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Joe your attitude is why Progressive economies fail 100% of the time. Capital is the life blood of an economy
No it isn't.
Capital is a parasite that has convinced you it's a vital organ, and its spends as much time selling junk as providing needed services.
Whenever you guys whine 'Well, you see, Socailism didn't work", it's usually a country like Cuba that wasn't any great shakes before Socialism was tried. And you ignore Europe and Japan where it works just fine.
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They don't see capital as the parasitic enemy in Scandinavia like you do, Joseif. Capital is taxed at a much lower rate than income in Sweden. They understand that free trade and capital investment is important to maintain their standard of living.
Thuggery is why manufacturing jobs left the north. Why would anyone want to invest with goons like you?
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They don't see capital as the parasitic enemy in Scandinavia like you do, Joseif. Capital is taxed at a much lower rate than income in Sweden. They understand that free trade and capital investment is important to maintain their standard of living.
Thuggery is why manufacturing jobs left the north. Why would anyone want to invest with goons like you?
Obviously, you've never tried to get product into a scandinavian country.
Manufacturing left AMERICA because the Free Traders decided that they could make more money exploiting child labor in the third world. Just because they opened a few factories in JesusLand doesn't mean much.
I have one vendor in the South that I use. I've asked Corporate to fire their asses for about a year. I am still awaiting stock that I ordered in February from these clowns. They usually ship things missing parts, so we've had to open the box to check. Cleetus and BillyBob aren't getting the job because they do it better.
Of course, we are talking about people who fly the Confederate Flag like that's something to be proud of.
How old are you?????? 20's? Because only a young idiot believe such bullshit.
Got it, you prefer the MYTH conservatives have created about Ronnie
The Whitewashing of Ronald Reagan
...Did Reagan end the Cold War? Immediately after the Berlin Wall fell, a USA Today survey found that only 14% of respondents believed that. Historians mostly credit forty years of Containment by eight U.S. presidents. As Tony Judts Postwar concluded: Washington did not bring down Communism Communism imploded of its own accord. I served in the USSR during perestroika and glasnost and later, in Russia after the breakup, and can attest to that; Gorbachev tried to reform a repressive, dysfunctional system and lost control of the process.
Vox Verax: The Whitewashing of Ronald Reagan
Unlike you idiot I was alive during this time.
I know this will be hard for some of our more vacuous contributors, but most would choose to take the word of someone who risked life and limb on the front line. Lech Walesa is one such person:
When talking about Ronald Reagan, I have to be personal. We in Poland took him so personally. Why? Because we owe him our liberty. This can't be said often enough by people who lived under oppression for half a century, until communism fell in 1989.
Poles fought for their freedom for so many years that they hold in special esteem those who backed them in their struggle. Support was the test of friendship. President Reagan was such a friend. His policy of aiding democratic movements in Central and Eastern Europe in the dark days of the Cold War meant a lot to us. We knew he believed in a few simple principles such as human rights, democracy and civil society. He was someone who was convinced that the citizen is not for the state, but vice-versa, and that freedom is an innate right.
I often wondered why Ronald Reagan did this, taking the risks he did, in supporting us at Solidarity, as well as dissident movements in other countries behind the Iron Curtain, while pushing a defense buildup that pushed the Soviet economy over the brink. Let's remember that it was a time of recession in the U.S. and a time when the American public was more interested in their own domestic affairs. It took a leader with a vision to convince them that there are greater things worth fighting for. Did he seek any profit in such a policy? Though our freedom movements were in line with the foreign policy of the United States, I doubt it.
In Solidarity - WSJ
The man was a giant, and only midgets object.
The country didn't go bankrupt Fool.
David Stockman bombshell: How my Republican Party destroyed the American economy.
The debt explosion has resulted not from big spending by the Democrats, but instead the Republican Partys embrace, about three decades ago, of the insidious doctrine that deficits dont matter if they result from tax cuts.
Cue the FoxNews denunciations.
David Stockman, director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan, has dared to call out his own party for creating our current economic problems.
David Stockman bombshell: How my Republican Party destroyed the American economy. | ThinkProgress
Stockman is a fucking retard.
Reagan took a lot of people in his Administration only because the RNC made him. First was his scumbag VP (9/11's Boss) and second was Stockman whom Reagan admonished for being a fucking liar
Which is one reason why all those jobs went south and east, and why you need to work three jobs instead of one.
because the 1%ers are suicidal greedy.
