There is such a thing called the "Mandarin Meritocracy?" I'm obviously not a member. But I think this issue highlights, for me, what is more interesting than the race debate, it's deeper, it's a social/economic debate. Do you think the union members revere you in the Mandarin Meritocracy? No, they are suspicious, resentful, occasionally envious? Why? One, they think you make a lot more money than they do. Sometimes, it's true, sometimes it's not. If you are in the skilled trades, in the unionized skilled trades, you can do quite well comparatively. That is, if you started making $40,000 to $50,000 at the age of 22, with health care and a defined benefit pension, you probably would be doing as well as some professionals, certainly better than many academics, by the age of 40 considering the amount of student debt you had to pay back. Are you doing better? But the problem is fear. Barack needs to take the fear part out of the equation. Fear that the U.S. may not be the economic superpower forever; fear that since not all of us will make it to Harvard, or even U of C that we will somehow miss the economic boat; fear that we won't be able to give our kids better than what we had. Maybe it is not possible to take the fear part out. I'm not sure that we are not headed for another economic depression. No one wants to say that, but some states are already there, i.e., Michigan. What did Roosevelt say? "There is nothing to fear . . . . "