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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (78953)9/4/2011 9:20:25 AM
From: elmatador3 Recommendations  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 217764
 
"why so little has been done in the last 40 years to help deal with the subversion of the economic power of the middle class" asks Robert B. Reich is the former secretary of labor, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Middle classes conspired against themselves.

They were educated enough to increase their incomes. But they did not educate themselves to see beyond their narrow interests. That made them unware that the tide was turning.
They were not educated enough read the writing on the wall.

They were like MQ: Thinking that stereotypes were truth. That they had been elected and the shirtlessness was a human condition that other people have but they were free from it.

An outsider -here comes Elmat- could see clear what they were not seeing.
They were safe that government would take care of them.
They were safe iun the belief that they could retire.