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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Omega: [QB] Tom: You need not have experienced something to know about it. In fact, you're almost better not to have experienced it and go by pure numbers. More objectivity. As for Reaganomics helping the poor, you may be interested to know that during the eighties, more lower class families jumped to the upper class than stayed in the lower class. This isn't even counting the ones that just got to the middle class. The poor certainly were helped. And Reagan had little to do with the debt. Every budget he sent to the House was pronounced DOA. The Dems controlled spending. Revenues doubled, and military spending as a percentage of revenues went up like four percent. So where'd the rest of the money go? Pork-barrel spending on the part of the Democratic congress. Reagan actually made at least one deal with the Dems in which he would agree to raise taxes a bit if they'd cut spending by twice as much. They lied. Which is part of the reason H.W. Bush was so dumb to do the exact same thing and cause the recession we had. Frank: But can you set up a system where everyone is forced to work WELL? [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/smile.gif[/IMG] One thing that everyone needs to realize is that whenever the government takes over ANYTHING, it will instantly turn to dust. Medicine, schools, anything. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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