The Democrats were slightly more interested and mentioned the decline of the middle class but the GOP was well, the GOP. To be fair to the Democrats, the middle class has been declining for decades and they've done too little to correct the situation or seriously discuss it. Even so, the poverty report is alarming and shows just how hard Republican economics has hit the US. The Republicans once again repeated the lie that trickle down economics works. It doesn't.
"We know that a strong middle class leads a strong economy," President Obama told reporters in the Rose Garden on Friday, as he used the new census report, which also showed that middle-class income has dipped slightly over the past decade, to continue making his case for limiting the cuts to family incomes under $250,000.
Meanwhile, Republican leaders in the House and Senate had no reaction to the poverty report. But earlier in the week, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) took the Senate floor to argue for extending the tax breaks to everyone, saying, "We can't let the people who have been hit hardest by this recession and who we need to create jobs to get us out of it" be subject to a tax increase.
