[TheRealThing]

I think its time to finally start facing the sad facts for most liberals. Obama has now been in office for almost 7 years and the lives of those in the middle class have only worsened, especially in our part of the country, while more and more debt gets added on.

Instead of admitting the mistakes of a two time Obama voter, they will simply shift there focus to doing the next PC and diverse thing in supporting the first female president. No matter how many shes killed or how many times shes lied, or how many scandals always surround her.

Exactly. And there is a certain rhyme and reason to the madness if one would care to observe it. Take the ongoing refi frenzy we see all around the country. I believe the administration is encouraging the various lending institutions to take on all these refi's. The reason? As you mention, the rising cost of living, exacerbated by decade long wage stagnation, has eaten away the savings of the middle class and their ability to maintain their lifestyle. The only place for them to turn seems to be a refi. In doing that the individual is forced to borrow against any financial gains he may have made during his lifetime in spending his equities in a last ditch effort to tread water in hopes that the economy will get better.

Individual wealth is therefore being wiped out and America fares even worse at the national level. When we hear that the national debt is more than our GDP, red flags should wave. But, liberals want to transform us and in order to placate the masses until after it is too late to stop said transformation, the fed and the lenders are engaged in quantitative easing, (a form of printing money as they say).

To me an even more open handed slap in the face comes via a forced feeding we have all dubbed ObamaCare. In ultimate irony, all but the most fortunate among the middle class now find themselves at the very threshold the administration claimed to be delivering them away from when selling ObamaCare. Gullible Americans just would not believe their government would ever do anything to hurt them. The main problem with that line of reason was that only one party backed the initiative, not one Republican signed on. And yet America sat with the spit dripping off her chin while the law went into effect over the warnings of those same frantically opposed Republicans. At any rate, financially strapped as the vast majority of Americans are, they are literally one serious medical incident away from losing their homes. This is especially true for the retired, whose health premiums now consume much of their retirement incomes