georgephillip
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Do you believe it's hyperbole (or inaccurate) to say that globalization was never about raising third world living standards as much as it was about lowering standards for the US middle class?Wow...Two cheap strawmen in a row.
C'mon....Go for the hat trick!
Well..it basically isn't..
But now that we are at 50 states, close to 300 million people, a 13 trillion dollar economy, over 700 military bases worldwide, a standing army over 500k strong, 5000 nukes, a navy bigger then all of the navys in the world, combined, roads, bridges, electrical grids, airports, seaports, public transportation systems, water systems, and hooks into every financial system in the world; what kind of small, "limited", "gubmint" do you propose the manage all that?
Norquist's starving the "beast" and Friedman's trickle down have failed miserably.
Oh no sir! Trickle down works just as it was designed for the middle class. There has been immense trickle down.
It is all warm..............and yellow.
If you went looking for "smoking gun" documents from the Reagan era that would prove this, where would you start?