The Bush administration has recently been celebrating the supposed stellar performance of the US economy. For many middle class Americans, nothing could be further from the truth.
With their Iraq policy and almost everything else they have touched an abysmal failure, and the American people getting more disenchanted every day, Rove et al have been working hard to change the headlines by projecting an image of economic growth and prosperity.
For most of America’s middle class though, the reality is quite different than what the White House and it's Fox News messengers would have you believe. In fact, according to a poll sponsored by the Center For American Progress,"the public is more worried about falling into debt, particularly from medical bills, than about being the victim of a terrorist attack or natural disaster and 86 percent insist the number of Americans having trouble with household debt has gone up in the last five years."
Incomes aren't rising nearly as fast as the costs of the big three, healthcare, housing and education. The only Americans that are truly happy about this increasingly troublesome economic climate are wealthy conservatives and their GOP enablers who embrace the compassionless rhetoric of an Ayn Rand guided ownership society and the Bush tax handout crafted just for them. Things are getting worse for the millions of poor people in this country and the middle class are also feeling the pain as the wealth gap continues to grow, inexorably squeezing them as it does.
Following is just a taste of the reality that conservatives don’t think or care about.