keeps having to importing immigrants from abroad to keep its population stable, does that sound familiar? almost every city in the country is facing the same trend and they are horrifying. in 2016, if you look at 229 american metro areas and it found a since 2,000 the middle class had shrunk in 203 of them. in almost every big city the rich are getting richer but the poor are also getting poorer and there are far more of them. do you want to live in a society like that? radically unequal societies are dangerously unstable, people do not trust each other. institutions corrode, tribalism thrives, democracy does not work. when everything becomes like chicago, things fall apart. you would never notice from listening to our leaders, they don t want to talk about it. they are out of ideas and in any case they don t really care. we should care because this cannot continue forever. tim carnegie wrote a new book about these trends, he traveled the country to do it.
keeps having to importing immigrants from abroad to keep its population stable, does that sound familiar? almost every city in the country is facing the same trend and they are horrifying. in 2016, if you look at 229 american metro areas and it found a since 2,000 the middle class had shrunk in 203 of them. in almost every big city the rich are getting richer but the poor are also getting poorer and there are far more of them. do you want to live in a society like that? radically unequal societies are dangerously unstable, people do not trust each other. institutions corrode, tribalism thrives, democracy does not work. when everything becomes like chicago, things fall apart. you would never notice from listening to our leaders, they don t want to talk about it. they are out of ideas and in any case they don t really care. we should care because this cannot continue forever. tim carnegie wrote a new book about these trends, he traveled
its population stable, does that sound familiar? almost every city in the country is facing the same trend and they are horrifying. in 2016, if you look at 229 american metro areas and it found a since 2,000 the middle class had shrunk in 203 of them. in almost every big city the rich are getting richer but the poor are also getting poorer and there are a far more of them. do you want to live in a society like that? radically unequal societies are dangerously unstable, people do not trust each other. institutions corrode, tribalism thrives, democracy does not work. when everything becomes like chicago, things fall apart. you would never notice from listening to our leaders, they don t want to talk about it. they are out of ideas and in any case they don t really care. we should care because this arcannot continue forever. tim carnegie wrote a new book about these trends, he traveled the country to do it. the book is called alienated
about guantanamo detention. we will also take your e-mails and phone calls. washington journal is next. host: good morning, new developments overnight. the christmas day bombing attempt in detroit, osama bin laden issued a new audio message planning a al qaeda responsibility for that. the white house said this morning that they are confident about the confirmation of ben bernanke for his second term. the newly appointed political adviser to the national committee democratic committee has an article today about the road ahead. the year of big obama is over. the goal of cutting the deficit in the bipartisan budget committee proceeds the state of the union address. it is in that venue that we would like to open the phones this morning. how would you describe the state of the union in the year ahead? if you are optimistic, to 0 2/7 202-737-0001. if you are pessimistic, 202- 737-0002. the president is reconstituting the themes that helped him to win the white house to h
party lines. there are some exceptions to that, but by and large the message was, we are going to do it ourselves and without you, and that led to the breakdown. it sure suggests there is no possibility. it seems we have got to this place where we are in a polarized position. i hope not, and i do not think so. all of us to run for reelection had better listen to what the voters are telling us. that is not what they want, and if we see something they do not like, they have the power to change it by electing someone different. i am an optimist by nature. i think if i did not see an opportunity to make things better, i would not want this job, but i do, and i am more hopeful that this will actually occur maybe not immediately. republicans are going to continue to be a disadvantage minorities through 2010, but the pendulum does swing, and hopefully, we will be able to have more of a balanced by partisan result. we will have more of a balanced approach as a result. host: wil