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The Middle Class Squeeze: Can The Populist Elizabeth Warren Champion The Little Guy With Big Gov't?
Forbes ^ | 05/18/2014 | Ralph Benko

Posted on 05/18/2014 6:27:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Who will prove the champion of the little guy and gal? Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) — on deck for her party’s presidential nomination should Hillary Rodham Clinton bow out — has become the political leader of choice for those who advocate Big Government as that champion.

This columnist is skeptical about Big Government improving the lives of the citizens. Yet … there is a case to be made for Warren. She is, at very least, a magnificently worthy adversary for advocates of limited government and deserves to be taken seriously.

America has had a decade of lousy job creation and wage stagnation … under both parties. Since President Nixon ended the Bretton Woods international gold-exchange standard, America has struggled through 40+ years of middle income households treading water and workers losing ground. Compounding wage stagnation, now, is a rising cost of living (masked by artifacts of the CPI algorithm yet nonetheless real).

In a recent poll conducted by the national polling firm QEV 41% of Ohio voters said that the greatest impact on them and their families is the rising cost of living. That’s more than the combined total of those who considered the lack of job opportunity (24%) or wages not going up (13%). These sentiments are consistent with other poll results and are representative of widespread sentiment.

Call it “the middle class squeeze.” As a result of the middle class squeeze, we natives are restless.

We little guys and gals really would welcome someone in the capital championing our interests. Who might that be?

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: elizabethwarren; fauxohontas; lieawatha; massachusetts; middleclass

1 posted on 05/18/2014 6:27:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

“Champion the little guy”

LMFAO This lyin elitist affirmative action’d beyotch is helping destroy the middle class


2 posted on 05/18/2014 6:29:47 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Shame on Sam The Sham . . . Michael ScAM)
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To: SeekAndFind
Who will prove the champion of the little guy and gal?

How about the little guy and gal? I've told my kids, the key to success is hidden under the alarm clock.

3 posted on 05/18/2014 6:32:34 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

Only things that an save the middle class at this point are gas dropping back under two bucks, Obamacare being gutted and corporate taxes getting cut in half.

Nothing else can save us.


4 posted on 05/18/2014 6:32:42 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("Heck of a reset there, Hillary")
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To: SeekAndFind

Looking at her nose diving book sales on Amazon.com....methinks Elizabeth Warren is going nowhere...politically, except with the left-wing lunatics!!! Looked at it yesterday....and it was #70 on the bestseller list, and dropping like a heavy anchor thrown into the sea!!! Probably worse today!!!


5 posted on 05/18/2014 6:46:00 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX ( My only objective is to defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Oh WOe is me... why's everybody always pickin on me???

6 posted on 05/18/2014 6:51:11 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Populist” Elizabeth Warren?! Any nitwit, so demented as to think that this vile, overt communist is a “populist”, should be institutionalized immediately.


7 posted on 05/18/2014 6:54:30 AM PDT by Common Sense 101 (Hey libs... If your theories fly in the face of reality, it's not reality that's wrong.)
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To: Chode

Warren/Churchill
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Or, Warren/Castro.


8 posted on 05/18/2014 6:54:35 AM PDT by Zuse (I am disrupted! I am offended! I am insulted! I am outraged!)
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To: Zuse
it'd prolly go with castro for the illegal vote...
9 posted on 05/18/2014 6:58:26 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: SeekAndFind
She is, at very least, a magnificently worthy adversary for advocates of limited government and deserves to be taken seriously.

"See how colorful, shinning and glorious are the Empress' New Clothes!"

(WHAT IS THIS GUY SMOKIN'?)

10 posted on 05/18/2014 6:59:25 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ( "For those who have fought for it, Life bears a savor the protected will never know")
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To: SeekAndFind

Warren...Populist?

Not in the same sentence, please.

What a laugh, big government for the little guy, hahahah.


11 posted on 05/18/2014 7:02:36 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: SeekAndFind
People want Uncle Sam to be their Mom.

But in truth he is your Loser Uncle who is 54 Years Old, lives in his '92 beat up Chevy, who knocked up the pastor's daughter years ago, can't hold a job, and his home-away is a jail cell.

12 posted on 05/18/2014 7:07:27 AM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: SeekAndFind

Guess “Populist” sounds better than “Communist”….


13 posted on 05/18/2014 7:19:49 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: SeekAndFind
If anyone ever needed additional proof that the far-left is totally bonkers, their almost religious celebration of this pathologically lying nitwit is all the evidence required.
14 posted on 05/18/2014 7:45:23 AM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The more relevant question is “can the moron Warren find her ass with both hands?”


15 posted on 05/18/2014 12:38:33 PM PDT by DPMD
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The more relevant question is “can the moron Warren find her ass with both hands?”

I am willing to spot her not just both hands, but a map, a compass, a global positioning system, and a seeing-eye-dog, as well. But it would be in vain, as she would still only come up with an epic, double face-palm worthy " FAIL "...

the infowarrior

16 posted on 05/18/2014 11:41:43 PM PDT by infowarrior
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To: infowarrior

ZOW!!! Burn!


17 posted on 05/19/2014 10:00:14 AM PDT by DPMD
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