Saturday, July 26, 2008

Media Obama/Democrat/Liberal bias...


Today I saw an Editorial in the "Investor's News Daily" which uncovered a true measure of media bias towards Obama and the Democrat/Liberal agenda.

The editorial is named "Putting Money Where Mouths Are: Media Donations Favor Dems 100-1":

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=301702713742569

It points out that "An analysis of federal records shows that the amount of money journalists contributed so far this election cycle favors... Democrats $315,533 to Democrats, $3,150 to Republicans — a ratio of 100-to-1. No bias there."

Now, if that is NOT an smoking gun of the media bias in favor of Obama and the Democrat party I don't know what is...lol...!

...and like some say, "Money talks, bullshit walks!"

I am amazed that even with all these forces against him McCain can still "hold his own" against Obama, that in itself says a lot, it says that even with all that help, the economy in a mess, etc, Obama can't "close the deal", and many sees him for what he is... not Presidential material!

Monday, July 14, 2008

Alqeda has take a big hit in Iraq...









Here is an Unclassified set of Documents captured from one of Alqaeda sector Leader in Iraq called Abu-Tariq (most likely a pseudonym).

more details in:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/09/AR2008020902666_pf.html

Quote: "BAGHDAD, Feb. 9, 2008 -- On Nov. 3, U.S. soldiers raided a safe house of the insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq near the northern city of Balad. Not a single combatant was captured, but inside the house they found something valuable: a diary and will written in neat Arabic script.

"I am Abu Tariq, Emir of al-Layin and al-Mashadah Sector," it began.

Over 16 pages, the al-Qaeda in Iraq leader detailed the organization's demise in his sector. He once had 600 men, but now his force was down to 20 or fewer, he wrote. They had lost weapons and allies. Abu Tariq focused his anger in particular on the Sunni fighters and tribesmen who have turned against al-Qaeda in Iraq and joined the U.S.-backed Sunni Sahwa, or "Awakening," forces." end of Quote.

more details are in the Washington Post link.

What is clear is that we are winning in Iraq now, and Alqaeda has suffered a deadly blow.

And this is why it is so important to keep it up in Iraq now, and NOT withdraw until we have finished the job of leaving until a stable Iraq government is in place, a completion that is within sights now.

And this is more evidence that our policy of the Surge championed by McCain was right all along, and the defeatist calls by Democrats including Obama have been and are STILL wrong!!!!...

Is Obama, with that kind of big time erroneous military judgement qualified to be Commander in Chief????

I think NOT!

My congratulations to Mr.McCain again on been right all along!

Tuesday, July 08, 2008

WMD material in Iraq















Well... like I have said here before, the TRUE story of the WMDs in Iraq will not be know for some time, but more and more information is coming out pointing that "something" was there...

Here is some more info:

Iraqi "yellow cake" transferred:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-07-07-iraq-uranium_x.htm

Quote: "The nearly 2 tons of low-enriched uranium and approximately 1,000 highly radioactive items transferred from Iraq to the United States last month had been placed under seal by the International Atomic Energy Agency at the sprawling Tuwaitha nuclear complex, 12 miles south of Baghdad, the officials said."

...material that could have been used to make dirty bombs...well, if that is not materials for a form of WMDs then I do not know what is kids!...lol...!

Now that was in 2004, here is more today, in 2008:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jddnLQlKUe7nPOQGa5EXiXgoPE4g

...and

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080707/pl_afp/usiraqcanadauraniumnuclear_080707154601

Quote, July 7, 2008: "At Iraq's request, the US military this year transferred hundreds of metric tons of yellowcake uranium from Iraq to Canada in a secret, weeks-long operation, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday.

The 550 metric tons of uranium, which was sold to a Canadian company, was moved by truck convoy to Baghdad's "Green Zone," then flown by military aircraft to a third country where it was put on a ship for Canada, said Bryan Whitman, the spokesman.

The yellow cake was discovered by US troops after the 2003 US invasion of Iraq at the Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Facility south of Baghdad, and was placed under the control of the International Atomic Energy Agency."

..Again! more evidence that Saddam HAD materials for WMDs!

