Who was in charge when the banks started failing?  Who started the bail-outs and left the policy in effect when Obama came to office?  Who did everything they could to prevent any improvements to the healthcare system and forced the issue so we have a healthcare plan with no teeth?  The de-regulation of the banks that started this mess began during the Reagan years.  I do believe it was actually his idea.  I grant that there was one Democratic president in the following years who left it that way but I tend to think he had other things on his mind.  He should have caught it but he was busier making sure that the wealthiest people in this country pay their fair share and contribute.  Oh and he did fight for healthcare reform but alas, had less success than our current president.

Now I did it, I brought up old Ronnie Ray-gun.  I hear people now almost worshipping that man and listen to what they say and wonder if they are really remembering the same man I do.  I mean as I just mentioned, it was his policies that led to the economic disaster of the last three years.  He tried to antagonize other world leaders and goad them into conflict.  I believe this was part of his plan to help the economy.  Historically (till Iraq), the economy improved during times of war.  Ex-Governor Bush was after this as well but it blew up in his face.

Let us not forget his “trickle down” theory of economics.  The idea was that giving the rich bigger tax breaks would improve the economy because they would have more to spend and throw more money into the economy and help us all.  Well, it did not work because the rich did what they had always done and merely became richer.  It was such a successful plan that Ex-Governor Bush decided to re-visit it.  This idea was denounced by his own father…Reagan’s vice president, when he called it voodoo economics.  He said it would never work and he was right.  Mark this day down for the history books gang.  Gremlin…agreed with a Bush.

Clinton changed that game and do we remember what happened?  The U.S. government had a surplus and the economy was indeed improving.  Admittedly, he needed to learn to keep it in his pants, or at least keep everyone from knowing… but what did that have to do with the performance of his job?  His ideas were working.

So how did this election go down like this?  The Karl Rove method works.  Keep beating your drum and proclaiming the same things long enough and loudly enough and the sheeple will start to believe you.

          As I said last week, the promise we were given by the Republicans is return to the same operating methods as before.  So will people get the change they seem to believe they were offered?  Obviously not, because we have already been told they want to go right back to the way they were.  The ideas and goals that caused the messes we are in now are going to be repeated.  They want to make the tax cuts permanent and repeal healthcare reform.  How do you continue the tax cuts?  They then claim they want to pull the government’s finances under control but continue to let the wealthiest people off the hook for contributing.  I am not an economist but I see the problem in that.  We finally have a step in the right direction for healthcare and their new speaker of the house calls it an abomination that must be repealed.  What does he care about people who do not have healthcare coverage, because he is wealthy and has coverage?  He even then called ours the best healthcare system in the world.  Dude, wake up, we are far from it.  There are communist nations with better systems.

This is a very sad thing to say but our saving grace is that though the GOP holds the house; the Dems hold the White House and Senate.  They cannot do any of this.  The most we will see is a lot of arguing that will result in nothing.  The Senate can defeat bills from the house and even if it gets past there the president can veto leaving them without the numbers to override him.

         Not enough Democrats showed up at the polls though surveys show the people want things accomplished they were promised.  Somehow the propaganda machine of the other side convinced them in alarming numbers that the Republican plan of change…by doing the same thing, was a good plan.  Is this the will of the people?...............What will?