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david_nwpa1 year, 4 months ago
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Generally speaking, I agree. However, how do you explain the country's relative prosperity during Eisenhower's terms? The country had a period of relative prosperity through the 1950s. During the term of Theodore Roosevelt after McKinley died, the nation underwent a series of more populist terms.
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I am not a Republican and one glance at any of my other posts show that. However, to be fair, one should consider that the Republican party has changed substantially since Richard Nixon was President. Furthermore, since Reagan was in office, the economic conservative traditions of the Republican party have shifted further right.-
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Dionys1 year, 4 months ago
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The 'good years' of the 50s was due to a ramp of of rampant capitalism post WWII. The patriotic sacrifices of the war became a loud cry of "buy more crap you don't need!" You should really read all about the rise of capitalism and the idea that people should buy more crap instead of conserving.
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miklkit1 year, 4 months ago
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In the 1950s America was the only undamaged industrial power left. Europe and Japan were rebuilding their war ravaged countries and were buying our products. We had it pretty good back then.
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Here is a graph showing national debt since WW2.
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jordan111 year, 4 months ago
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Ike was an enigma to the Republican party. Here are his thoughts on spending and saving.
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Mdiar1 year, 4 months ago
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After Teddy Roosevelt and his progressive revolution within the Republican Party, the business forces which play in the background of the GOP unseated him. Remember, the only reason he became President in the first place was because McKinley died; at that time, the VP slot was considered an end to the political career. The business arm of the Republicans foisted the office on him to kill his career before it could properly begin. Thus we had the youngest President in American history. After that we had an era of progressive Republicans that ended with Ike, for the most part. Maybe even before that.
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Endoscopy1 year, 4 months ago
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What a bunch of garbage. Things were great under Eisenhower.
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Then going under Kennedy there was the beginnings of inflation. When Johnson took office it started climbing.
Nixon took over ant the same thing happened. Ford became president and it started leveling off mostly because he vetoed every spending bill he could get away with.
Then came Carter. Ugh. Stagflation through the roof with double digit inflation. Had my biggest raises then just to keep the same buying power.
Reagan took over and the inflation went down even though the Democrats projected gloom and doom. Things kept getting better and better. Bush took over and more of the same.
Clinton came along and the offsetting biggest tax increase in history was coupled with the balanced budget forced on him by the Republicans. Going into his last year there was a drop in my 401K of 1/6.
The first year of Bush another drop of 1/6 and then everything went up again in the stock market. Things have prospered even though the Super libs talk back and forth about how bad it is.
The problem the Libs have is when asked how they or anyone they personally know the is doing answer is just fine. Then they go on to rant about how bad everybody else has it. Then the same old tired story about how the poor keep on getting poorer and the rich keep on getting richer. The main problem is the definition of poor and rich keep changing.-
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miklkit1 year, 4 months ago
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You need to look at this graph. Your version of history happens to be incorrect.
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http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/faq.html
You also seem to forget about "Read my lips, no new taxes" Herbert. -
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