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Mick Hall and his ridiculous article 2004 about the so-called middle class

 

 




Siobhan Duggan • 14 June 2006

You really don't have a clue what you're talking about. The very fact that you make so many sweeping comments and generalisations about the so called "middle class" is a reflection of your intelligence (or lack of).

I myself was educated in the school and university mentioned, but contrary to what you would like to believe, I studied a course that was 40 hours a week excluding study, and I didn't head off into the sunset to spend my parents' money, like you would have everyone believe, no, no, I am due to graduate this year with a huge student loan that I used to put myself through college.

How many of you be-grudgers can say you have made that sacrifice? It's all fine and well when us "middle class" students are doing full time courses that will eventually qualify us to help other people (I am in the pharmaceutical research end of things), and when we're slogging away every weekend at a crappy job to fund bus fares and books, but as soon as we dare to hold a qualification that maybe some people don't have, we're slated by people like you. What can you expect I suppose, there's a bit of the green-eyed monster in everyone…….

Incidentally it may be worth your while remembering that since the rich seem to spend most of their time evading tax, and the lower class spend their time claiming welfare, its the middle class who keep the economy going

 

 

 

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