Nothing has been easy these past few years, and the journey to Washington resembled the plot of the film Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. The middle seat on a flight in economy guarantees that the largest human beings on the planet will occupy the adjacent seats, if not a baby who cries nonstop for the duration. When my OC flight arrived in Atlanta, there was a monumental series of lightning and thunderstorms which had closed the airport for most of the day.Even McDonald's, one of the most profitable food service companies in the history of the world, acknowledges that the workers who make their skyrocketing profits possible can't survive solely on the income McDonald's pays them. The gap between salaries of McDonald's workers and the CEO is fairly typical. The incomes of the bottom 90% of Americans grew by roughly $59 in the last 40 years, while the incomes of the top 10% rose by an average of $116,071..

This year, they can show they mean it. Of the 333 players who attend