Yes, we know you guys are. It's like you never fucking learn.
I'm not investing with goons and thugs like you. I'm just not. No matter how much you whine.
It's my capital, not yours. And I will go to where I am treated best, not where union Neanderthals might terrorize my kids because I have to lay them off.
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Joe your attitude is why Progressive economies fail 100% of the time. Capital is the life blood of an economy
No it isn't.
Capital is a parasite that has convinced you it's a vital organ, and its spends as much time selling junk as providing needed services.
Whenever you guys whine 'Well, you see, Socailism didn't work", it's usually a country like Cuba that wasn't any great shakes before Socialism was tried. And you ignore Europe and Japan where it works just fine.
They don't see capital as the parasitic enemy in Scandinavia like you do, Joseif. Capital is taxed at a much lower rate than income in Sweden. They understand that free trade and capital investment is important to maintain their standard of living.
Thuggery is why manufacturing jobs left the north. Why would anyone want to invest with goons like you?
because the 1%ers are suicidal greedy.
Yes, we know you guys are. It's like you never fucking learn.
I'm not investing with goons and thugs like you. I'm just not. No matter how much you whine.
It's my capital, not yours. And I will go to where I am treated best, not where union Neanderthals might terrorize my kids because I have to lay them off.
well, that's the thing, you odn't have to lay them off. And frankly, we need to start treating the investment bankers like organized crime.
Actually, scratch that, I have more respect for the Mafia than Wall Street.
Got it, you prefer the MYTH conservatives have created about Ronnie
The Whitewashing of Ronald Reagan
...Did Reagan end the Cold War? Immediately after the Berlin Wall fell, a USA Today survey found that only 14% of respondents believed that. Historians mostly credit forty years of Containment by eight U.S. presidents. As Tony Judts Postwar concluded: Washington did not bring down Communism Communism imploded of its own accord. I served in the USSR during perestroika and glasnost and later, in Russia after the breakup, and can attest to that; Gorbachev tried to reform a repressive, dysfunctional system and lost control of the process.
Vox Verax: The Whitewashing of Ronald Reagan
Unlike you idiot I was alive during this time.
Conservative moron who believes only they were around, lol
Sorry, Ronnie got the first and last GOP votes I have ever cast, I then grew a brain, you should try it!
he was alive at the time,in a baby carriage.
Well, see Reagan tax cuts only gutted revenues because they would have gone up anyway and the tax cuts, (follow this logic) kept revenue away from government (see, the Reagan haters have to take the position that the money all belongs to the government anyway) so actually the tax cuts that boosted the US economy and lead to a nearly doubling of government receipts actually hurt the economy (Try standing on your head it might make sense)
Remember, Gorby was going to tear down the wall anyway and the revenues would ahve nearly doubled anyway, Reagan was like Chauncy Gardner and really lucky all this just happened during his Presidency
Reagan and bin Laden
The fact is that the only metric that really matters is revenues as a share of the gross domestic product. By this measure, total federal revenues fell from 19.6 percent of GDP in 1981 to 18.4 percent of GDP by 1989. This suggests that revenues were $66 billion lower in 1989 as a result of Reagans policies.
This is not surprising given that no one in the Reagan administration ever claimed that his 1981 tax cut would pay for itself or that it did. Reagan economists Bill Niskanen and Martin Anderson have written extensively on this oft-repeated myth. Conservative economist Lawrence Lindsey made a thorough effort to calculate the feedback effect in his 1990 book, The Growth Experiment. He concluded that the behavioral and macroeconomic effects of the 1981 tax cut, resulting from both supply-side and demand-side effects, recouped about a third of the static revenue loss.
No, Gov. Pawlenty, Tax Cuts Don't Pay for Themselves | Stan Collender's Capital Gains and Games
two birds of a feather reagan and Obama.No wonder Obama liked reagan so much,he reminded him so much of himself,someone who betrayed the middle class,sent jobs overseas,got us into the worst debt ever,was a mass murderer,and shit on the black people.definetely two birds of a feather.
