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‘No Place for the Middle Class’

Posted on | October 14, 2013 | 16 Comments

“New York is nice if you can afford it: If you are a wealthy liberal, or a recent college graduate rooming with three friends, if you are at the top of the world or setting out in the world, if you are Carrie Bradshaw or doing your best to impersonate her, the city cannot be beat. But it is hard to raise a family there. It is no place for the middle class.”
— Matthew Continetti, “Medieval Times,” Free Beacon

 

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16 Responses to “‘No Place for the Middle Class’”

  1. MrEvilMatt
    October 14th, 2013 @ 11:31 am

    ‘No Place for the Middle Class’: “New York is nice if you can afford it: If you are a wealthy liberal, or a re… http://t.co/FPki5cvz5s

  2. CHideout
    October 14th, 2013 @ 11:31 am

    ‘No Place for the Middle Class’: “New York is nice if you can afford it: If you are a wealthy liberal, or a re… http://t.co/IarAUAJWX8

  3. Citzcom
    October 14th, 2013 @ 11:31 am

    ‘No Place for the Middle Class’: “New York is nice if you can afford it: If you are a wealthy liberal, or a re… http://t.co/1JY4nOoISe

  4. jwbrown1969
    October 14th, 2013 @ 11:31 am

    ‘No Place for the Middle Class’: “New York is nice if you can afford it: If you are a wealthy liberal, or a re… http://t.co/nzRIzCB7OR

  5. Lockestep1776
    October 14th, 2013 @ 11:31 am

    ‘No Place for the Middle Class’: “New York is nice if you can afford it: If you are a wealthy liberal, or a re… http://t.co/9P9M4us6fJ

  6. RS
    October 14th, 2013 @ 12:12 pm

    If you look at any geographic area where the Middle Class is priced out of living, you will find a basket of Progressive policies enacted by rich liberals: exorbitant property taxes, land use regulation from byzantine zoning limitations to things like “historic preservation” regulations, bizarre environmental restrictions and the like. Each level of such regulation adds additional costs to housing and small business to the point where people with a decidedly Middle Class income cannot afford to be a part of it.

    Make no mistake. This is deliberate “ghetto-ization” masquerading as enlightened policy. The rich, progressive elites do not wish to associate with the hoi polloi. What racial segregation was seventy years ago, land use controls are now. Thus, you get places like New York or San Francisco, where there are only those making a lot of money or nothing are the only ones who survive.

    Yet the Progressives wonder why cities are dying.

  7. richard mcenroe
    October 14th, 2013 @ 12:58 pm

    OT but not quite:

    Monday’s Metrosexual Confederate http://crayfisher.wordpress.com/2013/10/14/do-you-know-this-asshole/

  8. librarygryffon
    October 14th, 2013 @ 1:14 pm

    However, I’ve heard these same people talk about forcibly integrating neighborhoods, so that when you go to buy a house, based on your race and income, there will be areas you will be encouraged to buy in, and areas where you won’t be allowed.

    Or at least I’ve been hearing this sort of thing through my friend on the local Board of Ed. If they can’t get forced school integration through bussing, these folks want it by making every schools cachement area diverse racially and economically.

    Of course I’m sure that the folks who think this is a good idea, would never worry about it affecting them, because they’re special. /sarc

  9. RS
    October 14th, 2013 @ 1:25 pm

    In most metro areas, there is a push for “regionalism.” You are correct that lending institutions will be pressured to underwrite loans based upon an area’s demographic make-up. Thus, two people with the same incomes would not necessarily both qualify for a home loan in a given area because of diversity considerations. It’s not here yet, but it will happen if things continue.

    The other battlefield concerns local school districts. The push will be for consolidation into “mega districts” where administrators place children based upon diversity considerations, with the additional purpose of removing the last vestiges of local control over public schools. This is also in the offing, as well.

  10. librarygryffon
    October 14th, 2013 @ 1:32 pm

    What I find blackly amusing is that these are the same people who want us to revere MLK, but having spent days teaching children the “Content of our character” speech, they then teach them that the *only* thing the district cares about is their skin color. Our town has been dealing with forced redistricting because some of our schools don’t match the overall towns diversity quotient. This is of course disrupting families and neighborhoods, and costing us money that could be much better used on the actual schools and teachers and teaching materials.

    What’s even weirder about it, is that because different towns and cities in CT have different racial make-ups, a given percentage of minority students could be bad for one town because there were too many minority kids, and bad for another because there were too few?!?!?

    Since I’ll retired or damn close by the time mine give us any grandchildren, I think I know who’ll be homeschooling them. Or at least spending the time after school fixing the education and indoctrination they’ll be given in the public schools.

  11. RS
    October 14th, 2013 @ 1:53 pm

    Your last paragraph is why my kids attend parochial schools. And BTW, homeschooling and parochial education are being discussed, as well. The Progs cannot allow people to opt out of the system, and so, there will be an increasing number of hurdles thrown at parents who wish to avoid the public system and all it entails. As you might imagine, the discussions are hush-hush, but regionalism and elimination of alternatives to public education are two big ticket items on the NEA/Progressive (BIRM) agenda.

  12. DaveO
    October 14th, 2013 @ 2:53 pm

    Yep. A fund-raising plant for the Dems. The comments are awesome. I picked up on the boots and the flags.

  13. Dandapani
    October 14th, 2013 @ 3:03 pm

    Not a city dweller. Been to NY once. Hated it. Concluded only Rats live in cities: rodents and DemocRats.

  14. RichFader
    October 14th, 2013 @ 4:31 pm

    New York, New York: If you can make it there…you can make it there.

  15. thatMrGguy
    October 14th, 2013 @ 6:39 pm

    ‘No Place for the Middle Class’ http://t.co/QclypwrNYT

  16. JeffS
    October 15th, 2013 @ 1:52 am

    Better read all the comments, including the latest — probably not a plant.