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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe hero worship of this monster must end.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,627 posts)Warpy
(111,292 posts)So I sent it out to a big mail list.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)...especially when referring to Ronald Reagan.
xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)I remember seeing many of them in the Uptown section of Chicago. Not only were they homeless, many were unmedicated schizophrenics left to wander alone and abandoned. Some did not even have the wherewithal to beg. Sickening!
xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)I was auditing for the Retail Clerks Union.
Samantha
(9,314 posts)That is what Reagan taught us.
Sam
jeff47
(26,549 posts)"Second world" countries isn't right.
The "worlds" originated during the cold war.
"First world" was the US, Western Europe and allies.
"Second world" was the USSR, China, and the communist bloc
"Third world" was everyone else.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World
Brigid
(17,621 posts)K & R.
ellennelle
(614 posts)um, could the font be ANY smaller????
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Or else I'd miss half these things.
1monster
(11,012 posts)AzDar
(14,023 posts)HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)President Reagan's director of the United States Office of Personnel Management at the time, Donald J. Devine, argued that "when the president said no...American business leaders were given a lesson in managerial leadership that they could not and did not ignore. Many private sector executives have told me that they were able to cut the fat from their organizations and adopt more competitive work practices because of what the government did in those days. I would not be surprised if these unseen effects of this private sector shakeout under the inspiration of the president were as profound in influencing the recovery that occurred as the formal economic and fiscal programs."
In 2011, Oxford University Press published Joseph McCartin's book, "Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, The Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America". Reviewing the book in Review 31, Richard Sharpe claimed Reagan was "laying down a marker" for his presidency: "The strikers were often working class men and women who had achieved suburban middle class lives as air traffic controllers without having gone to college. Many were veterans of the US armed forces where they had learned their skills; their union had backed Reagan in his election campaign. Nevertheless, Reagan refused to back down. Several strikers were jailed; the union was fined and eventually made bankrupt. Only about 800 got their jobs back when Clinton lifted the ban on rehiring those who had struck. Many of the strikers were forced into poverty as a result of being blacklisted for employment."
Oh, and to top himself . . . the following year, he signed the Garn/St Germain bill, which relaxed FDR-era limits on thrifts and sent banksters and speculators on their 80s financial/real estate piracy, setting a precedent in the form of taking a big black axe to the savings and well being of seniors and workers. The S & L Crisis of the 80s happened in no small part due to this horrible piece of legislation. All part of the Reagan-fused "Great Risk Shift" which continues unabated to this day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garn_-_St_Germain_Depository_Institutions_Act
SunSeeker
(51,578 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)ErikJ
(6,335 posts)largest Debtor nation.
tblue
(16,350 posts)Never voted for him. Never believed him. Never forgave him. Never wanted to think about him. The only decent thing he ever did was give us his son, Ron Reagan.
a kennedy
(29,682 posts)lexw
(804 posts)It'll trickle down eventually.
You were expecting it to trickle in a mere 30 years?
C'mon be realistic!
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)When I first heard that phrase used years ago, I knew what they meant. And boy did it come to reality during Bush and Cheney.
It really sucks when a presidentespecially a popular one (I guess he was popular, I didn't like him)looks his country in the eyes and tells them this will be good for the country...when he knows damn well it's only good for a few.
Arrgh!
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)"dont piss down my back and tell me it's raining" comes to mind
lexw
(804 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)lexw
(804 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)and my watch it tomorrow. Chief Dan George stole the show.
lexw
(804 posts)1monster
(11,012 posts)and not feel that I'd seen it enough.
Whether or not he recognizes it, this movie was his master work.
Lobo27
(753 posts)Boggles the damn mind.
lexw
(804 posts)HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
madokie
(51,076 posts)it was and still is in my as well as my countries better interest too. I'm a witness to this decline and that is why I very much dislike this reagan cretin of a caricature of a man
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)And he said "the US is looking forward to eating Indian mangoes", under an agreement to expand trade in farm products.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4764826.stm
Bettie
(16,112 posts)Is that today, he'd be reviled as a leftist.
And he is the one who engineered (or the people around him as I don't think he was all that bright himself) our slide into our current economic state.
Still, the Right worships him.
I don't understand them at all.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)h2ebits
(644 posts)we can only move forward and correct the problems.
Stand strong!
LeftishBrit
(41,208 posts)Little Star
(17,055 posts)Boomerproud
(7,960 posts)Every Ronnie idolator should have to read it and explain why every word isn't the gospel truth.