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07/19/2007: "Americans live in fear of globalist economy"

While there may some truth in this, it's a brand of class consciousness that
hasn't exactly connected with voters in the past (though John Edwards is taking
it out for a spin once again). As Jim Kessler, vice president for policy at the
two-year-old think-tank Third Way, put it: From Walter Mondale and Michael
Dukakis to Al Gore and John Kerry, Democrats "not only lost, but they lost to
the middle class." Last year, in the 2006 congressional elections, Democrats
won among middle-income voters for the first time since 1990.

As Third Way documents in its reports, the American middle class isn't really
shrinking, so much as it is anxious. The median household income for workers
aged 25 to 60 is nearly $62,000. If both spouses work, it's close to $82,000.
As Kessler notes: "That is not an extravagant living. But it is not drowning.
And it is not one step away from losing your home." The same Third Way report
noted: "The bottom line is that the middle class is shrinking not because the
bottom is dropping out; it is because more people are better off."

So why the jitters?

Lake hit on it, I believe, with this comment: "There have been times in our
history when the American dream was rooted in opportunity, and there have been
times in our history where the dream was rooted in security. This is a time,
and has been for a couple for years now, where the dream is rooted in
security."

There's not a lot of security in a fast-paced global economy where workers get
ahead by chasing opportunities (not obediently following office rules), by
constantly reinventing their careers (not relying on seniority), by
self-investing their savings (not counting on company pensions).

[ It's time for the average person to admit they have no capacity for politics and should entrust it to real professionals. Your politicians got you to cry with them over civil rights, abortion, drugs, war, pedophilia and other issues that while they may be important, are unrelated to the central issue: in what direction is the country going, and is it a direction we want? So they distracted you, and you dutifully tromped off to vote each time, and somehow now you're fodder for vast globalist (multi-national) corporations who are just using you to profit. Admit you've failed because your approach failed. They get you and hoodwink you every time, and you're too proud to admit you're out of your league, which just makes them stronger. Hint: it's not going to end until you end it, and stop trying to use your "freedom" to win against them. They use "freedom" to control you and so far, they're winning and you haven't won a single point. Haha! ]


http://money.cnn.com/2007/07/18/news/economy/powerplay_economy.fortune/index.htm?cnn=pedophiles