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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 12:13 PM Original message |
Folks: It's not 'Reaganomics'. RR was a closet Keynesian and a huge borrow-and-spender. |
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Democrats_win (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
1. True about Reagan (and W.orthless Bush). Not true about Obama. |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 12:34 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Agree. But people need to get their history straight. It's kind of like how people assume theReagans |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 12:34 PM Response to Original message |
3. While, I can grant that it does play into the Reaganomics worldview |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 12:37 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Hoover's policies reinforced existing economic power structures, FDR's |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 12:39 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Hoover was wrongly looked at in history. He increased spending and taxes. |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 12:42 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Yes. What he did showed FDR what would not work well enough or fast enough, BUT... |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 12:43 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Tired of seeing people not knowing history. |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 12:48 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Yes, he certainly would. That's why FDR supported Hoover for Prez at one point. |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 12:53 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. My kitty, Daisy. She is only a year old. |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 01:08 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. A tightly-coiled killer that kitty!!! |
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