Reviewing Reagan’s record

At this point in his first term, President Ronald Reagan’s un employment rate was 9.4 percent;

President Obama’s is 9.1. Peagan raised taxes twice, Obama has cut taxes for 98 percent of working Americans. The tax rates are the lowest since the 1950s. The corporations, through their “bought and paid for” legislators demand lower taxes. How much lower than zero can you go? Their CEOs make more in salary, than the companies pay in taxes.

Reagan raised the debt 83 percent, Obama has raised it 40 percent in a cri ses not seen since the Great Depression. Obama was handed a $10 trillion deficit and 780,000 jobs lost a month by a presi dent that had a surplus when he came to office.

Reagan would give the shirt off his back if he personally saw the need, but dur ing his presidency, the middle class and the poor languished in stagnation. At the same time the wealthy saw their fortunes quadruple. Sound familiar?

F.D.R. kept Reagan from starving dur ing the Depression, but he didn’t remem ber that during his public service. “Trickle Down” economics was an abject failure.

With the continuation of the Reagan policies during the Bush years, the mid dle class and the poor have been deci mated. The gap between the rich and the rest of us has increased to the biggest amount since the 1920s. The imbalance is worse than in many banana republics. When the middle class is not strong and vibrant, economies fail.

Since there are middle class Republi cans, would someone explain to me why they think, react and vote against their financial interests. What Republican gave them Social Security, Medicare, fair wages and a lunch hour?