The Rise of the Regressive Right

[Bfgrn]

Progressives believe in openness, equal opportunity, and tolerance. Progressives assume we're all in it together: We all benefit from public investments in schools and health care and infrastructure. And we all do better with strong safety nets, reasonable constraints on Wall Street and big business, and a truly progressive tax system. Progressives worry when the rich and privileged become powerful enough to undermine democracy.

Regressives take the opposite positions.

Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann and the other tribunes of today's Republican right aren't really conservatives. Their goal isn't to conserve what we have. It's to take us backwards.

They'd like to return to the 1920s -- before Social Security, unemployment insurance, labor laws, the minimum wage, Medicare and Medicaid, worker safety laws, the Environmental Protection Act, the Glass-Steagall Act, the Securities and Exchange Act, and the Voting Rights Act.

In the 1920s Wall Street was unfettered, the rich grew far richer and everyone else went deep into debt, and the nation closed its doors to immigrants.

Rather than conserve the economy, these regressives want to resurrect the classical economics of the 1920s -- the view that economic downturns are best addressed by doing nothing until the "rot" is purged out of the system (as Andrew Mellon, Herbert Hoover's Treasury Secretary, so decorously put it).

In truth, if they had their way we'd be back in the late nineteenth century -- before the federal income tax, antitrust laws, the Pure Food and Drug Act, and the Federal Reserve. A time when robber barons -- railroad, financial, and oil titans -- ran the country. A time of wrenching squalor for the many and mind-numbing wealth for the few.

Listen carefully to today's Republican right and you hear the same Social Darwinism Americans were fed more than a century ago to justify the brazen inequality of the Gilded Age: Survival of the fittest. Don't help the poor or unemployed or anyone who's fallen on bad times, they say, because this only encourages laziness. America will be strong only if we reward the rich and punish the needy.

The regressive right has slowly consolidated power over the last three decades as income and wealth have concentrated at the top. In the late 1970s the richest 1 percent of Americans received 9 percent of total income and held 18 percent of the nation's wealth; by 2007, they had more than 23 percent of total income and 35 percent of America's wealth. CEOs of the 1970s were paid 40 times the average worker's wage; now CEOs receive 300 times the typical workers' wage.

This concentration of income and wealth has generated the political heft to deregulate Wall Street and halve top tax rates. It has bankrolled the so-called Tea Party movement, and captured the House of Representatives and many state governments. Through a sequence of presidential appointments it has also overtaken the Supreme Court.

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Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
Edmund Burke

One of the key traits of the Progressive is that they are pathological liars. What is a "Progressive"? What do they feel is necessary to hide their economic and political philosophy behind the misnomer "Progressive"? They are Statist, Fascist and Marxist but think they are clever by calling themselves "Progressives".

Mao was a Progressive, so was their Uncle Joe Stalin, how did the Chinese and Soviets progress under them?

Progressive = Liar

In so far as the 1920's. Yes it's the last time Conservatives rules the USA. Thanks to Harding and Mellon they dropped unemployment from 12% to 4% in 18 months. How did Progressive FDR do? How is Progressive Obama doing? That they mentioned the 1920's at all is grudging acknowledgement that they've lost they media monopoly and so they are forced to talk about the 1920's and when they do, they lie.

Big Surprise

Hey Frank, did you glean that from Glenn Beck's Nazi chalkboard?

Here are some words from Mao...

What Mao Zedong said about liberalism

"Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is a corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy and creates dissension.

It robs the revolutionary ranks of compact organization and strict discipline, prevents policies from being carried through and alienates the Party organizations from the masses which the Party leads."
Combat Liberalism

While not all conservatives are authoritarians; all highly authoritarian personalities are political conservatives.
Robert Altmeyer - The Authoritarians

 

[Si modo]

Progressives believe in openness, equal opportunity, and tolerance. Progressives assume we're all in it together: We all benefit from public investments in schools and health care and infrastructure. And we all do better with strong safety nets, reasonable constraints on Wall Street and big business, and a truly progressive tax system. Progressives worry when the rich and privileged become powerful enough to undermine democracy.

Regressives take the opposite positions.

Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann and the other tribunes of today's Republican right aren't really conservatives. Their goal isn't to conserve what we have. It's to take us backwards.

