http://www.thenation.com/article/168...new-gilded-age
now, reich points this article at romney...but note in there about 'both parties'. again, congress is the issue-not one party or the other-it's BOTH. we need to clean house-and senate.
Part of the answer, surely, is that elected Democrats are still almost as beholden to the wealthy for campaign funds as the Republicans, and don’t want to bite the hand that feeds them. Wall Street can give most of its largesse to Romney this year and still have enough left over to tame many influential Democrats (look at the outcry from some of them when the White House took on Bain Capital). But I suspect a deeper reason for their reticence is that if they connect the dots and reveal Romney for what he is—the epitome of what’s fundamentally wrong with our economy—they’ll be admitting how serious our economic problems really are. They would have to acknowledge that the economic catastrophe that continues to cause us so much suffering is, at its root, a product of the gross inequality of income, wealth and political power in America’s new Gilded Age, as well as the perverse incentives of casino capitalism.
Yet this admission would require that they propose ways of reversing these trends—proposals large and bold enough to do the job. Time will tell whether today’s Democratic Party and this White House have the courage and imagination to do it. If they do not, that in itself poses almost as great a challenge to the future of the nation as does Mitt Romney and all he represents.
to me, that's the big problem. both parties are too beholden to the moneyed men, and we all get the shaft because of it. people say romney would be better, but no, he really wouldn't. follow the money. ceo's are donating 4-1 to romney over obama. ask yourself why? ask yourself just what you'd be voting for, if you vote for romney. or for a republican in the house or senate elections. what are you getting with your incumbents up for re-election? they'll spend the five week vacation telling you what they've done for you-what's their record show?