Democrats Bring Middle Class to Brink of Extinction

The Democrat Congress is not doing the Democrat presidential candidates any favors.

With historic disapproval ratings, there seems to be no end in sight to the Dems' misstep after misstep, idiot remark after idiot remark.

I think among the worst moves by the Dems are their proposed legislation and plans that literally wipe out the middle class in America.

As an analogy, think of the extinction of the dinosaurs and the impact theory. The Democrats are the asteroids to the middle class.

The Dems' failed SCHIP bill would have defined millions of additional Americans as in need of government assistance. The program would have expanded coverage to children already covered by private insurance.

A family with an income of $80,000 would be entitled to free insurance under SCHIP.

Then you have Charlie Rangel's monstrous tax plan. He lovingly refers to it as the "Mother of All Tax Bills."

American families are feeling the crunch of spiking energy costs, runaway college tuition, ever-burdensome home mortgages and steadily rising prices for consumer goods.

These and other cost-of-living increases are eating away at the family budget — making every dollar earned and saved even more valuable. The very last thing families need is to see more of their paycheck confiscated by Congress.

Unfortunately, the U.S. House that already has passed $100 billion in tax increases this year to pay for bigger government and wasteful pork thinks otherwise. Last week, led by the Ways and Means Committee chairman, Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., congressional Democrats unveiled a breathtaking proposal: the single largest tax increase in American history.

In addition to the tax hikes due to the expiration of Bush's tax cuts, Rangel's plan includes a 4% surtax on Americans earning incomes above $150,000, and on married couples earning over $200,000.

Using the Dems' standards, the line between the rich and the poor is very, very fine.

The Dem effort is underway to create a larger dependent class and a larger class to fund the dependents, leaving a sliver of a middle class.

President Bush shouldn't be so hard on the Democrat Congress for its lack of accomplishments.

President Bush on Tuesday slammed Congress for not getting its work done and focusing too much on investigating his administration and repeatedly attempting to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq.

“We’re near the end of the year, and there really isn’t much to show for it,” Bush told reporters following a meeting with House GOP leaders.

“The House of Representatives has wasted valuable time on a constant stream of investigations, and the Senate has wasted valuable time on an endless series of failed votes to pull our troops out of Iraq,” the president said.

Thank God Nancy "I certainly support his (Rangel's) plan" Pelosi and Harry Reid and their minions have been ineffective.

Their vision of an America without a middle class isn't pretty.