I just heard an interview ...

[1StrongBlackMan]

on NPR of Mike Huckabee by Kai Rysdall

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/wealth-poverty/real-economy/mike-huckabee-how-mitt-romney-can-help-middle-class

Please listen to it. For the first time in my memory a journalist responded to a interviewee's comment in a manner that most people would respond.

Mike Huckabee was saying that romney would be better for the American middleclass than President Obama.

Then he said the fox"news" tested, rush/hannity approved line, &quot President) Obama has no clue about how the economy works."

To this Kai responded, "Come on ... I've got to be kidding!"

To this, Huckabee said, "Anyone with the IQ above that of broccoli would know that increasing taxes and regulations will not help them" and "Tell me ... If someone had $10,000 to invest, who would they truct to invest it and get them a return, romney - who made a living doing just that, or (President) Obama?"

Kai then said, "If that's true, then why is (President) Obama beating romney by 12 points on the question, "Who will do a better job for the middleclass?"

Huckabee's response: "It's a matter of perception."

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But I missed the rest of the interview because I was screaming at the radio machine:

Ahhh, Mike ...

Any increase in taxes on the middleclass is romney's plan; not that of President Obama, and any increase in regulation is not even on the typical middleclass worker's radar.

AND, Mike ...

How many middleclass folks do you know that has $10,000 to invest? I'm sure there are some; but the vast majority of middleclass workers are using that $10,000 to pay bills ... I'm a solidly middleclass wage earner ($150K+ Household Income) and I can't really fathom having limp-sum of $10,000 at a single point in time to invest (well, that's not entirely true ... when Mrs. 1StrongBlackMan retired, we had to do something with her deferred comp pay-out) ... That's part of the problem.

[Warpy]

1. It is a matter of perception

and the people who prefer Obama to Rmoney on the economy haven't been lavishly paid to alter their perception of how the economy really works.

Huckabee has.

[baldguy]

2. The question should be asked, but never is: Do the interests of the investor class parasites

Equal the interests of the middle class? Any reasonable answer must be "No, they are not."