When did the middle class lose representation in Washington?

Question

Lou Dobbs was a guest on the Michael Medved radio show this week and made the statement that our government is controlled by corporations and that the middle class has no representation in Washington at all. When asked by Medved when this came about Lou stated that it had started in the seventies.Medved immediatley began chirping in his right wing talk show host way because that would have implicated Ronald Reagan.I don't know if Lou was being a good guest or a coward but he qualified his statement to say that process was not complete until sometime between Bush Sr. and Bill Clinton.

When do you think that the process started?
When do you think that the process was complete?

xg6 How can you say Reagan made tax cuts equally? He put the burden of Social Security on the shoulders of low and middle income taxpayers which represented the largest tax increase on the middle class in the history of this country

Answer 1

Statistically Lou Dobbs was right on. Also he was really accurate on when the process culminated.....More accurately during the latter part of Clintons administration when Newt Gingrich and his programs started taking effect.

Answer 2

I would put it squarely in Bush Sr's presidency. The Reagan tax cuts were spread more evenly among the poor thru rich classes. Daddy Bush's presidency signaled the beginning of the preference of the Republicans for the upper class wage earners.

Answer 3

It started in 1913 with the creation of the Federal Reserve System (centralized socialist bank) and the unconstitutional income tax. Workers are punished while the upper class elite sends all their money to the Cayman Islands and pay no taxes whatsoever. The only thing they pay is campaign contributions to buy politicials off and make sure they get everything they want.