Obama says the middle class is vanishing and we must save it?

Deuce - Thank you but could you add details about how these things save the middle class? Obama has brought some of the troops home, but not many. As for saving the automotive industry, he used taxpayer money to bail them out which actually cost the middle class billions that we don't have. Obamacare will also hurt the middle class by forcing prices up and driving quality down. Middle class taxpayers will be forced to pay billions while health care becomes more expensive, less accessible and of lower quality. I'm not sure that he offers balance and dignity. How do you see him doing this and how does it help the middle class? He is building a bigger government and someone has to pay for that.

I appreciate the answers, but I'm not seeing evidence that what Obama has done has saved the middle class. In fact, by bailing out the viable auto industry, he has set a dangerous precedent. There were other options but by the government stepping in, it cost middle class tax-payers $14 billion dollars.

Excerpt from the WSJ article I site: "This will make it much harder, and much more costly, for a company in a politically sensitive industry to borrow money when it is in trouble. As a result, the government will face even more pressure to step in with a bailout in the future. In effect, the government is crowding out the ordinary credit markets."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527023037...

In terms of health care, Obamacare would hurt the middle class: (quoting from link) "Those mandates and subsidies would impose effective marginal tax rates on low-wage workers that would average between 53 and 74 percent — and even reach a