Sentences with phrase «middle class people like»

The message: If it weren't for successful people like us, middle class people like you would be doomed, so be properly thankful.

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If a tiny portion of India's population reaches college educated, upper - middle class status, say 5 per cent — that's like 65 million people.

(The Atlantic) Hundreds of millions of people in Asia, Latin America, and Africa have lifted themselves from destitution into something like the middle class.

It's a lot of hardworking, blue - collar - type people and they were just sick, it seems like, anything that was done to help was never to the middle class or the slightly lower than middle class.

The new vehicle would make investments between $ 500 million to $ 2 billion on long - term themes like diverging demographics globally, the growing middle class and millennial spending patterns, said the person, who asked not to be named because the information is private.

Obviously this isn't the majority - the median wealth of people in the 55 - 64 cohort is something like $ 200,000 - but a non-trivial percentage of middle class workers ultimately reach this milestone.

I know it's not popular to say in 2011, but compared to places like Argentina, the U.S. remains a pretty good place for a middle class person to start a company:

And in a country of more than 150 million people, even a proportionally small middle class like Bangladesh's can be quite large in terms of absolute numbers and buying power.

All told, though, the plan is, like its House counterpart, a proposal to dramatically slash corporate tax rates, open up a big new loophole for wealthy individuals, and pay for the cuts by dramatically expanding the national debt and ending a number of tax deductions that could leave a substantial share of middle - and upper - middle - class people paying more.

«In some way, L.A. respects the young guy that's out there just trying to make it happen, but in some ways, they disrespect that too,» says Kalanick, who'd grown up middle class in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley, close enough to people like Ovitz to want what they had and also to hate them for it.

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Still, people like this author clamor for more bureaucracy as a defense of the rest of society, the middle class and the poor.

It gives technologically savvy young people in countries like India livelihoods that move them into the ranks of the middle class.

You must be someone like one of those CEO's that run the oil companies complaining that my taxes are going up because I make considerably more than a poor or middle class person, right?

In its present manifestation, voluntary simplicity is a middle - class movement of well - educated people «who like to think and read, who look thoughtfully at every aspect of their lives and consider the consequences of their decisions.»

White middle class people often take the attitude that if only criminals, members of racial minorities, welfare recipients, Third World peoples, behaved like us and shared our values, they would not have the problems that they do.

We've done so because the people at the top prefer a permissive atmosphere that allows us to do as we wish» as long as we don't hurt anyone, a judgment call that ends up ruling out things upper - middle - class people don't like, such as smoking and putting glass bottles in plastics - only recycling bins.

We are trying to expand our «demographic» shall we say, to include people who are less «like» me and Lisa (single 30 - something middle - class never - married white hetero Western - cultured females).

We are working with people from the community to provide safe, enriching, and engaging environments for children so they can develop just like their middle - class peers.

The political left has taken up this principle with enthusiasm - in fact, it often feels like there's an army of white middle class left - wingers looking for things to be offended by on other people's behalf.

Despite being described by Democratic leaders as an «economic missile,» the federal tax cuts are doing precisely what congress predicted they would do: giving middle class people, like our $ 79,500 earning state lawmakers, a financial break.

I just like to know who Labours people are, is it the middle class, we need to know, well actaully we do know all ready after brown and Blair....

Excerpt: «As our State Representative, Chris Gorsek will always stand up and fight for people like us — hard - working, middle - class families in East County who deserve a voice again in the State House.»

A Democrat criticizing a middle class war veteran (like Gibson) for pointing out that you are an out of touch 1 percenter is a case of people living in glass houses throwing stones.

Like other policy «gurus» - think Steve Hilton and Lord Glasman - he exudes an aura of faux - intellectualism and a middle class politico's approach to guessing what «real» people think that is as accurate as a game of pin the tail on the donkey.

«We need more people in Congress like Rory Lancman — elected officials who will promote a progressive agenda and do what is necessary to improve the lives of working people and rebuild the middle class.»

