What Strain on the Middle Class?

If Bush's fiscal policies were hitting the middle class, wouldn't we hear about it? Maybe we are -- Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge is telling colleagues he's thinking about resigning from his $175K/yr job to enter the private sector, back home to Pennsylvania and his $900,000 home, to put his two sons through college.

Then again, maybe it's not the money. Maybe he just can't run away from Bush fast enough.