LADDERS AND HIGHWAYS

WHile I thoroughly enjoyed the President's SOTU address last Tuesday, for its hopeful audacity, it still fell short of what is required, for real restitution of the structurally omitted. Even the POTUS's metaphor of "ladder to the middle class" is inadequate! Only 1 at a time can ascend a ladder! We need economic infrastructure akin to a highway to the middle class, meaning: higher wages, fair tax policy, good jobs, and fairness in the justice system, top to bottom! We have certainly descended on a highway to marginality, without these things en mass, since 1968, exceptions noted!