@edgarblythe,
edgarblythe wrote:
On the contrary, the loss of FDR's programs is the most destructive event our nation has experienced in decades, followed closely by the invasion of Iraq. We were a prosperous nation, and workers were paid for their work and time. We had a forty-hour work week. It was not perfect, but throwing the baby out with the bath water was a sellout to the oligarchs and their bribery of our government officials.
Hey, Edgar Blythe, you're responding to the converted. Each recent Republican administration has sought to dismantle the safety net. Paul Ryan's theme song is cut Social Security, and others Republicans are saying raise the retirement age. The Republicans have slashed Food stamps, and cut grants to Hospitals....there are pockets of hungry people all over America. When Ronald Reagan first became president of the US, the homeless began appearing on every corner of major metropolitan cities. Today's world is not like it used to be, the kind of climate FDR fostered when Unions assured workers of a fair wage, which in turn helped to create the Middle Class. Hell, today major businesses are reluctant to pay a decent wage to live on. Bernie Sanders speaks of creating such a time again, but the powerful forces of influence are against him, namely, big business, corporations, fewer and fewer Unions with the latter about to become obsolete.
The point I was making is today it is unrealistic to expect our government to transform itself and return to the bygone days that Sanders ascribes to. It just won't work in the current climate. Even if we get another Democratic president, chances are the Republicans will retain the House led by the Tea Party, making sure no progress back to the good ole days will materialize. Many good Congressmen/women in the House and the Senate have elected to not run again because the Congress is just too brutal. Remember the nutcase, Cruz, who shut down the government because of ObamaCare which was already the law of the land? Talking about an act in futility! Our government, until it gets rid of the Tea Party, will be like children in a schoolyard, incompetent and meaningless.
