Here’s Why Biden’s Middle-Class Savior Shtick is Bull Crap

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Conservative Review:

Democrats, Republicans, and Independents can agree on one thing: a Hillary Clinton presidency will merely be an extension of the Obama Administration.  In fact, her policies mostly reflect that.

At the Democratic Convention tonight, it has to make you wonder how in fact Biden can really try to convince the American public that the Democrats will be saviors to the middle class.  The reality is that Obama’s policies are a disaster for the middle class, and Clinton’s will be, too.

There was one point in Obama’s presidency where the middle class was better off – and that was before he took office. It’s been downhill ever since. Nearly 85 months have passed since the recession ended, but yet, the median income in America is still 6 percent less than it was in 2007.

A recent Pew Research report titled, “The American Middle Class is Losing Ground,” paints a bleak picture for middle America.  Pew researchers write, “After more than four decades of serving as the nation’s economic majority, the American middle class is now matched in number by those in the economic tiers above and below it.”  Today, the middle class earns only 43 percent of the total U.S. income, the smallest share since the 1970s.

Pew’s report also notes, “[M]iddle-income Americans have fallen further behind financially in the new century…  “and their median wealth (assets minus debts) fell by 28 percent from 2001 to 2013 (mostly during and after the financial crisis).”

Middle America is making less, while losing more wealth. Sounds great, huh?

Perhaps most troubling is the number of middle income families that have slid into the low-income threshold.  The Washington Post highlighted this phenomenon in an article titled, “Majority of U.S. public school students are in poverty.”  Yes, more children today come from low-income families.  That is a fact that hasn’t been breached for more than 50 years.

A separate Pew Research analysis concluded that of the 229 U.S. metropolitan areas in the nation, 203 showed higher poverty in middle income families.

Few households are growing richer; most are growing poorer.

Take a moment to imagine the economic situation where 51 percent of all public school children in America come from homes that are eligible for federal welfare.   Research shows that poor children have a higher levels of school dropout rates and fewer complete college – which leads to a repetitive cycle of poverty, substandard living, and crime.

Obama, Biden, and Clinton – they all have plenty of flashy employment statistics from the past seven years.  Yet, most Americans will agree with my analysis:  Americans and the middle class are hurting.

Since the recession, the middle class has been hurt the most.  Fewer middle income males are working compared to the 1980s.  Sadly, middle income jobs that were lost during the financial crisis never returned, but were instead replaced by low-income jobs.  Even the Federal Reserve highlighted this concern, saying, “The vast majority of job losses during the recession were in middle-income occupations, and they’ve largely been replaced by low-wage jobs.”

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However true it is that, ”Biden’s Middle-Class Savior Shtick is Bull Crap,” it is his shtick; his thing he does well.
Biden has perfected this shtick over decades.
He ”rode the subway” to his Senate job.
He was one of the poorest Senators of his day.
But middle class?
Nope.
And, in touch with the real middle class?
No, again.
If possible he makes fun of the middle class for our accents, our clothing choices and so on.
No middle class man could stay in the middle class job he has if he were to paw women and girls on the job the way Biden does.

But all that aside.
The story is accurate on every count.

Many demacrats just want bigger goverment more regulations,red tape,and mountians of papers to fill out becuase their all brain-dead and redicluous

There was one point in Obama’s presidency where the middle class was better off – and that was before he took office. It’s been downhill ever since.

In fairness, I have to disagree with the author. The downhill fall started when Congress passed and Bill Clinton signed NAFTA & GATT into law. The entire progressive-globalist Washington DC establishment from then to today shares the blame.

Perhaps someone could do the research on how many times this administration has said thing like high unemployment, lower wages, part time jobs an other symptoms of their economic policies is the new norm, so just get used to it. Of course, that was before they learned they could just say a bad situation is good and their followers would accept it as gospel.

Hillary the Hag just wants to carry on the dictatorship of Obama the Fink and use Excutive Orders to confiscate guns and declare your property habitat for some stupid lizard

There was one point in Obama’s presidency where the middle class was better off – and that was before he took office. It’s been downhill ever since. Nearly 85 months have passed since the recession ended, but yet, the median income in America is still 6 percent less than it was in 2007.

What do you expect, when corporate America has off-shored millions of high-paying manufacturing jobs, and corporate restructuring has replaced millions of formerly unionized workers with lower-paid, non-union replacements, who work longer hours for less wages? Do you really think that’s somehow Obama’s doing?

Clearly the answer is to rid the workforce of unionized employees altogether and get rid of minimum wage laws, right?

The real problem is that we have created a system that provides big rewards to a tiny upper income segment for making decisions that in the long run are detrimental to everyone else. We’ve actually provided financial incentives to move jobs and factories overseas.

The effects of those decisions are cumulative. As working and middle class income falls, the money consumers have to buy goods and services falls. The entire health of the economy depends on the working and middle class, not the top 1 percent.

@Greg:

What do you expect, when corporate America has off-shored millions of high-paying manufacturing jobs, and corporate restructuring has replaced millions of formerly unionized workers with lower-paid, non-union replacements, who work longer hours for less wages? Do you really think that’s somehow Obama’s doing?

Well… yeah. His taxation and regulation regime has driven business offshore and forbids them from returning. Why else would Obama’s very good buddy Jeffery Immelt take GE business to China and keep ALL his profits offshore? Why would his bail-out recipients, GM, take their factories to China? Yeah, Obama HAS blame in this.

The entire health of the economy depends on the working and middle class, not the top 1 percent.

The capital comes from the 1%. Right now, they are not investing because the government wants to nose into everything. So, they borrow the newly minted dollars at 0.0% interest and sits on it, loaning THAT out and making the profit.