President Obama, talks a lot about helping the middle class, and about helping Americans who are not middle class get into the middle class. It is a great goal.
As the economy gathers strength, there are serious shortages of skilled industrial workers, electricians, computer code writers, and plumbers. Real progress in moving to the middle class comes about through the education, grit, and determination of Americans.
Mr. Obama cannot do it by waving a pen, so writes Ben Stein in
The American Spectator.
Ben Stein is a writer, actor, and lawyer, who served as a speechwriter in the Nixon administration as the Watergate scandal unfolded. He began his unlikely road to stardom when director John Hughes cast him as the numbingly dull economics teacher in the urban comedy, "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." Read more reports from Ben Stein — Click Here Now.