Fred Siegel: Who Lost the Middle Class? - WSJ.com
Excellent article!
Another way to look at the problem and consonant with this opinion piece is to see the disparity of that between those supporting an equality of outcome (Democrats and liberals) and those supporting a right to a reasonable opportunity (the disenfranchised in this article looking to the Tea Party).
The parallels with Europe are very fair; however, too many Americans are unaware or can't think about or consider the downside of European social policies and social engineering. (Perhaps they have trouble reading as the information is out there - for example the unemployment rate among youth in Italy in today's WSJ.)
There is another union-centric, socially-liberal focus on process vs. product. Which is well evidenced in the discussion of middle class youth coming out of colleges with little knowledge but huge loans to support tenured teachers.
One of the obscene obfuscations of the media and liberals is a failure to talk about and put on the top of the table the dichotomy between the unemployment rate of those with a college education and those without. The problem is ignored.
Let's hope that an alternate candidate to social-outcome-focused Obama of some merit enters the race. To have a Republican who openly espouses 'creationism' (Perry) is sick and disgusting.
The youth of the developed countries who are being asked to support the older entrenched entitled (including UAW workers and public union employees who are getting lower wages and more costly benefits) are a ripe constituency for social unrest.
There is the old saying about pigs and hogs and the hogs in the unions and those receiving untoward benefits are asking for some rude changes if they ignore the aphorism.
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