Curse you Ronald Reagan! Oh, and BTW: Gimme money!

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

babsbunny  (1000+ posts)      Fri Jun-25-10 09:00 PM
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Mission Accomplished: The Reagan Occupation and the Destruction of the American Middle Class
 http://blog.buzzflash.com/contributors/3310

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meh

I'm only ten dollars from giving a ****.

Eighty years ago, something occurred in America that was never supposed to happen. An aristocrat came to the presidency and engineered a policy revolution that created a broad and prosperous middle class where it had not existed as such before.

To do this, Franklin Roosevelt and his party had to rewrite the existing rules of wealth redistribution in the United States

Remind me again why these bags of ass trashed Joe the Plumber.

...such that the traditionally fantastically wealthy overclass (which had grown even fatter as the industrialism of the prior century concentrated wealth yet further) would become merely tremendously wealthy from that point forward, in order to leave enough for others to live a decent life.

Start with George Soros and I'll believe you.

Needless to say, this rankled the country club set, but, remarkably, they more or less made peace with this development during the early decades of the post-war era, and largely cooperated with the new economic order. So did their political representatives. The Eisenhower administration was the first chance after twenty years of the New Deal to dismantle the newly created American welfare state, and Ike not only refused to take that opportunity, but famously labeled those in his party who wanted to as “stupid."

QUERY: Have you read about JFK's tax cuts?

I thought so.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8635207

[ReaganForRushmore]

If they're talking about the racist Woodrow Wilson, DUmmies need to read some history and learn about the Great Recession of the early 1920's. It was worse than the Great Depression. Calvin Coolidge came in and instituted policies that gave rise to the Roaring 20's. It was his untimely death, by a heart attack I think, that let a RINO, Herbert Hoover screw everything up and give rise to FDR.

Sadly, history repeats with Reagan, then Bush, now Obama.....let's hope Obama doesn't have 13 years like FDR had.

[jukin]

The lack of historical fact at the DUmp is ASTOUNDING.

[Ballygrl]

Amazing how Reagan still gets under their skin 30 years after being elected. To irritate them even more? Reagan DESERVES to be on Mount Rushmore!

[diesel driver]

Amazing how Reagan still gets under their skin 30 years after being elected. To irritate them even more? Reagan DESERVES to be on Mount Rushmore!

That, and the Nobel Prize, a whole HELL of a lot more than Zero and Algore the Sex Poodle....

[NHSparky]

If they're talking about the racist Woodrow Wilson, DUmmies need to read some history and learn about the Great Recession of the early 1920's. It was worse than the Great Depression. Calvin Coolidge came in and instituted policies that gave rise to the Roaring 20's. It was his untimely death, by a heart attack I think, that let a RINO, Herbert Hoover screw everything up and give rise to FDR.

Sadly, history repeats with Reagan, then Bush, now Obama.....let's hope Obama doesn't have 13 years like FDR had.

Actually, Harding was sworn in a president in 1921.  Guy was pretty corrupt and had he not died in office, it's likely he would have been impeached over Teapot Dome.  But yes, Coolidge did institute a lot of the measures (including tax rates) which dramatically grew the economy in the 1920's.