there is no looting of the middle class..... PURE MYTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what actually happened was the crooks were kept in business and given more money....billions upon billions..... here's the difference.... for political reasons, you (singular & plural) would like to say money is being taken from the middle class and given to the 1%..... not true.... the middle class doesn't even fit into the picture..... the middle class stays where it was.... and, a select group of crooks on wall street and socialists abroad.... in "cohoots" with a group of corrupt and criminal politicians.....both Repubs and Dems.....Bush and Obama camps..... were given a ton of fiat currency by the US government... and, allowed to stay in business and create more money from thin air as they had been doing via derivatives..... it's just that simple...