Under the modern Anglo-Saxan model, there are basically three classes: investors, entrepreneurs, and workers. There is certain overlap for sure, but the point is: some investors-entrepreneurs live off (very well) by just putting money and ripping dividends, while many (if not most) entrepreneurs work their asses off to pay rents and credits. You have to appreciate the cynic disbalance of capital "trickle-downs". Cries for tax cuts help nothing real to middle class entrepreneurs and workers - they became working horses for funding lifestyle of large investors and top managers. As the key feature of this crisis becomes the unwillingness of investors to invest anywhere, rewarding them with ever more free money (for nothing) is disastrous. There are just useless middlemen now.