There may be fewer rich than there used to be, but have you noticed that they are much, much richer?

This is what is meant by "transferring the wealth". It's not just the poor that are getting ripped off, or the middle class; now they're going after the well-to-do. Pretty soon the upper middle class are going to be absorbed into the ranks of the destitute. The administrative/managerial/professional/executive elite is now threatened. It's getting harder and harder to get into that little group. The peak of the histogram is shifting to the right, and climbing quickly, but at the expense of that beautiful bell-shaped curve we were striving for. You're getting what you wanted, TB, we're going back to the Gilded Age.

That's what the Republicans are really scared of. It's getting harder and harder to join The Club, isn't it? And harder to stay in it if you do make it. But the really big boys at the top just get richer and richer. And THAT is what the primary point of your initial post was really all about.

You can blame the liberals and the leftists and the Democrats all you want, but follow the money. Who is actually making out in this economy? It ain't the college perfessers and the tv anchormen and the Mother Jones columnists.

Something is happening here, and you don't know what it is. Do you, Mr Jones?