They'd like to return to the 1920s -- before Social Security, unemployment insurance, labor laws, the minimum wage, Medicare and Medicaid, worker safety laws, the Environmental Protection Act, the Glass-Steagall Act, the Securities and Exchange Act, and the Voting Rights Act.

In the 1920s Wall Street was unfettered, the rich grew far richer and everyone else went deep into debt, and the nation closed its doors to immigrants.

Rather than conserve the economy, these regressives want to resurrect the classical economics of the 1920s -- the view that economic downturns are best addressed by doing nothing until the "rot" is purged out of the system (as Andrew Mellon, Herbert Hoover's Treasury Secretary, so decorously put it).

In truth, if they had their way we'd be back in the late nineteenth century -- before the federal income tax, antitrust laws, the Pure Food and Drug Act, and the Federal Reserve. A time when robber barons -- railroad, financial, and oil titans -- ran the country. A time of wrenching squalor for the many and mind-numbing wealth for the few.

Listen carefully to today's Republican right and you hear the same Social Darwinism Americans were fed more than a century ago to justify the brazen inequality of the Gilded Age: Survival of the fittest. Don't help the poor or unemployed or anyone who's fallen on bad times, they say, because this only encourages laziness. America will be strong only if we reward the rich and punish the needy.

The regressive right has slowly consolidated power over the last three decades as income and wealth have concentrated at the top. In the late 1970s the richest 1 percent of Americans received 9 percent of total income and held 18 percent of the nation's wealth; by 2007, they had more than 23 percent of total income and 35 percent of America's wealth. CEOs of the 1970s were paid 40 times the average worker's wage; now CEOs receive 300 times the typical workers' wage.

This concentration of income and wealth has generated the political heft to deregulate Wall Street and halve top tax rates. It has bankrolled the so-called Tea Party movement, and captured the House of Representatives and many state governments. Through a sequence of presidential appointments it has also overtaken the Supreme Court.

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Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
Edmund Burke

One of the key traits of the Progressive is that they are pathological liars. What is a "Progressive"? What do they feel is necessary to hide their economic and political philosophy behind the misnomer "Progressive"? They are Statist, Fascist and Marxist but think they are clever by calling themselves "Progressives".

Mao was a Progressive, so was their Uncle Joe Stalin, how did the Chinese and Soviets progress under them?

Progressive = Liar

In so far as the 1920's. Yes it's the last time Conservatives rules the USA. Thanks to Harding and Mellon they dropped unemployment from 12% to 4% in 18 months. How did Progressive FDR do? How is Progressive Obama doing? That they mentioned the 1920's at all is grudging acknowledgement that they've lost they media monopoly and so they are forced to talk about the 1920's and when they do, they lie.

Big Surprise

Hey Frank, did you glean that from Glenn Beck's Nazi chalkboard?

Here are some words from Mao...

What Mao Zedong said about liberalism

"Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is a corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy and creates dissension.

It robs the revolutionary ranks of compact organization and strict discipline, prevents policies from being carried through and alienates the Party organizations from the masses which the Party leads."
Combat Liberalism

While not all conservatives are authoritarians; all highly authoritarian personalities are political conservatives.
Robert Altmeyer - The Authoritarians

What you wrote really means jack shit.

There are social conservatives, fiscal conservatives, and constitutional conservatives. Idiots lump all into the social conservative box. That makes them an idiot.

Social conservatives are indeed authoritarian at heart.

The others are not. And the others are far more prevalent in that little, and meaningless, box of yours.

On the other hand, progressives endorse more power of the federal government. That's oppression of The People and the Constitution was designed specifically to prevent that lest we end up like the Soviet clusterfuck.

Congrats, comrade.

 

[Katzndogz]

So, now it's regressive to follow the Constitution, eh?


Man, these so-called 'progressives' show their communist slips more and more.

The irony is too thick. Today's 'conservatives' are the closest thing to the communists that infested the Soviet Union. Their worship at the alter of capitalism is as misguided as the communist worship at the alter of government. If we follow their agenda, we will become a failed state. Unless you believe Medieval blood letting saves lives?

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Edmund Burke

You are a bit confused. The Constitution specifically limits the power of the federal government to prevent totalitarian oppression, like the Soviets were.

Try to wrap your cute little head around that simple fact.

Conservatives believe what they learned. Liberals believe what they are told. That's the difference.

 

[mudwhistle]

The USA started going backwards )socially speaking, I mean) when they elected Ronald Reagan.

