From Dissident Voice
While politicians on both sides of the aisle refuse to talk about the war on the working class by the Bush administration, the increasing cliff edge disparity of wealth distribution in America is creeping precariously closer for the middle class. The grinding suffocation of poverty, always clear to the people on the bottom of our economy, is coming into view for a lot of folks who never suspected it would happen to them. Long sold a bill of goods that the poor were victims of their own bad judgment, middle class whites displaced by economic policies will soon be acutely aware of the personal impact of economic policy. Changes in several measurements reveal what many poor people have known for a long time: that there are severe class divides with high fences in between.Rapper Kanye West was wrong when he said this President doesn't care about black people. Bush doesn't care about the poor or middle class of any color. This is not a matter of being overlooked; it is a purposeful policy. The administration's policy in dealing with Hurricane Katrina is a perfect example. First Bush puts incompetent contributor cronies in charge of a vital government agency, robs its budget to expand its police state controls and then fails miserably at execution of its mission. After the disaster, they blames others, exploits the tragedy by giving no-bid, high profit handouts to campaign contributors, erasing regulations, cutting requirements to pay the prevailing wage and allowing contractors a free hand to hire illegal aliens. To pay for what has become the Katrina Campaign Payback Machine, he sends the bill to poor people by proposing cutting food stamps, Medicaid, Medicare, higher education and teacher preparation.
