Tote that barge! Lift that bale!

In case no one has noticed, there has been a class war going on for the last 30 years (roughly since Reagan was elected), and you can guess which side is winning.  (Hint:  one side has most of the money, controls all branches of government, and literally owns the mainstream media.)  Here is a post from the American blog Balloon Juice, which captures in a few deft words the severity of this situation.  We may be a little behind the curve here in Canada, but we're fooling ourselves if we think we're not going down the same path.  Really, the issues we are encountering with the U of A are a microcosm of the larger effort to grind down the middle class and cement a large class of serfs to service the elite plutocracy.