No argument as to the fact that it's been worsening since long before Obama. He's just a puppet like the last 10 presidents. The only thing inflaming about him, versus Bush, is that at least Bush WANTED to fix the economy in an intelligent way, and Obama thinks that a money tree is growing someplace where we just can't quite see it.
The government needs to get pared down to an army/navy/air force & marines, and MAYBE a post office... Every other government entity needs to be disbanded and abolished. Then we won't need all this tax money. We didn't even need federal income tax all the way from 1776 until World War I. Furthermore, the Industrial Revolution happened before any income tax, and people like Henry Ford and other major corporate founders, were only able to build their factories full of happy workers withOUT all the government crap. The US economy grew steadily from 1620 (no thanks to England taxing our pants off for the first 150 years) when the pilgrims showed up at Plymouth Rock, until the 20th century when the government got greedy and the people got lazy. There's proof that all these social programs are bogus.
Charles
Bro, I agree big government is bad news. However, prior to 1890, there was no government intervention with state and local affairs. The states handled their own business (no regulation). But there was nobody to put the robber barons in check. Rockefeller (oil), Carnegie (steel), Du Pont (textiles), and Vanderbilt (railroads). Those men were capitalist czars. They monopolized their industries. Shrewd businessmen, who built empires, choked out competition, maintained high prices, kept low wages, and used government subsidies. Therefore, capitalism was turned into imperialism. Progressivism (1890-1910) was spawned because of robber barons. Consequently, government started to get in involved by implementing anti-trust laws and regulations (Elkins Act, Hepburn Act). Second, saftey was a serious issue in relation to the working class (unfair labor conditions). In 1889, according to the Interstate Commerce Commission records, 22,000 railroad workers were killed or injured because there was no saftey precautions.. Unsanitary working conditions were prevalent during that time. Read Upton Sinclair's
The Jungle, the book gives an excellent description of the Chicago Meat Industry. You might not ever eat meat again if you read that book... Horrible, to say the least, that spawned T. Roosevelt to implement The Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906 (FDA).
In 1885, the gold reserve of the United Sates was depleted, while twenty-six New York City banks had $130 million in gold in their vaults. J.P. Morgan & Company offered to give the government gold in exchange for bonds. President Cleveland agreed. Morgan immediately resold the bonds at higher prices, making $18 million profit. Morgan and the rest of the robber barons were in cahoots with big bankers... controlling the banks, which spawned the Federal Reserve (1913). They also spawned "labor unions," because of unfair labor practices... That is why we are in the shape we are in now... some people are lazy, government is out of control, but you have to look in retrospect to see why things are today----thank you Mr. Morgan, thank you Mr. Carnegie, thank you Mr. Du Pont----you guys were soooo gracious.. Regulaton was indespensible!!!!
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