Yes, things do need to change but it can’t be done piecemeal. Social Security needs to be fixed along the lines of the Gingrich-Clinton proposal. An effort made by the far right wingers to kill Social Security and keep wages so low people have to depend on welfare to survive is unbelievable. They think those people should be putting money aside for retirement–low wages and saving for retirement is incompatible.

Allowing billionaires to buy the Presidency and Congress has to change. We elect people to go to Washington D.C. to do what is best for all of us, not just those who represent a few thousand far right or left wingers. The lefties want to help people that may not need so much aid and the righties want to help the rich by screwing the other 99%.

Remember the boom years of the 80’s and 90’s? Taxes were about 50% more and the economy was good to great. National banks around the world were afraid we would pay off the last of our Treasury Bonds (30 year was gone; 20 year would have been gone by 2003.) Taxes were reduced as soon as Bush got in and the red ink has been rocketing for 15 years.

Less tax means no money for fixing infrastructure. The economy isn’t trickling down because the top 1% has shut the valve tight. The middle class is just a sliver of its former size. The GOP is trying to convince us we are doing better, but we aren’t.