Ah to be back in the days of the Clinton Presidency, We were a more prosperous country and jobs were available. I had jobs at the time, they weren't the greatest but it helped feed my daughters and me. I was even buying our new microwave and a DVD player on Lay Away at Kmart. Then like a monster out of Transylvania The Bush Presidency and his liege swept away all the progress we made and got us into a war that was based on bogus intelligence! Now we are left with an economy that is barely on life support because of the billions spent o n the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Money that could have been used to improve our infrastructure, paid for college scholarships, and help feed hungry families!I also blame the ignorant voters who gave him a second term, many of whom are in the middle class or are poor!
Yes, The GOTEAP PARTY is a job killer! The Teapublicans are funded by corporate interests and organizations like The National Chamber of Commerce,medical insurance companies, and of course, the big daddy of all the wealthiest, Wall Street! The poor and the middle class haven't got a chance against these odds! Add to this correspondents on the networks and cable don't do their job and ask deep probative questions to congressmen/women of The GOTEAP Party. The exceptions are Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, and Chris Matthews.
Since the Wealthy are coddled by The GOTEAP they are given license to suck the middle class and poor dry of most of their assets! Banks were selling sub-prime loans and mortgages to people with risky income and that is why most of the people defaulted. Also because people lost their jobs. Taxing the super wealthy would help because then we could at least create WPA type jobs for the unemployed while improving our country's infrastructure.
Trickle Down don't work!! The wealthy won't use their wealth to hire people, instead they put their money in off shore bank accounts! Except for more humanitarian billionaires like Bill Gaites, Andrew Carnegie, and Warren Buffet most wealthy people are greedy! They only think of ME! ME! ME! I wrote about this in one of my blogs, Capitalism= Greedism The Non-Trad Manifesto, http://www.blondmama.blogspot.com
If we had a Liberal Progressive Democratic House and Senate(no Ben Nelson types) and Barack Obama as our President we could have a good jobs bill pass and we would be on the way to prosperity! But we also need to retro fit our government a bit by making it a Socialist/Democracy! NOT COMMUNIST BUT SOCIALISM! Communism doesn't work and spying on each other is abhorrent! The only communist country that is flourishing is China most are like North Korea and Cuba, economic basket cases. But under socialism everyone would be taxed but we would all get more bang for our buck! We all would get government health care but the bill could let us keep our current physicians. We also would get free mass transit and I believe we could have 90% employment! There could be free college tuition up to the BA level. Everyone would work and have a comfortable living, that includes the currently homeless and vagabonds too! There would be no mandatory retirement so the more mature people would not lose their jobs as long as they are capable to do them. Also people that smoke, drink,or do recreational drugs would be given mandatory counseling to eradicate the problem! That would eliminate many deaths do to addiction of these substances. There could be free Health Club Memberships for all. It would eliminate the demand for illegal drugs so crime would go way down! Big government could make this a much more wonderful place to live! Let's try it! For a Progressive USA!