ALL those that yell "there were no WMD in Iraq", and that therefore the invasion was illegal of a crime etc are just WRONG!

This nuclear material was hidden from the UN inspectors, a clear violation of the UN sanctions and restrictions! ...never mind in addition to the many other things we also found after the invasion, example:

forbidden Iraqi Air Force planes buried in the sand at The al Taqqadum air field west of Baghdad in Iraq (posted photos:

Quote:" What military search teams eventually found at al Taqqadum, in July 2003: a reported 30 to 40 planes, including several MiG-25 and Su-25 ground attack jets, buried more than 10 feet beneath tons of soil and covered with camouflage netting. According to the Pentagon, at least one of the MiG-25s was found because searchers spotted its twin tail fins protruding from the sand. Some of the planes had been wrapped in plastic sheeting to protect their electronics and machinery from the sand (and some had had their wings removed), but others were interred with little or no protection from the sand or the elements. The recovery teams had to use large earth-moving equipment to uncover the aircraft."
(press release by Department of Defense, 2003)

more WMD evidence:

" Iraqi Chemical Stash Uncovered",

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/13/AR2005081300530.html

Quote: "BAGHDAD, Aug. 13 -- U.S. troops raiding a warehouse in the northern city of Mosul uncovered a suspected chemical weapons factory containing 1,500 gallons of chemicals believed destined for attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces and civilians, military officials said Saturday.

Monday's early morning raid found 11 precursor agents, "some of them quite dangerous by themselves," a military spokesman, Lt. Col. Steven A. Boylan, said in Baghdad."

...more evidence that Iraqi forces under Saddam had WMD expertise, and even after the fall of their leader in 2003 the remaining dismembered Baathists were trying to use that knowlwedge and some leftover WMD materials to use against our forces!

more evidence:

Chemical weapon antidotes found in Iraqi base:

http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn3554-chemical-weapon-antidotes-found-in-iraqi-base.html

Quote: "US Marines say they have discovered drugs used by soldiers to counter chemical weapons and 3000 chemical protection suits at a hospital used by Iraqi forces in the town of An Nasariyah. The discovery has added to fears that Iraq might use chemical weapons against invading British and US troops.

In particular, General Vincent Brooks, at US Central Command in Doha, Qatar, said on Wednesday that Marines had confiscated "nerve agent antidote auto-injectors" at the hospital."

This reminds me of a blunt phrase: "you don't put a condom on unless you are going to screw, do you?"

...same thing here, Saddam forces did not have anti-chemical agent drugs unless they expected chemical weapons (again WMDs) to be used...!

and the United States does not use WMDs, it is a matter of national policy, as were Saddam HAD... against Iran, and its own people, the Kurds!


..and more evidence:

UK Troops Say They Find More Iraqi Chemical Suits

http://english.people.com.cn/200303/31/eng20030331_114284.shtml

Quote: "British troops have found a stash of Iraqi equipment designed to protect soldiers from chemical attack, including protective suits, training materials and nerve gas antidote.

Sunday's discovery at an ordinance facility south of Basra did not appear to include any actual weapons of mass destruction -- the elusive "smoking gun" that Washington and London hope will eventually justify their invasion of Iraq.

But troops did find items including a Geiger counter, gas masks and nerve gas simulators, which British officers said indicated that Iraqi troops were being trained to deal with the possibility of chemical or nuclear warfare."

...again my blunt phrase: "you don't put a condom on unless you are going to screw, do you?"

WMD gear, gas masks, WMD warfare TRAINING simulators...!


...more, this evidence:

even a CNN report in 2003...

"Nuke program parts unearthed in Baghdad back yard"

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2003/04/15/international/15cnd-karbala.jpg&imgrefurl=http://forum.japantoday.com/viewtopic.php%3Ff%3D32%26t%3D828806%26start%3D60&h=179&w=184&sz=15&hl=en&start=85&um=1&tbnid=GvVgo_WlgxsN6M:&tbnh=99&tbnw=102&prev=/images%3Fq%3DIraqi%2BWMD%2Bfound%26start%3D80%26as_st%3Dy%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rls%3DRNWE,RNWE:2005-03,RNWE:en%26sa%3DN

Quote: "(CNN) -- The CIA has in its hands the critical parts of a key piece of Iraqi nuclear technology -- parts needed to develop a bomb program -- that were dug up in a back yard in Baghdad, CNN has learned.

