And they can no longer be sustained.

Some people have been waiting decades for it to trickle down to them

If only we had MORE republican policies in place, right?

1) Eisenhower's implemented the Interstate freeway system
2) Nixon's signed the EPA bill, holding his nose, but at least he signed it.

Other than those 2 things, all they've done is try to implement tax cuts.
Always disguised to help the middle class, but helps only the Greedy One Percent (GOP)

i'll give him that. otherwise, he sucked and ranks as one of the better republican presidents of late only because donnie, ronnie, and shrub are all so much worse.

but yeah, the list of positive achievements by republicans is a pretty thin one....

have tried to chip away at implementation, or just plan reversal, of it's civil right provisions for millions of citizens.

they never seem to claim him.

I guess he was in named in some of his policy choices, but I tend to think of him as an independent.

...to their cause because he accepted the framework of the New Deal. Likewise Dewey and the other Liberal(ish) Republicans who supported Ike and secured his nomination.

1952 looked to be a Republican win, and the conservatives saw it as their God-given right to roll back the New Deal, and Ike left them, shall we say, unfulfilled. So, like the fanatics they are, no matter how ivy-league their demeanor, they went on the warpath.

And of course, he had no hand whatsoever in proposing the holiday, and wanted merely a “recognition day,” NOT a federal holiday. But in the end, the S.O.B. signed it into law in 1983.

http://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/22/us/reagan-s-doubts-on-dr-king-disclosed.html
REAGAN'S DOUBTS ON DR. KING DISCLOSED
New York Times
October 22, 1983
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Today, before arriving here for a golfing weekend, Mr. Reagan telephoned Dr. King's widow, Coretta Scott King, to apologize for any misunderstanding of his remark Wednesday that ''we will know in about 35 years'' whether Dr. King had communist sympathies.
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The President had endorsed a day of national recognition for Dr. King rather than a Federal holiday, citing the costs involved. But in the end, all efforts to modify the legislation were defeated as Howard H. Baker Jr. of Tennessee, the Republican leader, shepherded the bill through the Senate.
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Upon arriving here, the President, speaking in response to a question, said that in his telephone conversation with Mrs. King, she had accepted his apology.

''We had a nice conversation,'' he said of his phone call to Mrs. King from the White House. Mrs. King had termed the remark, made by the President at his news conference Wednesday, an insult to the memory of her husband, the slain civil rights leader.
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are mostly former coworkers. They are not high wage earners, they are not stockholders. They are dazzled by the words "tax cut". They are in for a rude awakening.

because of what they see happening to their 401k plans. Anyone who has one is a stockholder, whether you want to acknowledge it or not.

Dh is expecting his retirement fund to grow by leaps and bounds.

right up to the point it all comes crashing down!

personally i've already moved my normally all-in retirement savings to a much more defensive position.

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"Snuggling in houses of cardboard and tape
And they dine on garbage rich folks throw..."