I don't think RR was the worst POTUS ever, (in fact he did some great things while in office) but his message was that of a social reactionary and a lot of Americans liked it and still like it, too.

Well 40 years later and the effects of that reactionary thinking (when placed in policies and laws) have melted down the world's economy.

It only took about 20 years and an overwhelming Democrat controlled Congress, and a Marxist President to do it to turn the rest of the country into California, but finally what RR did has come to pass.

And if you believe that I hace some solar panels I want to sell you.

 

[Full-Auto]

Progressives believe in openness, equal opportunity, and tolerance.

The first sentence and you are already lying through your teeth. what an asswipe.

 

[Full-Auto]

The USA started going backwards )socially speaking, I mean) when they elected Ronald Reagan.

I don't think RR was the worst POTUS ever, (in fact he did some great things while in office) but his message was that of a social reactionary and a lot of Americans liked it and still like it, too.

Well 40 years later and the effects of that reactionary thinking (when placed in policies and laws) have melted down the world's economy.

Fuck you it was 30with years ago. If you where right that would make me 40. That would be as depressing as waking up in caligirls body.

The real nightmare is considering you could be a neighbor.

 

[OldUSAFSniper]

The New Deal to the Great Society was the Golden age of America. Wonderful. Okay, here we go again... I am NOT paying for your dive into this progressive utopia that you so wonderfully crafted in your imagination. For some reason, you think all these wonderful ideas, like paying federal employees BETTER than their civilian counterparts, is somehow the way to go. Obamacare is a disaster and the administration is talking about repealing parts of it because it can never work the way it's crafted. Now even the CBO says that their statement that it would "save money" in the long run, failed to take into account "certain factors."

From the 40's to the mid 60's, the federal government was NOT in Amercian's every day lives. Now it is and this country is WORSE for it. I would absolutely LOVE IT if the federal government would go back to the way it was through the New Deal to the Great Society. That would mean that the Department of Education would be closed down (and no one would miss it). There wouldn't be a city in this country that was a sanctuary city and the police would arrest illegals and send them back to where they came from. Most decisions would be made at the local level and there wouldn't be half the federal entitlement programs that there are now. So yeah, I absolutely agree with you 100%: Let's go back to the way it was.

And I hate to tell you bubba, but historians believe (rightly so) that Ronald Reagan was one of the five BEST Presidents EVER.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Progressives believe in openness, equal opportunity, and tolerance. Progressives assume we're all in it together: We all benefit from public investments in schools and health care and infrastructure. And we all do better with strong safety nets, reasonable constraints on Wall Street and big business, and a truly progressive tax system. Progressives worry when the rich and privileged become powerful enough to undermine democracy.

Regressives take the opposite positions.

Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann and the other tribunes of today's Republican right aren't really conservatives. Their goal isn't to conserve what we have. It's to take us backwards.

They'd like to return to the 1920s -- before Social Security, unemployment insurance, labor laws, the minimum wage, Medicare and Medicaid, worker safety laws, the Environmental Protection Act, the Glass-Steagall Act, the Securities and Exchange Act, and the Voting Rights Act.

In the 1920s Wall Street was unfettered, the rich grew far richer and everyone else went deep into debt, and the nation closed its doors to immigrants.

Rather than conserve the economy, these regressives want to resurrect the classical economics of the 1920s -- the view that economic downturns are best addressed by doing nothing until the "rot" is purged out of the system (as Andrew Mellon, Herbert Hoover's Treasury Secretary, so decorously put it).

In truth, if they had their way we'd be back in the late nineteenth century -- before the federal income tax, antitrust laws, the Pure Food and Drug Act, and the Federal Reserve. A time when robber barons -- railroad, financial, and oil titans -- ran the country. A time of wrenching squalor for the many and mind-numbing wealth for the few.

Listen carefully to today's Republican right and you hear the same Social Darwinism Americans were fed more than a century ago to justify the brazen inequality of the Gilded Age: Survival of the fittest. Don't help the poor or unemployed or anyone who's fallen on bad times, they say, because this only encourages laziness. America will be strong only if we reward the rich and punish the needy.

The regressive right has slowly consolidated power over the last three decades as income and wealth have concentrated at the top. In the late 1970s the richest 1 percent of Americans received 9 percent of total income and held 18 percent of the nation's wealth; by 2007, they had more than 23 percent of total income and 35 percent of America's wealth. CEOs of the 1970s were paid 40 times the average worker's wage; now CEOs receive 300 times the typical workers' wage.

