The choice is still either to whine about what others have, be content with what we have, or do something to acquire more.
Was far as politicians are concerned, IMHO, there is a huge opportunity for the Tea Party to use this to gain more ground.
First, Democrats have absolutely no interest in “Helping the Poor or expanding the Middle Class”.
They get their money from the guilty rich and their votes from struggling poor and lower middle class by exploiting this divergence of wealth.
They tell the poor that they are going to fix it and help them, but if they did in fact “fix it” they would lose voters.