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Americans like to think of Brits as a two-class people: the lords and ladies who drift from soiree to soiree eating watercress, and the chimney sweeps - Dick Van Dyke in coal-face, doing atrocious Cockney.
'Kate-alikes': Would-be princesses find a new muse in Kate Middleton 2011
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The real reason the "moneyed class" is so angry at President Obama and the Dems is that they've gotten in the way of the right's plan to reduce us to a two-class caste system – those with all the money, and the rest of us.
'Party Loyalty Oath' would prevent Republicans from backing Crist 2010
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A little less than 40% of moderates and independents see America as a two-class society, with the percentage down about 10% from 2008.
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As a nation, we are in danger of becoming a two-class society of rich and poor, haves and have-nots, with the rapidly disappearing middle class.
Michele Nash-Hoff: How Free Trade Agreements Lead to Job Loss and Wealth Gaps Michele Nash-Hoff 2011
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Grim says the program would help to perpetuate the perception that there's a two-class system where if you're unemployed, you no longer have the same rights as other people.
HuffPost TV: Ryan Grim Discusses Orrin Hatch's Plan To Drug Test The Unemployed: 'Seems Punitive And Petty' (VIDEO) HuffPost TV 2010
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America's middle class is a disappearing and suffering set of distracted victims, slipping continually into the lower class of an inevitable two-class system.
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Grim says the program would help to perpetuate the perception that there's a two-class system where if you're unemployed, you no longer have the same rights as other people.
HuffPost TV: Ryan Grim Discusses Orrin Hatch's Plan To Drug Test The Unemployed: 'Seems Punitive And Petty' (VIDEO) HuffPost TV 2010
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He wonders whether society will label those less active as failures and create a two-class system.
Shock of Gray Ted C. Fishman 2010
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That jaundiced view showed up again in the summer of 2007 in which -- contrary to their normal upwardly mobile outlook -- respondents in a Pew Research survey split evenly (48%-48%) on the question of whether the U.S. is a two-class society, the culmination of a trend that had been accelerating since 1988 when fully 71% rejected the notion of a divided nation, while just 26% accepted it.
Jodie Allen: Cockeyed Optimists or Self-Fulfilling Prophets? 2009
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A two-class apartheid world, with nuclear weapon "haves" and "have nots", is incompatible with the cooperation needed to effectively protect the global commons, address crushing poverty, and ensure sustainable development.
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