Why they are attacking Government service

[WingDinger]

It just occured to me. They want to make it so distasteful that only they will apply. They are trying to do the same thing they do to us voting. We recoil in disgust, and vow to have nothing to do with it.

[OHdem10]

1. Exactly!!!! Why do you never hear of poor white people???

They have convinced them they are middle class.

This is as "old as the Conservative Movement".

I can remember stories just a few years back.
They went something like this. Small town
in let us say Ark. The President of the Rotary
Club considered socially the most "important"
with power, person in the town. He earns 37 thousand
dollars a year. One of the highest salraries in
the town. Socially he is one of the top jobs.
Kerry has said he will raise taxes on the rich
to pay for something. Because the guy is socially
on the top rung, he believes and NO ONE CORRECTS
HIM that he is going to have his taxes raised.

People have conflated rich and social status.

That same year, ABC ran a program. The guests
were at best working poor. The highest salary
was 20,000 for a family per year. The called
themselves middle class. It appears there is
a social stigma in being "poor".

Of course, the Republicans want you to believe
you are less than if you dare apply for assistance.