Blessed Are the Middle Class

Trey Smith

Our two candidates certainly had their lists of important points to make. But someone must have chosen too big of a font, because there was only room for one: growing the middle class, saving the middle class, raising (or lowering) taxes on the middle class, finding middle class jobs, yearning for the middle class of days gone by. It turns out that we must not have any more poor people in this country, because neither candidate ever finds a minute to mention them, let alone talk about any problems they may face.
~ from Debate #2: Is that All There Is? by Dan DeWalt ~

In the 1928 presidential race, Republican candidate Herbert Hoover promised "a chicken in every pot." Once elected, he certainly did not deliver -- the Great Depression hit in 1929 -- but he at least acknowledged that poor people existed!

Here we are 84 years later and neither Obama nor Romney seems interested in the same kind of acknowledgment. This is rather peculiar when you consider that a record number of Americans receive Food Stamps, the foreclosure rate remains shockingly high and the real unemployment rate (not the fake one the government promotes) shows no inclination of returning to a reasonable level.

The main group these two want to talk about is the one that's disappearing before our eyes.

I guess the rest of us don't matter!