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4. I still hate when politicians talk about the middle class
Fri May 24, 2013, 07:09 AM
May 2013

because it tends to be a very high income definition, say from the 60-98th percentile is defined as "middle" class and whatever the propose to help the "middle" class tends to give very short shrift to the bottom 60%.

Paine's pamphlet had a large amount of influence, but Hitler and Mao did what they did with armies, not books. Hitler's book may have inspired some hundred of his followers/party members, but didn't do much in the German nation. It was remarkable later for being somewhat predictive.

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