American Dream = Social Mobility = A Thing of the Past

Countries the world over, for years, have looked to America as an example of an environment where someone can start with nothing, and work up to a position of abundance. For a long time this was the case. Things began to change in the latter part of the twentieth century, and now America finds herself in conditions of income disparity more akin to those found in Kenya or Costa Rica, and much worse than what is experienced in Japan, Germany, France, Canada or the U.K.

A list from best to worse is available at http://markfrankenberg.com/charts/GINI_index.html

Conditions of severe income disparity breed social unrest of all kinds, resulting in a dramatic waste of human potential, not to mention things like war and rampant domestic political corruption.

An example of political corruption can be found in the recent passage of the new Bankruptcy Bill, which is nothing more than the return of favors from bought-out politicians, to the banking and finance industry.

A weakened, disenfranchised working-class resulting from outsourcing of jobs, dumping of goods from foreign lands and usury will not remain domestically tranquil. Those who are engineering this class polarization in America are the TRUE threat to our national security.