Monday, August 23, 2010

Gutting The Middle Class: The GOP's "Mission Accomplished"

Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future by Robert B. Reich.

When the nation's economy foundered in 2008, blame was directed almost universally at Wall Street. But Reich suggests a different reason for the meltdown, and for a perilous road ahead. He argues that the real problem is structural: it lies in the increasing concentration of income and wealth at the top, and in a middle class that has had to go deeply into debt to maintain a decent standard of living.

The Middle Class is under attack from the Right Wing. The Corporations and wealthiest Americans have played the Tea Baggers and Fox Noise viewers like a fiddle.

Made them simply fear a President's known birth certificate and in return got their devotion and blind faith to stand against every bit of legislation and policy that would actually helped them.

Obama passed the biggest Middle Class tax cuts in history and their mantra is "taxed enough already".

The Tea Baggers are all nascent deficit hawks, clamoring about every nickel spent, yet want to extend toxic Bush tax cuts to the top1% and add $700 billion to the deficit. WTF?

Unless you're making 5 million a year, you're not a Republican. Don't let your white skin fool you.

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