[nopardons]

Which is WHAT, exactly?

Any job not connected with any American government department; perhaps?

That is the answer, then G.H.W. Bush and G.W. Bush, did real work.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

It might be real work, but perpetual government service does not give one the most comprehensive perspective on what it's like to operate in the economy on a day-to-day basis.

The description of the Bush-Clinton policies as "strip-mining" is apt.

The same skewed attitude that compels mining concerns to disregard the long-term consequences of their actions-doing irreparable damage to the environment of the communities that live down-stream from this eyesores on the landscape, in order to reap short-term profit-is what animates the obsessive quest to deracinate American industry.

The fact that this country prospered because of its vast middle class is lost on these "flat-world" theorists.

Turning this country into a retail/consumer-driven economy is what they exalt, even if it comes at the expense of American citizens.