No wonder Reagan was hiis idol and no wonder he said in his inagural address he wanted to be just like him. He must have gone to the same acting school reagan did.Just like reagan was so good at,the american people in their gullability are falling for Obamas phony acting just like they got taken in by reagans acting.some things never change.1. Reagan cut taxes for the Rich, increased taxes on the Middle Class -
Ronald Reagan is loved by conservatives and was loved by big business throughout his presidency and there's a reason for it. When Reagan came into office in January of 1981, the top tax rate was 70%, but when he left office in 1989 the top tax rate was down to only 28%. As Reagan gave the breaks to all his rich friends, there was a lack of revenue coming into the federal government. In order to bring money back into the government, Reagan was forced to raise taxes eleven times throughout his time in office. Reagan raised taxes seven of the eight years he was in office
The Myths of Reaganomics - Murray N. Rothbard - Mises Daily
2. Tripling the National Debt -
As Reagan cut taxes for the wealthy, the government was left with less money to spend. When Reagan came into office the national debt was $900 billion, by the time he left the national debt had tripled to $2.8 trillion.
Iran/Contra
Reagan funded Terrorists
Reagan spent billions of dollars funding the Islamist mujahidin Freedom Fighters in Afghanistan. With billions of American dollars, weapons and training coming their way, the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden took everything they were given and gave it back to the United States over a decade later in the worst possible way imaginable.
Ignoring AIDS -
By the time the 1980s came around, AIDS had become one of the most frightening things to happen to the country in recent memory. No one understood what AIDS and HIV really was and when people don't understand something, they become scared of it. The fear of the unknown was sweeping across the country and Americans needed a leader to speak out about this horrible virus, that leader never came. Instead of grabbing the bull by the horns and taking charge, Reagan kept quiet. Reagan couldn't say the words AIDS or HIV until seven years into his presidency, a leader not so much.
Reagan gave amnesty to 4 million Undocumented Immigrants
His attack on Unions and the Middle Class -
The Republican war on unions and the middle class has been heating up in states like Wisconsin and Ohio, but it has been going on for a long time. Unions are formed to give a united voice to the workers in an attempt to create fairness between the corporations and their employees. On August 3rd, 1981, PATCO (Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization) went on strike in an effort to get better pay and safer working conditions. Two days later, taking the side of business, Ronald Reagan fired 11,345 workers for not returning to work.
Sure, you probably believe that crap
Reagan 'simplified' it by gutting revenues by giving tax cuts to the rich, that's why he tripled US debt!
Ronnie gets credit for Clinton's good economy huh? lol... How about the recession Poppy Bush inherited BECAUSE Ronnie ignored regulator warnings on the S&L crisis?
The Clinton Presidency: Historic Economic Growth
President Clintons Record on the Economy: In 1992, 10 million Americans were unemployed, the country faced record deficits, and poverty and welfare rolls were growing. Family incomes were losing ground to inflation and jobs were being created at the slowest rate since the Great Depression.
Strong Economic Growth: Since President Clinton and Vice President Gore took office, economic growth has averaged 4.0 percent per year, compared to average growth of 2.8 percent during the Reagan-Bush years. The economy has grown for 116 consecutive months, the most in history.
Most New Jobs Ever Created Under a Single Administration: The economy has created more than 22.5 million jobs in less than eight yearsthe most jobs ever created under a single administration, and more than were created in the previous 12 years. Of the total new jobs, 20.7 million, or 92 percent, are in the private sector.
Unemployment at Its Lowest Level in More than 30 Years
Lowest Inflation since the 1960s
7 Million Fewer Americans Living in Poverty: The poverty rate has declined from 15.1 percent in 1993 to 11.8 percent last year, the largest six-year drop in poverty in nearly 30 years. There are now 7 million fewer people in poverty than there were in 1993
Establishing Fiscal Discipline and Paying off the National Debt
President Clintons Record on Fiscal Discipline: Between 1981 and 1992, the national debt held by the public quadrupled. The annual budget deficit grew to $290 billion in 1992, the largest ever, and was projected to grow to more than $455 billion by Fiscal Year (FY) 2000. As a result of the tough and sometimes unpopular choices made by President Clinton, and major deficit reduction legislation passed in 1993 and 1997, we have seen eight consecutive years of fiscal improvement for the first time in Americas history.
Lower Federal Government Spending: After increasing under the previous two administrations, federal government spending as a share of the economy has been cut from 22.2 percent in 1992 to 18 percent in 2000the lowest level since 1966.
