The evidence that capitalism is not working for the majority of Americans is plainly clear. At the same time, Fortune 500 companies' share of the total U.S. Gross National Product increased to 63 percent. A big gainer in this scramble for more was Manpower, Inc., which employs temporary workers. Manpower's sales increased 35 percent from 1993 to 1994. Also, profits went up because real wages have been falling since the early 70s.
Temporary workers help corporations.
Middle management layoffs came after a lot of regular people got the axe. Now that college-educated people are getting fired, The New York Times is doing front page articles about it. As a result of massive corporate propaganda, public anger about this predicament has been directed at the shadow of the problem and not the problem itself - the shadow being the government and the problem being corporations. This helps corporations because it diverts the blame. What happens is that people begin to blame the government, which is the one place where people can have some influence in changing it, unlike corporations which are totalitarian entities.