Krugman: Middle class essential to democracy

every time i read paul krugman, i hear the voice of impassioned reason... i'm totally amazed that someone as insightful and shoe-leather honest is tolerated in the won't-say-shit-even-tho'- i'm-up-to-my-eyeballs-in-it school of journalism...

But the real reasons to worry about the explosion of inequality since the 1970's have nothing to do with envy. The fact is that working families aren't sharing in the economy's growth, and face growing economic insecurity. And there's good reason to believe that a society in which most people can reasonably be considered middle class is a better society - and more likely to be a functioning democracy - than one in which there are great extremes of wealth and poverty.

i'm also reminded of a terrific graffiti i ran across in buenos aires...


"Anti-fascist action. We are being peed on
and the press says it is raining."

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