To Establish Fiscal Discipline, President Clinton:
Enacted the 1993 Deficit Reduction Plan without a Single Republican Vote. Prior to 1993, the debate over fiscal policy often revolved around a false choice between public investment and deficit reduction. The 1993 deficit reduction plan showed that deficit and debt reductions could be accomplished in a progressive way by slashing the deficit in half and making important investments in our future, including education, health care, and science and technology research. The plan included more than $500 billion in deficit reduction.
"The deficit has come down, and I give the Clinton Administration and President Clinton himself a lot of credit for that. [He] did something about it, fast. And I think we are seeing some benefits."
Paul Volcker, Federal Reserve Board Chairman (1979-1987), in Audacity, Fall 1994
"Clintons 1993 budget cuts, which reduced projected red ink by more than $400 billion over five years, sparked a major drop in interest rates that helped boost investment in all the equipment and systems that brought forth the New Age economy of technological innovation and rising productivity."
Business Week, May 19, 1997
The Clinton Presidency: Historic Economic Growth
Bush should have done an FDR and rounded up all Middle Eastern males, amiright Libturds?
Probably should have attacked Saudi instead of Iraq since that's where the majority of hijackers were from right conservatard?
Afghanistan under Soviet rule
Afghanistan under Taliban rule
Wow. Such freedom. So Liberated.
Yup. Damned well worked a lot better than Detente. He wisely continued Carter's policy in Afghanistan along with a full-court press which helped unravel the USSR and the old Brezhnev hacks.After Ronald Reagan was elected in 1981, U.S. funding of the mujahideen increased significantly
The Reagan Doctrine was a strategy orchestrated and implemented by the United States under the Reagan Administration to oppose the global influence of the Soviet Union during the final years of the Cold War. While the doctrine lasted less than a decade, it was the centerpiece of United States foreign policy from the early 1980s until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
Under the Reagan Doctrine, the United States provided overt and covert aid to anti-communist guerrillas and resistance movements in an effort to "roll back" Soviet-backed communist governments in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The doctrine was designed to diminish Soviet influence in these regions as part of the administration's overall Cold War strategy.
With the arrival of the Reagan administration, the Heritage Foundation and other conservative foreign policy think tanks saw a political opportunity to significantly expand Carter's Afghanistan policy into a more global "doctrine", including U.S. support to anti-communist resistance movements in Soviet-allied nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Reagan Doctrine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
You are not as stupid as I thought, but that's not much of a standard.
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Monday, March 21, 2011
The Whitewashing of Ronald Reagan
By Tom Maertens
(A version of this originally appeared in the Mankato, MN Free Press.)
A Gallup poll taken in 1992 found that Ronald Reagan was the most unpopular living president apart from Nixon, and ranked even below Jimmy Carter; just 46 percent of Americans had a favorable view of Reagan while Carter was viewed favorably by 63 percent of Americans.
This was before the Hollywood-style re-write of Reagans presidency that created the fictional character portrayed during Reagans 100th birthday celebration. The campaign was led by Grover Norquist and his Ronald Reagan Legacy Project, along with corporate-funded propaganda mills like Heritage and American Enterprise Institute that underwrote hundreds of flattering books to create a mythic hero and perpetual tax-cutter. They singled out Reagans 1981 tax cut that lowered top marginal rates from 70% to 28% as the basis for the campaign, leaving out the inconvenient reality that he subsequently raised taxes eleven times, according to former Republican Senator Alan Simpson who was there.
The plutocrats idolize Reagan because he cut taxes on the wealthy -- on income, capital gains, interest, and dividends -- and increased taxes on working people, including raising the self-employment (SECA) tax rate by 60%. He made major cuts in Medicaid, food stamps, aid to families with dependent children (AFDC), and school lunch programs. Mark Hertsgaard (On Bended Knee: the Press and the Reagan Presidency) called it arguably the single greatest government-led transfer of wealth in history, and in the direction of the top two percent; the number of families living below the poverty line increased by one-third under Reagan. The result is an enduring, entitled class of individuals who believe that work should be taxed, but wealth should not, and probably, like Reagan that The homeless are homeless because they want to be homeless. They control the Republican Party.