This concentration of income and wealth has generated the political heft to deregulate Wall Street and halve top tax rates. It has bankrolled the so-called Tea Party movement, and captured the House of Representatives and many state governments. Through a sequence of presidential appointments it has also overtaken the Supreme Court.

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Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
Edmund Burke

You might want to get your ideas from somewhere other then "The View".


Bet you think metal can't melt ether.

Metal melts? WTF????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

The USA started going backwards )socially speaking, I mean) when they elected Ronald Reagan.

I don't think RR was the worst POTUS ever, (in fact he did some great things while in office) but his message was that of a social reactionary and a lot of Americans liked it and still like it, too.

Well 40 years later and the effects of that reactionary thinking (when placed in policies and laws) have melted down the world's economy.

Fuck you it was 30with years ago. If you where right that would make me 40. That would be as depressing as waking up in caligirls body.

It's like Rainman arguing with Rainman.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Progressives believe in openness, equal opportunity, and tolerance. Progressives assume we're all in it together: We all benefit from public investments in schools and health care and infrastructure. And we all do better with strong safety nets, reasonable constraints on Wall Street and big business, and a truly progressive tax system. Progressives worry when the rich and privileged become powerful enough to undermine democracy.

Regressives take the opposite positions.

Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann and the other tribunes of today's Republican right aren't really conservatives. Their goal isn't to conserve what we have. It's to take us backwards.

They'd like to return to the 1920s -- before Social Security, unemployment insurance, labor laws, the minimum wage, Medicare and Medicaid, worker safety laws, the Environmental Protection Act, the Glass-Steagall Act, the Securities and Exchange Act, and the Voting Rights Act.

In the 1920s Wall Street was unfettered, the rich grew far richer and everyone else went deep into debt, and the nation closed its doors to immigrants.

Rather than conserve the economy, these regressives want to resurrect the classical economics of the 1920s -- the view that economic downturns are best addressed by doing nothing until the "rot" is purged out of the system (as Andrew Mellon, Herbert Hoover's Treasury Secretary, so decorously put it).

In truth, if they had their way we'd be back in the late nineteenth century -- before the federal income tax, antitrust laws, the Pure Food and Drug Act, and the Federal Reserve. A time when robber barons -- railroad, financial, and oil titans -- ran the country. A time of wrenching squalor for the many and mind-numbing wealth for the few.

Listen carefully to today's Republican right and you hear the same Social Darwinism Americans were fed more than a century ago to justify the brazen inequality of the Gilded Age: Survival of the fittest. Don't help the poor or unemployed or anyone who's fallen on bad times, they say, because this only encourages laziness. America will be strong only if we reward the rich and punish the needy.

The regressive right has slowly consolidated power over the last three decades as income and wealth have concentrated at the top. In the late 1970s the richest 1 percent of Americans received 9 percent of total income and held 18 percent of the nation's wealth; by 2007, they had more than 23 percent of total income and 35 percent of America's wealth. CEOs of the 1970s were paid 40 times the average worker's wage; now CEOs receive 300 times the typical workers' wage.

This concentration of income and wealth has generated the political heft to deregulate Wall Street and halve top tax rates. It has bankrolled the so-called Tea Party movement, and captured the House of Representatives and many state governments. Through a sequence of presidential appointments it has also overtaken the Supreme Court.

More

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
Edmund Burke

One of the key traits of the Progressive is that they are pathological liars. What is a "Progressive"? What do they feel is necessary to hide their economic and political philosophy behind the misnomer "Progressive"? They are Statist, Fascist and Marxist but think they are clever by calling themselves "Progressives".

Mao was a Progressive, so was their Uncle Joe Stalin, how did the Chinese and Soviets progress under them?

Progressive = Liar

In so far as the 1920's. Yes it's the last time Conservatives rules the USA. Thanks to Harding and Mellon they dropped unemployment from 12% to 4% in 18 months. How did Progressive FDR do? How is Progressive Obama doing? That they mentioned the 1920's at all is grudging acknowledgement that they've lost they media monopoly and so they are forced to talk about the 1920's and when they do, they lie.

Big Surprise

Hey Frank, did you glean that from Glenn Beck's Nazi chalkboard?

Here are some words from Mao...

What Mao Zedong said about liberalism

"Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is a corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy and creates dissension.

