They want to convince people that their ideas are based on sound "economic theories" . Things like "invisible hand", "trickle down economics", "free market" and the like. And look where this "philosophy" has led us. To a failed economy with trillions in bailout for big banks (wall street) from the government, millions of jobs shipped to low-wage countries (mainly China), complete disrespect for workers' rights and environmental laws.
Look at this graph and do not tell me that it does not have anything to do with "income inequality".
These things do not happen by accident, they are a result of a wrong ideology which favors the rich (1%) at the expense of everybody else (99%). The tragic irony is that these ideologues are all for the "free market" when there is profit to fatten their pockets, but when the things go south, as during the crash of 2008, they sheepishly run, with the paints or skirts in their hands, to the government (no problem with socialism there). A tenet of their philosophy is very clear: privatize profits and socialize losses. What a bunch of dangerous psychopaths!!
The saying "what is good for General Electric is good for America" does not work anymore. The saying must be reversed, as it always was, and must read: What is good for America is good for General Electric.
The Country needs a different kind of leadership at every level (not only the political one). Please, listen to what a clever plutocrat has to say.
Unfortunately, the destructive ideology that has led the Country to the economic disaster is not attributable to the republicans only but also to all the so called democrats that have been riding along profiting handsomely from it.
If you cozy up with the wall street crowd, you are one of 'em and you must be defeated.
Please watch An Economic Agenda for America: 12 Steps Forward.
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