pj wrote:Reaganomics? Mr. Reagan been room temp for years. Mr Obama has been in charge for the past 6,
Correction. Obama has been president for the past six years, but with an obstructionist congress, he hasn't been in charge. For example, Gitmo is still open because Republicans won't have terrorists corrupting the fine morals of our present prison inmates here in the US.
Yes, a lot of us are on SNAP benefits (a program which the GOP is trying to emasculate), GM is building killer cars (which they seem to be recalling faster than they can build them ... not a bad thing considering the alternative), and we still owe trillions on a national debt that Republican administrations ran up like there was no tomorrow. (Remember Cheney? "Deficits don't matter.")
And I agree that "Mr. Obama is a friend of big business, big banking, and all those big donors that line up on both coasts for those $50,000-$100,000 rubber chicken, 3 green bean dinners." That is how the political process works, and it sucks. The only cure for that is campaign financing reform, and our present politicians (both parties, but mainly Republican) are too entrenched in the current system to make that happen. There's a movement for a constitutional amendment or two to specify that money isn't speech and corporations aren't people, but that's not going to make much headway with the people who are really in charge.
As for "Reaganomics," the Great Communicator may be room temperature, but his theories of trickle-down economics are still held as hot gospel among Republicans, along with "minimum wage kills small business," "the super-rich are job creators," and "de-regulation is the only road to prosperity, the more the better." All of which have been refuted time and again. (I find it ironic that while his economic policies are still held in great reverence, his social policies would have made him un-electable in the modern GOP climate.)