REAGAN'S CLASS WAR AGAINST AMERICA

From the Houston Chronicle, local radical historian, Bob Buzzanco of the U of H, offers some facts about the Gipper's economic record:

WITH the passing of Ronald Reagan we will read tributes to his legacy as the "great communicator," his political skills, his patriotic fervor. What will probably go unsaid, however, is that Reagan's policies, particular his economic views — dubbed "voodoo economics" by candidate George H.W. Bush during the 1980 election — contributed to the greatest disparity between wealth and poverty since the Depression, caused huge reductions in real wages and income for most Americans, accumulated the greatest budget deficits in U.S. history, and, in "reverse Robin Hood" fashion, redistributed wealth from working people to the rich. A critical aspect of Reagan's legacy, which has become a persistent social problem for the past generation, was class war from the top down.

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Just because I liked old "Dutch", it doesn't mean that I liked his politics. In fact, his politics were pretty awful: Americans need to remember that before the stinky wave of aggrandizing and eulogizing conservative drool-mouths have him chopping down cherry trees with George Washington. Atrios over at Eschaton has been all over this, in fact. Indeed, one of the new and false myths that have very quickly appeared is that Reagan was the most popular president in US history. This is just plain wrong. The Gipper was quite popular. However, and those very same drool-mouths that I mentioned above will cry foul on this one even though they're totally full of poo-poo, our last chief executive, Bill "get me an intern" Clinton was the most popular president in US history.

Strange, but true.

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