Last Friday, Bill Maher touched on something I had noticed a while back. In the 60s, a middle class family could be raised by only one money-earner in the family. Then by the 70s, the mother started to also have to work in order to provide an adequate living. Conservatives were still bitching about it in the 80s, but the rich guys finally figured out that they can just keep wages the same while costs skyrocket and make all that extra money for themselves, so the “moral majority” basically just called their dogs off that issue. In the 80s and 90s, even two people couldn’t make enough for a family, but it didn’t matter because the house had increased so much in worth. Now that that bubble has burst, the middle class has nothing, the rich has everything, and instead of blaming it all not on the “business party” that has fought tooth and nail to keep wealth stratified at the top, the main criticism with the right is that poor, uneducated minorities tricked rich, trend-calculating bankers into giving them money they had no ability to pay back.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_United_States