Ronald Reagan said that?

Ronald Reagan: “The profits of corporations have doubled, while workers wages have only increased by one quarter. In other words, profits have gone up four times as much as wages. And the small increase the workers did receive was more than eaten up by rising prices which have also bored into their savings. For example, here’s an Associated Press dispatch I read the other day about Smith L. Carpenter, a carpenter in Union Springs New York. Seems that Mister Carpenter retired some years ago thinking he had enough money saved so that he could live out his last years without having to worry. But he didn’t figure on this Republican inflation which ate up all his savings. And so he’s gone back to work. The reason this is news; is Mister Carpenter is ninety-one years old. Now take as a contrast the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey which reported a net profit of two hundred and ten million dollars, after taxes, for the first half of 1948. An increase of 70% in one year.”

link:
http://newstalgia.crooksandliars.com/gordonskene/newstalgia-reference-room-ronald-reaga

But then he saw the profit in going to the dark side and sold out.

He said he voted for Roosevelt 3 times -- not sure why he didn't vote 4 maybe he wasn't eligible in 32.
John Wayne was also a liberal until after the War.

I find it stunning that after beating a right wing dictatorship that these people went from the left to the right

I posted it more for people to use against their conservative friends

edited: Because 'a lso' is not a word

There were plenty of people who would have loved to turn this country into a RW dictatorship, both before and after the war. Henry Ford, Allan Dulles, Charles Lindbergh, Father Coughlin, on and on. But the post war revelations of the Holocaust kind of put a nix on supporting such ideologies, at least publicly. So those people instead put the cloak of respectful, if conservative, politics over the whole thing. They worked in the back channels, doing back room deals, pumping up the Cold War and such. It was a multi-generational project, but we're seeing the fruits of their work now, and bitter fruit it is.

The United Fruit Company. They called the shots (no pun) in Central America with the help of the Dulles brothers, Allan and John Foster (CIA and Secretary of State).

.... actually makes sense. A landing signal officer. He would be the one with the paddles at the stern.

As for St. Ronnie. I guess everyone has a price.

At this point in time, and I never thought I would say this, I would enjoy having that notorious Lefty; Dwight David Eisenhower, as my president.

His ambition led him into selling out to the big moneyed interests in order to have a chance at becoming President.

And they called em Reagan Democrats for a reason.

Thanks for sharing.

The Republican promises sounded pretty good in 1946, but what has happened since then, since the 80th Congress took over? Prices have climbed to the highest level in history, although the death of the OPA was supposed to bring prices down through "the natural process of free competition". Labor has been handcuffed with the vicious Taft-Hartley law. Social Security benefits have been snatched away from almost a million workers by the Gearhart bill. Fair employment practices, which had worked so well during war time, have been abandoned. Veterans' pleas for low cost homes have been ignored, and many people are still living in made-over chicken coops and garages.

Tax-reduction bills have been passed to benefit the higher-income brackets alone. The average worker saved only $1.73 a week. In the false name of economy, millions of children have been deprived of milk once provided through the federal school lunch program. This was the payoff of the Republicans' promises. And this is why we must have new faces in the Congress of the United States: Democratic faces.