[GregoryFul]

There have been vast technological changes since the 70's that have given us lots of things at very low prices. Yes, most of us live more comfortably than the lords of the 17th century - and we earned it; through the labor of our forefathers and our own labors, and bloody fights with the ruling class, the power elite. We've almost maintained our own, but our children and grandchildren are going to take it on the chin unless we get and retain an equitable share of the wealth we have produced over the last century. That will not happen unless we fight for it.

[JasonC]

Fighting didn't do it, it just got out of the way. Work did it. We have more than "maintained our own", we are the richest society in human history for crying out loud.

The economy is *fine*.

It is one of the greatest strengths this country has, precisely in its freedom and it the vigor of its adaptation to change. And your children are going to be better off, automatically, simply because mankind as a whole is going to be vastly better off, because we know vastly more, have superior tools, etc.

Unless Iranian nutjobs nuke us - you know, a *real* issue that is actually worth worrying about, instead of this cockamamie attempt to pretend there is anything wrong with the economy?

It is all 20th century socialist hangover anyway, this absurb hyperpoliticization of economic issues. They never mattered a tenth this much, outside of a few years of the great depression. But entire political parties have built themselves around nonsense about all of it, and they won't let go.

Even harder to eradicate than failed government programs, failed economic ideologies live on like zombies generations since they've had anything to say, or any cause worth bothering about.