America's "Ruling Class"

“As over-leveraged investment houses began to fail in September 2008, the leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties, of major corporations, and opinion leaders stretching from the National Review magazine (and the Wall Street Journal) on the right to the Nation magazine on the left, agreed that spending some $700 billion to buy the investors' ‘toxic assets’ was the only alternative to the U.S. economy's ‘systemic collapse.’ In this, President George W. Bush and his would-be Republican successor John McCain agreed with the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama. Many, if not most, people around them also agreed upon the eventual commitment of some 10 trillion nonexistent dollars in ways unprecedented in America. They explained neither the difference between the assets' nominal and real values, nor precisely why letting the market find the latter would collapse America. The public objected immediately, by margins of three or four to one.” But that meant NOTHING to the “ruling class,” who went on with their work, unfazed. They feel that THEIR opinion is what counts, and what the American people think is unimportant. They’re “smarter” that the American people and know what’s good for them. (American Spectator)