Home foreclosures, income going down in real terms, mounting job losses, a high trade deficit, the greatest national debt in US history, the largest budget deficit in US history, a negative national savings rate, 48 million Americans with no health care coverage and twice that many with inadequate health care coverage, and now rapidly rising inflation.

But the top 5% of income earners aren't hurting. They are doing quite well. In fact, some of them have never done better.

When do look honestly at the obvious and say precisely what is going on? That the political and economic system is not structured to serve most of us. It's essentially structured to serve an elite few.

After saying it, when do we get angry enough to say that this slanted economic system isn't inevitable, that it doesn't have to be this way?

When does our saying become loud voices demanding that this stepchild of feudal economics needs to be transformed to serve us?