A Good Start To Reviving The Middle Class

(CNN) -- Last week, President Obama traveled to a historic townin Kansas to offer a vision of a revived American middle class.

Where Free Soilers and slaveholders had once done violent battle,where Teddy Roosevelt called for a "New Nationalism," Barack Obamapresented this challenge: "(W)hat's at stake is whether this will bea country where working people can earn enough to raise a family,build a modest savings, own a home, secure their retirement."

This is what we all want -- Republicans as well as Democrats,liberals as well as conservatives. The issue here is bigger thanjust how to revive U.S. economic growth. Even during the years ofeconomic growth from …

A Good Start To Reviving The Middle Class

(CNN) -- Last week, President Obama traveled to a historic townin Kansas to offer a vision of a revived American middle class.

Where Free Soilers and slaveholders had once done violent battle,where Teddy Roosevelt called for a "New Nationalism," Barack Obamapresented this challenge: "(W)hat's at stake is whether this will bea country where working people can earn enough to raise a family,build a modest savings, own a home, secure their retirement."

This is what we all want -- Republicans as well as Democrats,liberals as well as conservatives. The issue here is bigger thanjust how to revive U.S. economic growth. Even during the years ofeconomic growth from …