The forgotten middle class

While the GOP concentrates on protecting the overburdened millionaires who create jobs in other countries and the Democrats concentrate on protecting the poor it seems that the middle class, who most of us are, are forgotten, aside from a demand they pay more taxes on our declining incomes so those on the top can continue to sip their drinks on their yachts in peace. So basically it is going be a decision between the lesser of two evils for the middle class come Election Day in 2012. Hmmm ... since the GOP seems more determined to push the middle class down to the the poor, guess I better vote Democratic.

Seriously, both parties are going to find out what class warfare really looks like if the educated and mature middle class gets pushed too far down and arranges for a less friendly and orderly method of income redistribution compared to the potential violent redistribution of income (and other possessions) that could occur. Push the middle class down with the lower classes and prove that there is no way out from the lower castes and there will be heck to pay for whoever is in charge at that time. Bribes work.

By bribe I don't mean welfare payments. I mean an economic system where those who work can afford to put a roof over their head, feed their family, afford some luxuries, educate their children and be secure in the knowledge that they can retire and not worry about going to the poorhouse -- aka the middle class. I'm also talking about an economic system where we invest in ourselves, through research and development and maintaining our infrastructure to allow the masses to go where ever their talents and skills can take them. A system where we stop pretending that the savings one earns by polluting the air and water is not a tax on the people down river. I think that is a position that most Americans, whether they are conservative or liberal, democrat or republican, minority or majority, NRA member or gun control advocate, etc. can get behind when all the political nonsense is stripped away (or at least I want to think we are mature enough to look after our best interests).

I'm talking a few extra bread crumbs from the pie, not a slice. You do that and most people won't care what Congress and Wall Street are up to. Let's face it, most of us, especially as we get older, just want a simple humdrum secure life. You don't want to piss off the majority.