And it seems really cleverly orchestrated, here we are, regular working class people and middle class liberals feeling like we need to leave.

that's like sending a 42 person signed letter saying you want your party to continue it's reputation as a «tax and spend the middle class money» party.

«It all sounds like apple pie when you want to have a middle class tax cut and punishing the successful people, but really what you're doing is driving the successful people out of the state,» Long said.

They add: «Increasingly the Labour party was viewed like middle - class Ryanair passengers having to stomach a couple of hours» flight with people they shared little in common with.

«Now more than ever, we need progressive champions like Hakeem Jeffries who will stand up for working class, middle class and poor people,» Dan Cantor, the executive director of the party, announced in a statement.

«These are stories of people who once had good middle class jobs, like my parents had, but lost ground when big employers like GE and IBM left the area,» Delgado said.

«While Comptroller DiNapoli has been fighting for tax relief for working and middle - class people in New York State, Hedge Fund Harry Wilson has been focused on ensuring that his fellow Wall Street millionaires make out like bandits by opposing President Obama's Wall Street reform package,» Sumberg said.

And they're rewarding me and my campaign because I'm talking about things like healthcare, coming up with ways to find middle - class housing, and incentive people to bike to work.

His claim that he's just a normal «middle - class guy» from Queens was blasted by Citizen Action New York, which said the governor's idea of what a middle class person is «would explain why he's consistently given tax cuts to the wealthiest households in New York — like his own — while neglecting the true middle and working class families of our state.»

«At a time when Queens residents feel like they are being squeezed out of the middle class, we need a person with great integrity who will put the needs of working New Yorkers first,» Mr. Flake said in a statement to the Observer.

In between are the professional middle classes — people like Laing who, in keeping with his career as a physiologist, looks upon the building as a living organism with its own pathologies.

This gaze is so violent that it forces those young people whose bodies do not resemble middle class bodies to avert their eyes and walk looking down [15] or to conceal their class identity and dress up like someone else.

In a district like mine, with high poverty and minority representation in the schools and terrible academic outcomes, it is an unfortunate given among those middle class people who have succeeded in school (or think they have) that the only reason that the district has such lousy test scores and graduation rates is «the parents.»

But remember (and not many rich people like to hear this — in fact, most of them will not even think it applies to them), we are all in this together — billionaires, millionaires, middle class and the poor people allke — and there ain't nodoby leaving here with anything they acquired on earth.

The people advocating the loudest for gifted - education programs are typically middle - class white and Asian parents seeking to maximize advantages for their kids and others like them — which renders the whole project suspect for many advocates of the disadvantaged.

And help for a few poor people may be the price the Reaganites may have to pay to help middle - class people like me.

BMW, like Mercedes and Audi, is also on a continuous expansion plan and it says it has indentified new trends including the dual habit of downsizing and more people living in cramped urban areas, as well as a distinct new market made up of affluent middle - class couples with a sporting bent.

The book is filled with extraordinary insight about the values hip hop culture promotes, what it is like to grow up middle class and black in America and how pernicious the hip hop values are for most young, black people.

Mr. Foster was a Canadian ordinary middle - class person like many of us who was able to reach financial freedom in his early thirties by investing in dividend growth stocks.

well maybe its time to start helping is little people and let the wealth get treated like the middle class and see how it feels.

Most middle - class people have a tough time maxing out their RRSPs and TFSAs, so even simple tax tools like these disproportionately benefit the wealthy.

The Ultimate Rewards shopping portal has a wide variety of retailers listed, and they are places that normal, middle class people actually shop, like Target, Bed, Bath & Beyond and the aforementioned Barnes & Noble.

Like many American cities, Trenton got a bad reputation decades ago as the manufacturing industry dried up and many middle - class people left.

People in large numbers are also skipping middle - class staples like Walmart and Target and opting for dollar stores instead.