This analysis seems spot on:
Yes, more than 15 years ago.
Did we listen? Maybe we need to occupy history.
"Let's suppose, for a moment, there was a country where the people in charge charted a course that eliminated millions of good-paying jobs.Remarkably, those paragraphs are from a package of stories by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele for the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1996.
"Suppose they gave away several million more jobs to other nations.
"Finally, imagine that the people running this country implemented economic policies that enabled those at the very top to grow ever richer while most others grew poorer.
"You wouldn't want to live in such a place, would you?
"Too bad.
"You already do.
"These are some of the consequences of failed U.S. government policies that have been building over the last three decades — the same policies that people in Washington today are intent on keeping or expanding. Under them, 140 million Americans, mostly working families and individuals — blue-collar, white-collar and professional — are being treated as though they were expendable.
"Most significant of all, the American dream of the last half-century has been revoked for millions of people — a dream rooted in a secure job, a home in the suburbs, the option for families to live on one income rather than two, a better life than your parents had and a still better life for your children.
"U.S. government policies consistently have failed to protect that dream in the face of growing international competition. Instead they've favored the very forces that shift jobs, money and influence abroad."
Yes, more than 15 years ago.
Did we listen? Maybe we need to occupy history.