There is all sorts of welfare for the middle class, from private school vouchers to government financed state colleges and tax write-offs for mortgage interest, cheap flood insurance for waterfront property owners, lowered capital gains tax rates, etc. In Florida, the State will reimburse you for the cost of a gasoline-powered emergency generator (providing, of course, you can come up with the cash to buy it in the first place). And we all know about subsidies for industry, and for farmers. Especially for farmers.

But times are hard, and its getting difficult to keep corporate profits up AND bribe the middle class too. So the gravy train is slowing down. The cash flow is drying up. I guess you could call it trickle-away economics. And they are squealing like piggies.