The thought of my children growing up in an America with less freedom, less opportunity, and a lower standard of living is a long-term pain I cannot and will not bear.
Today we hear that the gains from economic growth accrue to the highest-income earners while the standard of living of the poor and middle America stagnates and the gap between the richest and the poorest grows ever wider. That portrait of the country is wrong.
The middle class has disappeared. We have a highway to poverty and no roads coming out.
My generation could be the first in Hong Kong to be worse off than our parents.
I don't see evidence of America being a poorer country than it was 20 years ago. I've seen impoverished devastation. I've seen places where things had been good and now they were very bad.
It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.
In 'Ozark,' the truism that we are not as likely to do as well as our parents did in the past is front and center.
An economy in which most citizens are doing worse year after year - an economy like America's - is not likely to do well over the long haul.
