{"id":11316,"date":"2011-09-16T16:20:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T20:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=11316"},"modified":"2011-09-16T16:20:52","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T20:20:52","slug":"kotkin-palin-and-the-coming-middle-class-revolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/11316\/kotkin-palin-and-the-coming-middle-class-revolt\/","title":{"rendered":"Kotkin, Palin, and the Coming Middle Class Revolt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting critique is starting to surface: Big Government and Big Business are conspiring to enrich themselves at the expense of job and wealth creation for the middle and lower classes.\u00a0 Demographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0911\/63508.html\" target=\"_blank\">Joel Kotkin<\/a> is noticing it.\u00a0 So too, is potential GOP presidential candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/11213\/new-york-times-flatters-palin\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Palin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As Kotkin notes, grassroots Democrats are noticing that President Barack Obama\u2019s neglect of job creation is costing their members dearly.\u00a0 (Just ask California Democrat <a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/kabc\/story?section=news\/politics&amp;id=8315199 \" target=\"_blank\">Maxine Waters<\/a>.)\u00a0 Republican presidential frontrunner Rick Perry is weakest on the issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/articles\/277383\/big-hoss-rich-lowry \" target=\"_blank\">crony capitalism<\/a>.\u00a0 Palin\u2019s critique of the Big Business-Big Government axis could expand a core Tea Party theme into a viable national campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this argument may fizzle, but it\u2019s interesting to see quite different commentators coming out with the same idea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting critique is starting to surface: Big Government and Big Business are conspiring to enrich themselves at the expense of job and wealth creation for the middle and lower classes.\u00a0 Demographer Joel Kotkin is noticing it.\u00a0 So too, is potential GOP presidential candidate Sarah Palin. As Kotkin notes, grassroots Democrats are noticing that President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2972,602,27,1027,1635,3045,838,365,28],"class_list":["post-11316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-big-business","tag-big-government","tag-jobs","tag-joel-kotkin","tag-maxine-waters","tag-populist","tag-rick-perry","tag-sarah-palin","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11316"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11325,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11316\/revisions\/11325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}