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[James Knott]

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.