Article: What We're Looking For

Three billion dollars in environmental clean up costs have been moved from corporate to public liabilities. Thousands of worker pensions have been moved from corporate to public benefits plans all to assist the bottom line of the number two automaker in China. Chrysler's sale to Fiat was claimed by the administration to save jobs but just forty-two days after the sale was consummated the new owners announced the end of nine American built models to be replaced by Italian models built in Mexico.

Was the administration deceived or were we deceived by the administration? I ask only because this administration ran for office as Democrats and then filled it's ranks with Republicans like Robert Gates and Alan Simpson. It adopts Republican policies and pushes Republican solutions and when at loggerheads in Congress capitulates to Republicans in the name of bipartisanship. Harry Truman once said, "Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me."

There is a pinnacle and you must come down on one side or the other either a government that invests in the future or a government that panders to special interests and the thundering herd with the promise of tax cuts. If you believe that tax cuts are the answer to our economic woes then you agree with Ronald Reagan and George Bush. If you believe in growing the economy through government spending in new technologies and infrastructure then you are a Democrat and you agree with Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter.

During the last Great Depression President Herbert Hoover was concerned more about the deficit than about a stimulus his Reconstruction Finance Corporation was too small to be effective. It was geared more towards loans to assist businesses, banks and railroads while ignoring the general poverty of the people. This is the difference in the philosophies the Republicans believe in top down and Democrats believe in bottom up.

Tax cuts don't work, top down doesn't work, it didn't work for Hoover. It didn't work for Reagan and it didn't work for Bush. When the monies gone you no longer have the economic muscle necessary to fix an economy in depression. You have a wealthy elite, a struggling middle class and a growing underclass. These Republican policies didn't work for Republicans so why would they work for Obama? What we're looking for are real Democrats.

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