It robs the revolutionary ranks of compact organization and strict discipline, prevents policies from being carried through and alienates the Party organizations from the masses which the Party leads."
Combat Liberalism

While not all conservatives are authoritarians; all highly authoritarian personalities are political conservatives.
Robert Altmeyer - The Authoritarians

Liberalism? Do you use Liberalism and Progressivism interchangeably?

Mao was lauded by American Democrats as a Progressive and he was; so were your Uncle's Joe and Adolph. That's your family tree.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The Progressive Movement

"The Progressive Movement began late in the 19th Century. Its Central Tenets are Statism, Income Redistribution, Unionism, Government Management of the Economy, womb to tomb provision for its citizens, and a Libertine Social Policy."

Read your Progressive history

 

[Wry Catcher]

So far in points earned for substantive posts:

Progressives 5, Callous (Regressive) Conservatives -3 (negative scores are 'awarded' for stupidity)

 

[Wry Catcher]

The Progressive Movement

"The Progressive Movement began late in the 19th Century. Its Central Tenets are Statism, Income Redistribution, Unionism, Government Management of the Economy, womb to tomb provision for its citizens, and a Libertine Social Policy."

Read your Progressive history

Dumb, de dumb dumb, dumb dumb.

 

[Bfgrn]

The New Deal to the Great Society was the Golden age of America. Wonderful. Okay, here we go again... I am NOT paying for your dive into this progressive utopia that you so wonderfully crafted in your imagination. For some reason, you think all these wonderful ideas, like paying federal employees BETTER than their civilian counterparts, is somehow the way to go. Obamacare is a disaster and the administration is talking about repealing parts of it because it can never work the way it's crafted. Now even the CBO says that their statement that it would "save money" in the long run, failed to take into account "certain factors."

From the 40's to the mid 60's, the federal government was NOT in Amercian's every day lives. Now it is and this country is WORSE for it. I would absolutely LOVE IT if the federal government would go back to the way it was through the New Deal to the Great Society. That would mean that the Department of Education would be closed down (and no one would miss it). There wouldn't be a city in this country that was a sanctuary city and the police would arrest illegals and send them back to where they came from. Most decisions would be made at the local level and there wouldn't be half the federal entitlement programs that there are now. So yeah, I absolutely agree with you 100%: Let's go back to the way it was.

And I hate to tell you bubba, but historians believe (rightly so) that Ronald Reagan was one of the five BEST Presidents EVER.

HISTORY??? REALLY? By the time he left office in 1989, Ronald Reagan more than equaled the entire debt burden produced by the previous 200 years of American history. Ronald Reagan was the biggest socialist in our history. He began the transfer of $3 trillion dollars of wealth from the poor and middle class to the opulent.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The New Deal to the Great Society was the Golden age of America. Wonderful. Okay, here we go again... I am NOT paying for your dive into this progressive utopia that you so wonderfully crafted in your imagination. For some reason, you think all these wonderful ideas, like paying federal employees BETTER than their civilian counterparts, is somehow the way to go. Obamacare is a disaster and the administration is talking about repealing parts of it because it can never work the way it's crafted. Now even the CBO says that their statement that it would "save money" in the long run, failed to take into account "certain factors."

From the 40's to the mid 60's, the federal government was NOT in Amercian's every day lives. Now it is and this country is WORSE for it. I would absolutely LOVE IT if the federal government would go back to the way it was through the New Deal to the Great Society. That would mean that the Department of Education would be closed down (and no one would miss it). There wouldn't be a city in this country that was a sanctuary city and the police would arrest illegals and send them back to where they came from. Most decisions would be made at the local level and there wouldn't be half the federal entitlement programs that there are now. So yeah, I absolutely agree with you 100%: Let's go back to the way it was.

And I hate to tell you bubba, but historians believe (rightly so) that Ronald Reagan was one of the five BEST Presidents EVER.

HISTORY??? REALLY? By the time he left office in 1989, Ronald Reagan more than equaled the entire debt burden produced by the previous 200 years of American history. Ronald Reagan was the biggest socialist in our history. He began the transfer of $3 trillion dollars of wealth from the poor and middle class to the opulent.

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[konradv]

The Progressive Movement

"The Progressive Movement began late in the 19th Century. Its Central Tenets are Statism, Income Redistribution, Unionism, Government Management of the Economy, womb to tomb provision for its citizens, and a Libertine Social Policy."

