Wilbur Ross Quotes

If workers have less money in their pockets to put food on the table, they will be spending less money; your economy will suffer.

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.

You can't run the economy on BMWs alone. If the average person is in a pickle, how do you have a healthy economy?

The hollowing out of the middle class is a problem common to all Western industrialized economies. Maybe we should work together to solve it.

The Obama economy is great for rich people. It's terrible for everybody else.

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

No matter how wealthy a few plutocrats get, we can never drive a great national economy. Only a thriving middle class can do that.

Americans are falling out of the middle class, not into it. And they deserve relief. I absolute support extending the Bush tax cuts for those who work the hardest and invest the most in our economy - the real drivers of American growth, the middle class.

Whoever rises to deliver the inaugural Address of 2013 will speak to a nation in which the American Dream is under profound economic and cultural pressure. This is perhaps best measured by the state of the middle class.

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

Inequality of income is bad for everyone, not just the poor and the middle class.

Inequality saps the economy by draining the buying power of Americans whose incomes have stagnated, forcing them to rely on debt to fund education, housing, and health care.

As Washington prospers, workers suffer.

Barack Obama destroyed the middle class. Whatever you want to say about his rhetoric, the rich got richer, but the poor got poorer, and the middle class got wiped out. That's really what Trump appealed to and inspired in the forgotten man.

The progressives like to talk a lot about poverty - and you should. However, it's the guys in the middle who have really been hurt by the global economy. The people at the bottom have been holding on to their jobs quite well, actually.

The middle-class ladder has rungs that no longer exist for many trying to climb higher. Instead, for too many, in too many places, their chore is simply trying to hang on.

Offshoring manufacturing jobs left Americans with fewer high-value-added, well-paid jobs, and the U.S. middle class downsized. Ladders of upward mobility were taken down. Income and wealth distributions worsened.

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.

It's morally wrong, and economically self-defeating, that so much wealth flows upwards towards the richest of Americans, while millions work full time but still can't provide for their families.

While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages.

There are more and more products with fewer people able to consume them. We have to help those who don't have the economic stability to grow, or one day there will be very few who are able to buy what we're selling.

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.