This article in the Fiscal Times by Liz Peek, former Wall Street analyst and one of the first women to become a partner in a Wall Street firm, really nails it. Forget the part about Obama paving the way for Trump. Not that the author is wrong, It is just that her summary of the Obama team record on the socioeconomic issues important to most Americans is what is compellingly succinct and on target. And, as the author maintains, it is dismal. Our legacy obsessed president concentrates on fair (preferential?) treatment of illegals and transgenders and the LGBT community generally along with quixotic wars on bending the direction of climate change and the phobias (Islamo, homo) and “isms” (native, gender, race) of the constituency that elected him while sticking to the tax-paying public to pay up. Meanwhile, hardworking middle class families see cities hauling out the welcome mat for people in our country illegally -- while their tax dollars provide those immigrants...(Read Full Post)