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.
