Peter Schiff Quotes

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

The middle class is the group in this country that has been taken for a ride.

How can anyone live off of minimum wage?

Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard.

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

Does anyone really believe it is possible to make even the most basic ends meet on $5.15 an hour?

We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to live in poverty.

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

I worry about growing income inequality. But I worry even more that the discussion is too narrowly focused. I worry that our outrage at the top 1 percent is distracting us from the problem that we should really care about: how to create opportunities and ensure a reasonable standard of living for the bottom 20 percent.

This is the middle-class equivalent of raising the minimum wage.

The standard of living of the average American has to decline.

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.

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

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.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

It is clear that the economy has not gotten better for everyone.

Middle class families should not be forced to scrape by with less while oil companies get away with more.

People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available to them won't get them closer to the comforts that they see others enjoying, the temptation to take shortcuts can be fierce.

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

The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California.

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

In the 1960s, a minimum wage job would keep a family of three afloat.

The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.

Republicans look after the rich, and Democrats focus on the needs of the middle class. Neither of them looks after the poor.