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Is Memorial Day an 'off day' for you or a 'work day' with your business open?
- Working: 33
- Not Sure: 8
- Off Day: 155
- No Opinion: 18
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Opinion
Obama wants to weaken middle class
Tyrants of all periods have understood they must weaken or destroy the middle class. Remember the left's sneers about "bourgeois" this and "bourgeois" that during the last century? It was the rise of a middle class of burghers (bourgeois), independent merchants, that ended feudal tyranny. Before that, there were only two classes -- the nobility with their vassals and fiefs, and the serfs. As far back as Aristotle men recognized a strong middle class is the only buffer between the rulers and their powerless subjects, the only safeguard to liberty.
