On this Independence Day Weekend I write a brief eulogy for the American Middle Class. Despite the best efforts of the Right Wing Cons, the Middle Class has not been murdered. Instead the American Middle Class is committing suicide, urged on by a Democratic President. Middle Class Democrats are blindly following in partisan lockstep and jumping off the cliff like kool-aid drunk lemmings as a Democratic Party president proposes a budget that slashes the American Social Safety Net. If President McCain had proposed cuts to the social safety net, Democrats would be outraged. If President McCain proposed a budget with 87% spending cuts and 13% revenue increases, Democrats would be howling in fury. And when President McCain admitted that he was cutting the social safety net without raising historically low income tax rates, Democrats would be marching in the streets.
But since all that is happening under a Democratic President, Middle Class Democrats are actually CHEERING for this abomination of a budget. There is nothing more to say.
Happy Independence Day.