Half of America is impoverished because of the Koch Brothers War On Middle Class

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/12/17/america-impoverished-koch-republicans-destroyed-middle-class.html

After hearing, since January 2009, that Republicans want to take “their country back” there is no doubt it is what they really intend; but certainly not to “make America great again.” Like it or not, Republicans can never dispute that America was at the height of “its greatness” when the nation was home to a large and economically-powerful middle class bolstered by strong unions. However, like anything good in America, the middle class is on its deathbed after Republican attacks and they are making it impossible to ever recover.

There has been much said and written about how Republicans oppose closing the income gap because their religion dictates giving all the nation’s wealth to the rich and increasing the number of Americans in low-wage jobs and poverty. No semi-sane human being can possibly dispute that easily-proven, and historically accurate, fact.

Now, there is a rash of new documentation being released that shows not only has Republican’s pro-corporate agenda enriched the wealthy during and after their precious Great Recession, they greatly expanded the already “growing rates of impoverishment in the U.S.;” and it is only going to get worse; much, much worse. It is noteworthy that the Republicans’ poverty plague is in spite of monthly job increases and unemployment rate decline showing that the income gap is all about slave wages; not taxes, not regulations and not social decay.

Recent data gathered by Pew Research shows how rapidly and stunningly dramatic the middle class is shrinking. In an earlier March report by the Pew Charitable Trust, the percentage of middle-class households dropped in every state in the Union between 2000 and 2013, and the median income fell in the states during that same time frame. Pew considers the middle class as “adults whose annual household income is between two-thirds to double the national median, or about $42,000 to $126,000 annually in 2014 dollars.”