Mechele Dickerson

You did exactly.

And what I would say is if you want to know what happens when the government is not involved, look at what has happened to lower and middle income people today.

since the 1980s.

So if we want the free market to control, what that means is we will have the uber, uber rich and everyone else will be struggling.

So it's really hilarious to me when people look back at the middle class and all of the wonderful things it did.

It helped people go to college.

It helped people buy homes.

But if we really wanted to put labels on what happened that

the factors that helped to create the middle class, we'd have to say things like socialism and interfering with free markets.

And of course, nobody wants to say those words.

The S word is just horrible.

Well, fine, don't call it socialism.

Just call it, what do we think this government owes to people who work hard,

Get up every day and try to do the right thing and yet continue to struggle.

If your response is we owe them nothing, then we need to just say that.

Yeah.

if we want a happy population.

So if, again, even ignoring whether or not you care about the economic security of most families in this country, one of the things that I always say when people ask me, well, why is it so good to have a middle class?

I can point to lots of things like toasters or trash cans or Ford pickup trucks.

Billionaires can only buy so many of those.