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The American people have given up on Democracy! They have turned it over to the corporations, who pay the lobbyists, who write the bills that come out of our elected Congress. Why don't we just let the lobbyists run things? Then we could save all the money spent on electing people who do nothing. It seems that the Republicans would like that kind of government, except that they would lose their jobs and easy way of life. So, they will say NO to everything, even if they favor the item, because the corporations don't want to change, unless, they can make time go backwards.
Wake up America ! As usual, you forget that the bankers and brokers brought our country to this stage and that our President saved us from their "stupidity". Some of you hark back to your "savior", Ronald Reagan. He took office in 1980, in a recession. We got out of that recession 3 1/2 years later. His fancy tax cuts made the rich, richer and the poor, poorer. The middle class in the US is no better off today than it was in the "good old days" of Reagan's presidency. President Obama has been in office 8 months and everyone says the recession is over! I'll take Obama over Reagan any day and twice on Sunday.
Some of you say, "Get the government out of my way, I want to be a Bill Gates, or a Michael Dell and I can't achieve with the government controlling things". The average man or woman in America is more likely to be hit by lightening than have the success of the two previously mentioned gentlemen. Then we have the heads of large corporations and their salaries. They pull down 500 to 600 times the average worker's salary. Is there anyone out there who seriously thinks that one person is worth 500 times the salary of another? Jesus would be rolling his eyes; "What's going on here?"
Open your eyes America ! Your being led down the primrose path by a bunch of unelected talking heads, lead by Limbaugh, Hannity, Malkin, Coulter, O'Reilly and Beck to name a few. The President is not trying to steal your country; he is trying to give it back to you! Do you really think that we would be out of this recession if McCain and Palin were governing our country? Do you really think that reducing taxes and letting the banks go under would have put us in a position to say "the recession is over". Thank your lucky stars that Obama was elected.
If obama is trying to give us back our country, he has a strange way of doing it. I don't want my country back as a socialist state. I rather enjoy capitalism and the ability to run my life my way, not his way. Conservatives build the wealth; liberals want to spread it.
Anonymous, thanks for the comment. We all enjoy capitalism, but as Robert Reich says, we don't have Capitalism anymore, we have Supercapitalism, which is returning nothing to the people. The workers get paid less, the managers get paid more. You must live in a different country than I live in. Conservatives have built no wealth in the country I live in, except for a few at the top of the economic ladder. We used to share the wealth, no more. In a country as great as America, The American people used to participate in the nation's success. Since the Reagan presidency, the average citizen's income has been static. What's wrong with spreading the wealth a bit??
I don't see that the average citizen's income has been static since Reagan. These monstrous homes being built in the urban areas are not being bought by those on welfare. With both parents working, Americans have had more income than ever before. What will happen now is the question.
Robert - while I completely disagree with everything you say in this article, I can appreciate you passion and enjoy the manner in which you present your viewepoints. Excellent. JP
» left by Bob Bregman from York, ME (67 days 19 hours ago.)
JP,
Thank you for your comment. When you get a minute, I would appreciate hearing about why you disagree completely with everything that I wrote. I thought that I had a lot of facts in the article. Reagan's 3 1/2 years to end the recession, the pay of the average worker vs the average CEO and that lobbyists write the bills in congress.
Anyway, thank you again for taking the time to read the article
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