This Middle Class Amnesia Won’t Last Much Longer

[Tom Rinaldo]

6. This was in a way inspired by a conversation I once had with my one really wealthy friend

He's from the corporate CEO world, and essentially is a moderate Republican who voted for Obama the first time with some reluctance but supported Romney in 2012. He raised the spector of the U.S. becoming another Greece some day if we don't reign in entitlements. I countered that it already is like living in Greece now for many of us. Once you have essentially lost all security in life and can't afford even the essentials of living, your personalo economy has already cratered. Scare talk about the future is meaningless, you must vote your interests now. He saw that logic and concluded that he hoped only a small minority of Americans fit that description, or we wouldn't be able to make the painful changes needed to protect our economic future. He was pretty blind about seeing that he was focused on the future of his own class and others who are relatively well off now only.