you know, my friend, that's an interesting hypothesis.
and yet pretty much every time a republican is president we end up in a recession.
corporations are making record profits. they aren't paying workers commensurate with inflation while they are rewarding their upper echelon execs and offshoring their income and workers. and that has nothing to do with the difference between $8 an hour and $15 an hour. how do we know this? wherever wages are higher, e.g., Australia, the economy, including businesses, do better.
why? because if the middle class is destroyed, as it has been by rightwing policies, then they don't have money to buy goods.
you don't see a problem with that?
Why? Because the last two Republican presidents we've had (George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush) implemented liberal policy across the board. Let's take a quick peak at history:
The economy completely and totally collapses under Jimmy Carter and his liberal policy. Ronald Reagan steps in, implements true conservative policy, and not only does the economy rebound, it flourishes. We ride the Reagan economic tidal wave until the early 2000's, when Bill Clinton's 1997 Community Re-Investment Act finally collapses the housing market.
Barack Obama has had 8 years and 100% of the policies he demanded (he got Obamacare, he got the banking regulations, the credit card regulations, the stimulus packages, etc.) - all of which he insisted would solve the economic crisis. What do we have to show for it? Well, we have nearly double the national debt from when he took over. We have more people on food stamps than when he took over. We have more people who have completely dropped out of the workforce than when he took over. And we're seeing higher costs than when he took over (healthcare costs, energy costs, gas, etc.).
So...be honest with me dear friend....are these absurd communist Cuban left-wing policies working? Set aside your ideology for a moment, look at the facts and the data, and tell me that these are actually working. Come on.
By the way, do you really believe that Barack Obama (an admitted Marxist) wakes up every day and cares about you? He attended Columbia while Cloward & Piven (two Columbian professors) were preaching their strategy on how to collapse the U.S. by overloading the social programs, blaming capitalism, and then replacing it with communism. And incidentally, Barack Obama and his cronies (Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, etc.) need people on the government plantation. That's why the middle class is shrining. They realize that if the middle class disappears, and they can grow the lower class dependent on government for even their most basic needs, then it is likely those people will vote Democrat and Obama and his cronies get to stay in power. Why would you support people hungry for power and determined to get you into poverty to ensure their power? That is
insane. I've posted this many times and it is indisputably true...
"They Republicans are for the rich. Democrats are for the poor. If they need more voters, the they have to make more of who they are for". And make not mistake about it - Barack Obama has done a brilliant job of collapsing the economy and creating more poor Democrat voters. The numbers don't lie.