What's (Not) the Matter With the Middle Class?

More Leftist lies exposed. The Left needs to terrorize the Citizens into voting for them because they do not have anything to offer for the future. They are creating Fear to make the Right look bad, not that they need help.

The Republicans have bought into the Democrat agenda and increased spending even more than than requested. I have to blame them all for voting for all these huge spending bills. They have no guts to stand up for principles or honesty. If the Dems weren't even more corrupt, I would be unable to vote for any of these corrupt scum.

Article | The American Prospect: "For more than a decade, the Democratic Party -- the self-proclaimed party of the middle class -- has consistently lost the middle class at election time.

In 2004, voters with family incomes between $30,000 and $75,000 went for Bush by 6 percentage points, while Congressional Democrats lost this group by 4 points. Among white middle-class voters (one-third of the electorate), Bush won by 22 points and Congressional Republicans by 19 points.

What's the matter with the middle class? Democrats like to pin their defeats on national security and culture issues alone, but the progressive economic message is also to blame. What progressives generally say about the economy is unrelentingly pessimistic -- stagnant wages, rising costs, overwhelming burdens of debt. It's a message that doesn't resonate with the middle class -- not only because it's overly negative (by itself political poison), but because it's simply flat out wrong.

Don't believe me? Believe the numbers:

* $63,300. That's the 2004 median household income of people in their prime working years, ages 25-59 (it's $70,000 for married households and nearly $80,000 for two-earner households).
* $248,700. That's the median net worth of pre-retirement Americans, ages 55-64.
* Zero. That's the median credit card debt for all American households.

Drowning in debt? Squeezed to the gills? Living paycheck to paycheck? I don't think so.

These numbers all add up to this one: $23,700, the household income at which a white voter was more likely to vote Republican than Democratic in the 2004 congressional races. "