Poverty In Suburbs Increasing Rapidly During Economic Downturn

As a very old liberal Democrat, I tell you that the seeds for a complete financial meltdown were planted before Bush-Cheney & during each administration going back to Reagan (& actually, before that, back to Nixon).



We were put on this path by a push for unrestrained & unregulated capitalism. Corporations have managed to game our political system, & done it so effectively that the two-party system competes to serve corporate interests while defending that service as, "What's good for GM (corporations) is good for America (WeThePeople)".



Democrats (controlled by the DLC, & that's important to remember) & Republicans are corporate t00Is. Like siblings competing for the attention & approval (campaign contributions) of a parent, Republicans & DLC-controlled Democrats try to outdo each other in delivering for their real constituent, BigCorporations. The trick for them's been to make it seem as if they were really working on behalf of WeThePeople.



Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama & Democrats were for strong regulations on banks, WallStreet, investigations, prosecutions, restitution of what's been robbed from the middle class & poor for the past 30+ years, environmental clean-up, clean, sustainable renewable energy (& that isn't nuclear), putting an end to the wars & occupation of Iraq & Afghanistan, affordable, quality universal healthcare (which ObamaCare is not), and more. The DLC-controlled DemocraticParty gives lip service to these & all populist issues, because like the RepublicanParty, the DLC works for the benefit of transnational corporations.



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