But this convention is about more than re-nominating President Obama. It's about Americans coming together to build one economy - not from the top down, but from the middle class out and the bottom up. ↗
The president's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle class out of government jobs paid for with borrowed dollars. ↗
You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people. ↗
We need to work together, on a bipartisan basis, to create new jobs, increase job training, enact real and substantive middle class tax relief, and reward companies that create jobs at home. ↗
Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about. ↗
This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process. ↗
I'm incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth. I'm one of those terribly middle-of-the-road, British middle class, South London gents. ↗