See the article by Tony Blankley at...
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071226/EDITORIAL01/320130469/1008

Here's an excerpt...
...Although the economy remains strong, the public's economic anxiety about the future has been steadily building the past half-decade. The emergence of China and India is engendering growing anti-free trade feelings (even 59 percent of Republicans now believe free trade hurts America, according to a recent Wall Street Journal poll). Ever-rising health care costs and the anticipated burden of taking care of the boomer parents as we mentally and physically start declining all add to the economic fears for young and early middle age Americans...