This is Jimmy Carter we’re talking about here and this is what he said:

Former President Jimmy Carter said Monday that the income gap in the United States has increased to the point where members of the middle class resemble the Americans who lived in poverty when he occupied the White House.

Carter offered his assessment of the nation’s economic challenges Monday at a Habitat for Humanity construction site in Oakland – the first of five cities he and wife Rosalynn plan to visit this week to commemorate their three-decade alliance with the international nonprofit that promotes and builds affordable housing.

The “income gap”, nonsense concept though it may be, used to be constructed to highlight the difference in living standards between rich and poor. Now the middle class has fallen into the lowest class, with all the insecurity and uncertainty that all of it entails. The producing middle classes are being plundered and robbed and it has gotten beyond a joke. And it is the lying despicable media in the US that is covering up every inch of the way. It hasn’t happened here, at least it hasn’t happened yet, because we still have means to fight back.

But there is no reason to be too smug about it. We all have a political class who knows better than us what to do for our own good. How they can be prevented from ruining us by their priorities and expenditure is a conundrum that may yet prove to have no answer.