The end of the rich mans era?

[Dr.Phool]

EDITORIALS

H. Brandt Ayers: End of the rich man’s era?


04-02-2006

If you live in a gated community with a house listed at over $1 million, this isn’t for you — and maybe, just maybe the coming decades will be more for the average American, and less about you.

Not that anyone wants to punish you for success; it’s just that you are detached from the problems of ordinary people: the cost of medical care, a job or pension that might disappear, drug-related crime.

We may be about to turn sharply on socio-political hinges to the urgent concerns of the average citizen, much like a similar swing in the decade and a half following the turn of the last century.

From the end of the Civil War in 1865 to 1900, steel-ribbed railways stitched the continent together, igniting such dynamic growth that our industrial muscle grew equal or superior to older Europeans.

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http://www.annistonstar.com/opinion/2006/as-editorials-0402-bayerscol-6d01s3432.htm

[Atman]

1. Note the question mark...

I wish the author's headline was a definitive statement.

[jody]

2. IMO the question mark is proper because we don't know if We the People

will retake our government.