What President #Biden should be doing is reversing #Reaganomics. Unfortunately he's treating the current (according to the media, anyway) #LaborShortage, which I regard as a feature, as an antifeature, and is instructing the Fed to extinguish this rare burst of opportunity. #Reagan confronted the real problem of "#stagflation" (#inflation and #unemployment together) by very firmly prioritizing inflation fighting over unemployment fighting, and I will NEVER forgive him for that. Ever since the Bill "government is the problem" #Clinton wing took over the #DemocraticParty the working class has no allies in Washington (except the #progressive "rump" faction of the Democratic caucuses). But I'm optimistic for the future. 1932 to 1980 was 48 years. I figure we're in for a good strong #PendulumSwing by #2028, and I'm here for it!
INSURANCE PARASITES do not want USA to have federally paid health care, a transcontinental public transportation system, federally underwritten affordable housing and even less, free public housing .
the #Reaganomics scam was to dismantle the barely there welfare system, while making workers pay for our own welfare thru insurance & personal debt (credit cards, student loans, mortgages, car loans) that lines the pockets of the parasite class
When Ronald Reagan became President he strived for a 30% reduction in Federal aid to education. We saw horrendous cut in subsidies for school lunches. School districts suffered by the quadruple whammy of Federal cuts, state tax ceilings, loss of state revenue from taxes, and hostility to property taxes. They responded by laying off personnel, enlarging classes, simplifying curriculums, and taking other steps, all of which reduced parent & student satisfaction. #Reaganomics
@design_law where are the reparations for all the lives destroyed by #MassIncarceration led by the genocidal #WarOnDrugs? nobody should get to trademark shit until everybody incarcerated for marijuana related offenses are freed and they, along with the surviving families of the dead get monetary restitution.
it's criminal this is being expedited while millions are still living with the consequences of #Reaganomics fascist policies.
My god, they sure hate#LinaKhan. This once-in-a-generation, groundbreaking, brilliant legal scholar and fighter for the public interest, the slayer of #Reaganomics, has attracted more vitriol, mockery, and dismissal than any of her predecessors in living memory.
She sure must be doing something right, huh?
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@Radical_EgoCom So true that an entire generation of people born after a World War is collectively responsible for what #RulingClasses have been doing since the beginning of recorded history. Let’s blame old people struggling to survive for what #republicans & #plutocrats have actually done while they were busy working.
Biden can be a transformational president if we can get him enough support. It's time to bury Reaganomics forever.
If you want an economy and policy that works for the people of this country, and this counts for those way up top because it eventually gets to them, too, vote wisely.
These mornings I'm wide awake early, I sit on the couch with the dogs and cats and hubby, watching local news.
Today's tip from the local news regarding college: don't take out more than you'll make in a year.
What sort of bullshit is this? Even a state university these days costs more than that. How about taxing the fucking rich to pay for free state college and university for all? No means testing, no exceptions. Kid, you wanna go to college? Off you go debt free.
#Reagan Adviser Warned Free #College Would Create a Dangerous “Educated Proletariat”
...#RogerFreeman, who also worked for #Nixon, revealed the right’s motivation for coming decades of attacks on higher education."