People are fools. They think the whiny, liberal, “progressives” will save them and the poor. If there were no poor people the liberals would be out of jobs. The liberals have a vested interest in keeping people poor so they can justify their existence. They give a lot of lip service to helping the poor, but all their conniving and give-aways just make the poor more dependent on the government. No one is going to make it out of poverty by depending on the government. And this guy (Posted 05/19/09 by brown) is a extra special person - so unnaturally curtailing our population will cause the money to just naturally magically disperse more evenly to everyone? And he thinks the pious folks are the problem. The pious folks are the ones that teach their children virtues, and they are also the ones that actually REALLY try to help the poor, the hungry, the naked. Oh, and the guy that thinks Obama is the answer must be sniffing glue. Everyone wants to blame Bush for all the problems, but it was during Clinton’s tenure that the banks were told to make loans that people couldn’t afford because “everybody should own their own home”. Hm, and we wonder how the AIG crisis triggered the collapse of our economy. Ridiculous government spending and government “encouraging” private companies to make irrational lending decisions maybe? If there are no profits, there are no jobs, only bartering. You want to go back to a third-world or worse economy? There are plenty of countries for you to move to. How blind are you people? How do you think our country became the LONE economic and military superpower in the world? Do you think that came about through some imaginary socialism that existed until the 20th century? No, it was through capitalism and enlightened self-interest. So grow the heck up, quit whining, take responsibility for yourself, and quit trying to take what everyone else has and earn your own way like your parents, and their parents, and many immigrants do. Maybe one day you will be the one the government is trying to take from instead of give to.

This was an excellent documentary on the American classes. Very thoroughly presented from all perspectives to include the history of our country.  We are a democracy and based on the Declaration of Independence for which we are founded, societal change is “we the people for the people” to alter changes within the government. The American dream has always been opportunity to become part of the ruling class. We can either own or be a spectator. The economics of the rich is definitely dependent on the abundance of the poor. There is always the power of money but to be fulfilled in life one has to do good.

This was rather “elementary”, eh? Why were “the best and the brightest” in many cases, seemingly, with the exception of Lapham himself, only marginally more coherent than bush, jr.? James Baker, a (former) pre-eminent figure of “world power” sounded drugged and/or lobotomized. And, of course, no one mentioned that the ultimate figures of “the ruling class” are owned by their higher ups, the NWO types. For me the brightest moment was seeing the rather clearly way out of shape, but extremely VIP, Larry Summers, waxing poetic, monosyllabically at best. I realize that perhaps they were merely following “the script”, but still… Apparently we have near cretins running this planet........into the ground.  Very sad, indeed.