No, I'm not reprehensible. I simply pointed out that **your** claim was baseless, and now you've gotten all upset that you couldn't find any data to back up your wild-eyed claim that the American middle class had shrunk in physical size.In fact, average salaries have gone **UP** in the last five years.
Just don't let such facts get in your way, right?! That might make me "reprehensible" for pointing them out to you, I guess...
Averages can hide quite a few shifts. First of all, if there are a couple of million unemployed people who are no longer getting a salary, that doesn't show up on your averages radar. And salaries at the high end can increase significantly and still mask reductions in the middle and lower ranges. So, once again, you choose the fig leaf as your debating method of choice.
Just don't let such facts get in your way, right?!
Considering that you were claiming that this was just Bush restating a reporter's question, when a further review showed he answered it at length, means you don't care a whit about facts, nor about what millions of Americans are going through. Just as long as no one criticizes Bush, you don't care.