Anytime I watch President Obama talk about the history of the U.S. economy as he did in Kansas this week, I feel like I'm listening to someone who had been locked away in a time capsule for the last thirty years. According to him, the last few decades of economic prosperity, prior to the 2008 meltdown, were nothing but a farce. That long period of strong economic growth and low unemployment were apparently inconsequential to America's middle class, simply because