What are the duties and/or responsibilities of the middle class?
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A very good question!  If you break these down into  categories it would seem that people in the middle class have individual, family, community, and  national duties and responsibilities.  They may also have international or  global responsibilities if they choose to impose these upon themselves.  And they may have universal responsibilities if they happen to be religious enough for  that.\n\nIndividual duties:  to be honest, loyal, responsible and reliable people; to be independent of the support of others; to get a good education; to work; to succeed.\n\nFamily duties:  To reproduce, to support and care for their children and spouses; to take care of their parents in old age; to keep a clean and orderly house; to protect family members; to  keep family traditions.\n\nCommunity duties:  To respect the property of others; to  vote in local elections; to  support local schools and gov't by paying your taxes; to support local law enforcement by helping the police; to engage in honest and legal business practices; to  be a helpul neighbor and to keep your property in good shape.\n\nNational duties:  To be an informed voter in national elections; to pay national taxes; to serve in the armed forces; to take action against corrupt national gov't; to be proud of your country; to honor the gov't and flag of your country;  to represent your country favorably when abroad.\n\nInternational duties: to  donate to international charitable organizations; to try to investigate whether the UN is actually a fair organization; to honor international borders and not try to get into other countries illegally; to learn foreign languages and cultures.\n\nOf course, these are the duties of all citizens, not just the middle class.  Even poor folks can be helpful, useful, honest, responsible, and patriotic.
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The want a two class society, the rich elite and the "working joes".\n\nThey don't want to expand the middle class, they want to eliminate it and make one HUGE lower class.  All while retaining their posotions of power and influence.
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serving as a part of a whole; a component\n\nalso\n\nauthorized to amend a constitution
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Pass laws that protect the people.  Serve as the check and balance of the judiciary and the executive branches of government.
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It means they care about the middle class family, health care, education, economy, fiscal responsibility etc.,
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They DON'T .. THEY provide a better standard of living for the working class and poor.
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The middle class isn't exactly expendable.  To be honest this question is ambiguous because it can apply in so many different ways.  Theres actually a lot to this so lemme get into some background:  The middle class is the largest group of americans (for the rest of this when I say american, I am reffering to anyone who resides in north america) on this continent.  the range for salary income is very large in comparison to upper-middle class.  (which has become the new rich/wealthy label)  There are many families who would be considered middle class yet they starving close to poverty and very close to the physical line (statistically speaking).  Its very easy to be an american and live middle class with a blue and/or gray collar job.  Many jobs  falling in these classes require little academic schooling and a bit more vocational education/training.  This makes it easy to get into an industry in demand for labor.  So mostly all dropouts, hs grads, associate grads., and vocational grads. all fall in the middle class.  Now add many of the 4 year college graduates that didn't do high knowledge carreer-specific diciplines (engineers, programers, law/med professions, specialized) and you get a rough picture of the size of the middle class in comparison to the rest.  The poverty live and below represent a small proportion in the gutter, and the upper-middle/wealthy classes represent an even smaller number.  Because of this large volume of our workforce being middle-class, it makes us naturally more dispensable.  By holding these jobs that a competent halfway educated human being can do, we place ourselves in risk of being replaced by another middle-class "body" or worse, outsourced.  Technology advances also eliminate the extra need in labor.  Please also realize that the middle class is the most extorted in terms of businesses trying to wrench every last hard earned dollar into their particular  "product"  created.  What allows the system to work so well is that these same companies are funneling their revenue into advertising that flows from mass media.  Mass media is an issue because in addition to advertising, its all free-form brainwashing.  When you have famous, well known upper-class celebrities endorsing SUV's with no gas mileage  (who btw will almost never drive them as a normal day by day person would), when they endorse the $500 handbag made with $10 of material and 38 cents of labor, and when they exploit the free money from product endorsing all this extra "junk" we don't need, it affects people.  Take a look at the commercials.  There are no commercials for really expensive or exotic/hard to come by items.  However, as far as the eye can see and ears can hear, are commercials for products that fit in just right for middle class citizens.  The modern John doe may have no care or need for things yet when they see someone they admire on television endorsing a product, they get this blind illusion:  its like they think that they'll have more in common, and thus be more like the celebritiy by going out and buying "insert brand/logo here" product.  Most middle-class americans who are making a high salary in comparison to the location mean salary are still in "virtual poverty"  Though they may be paying a mortgage on a house with a car note and a high paying job, the system is designed with pitfalls and traps to lose everything.  Credit cards, re-occuring subscription services, fees, contracts, and penalties are just a few of the several thousands of corporate traps meant to suck all your money away.  Think about how much money the system makes everytime you use up your anytime minutes, or miss a payment, or forget to cancel the free membership, a system designed full of penalties and late fees comes into play to charge more money.  A large problem is that many middle class units will still live paycheck to paycheck.  The lifestyle that many middle class ame
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First part:\nBecause we live in a society that is not equal, and we do not have equal economic distribution\n\nSecond:\n\nThe only thing we can do, is to work hard in stopping the rich being richer and the poorer being poorer.
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duties would include the list of modalities you know.  also include the office duties your are skilled at such as phones, making appointments, charting... ummm... i think that's about it
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The middle class is where society depends on to keep the world going. No middle class no world
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Poor workers still take more from the system, education, health, etc. then their taxes put in, even if they pay income taxes.  The middle class pays most of the benefits through taxes.  That is why all countries limit how many people without economic resources can come in, regardless of how hard they work.  The problem is that the employers aren't held accountable for those costs as they should be.\n\nImmigrants need to stand in line and come in legally.  The reason the line is so long is because our middle class so highly subsidizes services for the poor. We can't pay for the poor of the entire world.\n\nAnd if our people are so lazy, how did we come up with the sort of economy they are so desperate to join?  We pay them, don't we? And we work hard for that money.\n\nThey really tick off people who might be sympathetic when they steal our services, ruin the education for our kids that we, not they, pay for, then say we are lazy.
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The rich are richer.\nThe poor and middle class are poorer.\nthere are fewer freedoms.\nthe New World order's agenda is racing ahead,
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Average wage for the middle class is 1800 euros net a month(Holland), easy to get in legally, - still means you have to work for it though! You need to contact IND (Immigratie en Naturalisatie Dienst) to find out how the legal route works exactly.
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Actually the middle class has the most people.\n\nJust look up everything on http://www.wikipedia.org\n\nTip: I would choose a different topic because your examples are all over the place and probably won't last 10 pages. Good luck!
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It depends what their job description is.\n\nSome help manage an MPs time, sort out meetings etc.\n\nOthers help draft new proposals, private members bills or speeches.\n\nSome work for local authorities, councils and the like doing day-to-day administrative jobs. Basically any 'emination of the state' employs civil servants - people tend to think of them just as the ones at Whitehall but there are far more than that.\n\nA lot seem to want to run the country
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Heal the sick, feed the poor, house the homeless, educate the illiterate, provide work to the unemployed, and restore hope to those who have lost it.\n\nPipe dreams...but that is what I would do if I could.
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In the third world capitalism's benefits go to the rich.  There is no middle class, or at least it's very small.  There are the rich and the poor and there are way more poor than rich.  Politicians know what side of the toast the butter is on.  Poor people vote too.