The President Needs to Talk About How We Got Economic Inequality | Common Dreams
"Grotesque inequality kills the American Dream because the American Dream is not the fantasy that we can all be rich, or the fact that a few of us will be rich. It’s about what happens for the vast majority of people who work hard, who contribute to the life of our country, who will never get rich but who deserve lives of economic security and dignity, who should get their share of the vast wealth they produce. Our economy used to do just that, and now it doesn’t, but it can again if we choose to make it so.”
President Obama has the power to begin to fix what has gone wrong in America, even if not to solve it entirely within the next three years. Everything he's said suggests he very much wants to try. He should begin by telling the truth about what the 1% have taken from the 99%. That much is certainly within his power to do."
