http://www.truthout.org/the-senate%E2%80%99s-reconcilable-differences57038

It has been 10 years of 0 net job creation in this country (U.S.A.). Our economic system has been bad for the middle class, whats left of it, for a long time. Politicians like Sarah Palin know how to tap into frustration from the ill-informed.

This is why Obama won; A lot of voters had just lost their jobs, and, business-as-usual would be deadly. Read the above TruthOut article.

-Jim