Rethug War on the Middle Class

Yesterday, House Rethuglicans voted down a bill to increase the minimum wage from $7.25/hr. to $10.10/hr. by 2015. The vote was 233 to 184, with 6 nominal "Democrats" joining the unanimous Rethug bloc.What this means is that the Rethugs are willing to consign a growing number of Americans to poverty, while demanding tax cuts and tax loopholes for the very wealthy and the most profitable corporations. While the stock market surges to all-time highs, along with corporate profits, the prosperity isn't being shared by working and middle class Americans laboring on the edge of desperation.  The action of the House Rethuglicans has made it all that more precarious for those Americans.