Their revisionist history makes Reagan into a small-government fiscal conservative, but he actually grew the government by 53% (Mises Institute), increasing military expenditures by 27% and creating another new department, Veterans Affairs. He never submitted a balanced budget and ended up tripling the national debt to $3 trillion. His S&L bailout cost 2.4 times more to fix (relative to GDP) than Bushs financial crisis. The Washington Post reported in Reagan's last year that "In less than a decade, the world's largest creditor nation has become its leading debtor .
Did Reagan end the Cold War? Immediately after the Berlin Wall fell, a USA Today survey found that only 14% of respondents believed that. Historians mostly credit forty years of Containment by eight U.S. presidents. As Tony Judts Postwar concluded: Washington did not bring down Communism Communism imploded of its own accord.
Vox Verax: The Whitewashing of Ronald Reagan
We Created Al Qaeda to Fight the Soviets in Afghanistan
Jimmy Carters National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski admitted on CNN that the U.S. organized and supported Bin Laden and the other originators of Al Qaeda in the 1970s to fight the Soviets.
Brzezinski told Al Qaedas forefathers the Mujahadin:
We know of their deep belief in god that theyre confident that their struggle will succeed. That land over-there is yours and youll go back to it some day, because your fight will prevail, and youll have your homes, your mosques, back again, because your cause is right, and god is on your side.
Ronald Reagan meets Afghan Mujahideen Commanders at the White House in 1985
Front row, from left: Major Gen. Hamid Gul, director general of Pakistans Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI), Director of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Willian Webster; Deputy Director for Operations Clair George; an ISI colonel; and senior CIA official, Milt Bearden at a Mujahideen training camp in North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan in 1987. (source RAWA)
Sleeping With the Devil: How U.S. and Saudi Backing of Al Qaeda Led to 9/11 | Global Research
GROW A BRAIN BUBBA
agent censores handlers are going to get desperate now trying to think up new lies to tell him to post now after you took him to school just then especially with that photo.
while having fun trying to watch them weasel out of this picture of reagan,its going to be fun watching these agents try and weasel out of this picture of Bush hanging out and partying with saudi's as well.I would say these pics of reagan and Bush we have posted Dad speak a thousand words wouldnt you?
The Atlantean Conspiracy: The 9/11 Inside Job (part 3)
I would say from these photos in this link of mine that little Bush went down the same roadpath that daddy Bush did when he was VP under reagan.I would say daddy Bush introduced junior to all these loveable guys at some point when he was the VP the fact that he was also friends with these pals of Ronnies wouldnt you?
these trolls no doubt are going to have to check with their handlers and spend some time on the computer going back and forth with them on what kind of lies to come up and post next to try and get around these facts of ours I guarantee.
Well, see Reagan tax cuts only gutted revenues because they would have gone up anyway and the tax cuts, (follow this logic) kept revenue away from government (see, the Reagan haters have to take the position that the money all belongs to the government anyway) so actually the tax cuts that boosted the US economy and lead to a nearly doubling of government receipts actually hurt the economy (Try standing on your head it might make sense)
Remember, Gorby was going to tear down the wall anyway and the revenues would ahve nearly doubled anyway, Reagan was like Chauncy Gardner and really lucky all this just happened during his Presidency
Reagan and bin Laden
The fact is that the only metric that really matters is revenues as a share of the gross domestic product. By this measure, total federal revenues fell from 19.6 percent of GDP in 1981 to 18.4 percent of GDP by 1989. This suggests that revenues were $66 billion lower in 1989 as a result of Reagan’s policies.
This is not surprising given that no one in the Reagan administration ever claimed that his 1981 tax cut would pay for itself or that it did. Reagan economists Bill Niskanen and Martin Anderson have written extensively on this oft-repeated myth. Conservative economist Lawrence Lindsey made a thorough effort to calculate the feedback effect in his 1990 book, The Growth Experiment. He concluded that the behavioral and macroeconomic effects of the 1981 tax cut, resulting from both supply-side and demand-side effects, recouped about a third of the static revenue loss.
No, Gov. Pawlenty, Tax Cuts Don't Pay for Themselves | Stan Collender's Capital Gains and Games
He sure has followed in Reagans footsteps.His role model sure had a huge influence on him no doubt.He learned very well from the master how to betray the american people and give them the middle finger.He studied reagan very well and did an EXCELLENT job of following in his footsteps.
