text: Mr Trudeau needs to worry less about how to wring more money out of the working class and affluent-
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  and worry more about how to create more members of the working and affluent classes...............
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  The New York Times 
  April 2014
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  "The American middle class, long the most affluent in the world, has lost that distinction.
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  While the wealthiest Americans are outpacing many of their global peers, a New York Times analysis shows that across the lower- and middle-income tiers, citizens of other advanced countries have received considerably larger raises over the last three decades.
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  After-tax middle-class incomes in Canada — substantially behind in 2000 — now appear to be higher than in the United States. "-
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  ahhh...... 2014 ---
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  the good old days - when the Canadian middle class was the wealthiest in the world and Canada enjoyed its status as the most respected nation on the globe......
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  anyone remember who was in charge away back then?