And with all the change over the past 50 years, there really hasn’t been any until now. With the 2008 election, is real change finally achievable? Even when Obama is elected? Is this so called grass roots upswell real and if it is, will it last? The working Americans have not been united on any one thing in over 60 years. So the ruling class has been able to enslave them (nickel and dime them) for all these years. And now when the ruling class institutions have crashed the working people let them bail themselves out with our tax dollars.
No one will ever help the working class. Not even themselves, unless they do unite and say enough is enough. I fear this will not happen in my life time.

The picture that asks the question: “What is the point of having a degree from Yale if you are not going to join the ruling class? Granted, you won’t know how real people live, but why would you want to know that when you can live so much better?” Strikingly honest and original in its use of explicit statements about the power structure and of raw interview content.
The interviews with real members of the power structure who have more or less made peace with themselves is much more powerful than any Hollywood fiction could begin to convey. In some cases, their essential decency stands out; in others, their self-deceit is uppermost. James Baker is in a class by himself. For contrast, interviews with Pete Seeger and Barabara Ehrenreich (while she was researching “Nickeled and Dimed") are included.
The picture leaves open the question of whether one can change the system more effectively from inside, near the top, or from outside, near the bottom--if at all.
Highly recommended.