Vanishing Middle Class

NEW YORK (CNN) -- I don't know about you, but I can't take seriously anyone who takes either the Republican Party or Democratic Party seriously -- in part because neither party takes you and me seriously; in part because both are bought and paid for by corporate America and special interests. And neither party gives a damn about the middle class.Our country's middle class is not just collateral damage in what has become all-out class warfare. Political, business and academic elites are waging an outright war on working men and women and their families, and there is no chance the American middle class will survive this assault if the dominant forces unleashed over the past five years continue unchecked. (Quoted from Lou Dobbs article on 10/12/06. TV special on this topic Wed 10/18/06 7PM est)


What is Happening to the Middle Class?

I think I can speak for allot of middle class America when I say "WE ARE FED UP" Actually beyond fed up. We are being eradicated. The middle class has been drained almost to extinction. Some got out with wise investments before the dot com bust, but most didn't. We work and toil in a world that does not appreciate what we do. The underpinnings of society are coming apart. We have no moral or ethical compass anymore. No one to look up to. No absolute right and wrong, black and white, acceptable and unacceptable behavior. Captains of industry, elected officials, steaIing peoples money and getting away with it. The Enron scandal and before that the banking system collapse. When did this all become acceptable behavior? Did someone change the "Golden Rule" when I wasn't looking?? I am NOT a religious zealot nor a person so involved in self that I don't see anything around me. Priests raping boys, female teachers raping male students, the US is starting to unravel my friends. No one person or group is strong enough it seems to have the will or ability to stop this freight train we call the US from careening out of control to a certain demise. All great society's of the past have died out. What makes you think that "It can't happen again"?? The way I see things going (and this is where I need your feedback and suggestions) is there are going to be the super rich, an elitist group consisting of heads of major corporations, politicians and captains of industry, and then the $10-12 hr wage earners with no job security (Do you even want that at this pay?) and no medical benefits. Do you see this happening too? Do you notice a considerable lack of caring about this situation. Today for example....a discussion about giving a $100 rebate check to people making $125,000 or less!?Excuse me.....$125,000 or less???? What about the mother working at a local college campus, making a salary of $27,000 a year and trying to support a family of 3. She can't leave because there are health benefits that she could not give up nor would she let her family go unprotected.Does she only need a $100 rebate check when her station wagon she drives costs $45 per tank of gas now?? To the people we elect "Are you guys NUTS??"Let's see if we can get a groundswell of one thing that seems to be missing the most these days....COMMON SENSE!!