The parts, with accompanying plans, were unearthed by Iraqi scientist Mahdi Obeidi who had hidden them under a rose bush in his garden 12 years ago under orders from Qusay Hussein and Saddam Hussein's then son-in-law, Hussein Kamel."

...again my blunt phrase: "you don't put a condom on unless you are going to screw, do you?"

it is clear Saddam was in violation of UN sanctions again and again... and again, and just waiting for the UN to give up so he could get "back to business"...!

There are reports that he even did have WMDs, but as we prepared for our final assault he decided to send the WMD stockpile in a hurry to his Baath Party pals in Syria...:

"Iraq's WMD Secreted in Syria, Sada Says"

http://www.nysun.com/foreign/iraqs-wmd-secreted-in-syria-sada-says/26514/

Quote: "The man who served as the no. 2 official in Saddam Hussein's air force says Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war by loading the weapons into civilian aircraft in which the passenger seats were removed."

Saddam knew we were coming, there are reports that he even got details of the American invasion from the Russians:

"Iraq Archive Document Alleges Russian Official Described Locations, Troops, Tanks and Other Forces Before Operation Iraqi Freedom Began" ABC news.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/IraqCoverage/story?id=1734490&page=1

Saddam then knew we were coming, he knew that not in a million years was it possible for him and his forces to stop us, and that he was going to loose badly, so instead of been caught "red handed" with WMDs he decided to pull the oldest trick in the book...pass the weapons to a "stacher" for safe keeping (Syria) so then he would look "clean" of WMDs after the invasion in the eyes of the world....oldest trick in the book.

Hey... anyone heared of this: drug dealer knows cops are coming, he passes drugs to pal near by, cops arrive, he gets frisked and found "clean", cops leave, he gets drugs back from staching pal and is back in business...oldest trick in the book kids!

same thing here!

All of this point to a more troubling thing, and that is that if all those WMDs got away, those WMDs can now be in the hands of other terrorist states and/or groups, and the administration knows this, but prefers to take "a hit" by been seen as having been "wrong" in the intelligence assesment of Iraq having WMDs, rather than having been right all along on Saddam having WMDs, but having really screwed up in losing the opportunity to capture those weapons in Iraq by not invading with enough forces (also reason for the mess after the invasion), and now those weapons are in the hands of many of our enemies.

And this is possibly the real truth of the Iraq WMDs story.

My scenario:

Saddam had WMDs', he saw us coming, the Russians even gave him intel on how and were we were going to come in from, he realized he could not stop us, so he decided to get rid of the weapons until a later time by passing them to the guys next door in Syria; we came in too late, too slow to catch the WMDs weapons been moved, Bush realized that he had just missed the WMDs and that it was too late for him to go after them them in Syria (never mind that now he, Bush, was bogged down in a guerrilla war in Iraq with no spare troops to do anything else anywhere else, and thus decided to take the hit and look incompetent regarding intel on the WMDs instead of looking incompetent on not been able to get the existing WMDs.


As for the evidence..., the "yellow cake", the buried weapons, the WMDs antidotes, the WMDs protective gear, the WMDs Training gear, etc etc etc, is clear evidence that he was NOT an innocent victim in this war, and who knows what else he had, what else he buried in those immense sand dunes, or what else he sent to Syria...


The whole story will not be know for a long time, but as evidence shows he was guilty as charge, and thus the 2003 Invasion was justified...problem was Bush/Rumsfeld invasion was too slow and too small in troop numbers in order to catch the WMDs before they were sent to Syria, and then too small for the post invasion occupation that was sure to follow the American military Iraqi invasion.


Finally, listen to this lady reporter Pamela Hess on C-SPAN (unbias) about what is going on in Iraq and why we need to stay and help the Iraqis "get on their feet":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrSoAxbcuds

Friday, May 30, 2008

More positive news about our fight against Alqaeda and the war in Iraq:

"US Making Gains Against al-Qaida" from this site:

http://voanews.com/english/2008-05-30-voa12.cfm



The chief of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, General Michael Hayden (Air Force) says al-Qaida is losing influence in the Middle East and is on the defensive in other parts of the world.

