John McCain (R-Ariz.) said the proposed package of tax cuts for small businesses and none for the rich is class warfare. His shrilled rant is from the old Republican book of rants..

Cenk and the Young Turk looks at John McCain charge that the Democrats refusal to extend the Bush tax cuts to the rich is a game of class warfare against the rich. Cenk gives examples of how the Republicans have waged class war fare against the middle class.. He points out the dangers of a shrinking middle class to the stability of the society. See the video.

Aristotle wrote many centuries ago that a strong middle class keeps a state in balance and guards against corruption and oppression.

The pressures on the American middle class are at the root of much of the current political discontent, has given rise to a radical form of populism, phony populism, and has opened the door to political opportunists.

The misguided Tea Party is the direct outgrowth of the economic problems created by Republican fiscal and monetary policies, which have made the American middle class fearful and smaller.