New York Times editorial "gets it" - Why does the electronic media claim it doesn't have a clue??

by: Jan A

Sun Oct 09, 2011 at 17:35:58 PM EDT

As the Occupy Wall Street protests spread from Lower Manhattan to Washington and other cities, the chattering classes keep complaining that the marchers lack a clear message and specific policy prescriptions. The message - and the solutions - should be obvious to anyone who has been paying attention since the economy went into a recession that continues to sock the middle class while the rich have recovered and prospered. The problem is that no one in Washington has been listening.

At this point, protest is the message: income inequality is grinding down that middle class, increasing the ranks of the poor, and threatening to create a permanent underclass of able, willing but jobless people. On one level, the protesters, most of them young, are giving voice to a generation of lost opportunity.

In Egypt, it was educated, unemployed young people who took to the streets for the Arab Spring.  Guess who's in the streets of New York?