[jpsb]

Well the French revolution certainly got the attention of Europe's ruling class and yea, some changes were made to keep the peasants happy. But my point is that no society ever pre America, in 5000 years of civilized government has ever had a large middle class. Or more exactly a middle class largely made up of the working man, joe-six-pack. That is uniquely American and a result of government policies designed to bring about that result. Since 19xx we had slowly been reverting to the much older model of master and peasant by making labor a commodity. We reward capital but not labor, if we continue do to so, we will lose the working man middle class and the America experiment will have failed. Then it's back to the bread and circus socialist state.

[reluctantwarrior]

Well written and reasoned post. I agree that we are insidiuosly being stripped of the wealth creation tools our forefathers had that allowed them social and economic mobility.