Perhaps they're starting to realize that they've bled this particular ox one too many times, and the ox is starting to resent it.

I'm not surprised that he's the attack dog summoned in this case.

but the shift of emphasis and the attention he is drawing to the issue

and I do

South America and Africa and now Europe and the US, the middle class has been destroyed.

Farmers committing suicide because big Corps like Monsanto have destroyed their means of providing for their families in India, etc.

Looks like they are getting a little nervous that maybe the people are no longer ignorant of their greed and money hoarding.

And the world gap between the highest incomes and the incomes of those who do most of the actual WORK to produce those incomes?
Of course, Mr. Glassman is surely aware that public education is the reason a poor kid like me would have learned the mathematical relationship between the average income and the median income. No wonder they hate teachers!

This unbridled greed has to be reined in.

and an average living standard or an average of any demographic is essentially statistically useless when there is uneven distribution of the measured trait.

Asshats!

"They" have this Jobless Recovery scam down pat.

I am transported to an "Ethics" course I took in Grad School. The specific issue was a discussion of the "effects of globalization on '3rd world' nations."

As expected, the "capitalists" and right wingers in the class raised the it "lifts them out of poverty" argument. After a while, I asked the simple question: "At what cost? Is it 'ethical' to pursue an economic/business model, wherein one knows has/will force others to all but abandons centuries old cultural norms, in favor of the pursuit of a commodity that prior to your involvement, they had no, or little, use for?"

One student responded: "This is about business. In globalization, each of the poor in these nations has access to money to buy the things they need and want."

To which I responded: "True ... But prior to globalization, the poor of these nations had the land to feed them and a culture to provide them with the things they needed and wanted, neither of which required coinage."

(I was immediately written off by most in the class.)

Many intellectuals and academics recognize America with its potential essentially has a population dynamics that is in an epidemic of education trending to stupidity. Just think of the daily digital television programming in the dangerous free market.

Realizing the mounting debt that young people pile up in trillions of dollars owed for an education that would soon become obsolete is insane. That begs the question of what to do about it. There are advocates like Thom Hartmann that occasionally suggest education should be free to include college education. I agree. However getting over the hurtle to change the healthcare fundamentals is one thing and be sure the next would be education.

Could you ever imagine everyone having the ability to go to college to understand or to be that person who is called an undergraduate. Even saying that sounds so very silly but is common rhetoric to say someone is an undergraduate. Even if you have a four year degree your still under the bus hanging on for dear life till you master something. Our system is so weird that many know a huge change in the educational system is needed. Please everyone has the ability to go to school, but few have the ability teach. That’s the problem. Way too many are in the educational system that do not know how to teach.