FORBES: How Paul Ryan Could Help End “The Little Dark Age.” “Some among the privileged elite are settling for this, complacently, and dubbing it the ‘new normal.’ Some, such as Obama, are responding to it with policies of redistribution — policies which supply sider Jude Wanniski argued are desired by the electorate for periods of economic contraction. It doesn’t have to be this way.”

UPDATE: Related: Obama’s Accelerating Downward Spiral For America: “New income data from the Census Bureau reveal what a great job Barack Obama has done for the middle class as President. During his entire tenure in the oval office, median household income has declined by 7.3%.”

How’s that hopey-changey stuff workin’ out for ya?