Hayden cautioned that al-Qaida remains a serious threat but said it has suffered a "near strategic defeat" in Iraq and Saudi Arabia. He said the terror group has faced ideological setbacks as much of the Islamic world rejects its radical form of Islam.


Persistence pays off people...!

And in this fight against the radical religious fanatics we are facing today persistence is one of the crucial keys to solving the Alqaeda/religious extremist problem...!

Not surrender like chickens, but stay, fight and win it!

As the report indicates they are close to been defeated finally in Iraq due to our tuff stance of "no retreat, no surrender and reinforce our forces to win" tactic championed by McCain and a few others!

If we listened to the Democrats like Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev who said as reported by all news organizations a little over a years ago "Reid Says Iraq War 'Lost'", (and as noted in the following ABC News link) and then followed their calls for basically a "stampede" withdraw out of Iraq we would have HAD another Viet Nam type of massive loss again:



http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/04/reid_says_iraq_.html

...But as we see in the latest reports coming out of Iraq, including this latest assessment Iraq was always winnable!...it just took vision to follow the hard course of victory, instead of the easier quicker one of retreat and defeat..!

And this shows that the judgement of people like McCain is correct and people like the Democrats like Reed and Obama (and some Republicans too) is incorrect.

...And we need to win in Iraq not just for all the strategic needs, etc, but most important so the deaths of the over 4000 service personnel that have died there will not have been vane!

Just for this last most IMPORTANT reason we MUST win in Iraq, and NOT leave until the mission is over, until we have an Iraq that will not fall back into chaos, into Alqaeda or Iran or any other extremist group hands, in which case would make the ultimate sacrifice of our brave dead service personnel deaths in vane!

We need leader (Presidents, Congressmen/women) that will not be as blind concerning the Big Picture of things, and why it is important to sometimes do the hard things instead of the easy things, and have the guts to face the music and stand for what is best for the country and NOT what is more popular!

We, as a nation, need to
grow some balls
again like we had during our fight against Hitler back in WW2, I think we have lost much of them, but we need to get them back now, because the bunch of animals we are facing today are tough and do not care about negotiations or peace talks, or any appeasement!

We are winning in Iraq, and the progress there has been outstanding, but you barely hear about it now, because that would show that Obama is
out to lunch
on what needs to be done to fix the biggest problem we are facing today in the world....the war against fanatical Islamists all over the world, specially in the battle ground that is Iraq!

Follow the correct Leader people..McCain, a survivor, a winner, not a looser like Mr Reed or Obama are, and who want us (as a nation) to be!

Sunday, April 27, 2008

McCain wins in November!

McCain will win in November.

He is a TRUE American hero. My admiration for his strength of character during difficult times has won my vote, and I think comes November most of the America people votes as well.

As I write this blog, the “surge” that he championed and that I backed in some of my previous blogs here has been a resounding and undeniable success, and something the Democrats did not backed and even said would not work, calling the war “lost’ by 2006!

If it had been up to them (Democrats), Iraq would have TRULY been lost, having them given the victory to the enemy and Iraq lost, not by us completely failing in Iraq but by them giving the victory by a lack of resolve.

McCain, on the other hand held on, even when backing that approach of the surge (the surge, nothing more than in reality the action of "sending of reinforcement" to our forces in Iraq, something done as long as there has been wars by all armies) and to winning the war made him all but forgotten and pushed aside in favor of other candidates.

But in the end he has preveal.

His strength of character goes even further back, to even more difficult times, like his narrow escape from death during the horrible accident onboard the USS Forrestal CV-59 Aircraft carrier during the war in Nam:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzgV5QM5fi8

Here is the accident on that Aircraft carrier in more detail:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chuiyXQKw3I

Then the horrific years a POW in Nam, were he was being tortured repeatedly, and his refusal to be release if his release did not also include all the other fellow American prisoners held by them, the Vietnamese…for that refusal, a show of caring for his other fellow American "comrades in arms" (American military prisoners in the Hanoi Hilton), the Vietnamese beat him and tortured him even worse because of that refusal, breaking his bones again and again... and again!

