For Millions of People in This Country,

this Christmas is hardly a merry one, with widespread joblessness and despair.  But let's not worry about them: The people who count, Wall Street and others in the parasite class, are doing better than ever.

THEY, not the peons, will get this country back on track.

WSWS:

Three years since the onset of the recession in December 2007, the majority of the US population is facing staggering levels of unemployment, home foreclosures, hunger and poverty. For millions of working-class families, buying gifts this year required scraping together scarce dollars, borrowing from friends and relatives or adding more debt to their already overloaded credit cards.

At the other pole of society, America’s ruling elite, which has presided over this economic catastrophe, is celebrating its good fortune. The recent deal by President Obama and the Congressional Republicans to extend tax cuts to the richest two percent of the population tops off a year of record corporate profits and an 85 percent surge on the S&P 500 stock index.