The Reagan GOP Legacy - 400 Billionaires

[TheMastersNemesis]

The Reagan Revolution has succeeded. The US has gone from 15 billionaires to 400 since 1980's. Workers' rights,pay benefits,pensions and job security has gone deep into the sewers. That is what the last 32 years has brought us. And many Americans kept voting for the present economic scenario. My how well trickle down economics works.

And Romney and the GOP want to create a new Reagan like revolution. No taxes for the "job creators" who will reign their prosperity on the peasants who work for them. Are we a ship of fools or what in this country. The fact that this election will be close and millions of voters will defend these uber rich is a testament to our ignorance.

[brewens]

1. Yup. If you had all those people paying a reasonable level of taxes, kept

the pay of corporate executives proportionate to what we had in the 50's through 70's and not allowed jobs to be exported, we'd be in great shape. Also not allowing unions to be torn down of course.

I mean other than needing reform in race relations and womens rights, what was so bad about the way we used to run things? Right-wingers are certainly nostalgic about those days when they want to be. The Reagan years don't exactly invoke images of Mayberry. They say they want their country back when they are the ones that threw it away.

[onehandle]

2. That's ok, because the population is 26.7 times higher since then.

It's proportion.

The U.S. population is now 6,047,550,000 now.

Right?