1) You really need to take more time to type out your post. It’s difficult to read.2) The unemployment rate was about 5% when Bush took office. It was about 10% when he left office. It’s now down to about 6%.3) Teddy Roosevelt vigorously supported the estate tax as he thought it was un-American to become rich simply through inheritance. He also vigorously supported the environment and created the country’s national park system.
That’s everybody’s strategy: Just fall for the nonsense in political ads, vote against the most dastardly portrayed candidate — then sit down in front of the telescreen and be quiet. Until next time.
Recent retirees, students going back to school, and spouses whos spouses now earn enough for them to quit those second income jobs are also part of that “workforce” touted figure, but only mentioned under Democratic administrations, never under Republican administrations who made it necessary for those spouses to get jobs, retirees to keep working, and students to stay on the job because they couldn’t afford to go back to school.
“But Reagan’s fawning admirers say it was all his stupid speech.”.I agree..Reagan lived a charmed life from the 1940s on. His pleasant acting persona as a ready-made asset got him into politics. Professional actors should not be allowed into politics, and neither should con men, and preachers. Magicians, too, but they don’t go for it, because they have a semblance of professional ethics. Unfortunately, politicians are these days are mostly a greasy mixture of those things, and communication technology with proven psychological crowd techniques shields them from thoughtful scrutiny. Plus, the press preferrs pretty faces, clever sound bites, and cheap controversy..As I recall, the fall of Soviet communism was anticipated for some time, and even before Afghanistan it seemed inevitable. It was 70 years old and no longer had war patriotism to prop it up. Pictures of Western comfortable lifestyles made their way into the Soviet bloc nations, and the grey, austere existence of communism couldn’t compete with the glamour of affluence. I, too, thought how ridiculous that Reagan’s supporters gave him all the credit. But the old cowboy did his aw-shucks routine to the end..I think that starting with Carter and Reagan the world started to think that U.S. presidents need no longer be taken seriously.
Observer fo Irony over 9 years ago
Unemployment down because fewer people are registered for unemployment.
Jason Allen over 9 years ago
1) You really need to take more time to type out your post. It’s difficult to read.2) The unemployment rate was about 5% when Bush took office. It was about 10% when he left office. It’s now down to about 6%.3) Teddy Roosevelt vigorously supported the estate tax as he thought it was un-American to become rich simply through inheritance. He also vigorously supported the environment and created the country’s national park system.
emptc12 over 9 years ago
That’s everybody’s strategy: Just fall for the nonsense in political ads, vote against the most dastardly portrayed candidate — then sit down in front of the telescreen and be quiet. Until next time.
Motivemagus over 9 years ago
What? TR was more liberal than Obama. He supported universal healthcare in 1908!
moosemin over 9 years ago
Bin Laden-still dead.
Love that, Clay!!
Dtroutma over 9 years ago
Recent retirees, students going back to school, and spouses whos spouses now earn enough for them to quit those second income jobs are also part of that “workforce” touted figure, but only mentioned under Democratic administrations, never under Republican administrations who made it necessary for those spouses to get jobs, retirees to keep working, and students to stay on the job because they couldn’t afford to go back to school.
emptc12 over 9 years ago
“But Reagan’s fawning admirers say it was all his stupid speech.”.I agree..Reagan lived a charmed life from the 1940s on. His pleasant acting persona as a ready-made asset got him into politics. Professional actors should not be allowed into politics, and neither should con men, and preachers. Magicians, too, but they don’t go for it, because they have a semblance of professional ethics. Unfortunately, politicians are these days are mostly a greasy mixture of those things, and communication technology with proven psychological crowd techniques shields them from thoughtful scrutiny. Plus, the press preferrs pretty faces, clever sound bites, and cheap controversy..As I recall, the fall of Soviet communism was anticipated for some time, and even before Afghanistan it seemed inevitable. It was 70 years old and no longer had war patriotism to prop it up. Pictures of Western comfortable lifestyles made their way into the Soviet bloc nations, and the grey, austere existence of communism couldn’t compete with the glamour of affluence. I, too, thought how ridiculous that Reagan’s supporters gave him all the credit. But the old cowboy did his aw-shucks routine to the end..I think that starting with Carter and Reagan the world started to think that U.S. presidents need no longer be taken seriously.
Dtroutma over 9 years ago
^You left off the “t”, and it’s “i”, not “e”.