Shaken, not stirred
One of the more disturbing articles I've read in a long time is a lengthy piece by New York Times op-ed columnist Paul Krugman in Rolling Stone. It will take you some time to read, but when you are done, expect to be in a state of rage.
Krugman, who I interviewed when he was in Harrisburg last June, has analyzed how the rich got richer, and richer, and richer, over the last 25 years, but especially during the hand-it-over Texas oil and Bible regime of George W. Bush. Most of us have gotten screwed, and screwed really badly. Only the super rich have done well under Bush.
Perhaps most disturbing of all is Krugman's discovery that one of America's most cherished beliefs--that someone from the lower classes can move into the upper middle class--is slipping away. Today's Horatio Algers, he writes, are much more likely to be found in Canada, Finland, or even Great Britain than in America. Those are, by the way, countries where social democracy is still strong .