Are Democrats right about Government control?

20 years ago I would have posted the same thing. But the economy and the world is a different place now, and it's not that they are OK, it is that an increasing population in a world that is not getting any bigger dictates this. When you were in your 20s, you could get a stable job in manufacturing and support a wife and 3 kids and a single family house. Now, in many places for a person with a median income, rent/mortgage alone would eat up more than half of their pay - and they have little control over that. Wages for middle class workers simply have not kept up with the cost of living increases. Not even close. It's not that they want to be reliant on the governement, it is that the cannot survive if the government does not provide some checks on the greedy (housing costs have little to do with demand from occupants, they are due to demand from investors). From a personal standpoint as a white male, I directly benefited from redline and school bussing programs in the 1970s, which exponentially increased the value of my parents' house, turning us from a family struggling to pay bills to one that could now afford property in a wealthy neighborhood. My dad retired a millionare not from salary earnings, but from increases in property value arising from racist housing policies from the 1970s.