With the policies of the past 50 years we have seen the dwindling of the Middle Class of America. Even though Presidents like Obama think they are fighting for the middle class it would appear they are sorely mistaken. The Middle Class is being wiped out by the policies of our government and the mounting debt they are incurring on a daily basis.

Here are 60 facts that show the middle class is going away:

Haven't you heard? Our blessed Republic is under attack by a shadowy, maniacal puppet master bent on eating newborn children and murdering poor folk.

In recent months, one cannot read a single newspaper without encountering tales of woe about the evil Grover Norquist his tax pledge. We are but the slaves of a madman reminiscent of Lex Luthor or Ra's al Ghul, bent on bringing the world to its knees.

He's an ayatollah! He's holding America hostage! He's an ideologue bent on world domination!

Okay, maybe not that last one, but I wouldn't be surprised to read it if a deal on the fiscal cliff isn't reached by Christmas.

What is all of this hullabaloo about Norquist on his pledge?  What the hell is the pledge anyway? Is it a legally binding contract? Is it some sort of blackmail?

Well, no, it's just a pledge. So why all the fuss? Why is Norquist being cast into the pit of shame? Is it because he is using some sort of sleazy, underworld tactic that would make Capone blush? Again, no, he's just sticking to his principles and there is nothing Washington hates more than principles.

You see, if Republicans want to, they could tell Norquist to go hell and raise taxes to their heart's content. They could join Obama on his pious crusade against rich people and bring top marginal tax rates up to 90% without breaking a single law. No, the pledge is not a law.

The zero-sum game theory, otherwise known in layperson’s parlance as the fixed pie quotient, in economics suggest that in order for one person to succeed in wealth another must decline in wealth; in other words, zero-sum game proponents suggest that there is an inverse corollary between the capital and prosperity of the one percent, those who reside in top one percent of a fungible income scale, and the incomes and impecunious nature of the ninety-nine percent, the lower quadrant on the economic scale. The wealth of the entrepreneur or capitalist’s must be taken from the hides of the proletariat, says the zero-sum game theorist. Of course this theory, in economics anyway, is an absurd fallacy.

The Montaigne Dogma (named after Michael de Montaigne who was a noted 16^th century French essayist), as the zero-sum doctrine is sometimes called, may exist among nations that do not operate under a purely free market system, but they are wholly anathematic to laissez-faire economics: when one economic agent produces a commodity or resource that another economic agent needs, then it could it can be accurately concluded that both agents needs and wants have been fulfilled.

Indeed, wealthy entrepreneurs, regardless as to whether they are nouveau riche or patricians, succeed in business and acquiring profits simply because they have found a way to, through either chiseled talents and prodigious amounts of grey matter–or perhaps both, ameliorate the pain and distress of their fellow human beings. When they produce a commodity or resource that enables others to more efficiently conduct their lives, the profits that they derive from that commodity could not possibly symbolize an inverse ratio between prosperity for some and poverty for others.

Since the end of the election, political pundits all across America have been buzzing about the dreaded “Fiscal Cliff.” There is a sense of panic in the air, and even among American households, the fiscal cliff has quickly become a primary concern. However, many of us have seen trouble coming for a long time. In fact, Congressman Ron Paul says we’re already there. “We have to prepare for having already fallen off the fiscal cliff,” he said last week. So if we all saw it coming, why the sudden panic? And is it really all that bad?

The fiscal cliff is not so much of an unforeseen cliff waiting for us to fall from, as it is a downward sloping hill that we’ve been strolling down for years. It is predicted to be the result of two events that will happen on December 31, 2012: the end of tax cuts, and the beginning of spending cuts. Forbes sums it up quite well:

Barring any Congressional action, a series of tax increases and spending cuts will begin Jan. 1. Observers have named that series of monetary policy actions as the fiscal cliff because it would send a shock through the U.S. economy. A number of tax cuts would expire, including several that lower income and payroll taxes and limit the alternative minimum tax. Some 90% of Americans would see their taxes rise. Just as significantly, large amounts would be slashed from the government budget. This would, for example, reduce spending on defense and lower some government benefits.

So is all of this reason to panic? Not really. This situation is the result of poor monetary policy by our elected officials and the Federal Reserve, and they’ve seen it coming for a long time. In fact, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke was the first to re-introduce the term into American lingo in February of 2012, long before it reached its current status of "Apocalyptic political catch phrase."