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What does the guy working on an assembly line have? He's lucky to have a job. He gets paid less than his father did (on an inflation adjusted basis). And that pay barely goes up from year to year. His wife has to work just to make ends meet. He's lucky that he inherited the family house from his parents, because he couldn't afford to buy it today. The union got busted a decade ago, so there's no pension plan and a crappy health plan.

You can talk about a "station" in society. But it's really about money. And rightfully so.

Sure. And it's going to get worse. And the Reps certainly won't fight to slow that down. They are the union-busters. They are the off-shorers. They are opposed to increased minimum wage.

Yes, he is lucky to have a job that hasn't been replaced by a machine, or exported to Vietnam. Sad, but true. Macroeconomics says it will get worse, and I don't think either party can do much about it.

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