Kiko's House: It's Still the Economy, Stupid

It's Still the Economy, Stupid But out on the hustings, Jane and Joe Sixpack must wonder what the heck Kudlow and other economic talking heads are smoking. The Sixpacks and other Main Street Americans are doing with less, there are a r of home foreclosures and bankruptcies, health-care and education are going through the roof, and once sacrosanct pension plans are . The in gasoline prices from record highs has offered some relief, but is temporary.

And curiously, with few exceptions (President Bush being the most conspicuous one) Republicans are on the economy despite its surface sheen. This may be because disenchantment over the war in Iraq has become disenchantment with the Bush administration and Republicans in general.
The short answer is that several long-term economic trends that hurt families like the Sixpacks have accelerated over six years of a presidential administration that has determinedly cosseted the rich, ignored the poor and robbed the middle class.

One pair of statistics speaks volumes: The has risen a little less than 10 percent in the last 25 years while has grown by more than 70 percent. And the less you make the bigger the disparity is.