straightUp wrote:
He did cut taxes and he did cut regulations... I suppose a simple mind won't notice all the other variables that play into economic recovery but most economists with slightly more capable brains can't confirm to what extent tax cuts actually played a role. But that doesn't matter to the simpleton sheep, all they need to hear is the rah, rah, of the Holy Republican Church reciting the ever-so-simple mantra "tax cuts good".
The other thing you won't understand even if I explain it to you, is that when the economy did grow, Wall Street stepped in and butted the American workers out. So while we can debate whether Reagan's tax policy can claim any credit for any recovery, the trickle-down that Reagan was trying to sell to the American workers failed miserably. The American workers that already degraded themselves by kneeling down with their mouths open and waiting for the waste-water to drip through the spigots at sump pan of capitalism got nothing. Instead all the trickle-down went to Wall Street and that's probably Reagan's crowing achievement.
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Those first two lines were jokes. Since you attacked Conservatives as sheep and liberals also go miles out of their way to be offended, forget it. If I have to explain the joke it is wasted effort.
" Witless - think about it for a second... If Soviet propaganda controlled their minds "well enough", then they wouldn't need to "back it up" with internment camps and executions. Those physical forces aren't needed when the population is effectively mind-controlled like you folks are. "
But , but, but the internment camps and executions did happen. As far as me and my kind being mind controlled, we are. Unlike you guys our minds are controlled by common sense.
" As for Democrats trying to shut down talk radio, I've either not heard that conspiracy theory or it was such a weak one that I already forgot it. "
Like all Liberal initiatives it was deceitfully named. They called it the " Fairness Doctrine. "
" Besides, almost every report of liberal attacks on free speech turns out being a staged setup, like the obviously coy "victim" play Ann Coulter pulled on Berkeley. The fact that you folks bought it hook, line and sinker is a testimony to how the media DOES control you. "
What are you speaking of ? The anti free speech Leftists silenced Coulter. It was in the papers. How did you miss it ?
" No critical thinking refers to an objective and logical assessment from which you can decide for yourself what to agree with. The fact that your immediate response is to say is means "agreeing" with me (as opposed to anyone else) further convinces me that you are unfamiliar with the concept of thinking for yourself; that perhaps, you think it's a simple matter of what source a person subscribes to. "
You make a charge and give no evidence for it. I again repeat my charge against YOU. Critical Thinking to you means agreeing with you.
" What strength? If this was 1965, then yeah Trump would be sitting on some serious advantages, but this is 2018... This is the post 9/11 world... We don't really have the same advantages anymore and apparently Trump is too stupid to realize the rest of the world knows this. "
Once again you let your hatred of President Trump to overwhelm what little knowledge of the history of US-North Korean relations that you may have. Our strength, our negotiating leverage over Kim Jong Un is our military strength and our will to use it. You cannot grasp a very very simple concept such as that. Under your worthless hero young Barry Obama, Kim sensed a lack of will to ever use our weapons of war. So he bullied Obama. Trump convinced Kim that he is willing to nuke the little bastard. That is the Strength and leverage Trump has employed.
" I get so tired of that reference... It's another one of those right-wing cannon balls, the Munich Agreement that you probably never heard of until a right-wing thought-leader brought it up in some argument related to something involving liberals and compromise. You can't even spell it right, it's "Chamberlain" ...and no, it's not the same. "
Now that I know it bothers you I will continue to bring it up. I have known about Chamberlain and " Peace for our time " since the 1970s. I am a WW2 fanatic. I apologize for my bad spelling of Chamberlain's name. Other than that, I don't think you know what you are talking about.
" What part of "If you're talking about foreign policy" do you not understand? Tax policies are domestic policies not foreign policies..." Sorry. I saw your free market remark and failing to understand what that had to do with foreign policy, I thought it had to do with domestic economics. My mistake on your meaning.
" The other thing you won't understand even if I explain it to you, is that when the economy did grow, Wall Street stepped in and butted the American workers out. So while we can debate whether Reagan's tax policy can claim any credit for any recovery, the trickle-down that Reagan was trying to sell to the American workers failed miserably. "
That is simply false. Maybe you did not live through the Reagan years as I did. Perhaps you only read about it in the People's Daily Informer Rag. The average joe did very very well under Ronnie Raygun. Unemployment dropped and real wages grew. New Industries thrived. The rampant inflation of the Carter era went away. If you knew anything about the Carter-Reagan era you'd remember that, but of course you don't.