and very left wing. Witness Tunisia and as you say, occupy wall street. I see the OWS crowd as the Democrats Tea Party, just as on the right, a huge block sees the main line Republicans ass too tame the OWS people see the Dems the same way. Perhaps the economy will turn around, it usually does, and many more will get middle class jobs but between technology and outsourcing the USA is destroying its good jobs because they are expensive. For 100 years we cut the work week every couple of decades from he 60 hour week with only Sunday off and thanks to unions we wrestled it down to 40 hours and we seem to have stopped dead for decades. Time for the 35 then 30 hour week to spread the work around. No pay cuts. Doug, oh how you weave your web, to maintain the status-quo, and of course your personal best interests. Repeating the messages of your masters over and over, in the hope that the messages will become the truth over the reality of the day. There is a reason why a private education has more worth and value than a public education has, for the general public. And here the public education systems has done an excellent job in replicating education according to income. The essay published in 1993, The Failure of American Public Education, still stands today, and no doubt will stand 50 years from now, on what the problems are and the