"He spoke of how the income of ordinary workers had slowly been eclipsed by the spike in corporate salaries. He spoke of the 'forgotten' middle class with a dyspeptic passion that nonetheless seemed from the heart: 'When I graduated from college, the average corporate CEO made 20 times what the average worker did; today, it’s nearly 400 times.
"'In other words, it takes the average worker more than a year to make the money that his or her boss makes in one day.' We haven’t heard such blunt class resentment from a Southern Democrat in quite a while."
Andrew Sullivan introduces Senator Jim Webb to British readers in The Sunday Times.
And the senator's website posts the text of his speech.
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