Lou Dobbs interviews Sen.-elect Jim Webb on economic fairness

Lou Dobbs interviews James Webb, Friday, Nov. 10.

WEBB: I believe you measure the health of your society, not at its apex but at its base. You can't, any longer, measure the health of our society simply by what's happening in the stock market because there's been such a tremendous migration of wealth toward a very small percentage of people who are owning stocks and those sorts of things.

Yes, I know that lots of people own stock now in their 401k plans and so forth. But Webb is talking about the disparities in the way we treat wealth versus the way we treat work. It's a refreshing viewpoint all the more so because it comes from a former Reagan acolyte. Webb simply doesn't buy "trickle down" economics anymore -- in fact, it's the reason he left the Republican party and got elected to the Senate from Virginia -- Virginia!

You know there's something happening in this country when a guy like Webb beats a guy like George Allen.