War on the middle class

You have to give The Regime credit for being able to wage war on multiple fronts:

• Afghanistan
• Iraq
• The environment (let me count the ways)
• The Geneva Convention
• Abortion rights
• STD prevention
• (Clinton's) Balanced budget
• Science
• The judiciary
• The Constitution of the United States
• Human rights
• The United Nations
• Democracy
• Justice
• Truth

And now we see where there is true progress in the front against the American middle class. The WaPo article, "U.S. Losing Its Middle-Class Neighborhoods" points out that

Widening income inequality in the United States has been well documented in recent years, but the Brookings analysis of census data uncovered a much more accelerated decline in communities that house the middle class. It far outpaced the decline of seven percentage points between 1970 and 2000 in the proportion of middle-income families living in and around cities.

Middle-income neighborhoods -- where families earn 80 to 120 percent of the local median income -- have plunged by more than 20 percent as a share of all neighborhoods in Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles and Philadelphia. They are down 10 percent in the Washington area.

To be fair (a strange concept, I know), the data analyzed reflects a trend that precedes The Regime's rise to power. But the tax and economic policies of recent years have only exacerbated matters. But, the more poor people, the better for military recruitment, eh?

Heckuva job, Bushie.