Sunday, October 17, 2010

Poverty and Recession go hand in hand. Obviously Economic Depressions produce poverty and not much else.


We have recently seen an increase in poverty in the USA.  That should be no surprise to most Republicans.  Under Ronald Reagan the poverty rate escalated and the issue of homelessness came to national attention.

Throughout the week, (click title to entry - thank you) Ronald Reagan has been praised almost non-stop on television, in newspapers and in magazines. Politicians and pundits from both establishment political parties have been practically falling over each other to heap praise on Reagan. And as he is glorified for what are termed his accomplishments and legacy, there is one term that was rose to prominence during Reagan’s time in power that is seldom mentioned. That is "homelessness."


...and following Bush/Cheney and the 2008 econoimc collapse.

...Meanwhile, (click here) millions of Americans are starting to wake up and are beginning to realize that we have very serious problems on our hands, but they have no idea what is causing our economic distress and they are unaware that most of our politicians have absolutely no idea how to fix the economic disaster that we have created....