'Will it Go 'Round in Circles?'

President Obama may simply be another President Carter if he really pushed for the middle-class and working poor. He may be a one term president without much support from the middle. The push seems to be toward reelection. The administration has long pushed for political power. After all, the arena is politics and the name of this game is power. The question is how it is maneuvered. The upper-middle, those who were included in the Bush tax cut extensions, has to be secured as well as those "Reagan Democrats" if Obama is to retain the White House. This is undoubtedly why President Clinton did not change many of the policies of President Reagan and this is probably why President Obama has done the same with regards to those of President Bush. Billy Preston's song comes to mind, "Will it Go 'Round in Circles."

Economic policies go 'round in circles, about every seven years since the push for deregulation championed by Reagan and continued by Clinton. But if they are broken down, they will probably reveal that there are no real left/right positions. There is only positions of power, the state of the economy, powered by small business but controlled by big business subsided by the government -- the people.

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