[Hoot Gibson]

You're right, TRT, Mitch and Pauley were never in the Trump camp. Mitch pretended because that's what he does. Hoot is right, Mitch is a snake . But he's more clever than the snake in the Garden of Eden(did I just compare him to Satan?) He is easily one of the shrewdest(and most self-serving) politicians in my lifetime. People underestimate that bastard at their own peril.

Total transparency. I made the switch to the Republican side during the Reagan years and thought I had left all or most of the lying deceit and getting played behind. In the preceding election I had voted for Jimmy Carter. A good man who didn't really understand economics and I believe, got thoroughly manipulated by his liberal advisors.

But soon I realized that Capital Hill is just another collection of self absorbed snobs whose lives and actions are governed largely by peer pressure; but who walk around acting more like monarchs than 535 public servants. Conservatives have no more of a safe haven by automatic votes for Republicans, than blue collar America can depend on Democrats to provide good jobs. A little aside on that; when Dems first started claiming they 'created' jobs, the entire media horse laughed them to scorn. Supply and demand creates jobs. The three main groups being courted by the Dems of the 60's were organized labor (who Dems have always played for suckers and used as a pinata), women, and the black community. Now they just say all Republicans are rich greedy white men who callously care for nothing except themselves.

Mitch did pretend with Trump. Going simple majority on judges was the one thing he did to work with the administration. But shrewd as he is, in going against Trump he still brought down his own house because I don't think he saw the loss of Majority Leader in the tea leaves.

Looks like we can agree on one thing "Supply and demand creates jobs"
The problem is you think give everything to the top and it will trickle down it doesn't we have tried that for 40 years and what has it accomplished ? No more middle class 
Before Reagan we had a strong middle class in this country after 40 years of trickle down Reagan voodoo economics it's just about gone

It is the redistribution of wealth which has nearly completely finished destroying the middle class. In a word, taxes. And while you have denied what what has gone on right in front of your eyes; your Dem heroes have been both arsonist and fireman. Then you come on here explaining it all with the same 50 year old union parroted baloney that your grandfather swallowed. The only economic turnaround that went any faster than the one Reagan presided over was that of one DJT.

How can you claim that their has been a redistribution of wealth when the 20 wealthiest persons in the US have more wealth than the bottom 50% total?  I'm no socialist, but this tells me that the middle class has shrunk due to the wealthiest getting wealthier, and until something is done to change this, the middle class will continue to shrink.  I was a believer in trickle down economics at one time, but it seems to have run it's course.  

Nearly half of the U.S. was in or near poverty before the Pandemic, so it seems obvious to me that something drastic must change, and starting with higher taxes on the rich seems to be the best place to start, which may require an overhaul of the tax codes.  Severely restricting PAC money and lobbyist as well as term limits on politicians would also be high on my agenda.

The middle class had not shrunk before the pandemic. The poverty rate before the pandemic was well below 50 percent and it declined every year from 2016 through 2019. If you cared about a shrinking middle class, then you would have been a Trump supporter.

Reopening the floodgates to illegal aliens will cause an increase in the poverty rate and a decline in the median wage level in this country. Raising taxes on corporations and the upper 20 percent of wage earners always results in a loss of jobs because it makes American companies less competitive in the global economy. Restricting PAC money and lobbying have nothing to do with jobs and the poverty rate in this country.

If you want to do something to improve our economy, lower the unemployment rate, and increase the size of the middle class, then you should be advocating for a get tough on China policy. Washington is full of politicians who have been raking in cash from companies affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party. If the influence of the CCP on our politicians is eliminated, CCP spies were arrested and deported, and foreign agents were prosecuted and sentenced to long prison terms for intellectual property theft, our economy would resume its strong growth that preceded the pandemic.

If you support Joe Biden's anti-capitalist economic and immigration policies, don't be too confident that you are not a socialist.