A Question For Americans Or Anyone Who Knows

For the same reason we don't say things like "I'm just busting your bullocks" or some other stuff that wouldn't make sense to us, and instead say "I'm just busting your chops." "Working class" isn't exactly an actual thing in the working political vernacular. And I could pull an urban and say it seems you're implying the middle class don't work. I know. You lot and the why-aren't-y'all-more-like-us beef. We're sorry. Collectively. Working-class is a term my father would use. But the debate has changed from on high in recent years, which has ushered in new terms. Below middle class would be the poor folk, and above is above, and "working" is just implied for everyone working. Yeah. Maybe back in the day, but now "middle class" has pretty much swallowed that term. I don't think the working class people are ignored. At least no more than everyone else. One class that matters in America: The political class. Their chosen passengers get a ride. Everyone else gets ignored.

Is it so different here Rob... the Tories pander to the rich and the other politicians suck up to the Middle Class and this has been so since Thatcher created an under-class. Now, I fear many include the working class in with their scorn of that underclass. Coming from a family of rural working class, we have a strong tradition of self-reliance and making do on little. But this seems to have been lost, poor people throw their money away buying tat on the never-never, which falls apart before it is paid for, etc. all the best, urban

There's always been a problem with terrminology between us Americans and the British users on here. I think back to several discussions where the bulk of the discussion was on clarifiying the terms. The way I understand the term 'middle class' is those who work and earn a certain amount of money that puts them in a higher tax bracket. We used to use the term working poor for those who did not earn as much. My question is why the emphasis on any one particular 'class' by this administration. IMHO, we're being divided according to 'class' so as to better control us. I remember the day when ANY working America was considered the focus of an administration's poliicy. Now we see ourselves being placed in categories and told that sooner or later we've earned 'enough' money.

Well, how I see it really is that the middle class is the working class. The rich are rich and many of them do not work hard. The poor are the poor and it seems like no one wants to bother or help them. But the middle class as far as I know is the working class or so called blue collar guy. The middle class/working class is the group of people that take the brunt of everything in this country. They pay the most taxes and are always are risk for losing jobs. So, think of the middle class as the working class.

The middle class is a delusion that allows the working class who isn't poor to feel somehow superior those who work or receive welfare and live in poverty. All it has come to describe is the working class that is above the poverty level. If there were a middle class in the spectrum of the US, it would be pro athletes and movie stars.

Yo Rob, I too, am part of the working class (I'm not currently working, but I think you get my drift.) I guess if we don't wear $3000 suits, work for a Fortune 500 company, & live in a 30 room mansion we are obsolete. I don't know where decent human society went away for the mass to now be known as America, Incorporated. I come from a working class family; that's all we know & even that's dwindling in numbers right now.