Have you forgotten the Bush years? And how they ended? Why did that happen?
There's also the small matter of the S&L crisis, not to mention the slick way that the FRB smoothed over the LTCM affair.
Tax cuts at the top create jobs? Deregulation creates jobs? Shee-it, Sherlock- it just means our Capitalists have more money to finance offshoring, automation & high flying financial schemes like privatization.
Not to mention that you can already see the payback process being crafted in public and it won't take long for el president to begin in earnest what he's scheming right now. People in power use knowledge to manipulate people and circumstances to their benefit and politicians have become masters of this universe. Rich business men are not going to sit idly by and let this golden opportunity to roll back the gains that the working people have made with all of the protections that have been put in place since the Wagner Act of 1935.
People in manufacturing who believe that the Republican party is on your side need to devote several months and sit down and study the Industrial Revolution in earnest looking at the details about who did what. Check out their policy of Laissez Faire and understand exactly what that means to working people as they work feverishly to repeal protections across the board.
Look at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and other incidents where people were treated as commodities to be consumed. When you take your automobile to the dealership to be serviced do you even give it a second thought when you see
the service department moniker? How a working person could be conned into believing that a man who has practiced this philosophy his entire life would suddenly change his position before an election is just mind boggling. Just hang on because you are about to receive exactly what you've asked for.