[Armistead]

Nothing really changes. As in the past, big business, banks, the very rich often become that way not from work or selling anything, but through shady means. Take our big bank bailout, the money was mostly to be used to help the middle class and small business, but they took it and invested it where they could increase their bottom line. Today the stock market is great, but the middle class continues to suffer. It will all eventually implode again, they know this and know how to get even richer during the crisis. The banks got bailed out, took millions of homes and invested most the money in overseas markets. Now home prices are going up and they'll make lots of money on the homes they sat on.

I agree with Gates, Buffet, Trump, etc., were headed for a two class nation, where about 10% hold 80% of all real wealth and 80% will be right at the poverty line.

Obama isn't doing anything to help the middle class, his plans lets the riche get richer, just expects them to give more free stuff to the poor. The GOPs plan is no different, except no freebies for the poor, let them die out. No one has a plan to secure a thriving middle class. It's just a matter of time until our economy fails again under the mass of debt. The time will come we won't be able to solve it by more debt and we'll see a depression unlike ever before. About every leading economist agrees.