let me bring in washington post columnist, harold meyerson, explain why -- where this comes from andanything can be done about it. >> it comes in large part from what you have been discussing the i haves ration of middle income jobs. health services, home care workers, that's 70% of the jobs being created in the last six months. most of the jobs in manufacturing, are being scaled down to the wages we associate with southern manufacturing. caterpillar is opening a plant in indiana which is paying 12 to $14 an hour to assemble very technically sophisticated locomotives. we are seeing the down scaling of middle income jobs in america, and a lot of that is because -- not only because of the reasons you have discussed thus far, but also because unionization in the private sector is down 7%. so employers have no need to bar -- bargain with workers, and the 7% in unions have very little bargaining power. >> because there is technological pressure and overseas competition hence the union is not in a position to negotiate terribly effectively. and the manufacturing jobs coming back to the uni