Forgotten People Quotes
Referring to President Ronald Reagan whose administration was very good for the wealthy and the large corporations but economically was the start of a downward spiral in the income of the lower middle and lower classes of the society. Reagan and many politicians of both parties were often oblivious to the lives of people not in the upper strata of society. It was not so much that they were against the middle class and poor; they just did not have much contact with them and their plight was list in the averaging of economic statistics that showed increasing income.
This title for his poem (see Quotation 643954) itself entered the political vocabulary, and has been used in many periods since its 1932, Great Depression creation. Periodically in the American Democracy, large groups of Americans had not fared as well as the rest of the country and not only seemed to be, but were de facto forgotten by the political establishment, often in a lack of words as well as an absence of help and solutions.
