If facts are inconvenient, well, damn those who live and work with facts.

Admit that there is some level that would make even you call yourself the victim of class war.

A middle-class man making $40,000 might not be able to buy a new BMW. But he can buy the occasional bottle of vodka for $35 a bottle. People are drinking less than they once did, but they are drinking better.

I'm painfully middle class.

Elm Street was the dividing line between the two worlds. On either side of this line there were families who had trouble making both ends meet, but those who lived below the intersection didn't bother to conceal it.

The middle class [would] continue moving out.