BornToBeWild, as I mentioned some time ago, the fact that SUDDENLY the people who were millionaires became billionaires is extremely significant.  The middle and lower economic classes did not experience those kinds of gains even if they were lucky in the stock markets. 

Of course it is difficult to understand how it could have happened, but what is more significant is that the very wealthy were getting extremely wealthy while the rest of the masses were standing still at best. 

That is going to impact us more as time goes on.  The extremely wealthy will able to keep up with the rest of the world, but the masses won't any longer enjoy the economic advantages that most Americans have had beyond most of the other people in the world for more than sixty years.

Yes, it's true that the government has a lot of control over the citizens.  However, it would be delusional to think that that all began or increased significantly with Obama taking office. 

Yet many of the same Democrats and Republicans have been reelected numerous times over the years.....so some people must either vote according to the party or else they must approve of the jobs that these people have been doing.  They didn't all go bad suddenly this year.