The labor unions, historically the defenders of workers rights, have long lost most if not all of their credability as their senior officials take home obscene paychecks and grasp at the same perks as the CEO community with whom they are expected to negotiate. The malaise of care and concern has indeed hit real people and life is just getting too hard. The perverse impact of inadequate medical insurance, rising energy costs, outrageous college tuition and just the increasing hassle of life define “real” people from those living fantasy lives. But it would be a mistake to single out just the corporate world and ignore the broad surface of special priviledge and corruption of values that characterizes society.