http://blog.ourfuture.org/20121204/yesterdays-most-important-fiscal-cliff-news-wasnt-the-gops-proposal?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=yesterdays-most-important-fiscal-cliff-news-wasnt-the-gops-proposal Daily news and strategy from a progressive point of view. Wed, 22 May 2013 17:21:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6-alpha http://blog.ourfuture.org/20121204/yesterdays-most-important-fiscal-cliff-news-wasnt-the-gops-proposal#comment-8815 DHFabian Tue, 04 Dec 2012 22:06:49 +0000 http://blog.ourfuture.org/?p=78196#comment-8815 The public really needs to come to terms with the reality of our situation. What the rich are doing to the middle class is simply what the middle class already did to the poor. All the money that went into our welfare programs is gone, and more money is needed. Much more. Bad news: The US put far less into welfare than the public was led to believe. In fact, the biggest program, AFDC, used a mere 6% of the fed. budget at its highest – and that was back in the 1970s! Obviously, the middle class must be targeted now. We already know that the they won’t get to their feet to fight back.We had the Occupy movement for a while; once it became redefined as a movement exclusively about the middle class, the better off, the rest of us left, and Occupy died.

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