Steve Wynn Quotes

Americans feel squeezed between prices that are rising and wages which are not.

While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.

Inflation eats away at ties that bind us together as a people.

Americans have seen the value of the dollar slowly decline due to the steady erosion of inflation.

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

A recession is predominantly for the middle class. Where I come from, the majority of people have always lived in a recession.

The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

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.

The middle class today would be poor by the standards of the 1950s. Today, with two people working, they would still live paycheck to paycheck.

Inflation destroys savings, impedes planning, and discourages investment. That means less productivity and a lower standard of living.

A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.

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.

How can anyone live off of minimum wage?

It doesn't do Costco any good if nobody can afford to buy anything.

The way things are going, we are not too far from the day when it will take an hour's labor just to pay for the gasoline to get to the job.

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.

Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.

Inflation outstripped real wages for people who work for pay from others.

The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.

If you want to do something to destroy consumer spending, just eat away at the middle class because the other problem we have is the structural problem of middle class America.

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.

We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

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

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.