Read your Progressive history

If you're into real history, instead of "hit pieces", read good old Wiki for an even-handed evaluation of the movement.

Progressive Era - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The Progressive Movement

"The Progressive Movement began late in the 19th Century. Its Central Tenets are Statism, Income Redistribution, Unionism, Government Management of the Economy, womb to tomb provision for its citizens, and a Libertine Social Policy."

Read your Progressive history

If you're into real history, instead of "hit pieces", read good old Wiki for an even-handed evaluation of the movement.

Progressive Era - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Reminds me of the wonderful work Herr Goebbels did in describing his regime.

 

[OldUSAFSniper]

The New Deal to the Great Society was the Golden age of America. Wonderful. Okay, here we go again... I am NOT paying for your dive into this progressive utopia that you so wonderfully crafted in your imagination. For some reason, you think all these wonderful ideas, like paying federal employees BETTER than their civilian counterparts, is somehow the way to go. Obamacare is a disaster and the administration is talking about repealing parts of it because it can never work the way it's crafted. Now even the CBO says that their statement that it would "save money" in the long run, failed to take into account "certain factors."

From the 40's to the mid 60's, the federal government was NOT in Amercian's every day lives. Now it is and this country is WORSE for it. I would absolutely LOVE IT if the federal government would go back to the way it was through the New Deal to the Great Society. That would mean that the Department of Education would be closed down (and no one would miss it). There wouldn't be a city in this country that was a sanctuary city and the police would arrest illegals and send them back to where they came from. Most decisions would be made at the local level and there wouldn't be half the federal entitlement programs that there are now. So yeah, I absolutely agree with you 100%: Let's go back to the way it was.

And I hate to tell you bubba, but historians believe (rightly so) that Ronald Reagan was one of the five BEST Presidents EVER.

HISTORY??? REALLY? By the time he left office in 1989, Ronald Reagan more than equaled the entire debt burden produced by the previous 200 years of American history. Ronald Reagan was the biggest socialist in our history. He began the transfer of $3 trillion dollars of wealth from the poor and middle class to the opulent.

I think Crusader Frank tried to hint to you that CONGRESS CONTROLS SPENDING, but I'm not sure if you got that or not. It was such a subtle hint. Let's remember that Ronald Reagan TRIED and TRIED and TRIED to reduce spending, but of course the DEMOCRATS WHO CONTROLLED CONGRESS wouldn't go along with that.

Bill Clinton, except in his first two years as President, took the credit for the workings of a REPUBLICAN CONGRESS and balanced the budget.

 

[ladyliberal]

Am glad to see that this is a blogger's opinion and not actual fact.

Of course it's an opinion piece, but the dismissal of Reich as "a blogger" is a grossly misleading. He's a former cabinet secretary Robert Reich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

 

[Bfgrn]

The New Deal to the Great Society was the Golden age of America. Wonderful. Okay, here we go again... I am NOT paying for your dive into this progressive utopia that you so wonderfully crafted in your imagination. For some reason, you think all these wonderful ideas, like paying federal employees BETTER than their civilian counterparts, is somehow the way to go. Obamacare is a disaster and the administration is talking about repealing parts of it because it can never work the way it's crafted. Now even the CBO says that their statement that it would "save money" in the long run, failed to take into account "certain factors."

From the 40's to the mid 60's, the federal government was NOT in Amercian's every day lives. Now it is and this country is WORSE for it. I would absolutely LOVE IT if the federal government would go back to the way it was through the New Deal to the Great Society. That would mean that the Department of Education would be closed down (and no one would miss it). There wouldn't be a city in this country that was a sanctuary city and the police would arrest illegals and send them back to where they came from. Most decisions would be made at the local level and there wouldn't be half the federal entitlement programs that there are now. So yeah, I absolutely agree with you 100%: Let's go back to the way it was.

And I hate to tell you bubba, but historians believe (rightly so) that Ronald Reagan was one of the five BEST Presidents EVER.

HISTORY??? REALLY? By the time he left office in 1989, Ronald Reagan more than equaled the entire debt burden produced by the previous 200 years of American history. Ronald Reagan was the biggest socialist in our history. He began the transfer of $3 trillion dollars of wealth from the poor and middle class to the opulent.

I can't say it enough

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The Budget of the United States Government is the President's proposal to the U.S. Congress which recommends funding levels for the next fiscal year, beginning October 1.