There is a storm coming and if folks in power don't wake up, they will reap the wild wind. Quote all the clever statistics you want, rejoice in the "brilliance" of the right's soundbites, in the end the scales will be balanced either by fairness and a sense of brotherhood or by blood. Phil Ochs wrote this years ago, dated but still a look into the near future if things don't change!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rni9Cwoe6g