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Falcon91Wolvrn03 said:[/url]
Reagan took the country from the middle class and gave it to the rich.  There's no denying it anymore, as every metric proves it's true.


Reagan stopped upward gains by the middle class and gave it all to the rich by attacking labor and unions:


Reagan was the first President not to increase minimum wage, causing a sharp decline in real minimum wage that the country has never recovered from:


Reagan reversed the downward trend of debt/GDP by giving tax cuts to the rich:


Reagan was responsible for a sharp decline in US exports as a percentage of GDP that we've never recovered from:



Reagan was EASILY, and BY FAR the worst president this country has ever had for the middle class.

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feldman114 said:

See, I AM able to answer a question.
Can YOU tell me why you think FDR v2.0 will murder 600 people? Did FDR murder before?
OR tell me why you think Bernie’s plan is different from what the FDR did.

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feldman114 said:

Oh so we now agree that Bernie’s policies mirror FDR’s.
Let’s go a step at a time now, very delicate-like...

Was FDR a good president? Duh, no need for rhetorical Q’s.

Do you agree that FDR’s policies greatly improved the lives of all Americans?

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feldman114 said:

Aw, thought we might get somewhere.

So you think that, even though FDR and Sanders are both giving the same campaign promises and using the same language, FDR followed through but Bernie won’t? Is this based in anything?

You know what they say about people who do the same thing twice expecting different results?

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Ran-D said:

Are you just a satiricial puppet successfully trolling us all?

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Metoo said:

I am for personal freedom so make your call

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Falcon91Wolvrn03 said:

What freedom(s) are you afraid of losing under Bernie?

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Metoo said:

I am for personal freedom so make your call

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JohnRainyII said:

This conversation is ridiculous.

Just free market ideological possession and red scare style bullshit from the honourable member.

When I come across this online, I honestly don't know if the poster is seriously this out of it, or if it is someone working from a rightwing think tank being paid to promote this culture of oligarchy. 

It's so surreal.

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Metoo said:

So I do not sound ideologically possessed myself - here is the thought process underpinning my views. I believe there are two pillars of the economic prosperity - generating wealth and reinvesting/spending it.

In my view free market economy is the best vehicle for generating wealth. This is evidenced by the incredible technological progress humanity made during the industrial revolution thru to WWI. I once wrote a piece about new tech in cars and realised that ALL of it was invented in late 1880s early 1900s. Electric cars, hybrid propulsion, turbo, fuel injection even fuel cells. Also, the most dramatic economic failures in 20th century afflicted countries which abandoned the free market model - can provide examples if needed.

Moving to reinvesting/spending wealth again it is Metoo's view is that individual people do it better than governments on their behalf. The monumental inefficiency of governments is one problem but equally dangerous is the influence of social engineers who infiltrate public education, pro status quo public servants etc.

So, since in my view free market is better at generating wealth and individual people better at spending it I favour system with small government and low tacation

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Enlil said:

Metoo said:

I am for personal freedom so make your call

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You're for personal freedom but in favor of imaginary lines in the soil that people can't cross based on where they were born?

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