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In which section of the paper did this appear?

It's certainly not anything you could call "journalism." I sure hope it was on the editorial page.

PS: Isn't it remarkable how the very thought of religion is utterly foreign to these people?

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
and yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Instead we get a steady diet of rats, and ulcers, and neurobiologists, and investment bankers, and billions upon billions in hedge funds...

'Wages are not doing so well, either.'' The latest evidence of wage stagnation: the Labor Department's report last month that the average weekly paycheck, once inflation and seasonal factors are considered, shrank 0.3 percent from March to April of this year.

But the cost to keep that employee on the payroll has gone up very substantially with health insurance, workers comp and all the other goodies to maintain him...

Is our present angst the first flicker of suspicion that the better days have already been and gone?

It's more than a suspicion. It's the realization by more and more Americans that the job of each and every citizen is on the chopping block, either to be sent overseas or to be taken by an illegal immigrant or an H1-B/L1 immigrant. And it's the realization that this process will continue until middle-class America is reduced to the living standard of Mexico, India, and China.