You see, it is easy to do what is right when, for example your life is not in danger... but only a true hero does what is right even if it can mean his or her death, just like it was for McCain back then, and that is incredible moral character.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypn76M0Wm-k&feature=user

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQsckD9trn4&feature=user


Finally he is a moderate, who will stand for what is right, even if that means getting into fights within his own Republican Party, like he says, “he does what is good for the country first, THEN what is good for the party….!” You show me any Democrat that stands up and has said and done the same thing, to be against his own party if it needed to be done, I can only think of one... Joe Lieberman. For most Democrats it is first what is good for their Democrat party, THEN what is good for the country!

…And people, and that ladies and gentlemen is also great moral character!

So in November I think he will win with no problems!

Obama is done!!

Obama disqualifies himself to be President of ALL Americans by Elitist comment:

"it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMkQ6OPi3RU

…and reported on CNN:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krztzebJgMc&feature=related

And as you will see in the following section, population classes data* (below) of the United States, the American population is NOT mostly city dwellers, but suburban, middle and/or working class families and/or people, that ARE religious in one form or another, that want to have guns for self protection or hunting or just the principle of just being able to own one, period!

And for Obama to insult all those people is highly stupid, and show a level of ignorance and detachment with the vast majority of what the USA is really about!

Now after seeing this fact of how he thinks of average Middle America, can any of you out there really say that he would be a President for ALL Americans????

If he does NOT understand that most Americans are NOT like him and his elitist friends in New York or San Francisco for example, how can he “be truly there” for all of us????

I think not…!

And this latest show of true inner self, of his true personal believes is just one more fact that disqualify him for being a President for all,….never mind his association with know black racist like the so called Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. for example, the “reverend” an example of a typical disgruntled black racist and America hater, made into that by the anti-American era of the 1960’s and early 70’s:

"America is still the No. 1 killer in the world. . . . We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns, and the training of professional killers . . . We bombed Cambodia, Iraq and Nicaragua, killing women and children while trying to get public opinion turned against Castro and Ghadhafi . . . We put [Nelson] Mandela in prison and supported apartheid the whole 27 years he was there. We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God."

Or the statement that...” the US Government invented AIDS to commit genocide…” LOL….I mean I HAVE to laugh at the stupidity of that comment, the ignorance…incredible!


..then the “God D*#@$% America..” speech…, which show him to be a HATER of what America IS today!...basically he hates what we ALL stand for here in the USA !

We are NOT perfect…! Not even close, BUT for ANYONE to go to the extreme to say that: “God D@+*$ America…!” THAT show him for what he is... a HATER!, No excuses! That guy is an American HATER!...no different than a America hater white supremacist, or a hard core America hater Communist...NO different! Extremists, ANY extremists, been on the "right" OR the "left" are just bad! Period!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH5ixmT83JE&feature=related

..and Obama has been pal with this guy for 20 years??????????

My grandmother, God rest her soul, had a phrase I have NEVER forgotten, she used to say to me:

"Dime con quien tu andas y yo te dire quien tu eres...!"
(“You tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who YOU are..”)

She was very smart, and she was right.

Associations shows beliefs! ...associations shows what kind of people you have chosen to be part of! ...Association shows what your principles are and what you want to be next to!

ALL that crap that "guilty by association" is not right is baloney...it IS correct! As social creatures, we ARE what we chose to associate ourselves with, been that part of Democracy, Freedom or hate and/or bigotry from the "right" or the "left"! ...and yes, there is big time bigotry on the "left" too! They can be as inflexible, and set in their ways and views as the extreme right wing can be too!

When I talk about association, I talk about NOT race, NOT country of origin, but association!... which is a free choice to be part of something or some group. And for someone to be for 20 years!!!....not 1 or 5 or even 10, but 20 years associated with an extremist like the so called reverend is a CLEAR indication, as clear as it can be, that Obama thinks like that too.

