Dying Middle-Class = Dying American Greatness

Is THIS a message that should resonate with our frustrated and angry Tea Party brothers and sisters? 

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For decades, the American middle class has been working harder/harder to get less/less (stagnant wages). Big, moneyed interests have a LOT to gain by pitting working Americans against EACH OTHER, scrabbling over the same, shrinking piece of pie. The more we give in to that, the less we are likely to actually bring economic prosperity back to the American Middle Class, which is what made our country so great in the decades post WWII. Dying middle class = dying American greatness.

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SOME READING:

http://robertreich.org/post/3353591266

http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/16/news/economy/middle_class/index.htm

http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/executive_excess_2010

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2011/02/are_wisconsins_state_and_local.html