Jon Kyl Berates Obama For Focus On Middle Class

Jon Kyl Berates Obama For Focus On Middle Class

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama should stop talking about the middle class because it turns people against rich Americans, who should be embraced as the Michael Jordans of the U.S. economy, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) said Monday.

Declaring that the use of the phrase "middle class" is "misguided and wrong and even dangerous," Kyl argued in a Senate floor speech that Obama is "spreading economic resentment [that] weakens American values" and ignoring "the uniquely meritocratic basis of our society."

“We have a president who talks incessantly about class, particularly the middle class,” Kyl said.

"I just think the whole discussion of class is wrong. It's not what we do here in America," said Kyl, the Senate minority whip. He added, "I don't think there's anything called 'middle class values' that are different from the values of other people in this country. Tell me what's different about the values of someone who the president identifies as middle class?"

Kyl's remarks come in the context of the Senate's debate this week on whether to extend the Bush-era tax cuts for not just people earning under $250,000, but for the wealthiest Americans as well.

Many Democrats note that the growing income disparity escalated with the Bush tax cuts, and that job creation under Bush's presidency was among the weakest in modern history.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/2 ... 96826.html

Yeah, how DARE HE [Obama] talk about the Middle Class! Hrrrumph!! We have to continue to put the rich and super-rich, (oh, excuse me...the "job-creators" rofllol ) on a pedestal and treat them nicely and give them tax-breaks so that it might trickle-down.

You can't make this stuff up....

“We have a president who talks incessantly about class, particularly the middle class,” Kyl said.

I absolutely agree with Sen. Kyl

The phrase "middle class" is way overused by all Democrats. About time someone pointed this out!

Democrat4Sale wrote: Yeah, how DARE HE [Obama] talk about the Middle Class! Hrrrumph!! We have to continue to put the rich and super-rich, (oh, excuse me...the "job-creators" rofllol ) on a pedestal and treat them nicely and give them tax-breaks so that it might trickle-down.

You can't make this stuff up....

Many Democrats note that the growing income disparity escalated with the Bush tax cuts, and that job creation under Bush's presidency was among the weakest in modern history.

Ohhhh- but.... but you CAN make this stuff up. You LJ- keep repeating the socialist talking points straight from the great leaders propaganga - and the leftist demoncrats keep repeating the class warfare tatics- this is what we have been hearing for the last 3 years.

But is it true? Are the rich really getting more of the American pie? First of all- wealth can still be created even if that evil rich man dosn't create a job for you. Wealth can still be created even if the rich get richer.

But you LJ- have been spewing these lies for long enough- so here I am to set the record straight. If you don't want yourself to be perceived a whacky crazy lady- you might want to take a look at the truth.

Here's a few facts for you and your socialist friends....
Between 2007 and 2009, after-tax earnings by Americans in the top one percent for income fell 37 percent. On a pre-tax basis they fell 36 percent in the same period.

When you take into account federal transfers, assistance and taxes paid, the incomes of the bottom 20 percent grew by 3 percent, while it fell a modest 2 percent for the middle 20 percent.

In other words, the incomes of the top one percent fell 18 times more than the incomes for the middle class at the start of the recession.

The result of this big drop at the top was that their share of the country's total income also fell. In 2007, the top one percent earned 26.7 percent of all after-tax income. In 2009, that portion fell to 22.3 percent.

So the ENTIRE claim from the left that the rich are getting richer while the poor are getting poorer is a BIG FAT LIE!!

Inequality, in other words, fell during those years. We are now in an age of High-Beta Wealth, where the incomes of the One Percent have become far more manic and prone to wild drops than the rest of the country.

And taxes paid? Despite the oft-repeated fact that tax rates for the wealthy are at an all-time low (which is true), it's also true that the actual amount paid in taxes by the wealthy is higher than before the recession.

The One Percent paid an average effective tax rate of 28.9 percent on their income - far more than any other group, and more than twice the average effective rate of the middle class, who paid 11 percent on average.

So the rich lost more income and paid more of their money in taxes than the rest of the population- and that LJ is the real truth.

So the next time some whacky leftie like LJ claims that the rich are getting ahead at the expense of poor people - remind them what a bunch a lyers they are.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/falling-fortunes-one-percent-152338859.html

No, actually, the liar is you... Thanks...I knew you couldn't go for more than a couple of hours without telling one...




Here's your "class warfare"


http://www.businessinsider.com/what-wal ... 11-10?op=1

But, hey, you got to use the word "socialist" in a sentence...

Had to go all the way back to 1979 huh?
My data is from the last few years.

Had to be stupid and not notice that the trends go all the way through 2007, huh? That darn Congressional Budget Office...



Here it is through 2010 (and going back to 1913) ... Sorry those are the latest figures available:

http://thebluestate.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b48269e201630282fe18970d-500wi

Trends are trends...Sux to be you...

2007 is before the recession.

But thanks for playing.

Those charts might mean something if people were stagnant during their career. I've moved from the bottom 20% at min wage to probably the top 10 or 20%, and probably settled near the middle 50% currently. The top 1% are not the same people every year, people go in and out of it with the stock market and Business profitability probably every quarter. Big whoop!

Well, there you have it. If your personal experience was different than the other 99.9999999999% of the population, then that must be the standard by which we should measure... :Snooze

I'm soooo not interested in your Ayn_Randroid sociopathic, selfish perspective on the rest of the population.

You really need help LJ. Good luck!