Listen, if I went to a church where a preacher was spewing crap and hate like that from the pulpit on a regular basis (and I do not attend church often), I would not be there for a minute longer than it would take me to walk out of there. I would not give a minute of support with my presence and my ears… not one minute!

And Obama has been pals and a religious and/or philosophical disciple of this guy for 20 years............? ...yes, also philosophical leader too! ...Because THAT is what Obama has technically done by relying on that preacher for religious guidence, not just to be his religious teacher, but also to be his philosophical guide, a result of letting that preacher "guide" him for all those 20 years.

So it is logical to think that a lot of the so called preachers' logic must be also in Obamas' head, a lot of the same views and teachings of how things are here in our country, of what we are about, of what America is all about...!

..and that is why I am not at all surprised to hear a comment come out of him like that one in San francisco about the people of Middle America like the folks in PA.! I suspected all along of that been his true self and his true views of all the other people not like him and his liberal pals that live in liberal hubs like New York City or San Francisco for that matter!

And that is NOT the type of person we need right now to be OUR President... all of us Americans!

So comes November a lot of that 46% middle class and that 40 to 45% working class American population, which mostly LIKES to go to church, which LIKES Freedoms like been able to own a gun if they want to, is going to look at Obama and see that he is NOT one of us, that he does NOT understand who we are, and we will NOT vote for him.

I think he is done… put a fork in him!

I rest my case!


*Population data:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States#Social_class

*(US population class):



Academic Class Models

Dennis Gilbert, 2002

Class Typical characteristics

Capitalist class (1%) Top-level executives, high-rung politicians, heirs. Ivy League education common.

Upper middle class (15%) Highly educated (often with graduate degrees), most commonly salaried, professionals and middle management with large work autonomy

Lower middle class (30%) Semi-professionals and craftsmen with a roughly average standard of living. Most have some college education and are white collar.

Working class (30%) Clerical and most blue collar workers whose work is highly routinized. Standard of living varies depending on number of income earners, but is commonly just adequate. High school education.
Working poor (13%) Service, low-rung clerical and some blue collar workers. High economic insecurity and risk of poverty. Some high school education.

Underclass (12%) Those with limited or no participation in the labor force. Reliant on government transfers. Some high school education.




William Thompson & Joseph Hickey, 2005

Class Typical characteristics

Upper class 1% Top-level executives, celebrities, heirs; income of $500,000+ common. Ivy league education common.

Upper middle class (15%) Highly educated (often with graduate degrees) professionals & managers with household incomes varying from the high 5-figure range to commonly above $100,000

Lower middle class (32%) Semi-professionals and craftsman with some work autonomy; household incomes commonly range from $35,000 to $75,000. Typically, some college education.

Working class (32%) Clerical, pink and blue collar workers with often low job security; common household incomes range from $16,000 to $30,000. High school education.

Lower class (ca. 14% - 20%) Those who occupy poorly-paid positions or rely on government transfers. Some high school education.



Leonard Beeghley, 2004

Class Typical characteristics

The super-rich (0.9%) Multi-millionaires whose incomes commonly exceed $350,000; includes celebrities and powerful executives/politicians. Ivy League education common.

The Rich (5%) Households with net worth of $1 million or more; largely in the form of home equity. Generally have college degrees.

Middle class (plurality/
majority?; ca. 46%) College educated workers with incomes considerably above-average incomes and compensation; a man making $57,000 and a woman making $40,000 may be typical.

Working class
(ca. 40% - 45%) Blue collar workers and those whose jobs are highly routinized with low economic security; a man making $40,000 and a woman making $26,000 may be typical. High school education.


The poor (ca. 12%) Those living below the poverty line with limited to no participation in the labor force; a household income of $18,000 may be typical. Some high school education.


(References: Gilbert, D. (2002) The American Class Structure: In An Age of Growing Inequality. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth; Thompson, W. & Hickey, J. (2005). Society in Focus. Boston, MA: Pearson, Allyn & Bacon; Beeghley, L. (2004). The Structure of Social Stratification in the United States. Boston, MA: Pearson, Allyn & Bacon.
1The upper middle class may also be referred to as "Professional class" Ehrenreich, B. (1989). The Inner Life of the Middle Class. NY, NY: Harper-Collins.)