if the economy was doing so well, then why does the debt go up about a million a minute?
1. Reagan tripled Carter's debt yet he is your party's greatest icon.
2. Bush 43 doubled Clinton's debt, yet your side said nothing. He also raised the debt ceiling 4x when your side controlled the House/Senate. You are a slave to a media bubble which didn't report any of this.
3. Since you support a political party whose presidents always manage to spend more than their democratic predecessors, and since your party never truly holds its president's accountable for raising the debt ceiling or packing every bill with pork for Republican voting districts, why on ******* earth would we take you seriously?
4. In 1980 Ronald Reagan told us we needed to liberalize trade laws so that production could shift to the most profitable labor markets. He said the expanded profits (made possible by lower labor costs) would trickle down. The opposite happened. The jobs are gone. The only jobs that come back are ones that under bid the 3rd world, i.e., shit pay.
The upward mobility of the liberal postwar years, 1945-1975, was created by affordable education and high wages/benefits. Reagan said our we could no longer afford the tax burden associated with affordable education, and our capitalists could no longer afford the wage structure associated with an upwardly mobile middle class. So he got us to dismantle those things. Affordable education is gone, and capitalist production has been shipped to freedom hating tyrannies in China and the 3rd world. [You get this right? Nike investors make higher profits when their sneakers are made in sweatshops for pennies. By shifting major industries - e.g., textiles - to Asian sweatshops, Reaganomics decimated the Anerican worker, while making the owners of capital wealthy enough to buy politicians. Your political party's greatest icon sold the American worker down river and ******* destroyed this country]
After Reagan made it easier to shift capitalist production to freedom hating tyrannies, the only thing that trickled down to the middle class were credit cards and debt.
You get this right? When jobs were shipped to more profitable labor markets, the wages associated with those jobs evaporated. In the absence of livable wages, the middle class increasingly relied on credit/debt to survive. So, starting in 1980 American families took on unprecedented levels of debt. Now the middle class is marching into old age with nothing but debt, as all the country's wealth goes into fewer and fewer hands.
This inequality of wealth means that some families have the resources to buy the American government. Don't you get it? Concentrated wealth is concentrated political power. The failed promise of Reaganomics - the failure of trickle down economics - has turned the middle and lower classes into debt slaves with no political power and no future - and it is the job of talk radio to channel their rage at everyone but the political movement that caused the problem. Meanwhile, your party has quietly created the very concentrated political power that you claim to be against.
But yes. The promise of livable wages and affordable education was destroyed to make room for higher profits and low taxes for the wealthy - and the result is a small class of plutocrats who own government coupled with a massive class of desperate debt slaves who are vulnerable to talk radio demagogues peddling scapegoats.
Do you even know what supply side economics is? Do you know how much Reagan spent compared to Carter. You've been lied to. You need to turn off talk radio and study the actual policies and actual spending records of your Party, including Reagan, the great Conservative. Your ignorance over what the Republican Party has done to this country is killing us. Turn off FOX and get yourself to a library.
And we should keep listening to you? Why?