Democrats Helped Concentrate Wealth

Obama signed permanent tax cuts into law and helped concentrate wealth. He used deficit spending to fund government while letting the national infrastructure continue decay. Fewer Americans were employed at the end of his second term than in the past 30 years.

President Roosevelt raised the tax rates on the rich to as high as 75% and created numerous new programs to put people to work and make new national infrastructure. After five years or so of growth there was a recession that was cut short by the need to meet military challenges posed by Germany. President Roosevelt made Americans more optimistic and did bring the nation out of a great depression.

President Reagan took a different policy to stimulate a national mired in what was called the Carter malaise. That was the very high interest rates and inflation along with the protracted Iranian hostage crisis following the rather dismal conclusion of the Vietnam conflict and the end of the wild and crazy war year protests and counterculture left the nation feeling rather postpartum.

Because President Obama raised debt and cut taxes while letting the infrastructure rot and failing to secure the Mexican border to create significant ground-breaking infrastructure projects though supported the enrichment of Wall Street banks that allowed the rich to grow richer... 

 http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38613488  8 Billionaires as rich as half the world's people) wealth became concentrated in the U.S.A.

The U.S. left acted as if civil rights meant no more than special interest rights for particular constituent classes. The democrat party was encouraged to lose its historical basis during the 50s and 1960s of being concerned primarily with economic class interests and act as if it were still the 1970s, or even the pre-Jim Crowe, pre-1964 civil rights act, pre-Rowe v. Wade era and riot as if Rioter's Lives Matter was all that mattered in the U.S.A.

If the Democrat Party platform was simple to concern itself with raising the economic well-being of those earning $0 to $50,000 regardless of race, gender or perversion it would have its oars in the water at least a little instead of not at all. Democrats should move forward as it once did supporting the idea of national material progress rather than developing cultural multi-personality syndrome seeking to make the nation a global village with donkeys and huts and public markets with lots of dope. President Obama seemed to support retiring as people as early as possible so they could smoke dope and be indifferent to the idea of ecospheric and economic reconstruction with new technological methods.

President Obama bailed out a failing corporation-Chrysler, thereby keeping an air polluting gas guzzling fossil fuel maker in business. Michigan would not even let Tesla sell its cars on other franchised dealer lots in that state and if it could its sales of electric vehicles might increase, yet even so the President pumped up the major source of air pollution in the United States today instead of letting technology advance on the free market as he should have.

A forward thinking President might build a cross-the heart X of Japanese electric bullet trains across the U.S.A. from Seattle to Salt Lake, Albuquerque, Dallas to Jacksonville on one axis and new York to Los Angeles on the other. There would also be a Chicago to New Orleans bullet line.

Instead of reinforcing existing establishment populous corridors and organically building those up with thoughtless, dogmatic inertia that compounds existing social problems and lavishness, the new X bullet lines would allow very low cost trans-continental seasonal migration for the homeless to warm places in the south. Much of the south and Midwest have rural towns with areas that slumped after the 1970s for economic reasons with vacant buildings that could easily be converted to seasonal housing.

Spur lines might connect to the low cost electric train travel to serve additional areas. One would expect that many drivers would choose to leave their fossil fuel vehicle at home and take the train to rent an electric bicycle wherever they go at the distant end.