And so what you had was a situation in which the very top was getting very wealthy, but the middle class, which is thebeatingheartofour economy, and those aspiring to get into the middle class, were finding it harder and harder to get ahead.
Thebeatingheartofour economy has always been a growing and expanding middle class, where families are able to see a vision about where they might take their lives and pursue it, and if they work and they put effort into it, then they can succeed.