America's Ruling Class vs. The "Country Class": On Class Governmentfare

Angelo M. Codevilla from the July 2010 - August 2010 issue of the American Spectator.

"By taxing and parceling out more than a third of what Americans produce, through regulations that reach deep into American life, our ruling class is making itself the arbiter of wealth and poverty."

"... it surely increases the number of people dependent on the ruling class, and teaches Americans that satisfying that class is a surer way of making a living than producing goods and services that people want to buy."

"The fact that public employees are almost always paid more and have more generous benefits than the private sector people whose taxes support them only sharpened the sense among many in the country class that they now work for public employees rather than the other way around."

"How did America change from a place where people could expect to live without bowing to privileged classes to one in which, at best, they might have the chance to climb into them?"

America's Ruling Class -- And the Perils of Revolution.