Copyrighted Image? DMCA | So far, the Republican response to President Barack Obama's historic address on economic inequality has not veered from the predictable cliches of tea party rhetoric. Back when Occupy Wall Street briefly shook up the national conversation, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Budget Committee chair Paul Ryan both professed concern over the nation's growing disparities of wealth and income. But their promises of proof that they care--and more importantly, of policy proposals to address what Cantor admits are "big challenges"--simply never materialized. |