Conned by Republicans as Democrats cede

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/15/1262491/-Conned-by-Republicans-as-Democrats-cede#

President Obama took a lot of flak when he said, “I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that, you know, Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not.” Unfortunately that statement is as true now as it was then.

Americans have been living under Republican policies since Ronald Reagan. It is true that President George Herbert Walker Bush and President Clinton were far more fiscally responsible than the mathematically challenged and reality deficient Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. 

George Herbert Walker Bush and Bill Clinton raised taxes in light of exploding deficits which ultimately resulted in a "nominal" budget surplus.

America went from voodoo economics to a form of fiscally responsible supply side economics. They cleaned up Ronald Reagan’s fiscal mess. They however did not clean up his flawed middle-class-pilfering supply-side economics. In fact it could be argued that Clinton was complicit by signing the "repeal" of Glass Steagall even as he allowed further erosion of the social safety net.

When George W. Bush got appointed president in 2000 by the Supreme Court, the era of fiscally irresponsible supply side economics returned on steroids. It was tax cuts justified by the discredited Laffer Curve all over again.

we have no idea what has been done to us in the name of governing, i think that is why some are so fickle that the first one that throws the accusation wins true or not how would we know, didn't before now we have a chance and still some choose to believe those who have deceived all this time, and continue to fool them into voting against their own betterment.

 Enough Democrats never fought against the irresponsibility of the Republicans. Who wants to be on record opposing tax cuts? Republicans never worry about deficits if they are attributed to tax cuts or corporate welfare. Deficits only matter when related to the social safety net (Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, etc.)

Since the inception of supply side economics, the income and wealth of the middle class have been on a steady decline. This occurred even as the wealth and income of the top one percent have been increasing way above the rate of inflation.

Even during the prosperous 1990s and parts of the 2000s, the working middle class was living a semblance of prosperity aided by financial bubbles and easy credit that ultimately disintegrated. This is best explainedby Professor of Economics Emeritus Richard D. Wolff. His documentary Capitalism Hits The Fan is also informative.

and therein lies our conundrum we don't fight the poweres that be that is why so much was done contrary to what we needed, thinking the Pres. would blink because he cared well he did and he did but now he sees their plan and no more mr. nice guy but our guy for our rights the tables have turned we are the hawks, now we need to believe in what can be and not in what will be if we don't.