President Obama's State of the Union Address is to be held tonight. Lots of talk about the middle class out there on the news and blogs today. What do I think? I know you didn't ask - but I am saying it anyway. To me, trying to save the middle class is like trying to save the dinosaurs. It is a moot point, because - like the dinosaurs - the middle class is already gone. Whatever is left of the middle class is just a facade. There are rich and there are definitely poor - but the middle class is artificially propped up. The whole house of cards is precariously balanced - to be toppled easily by one lost paycheck, one more drop in home values, or the ever falling values of 401Ks.
When I think of dinosaurs - I definitely think of Dino from the Flintstones (picture above). But, I also think of a Saturday morning favorite of mine from the 1970s - Land of the Lost. It was a bizarre show - but I was fascinated by it. I am not including any clips of that terrible movie based on the show with Will Farrell. I am including a snippet from the Saturday series below:
