Until some semblance of balance is restored, there is no realistic hope for reducing our unacceptable levels of economic inequality, which are certain to increase as technology makes most forms of manual labor anachronistic and globalization deepens the divide between winners and losers in the global marketplace. Nothing less is at stake than the survival of the American Dream as embodied in a robust middle class that becomes the beneficiary, not the victim, of the new global economy. Without a role for government, the American Dream becomes a realistic prospect only for the favored few.
