On 07/17/2016 12:11 AM, Daniel Villarreal via talk wrote:
Then, in the 80s we had Reagan and his trickle down nonsense. "We ?" What state are you from?
I have always felt proud to have had President Reagan as a President and as a leader.
I live in Canada, which gives an interesting perspective on the U.S.. Back in the 80s Reagan claimed that by cutting taxes for the wealthy, they'd have more money to spend, which it would work it's way down to everyone else. That is absolute nonsense as, by definition, the wealthy already have plenty to spend and there's nothing to keep them from doing so. On the other hand they tend to be very good at hoarding wealth and cutting their taxes merely lets them hoard more. Reagan was also such a "leader" that he stopped the U.S. from adopting the metric system, by killing the plan Carter had put in place. I suppose your idea of leadership includes fortune tellers and Nancy's Ouija board. Other than Nixon's little problem, Reagan was the one who started knocking the Republican party off the rails, a process continued with Dubya and resulting in the nonsense that's currently going on in the U.S. election.