I'm sure the response to this post will be the same as it ever was "whatever the market wants!" but this burns me up. The reason the middle class is dying is not welfare or foodstamps or 'income redistribution,' its that we've lost our fucking minds.

Read this article, and as you do, remind yourself that the Henry Ford model was what made this country the economic superpower. That philosophy was 'pay a worker enough to afford the product that he makes'. For the sake of this argument forget that we no longer actually manufacture anything...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060621/ts_nm/financial_pay_dc