We Need More
You hear all the time pundits bemoaning a growing income gap and impoverished middle class. Will the pundits who peddle this notion spell out the degree to which Affluenza generates this despair? A recent Pew Research poll highlights the growing list of life's necessities; a list which includes cell phones, high speed internet access, air conditioning, flat screen TVs and (of course) iPods.

Everyone nods their head in agreement when John Edwards drones on about "Two Americas" in some campaign setting at some local high school gym. But I'd have to believe that these same people would look around at each other in severe puzzlement if Edwards made the same speech to them inside of a Best Buy.