Will Walker's win adversely affect the future of the middle class?

That's right and neither has there ever been one person who is totally free. It was that way in both the ancient Athenian city-state and the Roman Republic-and both of them held very strong democratic ideals at various times. If you think I am wrong on this point then, I suggest you find me one democratic state in all of human history that didn't have a SOCIAL CLASS system and everyone had the exact same choices and opportunites in life regardless of one's gender or race or even educational acheivements??? It never existed ...not once. All countries have sometype of social order and class structure at their core.
Also I keep noticing you use the word "slaves" and phrases such "democracy is dead" so I assumed you are having your knocking down your dooor and someone is placing chains on your feet becuase that is what a slave is a THING for someone's enjoyment and profit. I know as a white Southerner and in my studies of the War Between the States ( we, Southerners, call the US Civil War by that name) several battlefields of that war -Stone's River, Shiloh,Chickamauga , and Chattanooga. Naturally in my studies I have also visited several old plantations across the South and I made it my point to actaully see the slave quarters for myself and I saw the chains the REAL slaves wore everyday of their lives as well as the whips, too. I seriously doubt your "chains" are that painful or that phyiscal as was theirs and I am sure you are NOT getting beaten by a whip, too. I think you are being over dramatic on this issue.
What really happened in Wisconsin is that state workers are now going to pay for their own healthcare and they have "LOST' some of their rights in collective bargining agreements and nothing more. Personally, I don't think state employees should have other people pay their healthcare benifits nor have the ability to strike becuase that would threaten the general welfare of all the people within Wisconsin by preventing the taxpayers from getting their basic services under the law. In other words, to hold a state job is a public trust not a welfare system.

I totally understand the limitations of time--it is a forgotten resource in today's world of ours.
The system you are "championing" requires a more inclusive and more equal educational system becuase that would acheive the standards of the "equal protection clause" of the US Constitution-after all there cannot be any favoritism at all hence everyone has ot have equal chance . However, the very federalism of our country works ( the 10th Adm. of the US Constitution) against those types of national standards you and many liberal reformers are currently fighting for in Washington DC these days. Also I just don't mean race, gender, and class but also funding, too. I seriously doubt that equal funding COULD be acheived in many states. For example, how would you acheive true equality bewteen Mississsippi or Tennessee AND say New York or California especially in funding. There seems be a real desire to reward "successful" and "upwardly mobile" schools but schools in either extremes such as the hard "inter-city" or the "deep" rual areas in the country must fight the battle of budget every year.
As for the Finish system, it is a good idea for a small country-remenber the USA is over 300 million people. Your system also ignores the trend that people look for easy way outs of problems-hence people who fail to acheive your standards for those type of jobs ( which you would make mandatory joining a union) will have an excuse NOT to try to improve thier lives. And guess what, social workers will help those people get on social services and disbality. Trust me on this point , when I was in homeless in Georgia a few years back the very first thing the social workers did was try to get everyone on social services and a government check rather than a job which is the best for of social services in my opinion..

FDR had the advantage of ruling a country with NO international debt plus the federal treasury was full and had a SURPLUS left over from WWl ( remenber the income tax was created in 1911 and imposed for the first time on April 15, 1912-the same day the RMS Titanic sunk). So FDR didn't really have to raise any taxes on anyone at all. I remind you that the 1930 Smoot–Hawley Tariff signed into law on June 17, 1930, that raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels.The overall level tariffs under the Tariff were the second-highest in U.S. history, exceeded by a small margin only by the Tariff of 1828. The act, and the ensuing retaliatory tariffs by U.S. trading partners ( Europe and South America), reduced American exports and imports by more than half hence it made the Great Depression WORSE for the America worker not better. In fact, FDR promised AND did lower it in 1934. So you see we(USA) tried your way and it didn't work. As for your idea of making government more effective I agree 100% but again your methods wouldn't work...as soon as you anounced your confrence for all the countries-the question naturally arises--"do we(USA) invite Iran??" "DO we(USA) invite North Korea??" --we have major national security issues with both of those countries on the issue of nuclear weapons. I am impressed you are trying to follow such a Republican idea of using international confrences to help build a better job market here at a"home" becuase George H.W. Bush tried exactly the same approach back in 1991 -1992 with Japan and China but it failed and he "lost" to Bill Clinton in the election.
It is just plain common sense you really can't put pressure on people you owe money to and that is true for countries, too.
International companies are not to blame to the world's economic problems but rather the signs of things to come. For example, look what is happening Greece today--the country is broke after years of social spending AND silly tax cuts for the rich in their wasted efforts to attract foreign currency to build up the drachmae. But they gave up that idea and joined the EU then got the Euro. However, they still kept up that social spending and low tax rates which the ruling elites of Greece simply covered up until the EU demanded to "see the books"-game over hence today Greece is heading out of the EU. It was the currency markets that laid the foundation for the mess with Greece. It is no crime to be rich in my view.

Well I admit the plan is high risk high reward if something goes wrong it could either slow down our progress in fixing the economy or push the world into global recession if it completely fails but doing nothing is as bad as trying what I propose and failing, the conference is the simplest way to address the problem on a global scale. We can't get out of debt alone we need the help of other countries that are in the same spot as we are to collectively make a change on the global market and stand up to the multinational banks that gambled away the economy of the US and other countries. If the US increases the tariffs on products made in the third world alone they will just do as you say and increase the tariff on our products and call it even but if we can convince the EU for all of it's members to increase tariffs on products made in the third world then the companies that produce goods with slave labor will have to face an ultimatum. This will be extremely difficult but worth it if we can get the countries in the EU as well as countries like Japan and Australia to increase their tariffs with us. We have to be the first to raise our tariffs to motivate others. This also has the benefit of hurting companies that are a flight risk add in an exorbitant expatriation tax and some businesses that would otherwise flee will have to stay because they couldn't afford to leave. As for dealing with cheap labor in China and India we would probably have to renegotiate our debt and also bring up the issue to the Chinese on the use of slave labor in their country along with the international community.