The standard fence-sitter firmly believes that only racists want Trump to send tens of millions of parasites home to their shitholes…. TNHarley dblack gipper EMH pknopp
do you see why good real core Americans think you’re insane with the purple hair nose ringers…Do you see why there are only a handful of you on this site? Understand, it’s definitely not because you’re smarter than everyone else.

 

[gipper]

There you have it folks…The standard fence-sitter firmly believes that only racists want Trump to send tens of millions of parasites home to their shitholes…. TNHarley dblack gipper EMH pknopp
do you see why good real core Americans think you’re insane with the purple hair nose ringers…Do you see why there are only a handful of you on this site? Understand, it’s definitely not because you’re smarter than everyone else.

Typical ignorance by you. You totally misrepresented MB’s post.

You get duped by Don over and over again.

Can’t fix stupid.

 

[TNHarley]

hahahaha…What are the odds? Somehow someway the parties ALWAYS seem to suck perfectly and exactly equally on every single issue. How phucking bizarre is that dblack and MisterBeale ?
HTF do the parties tie on every single issue?

Of course, I didnt say that.

 

[Hafar1014]

It reminds me of Christianity. Sure, even a lot of rich and smart people fall for it. But who do you start with? Win over the masses. The dummies. They say the Apprentice did a lot for Trump. Made him look like he wasn't a total idiot loser. Made him seem like a CEO. A boss. A PRESIDENT. That's how dumb America is.

And I'm starting to hear my MAGA friends voicing their concerns over this Iran thing.

'25TH AMENDMENT!!!' Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls For Trump's Removal Over Iran Threat​

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) called for President Donald Trump's removal from office in response to his maniacal threat to destroy "a whole civilization" on Tuesday.

"25TH AMENDMENT!!! Not a single bomb has dropped on America. We cannot kill an entire civilization. This is evil and madness," Greene said on social media.

Bidenflation crushed the middle class

 

[TNHarley]

There you have it folks…The standard fence-sitter firmly believes that only racists want Trump to send tens of millions of parasites home to their shitholes…. TNHarley dblack gipper EMH pknopp
do you see why good real core Americans think you’re insane with the purple hair nose ringers…Do you see why there are only a handful of you on this site? Understand, it’s definitely not because you’re smarter than everyone else.

And you did it again lol.
And yes, we are smarter than you all.
Especially you. You cant even argue with someone without misrepresentation. lolz