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kpete

(71,901 posts)
Mon Apr 1, 2013, 10:03 AM Apr 2013

SUNDOWN IN AMERICA - Reagan Revolution Home To Roost — In Charts

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Reagan Revolution Home To Roost — In Charts

In each of the charts below look for the year 1981, when Reagan took office.
Conservative policies transformed the United States from the largest creditor nation to the largest debtor nation in just a few years, and it has only gotten worse since then:

http://blog.ourfuture.org/20120318/Reagan_Revolution_Home_To_Roost_--_In_Charts


Working people’s share of the benefits from increased productivity took a sudden turn down:




This resulted in intense concentration of wealth at the top:




And forced working people to spend down savings to get by:



Which forced working people to go into debt: (total household debt as percentage ofGDP )




None of which has helped economic growth much: (12-quarter rolling average nominalGDP growth.)*


http://blog.ourfuture.org/20120318/Reagan_Revolution_Home_To_Roost_--_In_Charts

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SUNDOWN IN AMERICA - Reagan Revolution Home To Roost — In Charts (Original Post) kpete Apr 2013 OP
Ooo! Newest Reality Apr 2013 #1
Wow, kpete Apr 2013 #2
Great read for those who wish to be outraged/bummed/depressed. Scuba Apr 2013 #3
The Reagan/Conservatives didn't do it alone. AnotherMcIntosh Apr 2013 #4
You are correct. 99Forever Apr 2013 #6
The Big Dog CANDO Apr 2013 #7
I don't, FWIW.... dixiegrrrrl Apr 2013 #8
Reagan was a smooth talker all right mrdmk Apr 2013 #5
The lesson no one seems to learn. Probably because we cannot understand why they - American jwirr Apr 2013 #9
Notwithstanding the writing on the wall, 47% of Amurikans voted for der Mittens. Case indepat Apr 2013 #10

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
1. Ooo!
Mon Apr 1, 2013, 10:11 AM
Apr 2013

It is like economic BDS&M.

Scrape that rhetoric from my flesh! Whip those notions of democracy out of me! Yes! That's right. Strip me of my propaganda and facade of justice and freedom. Oooo, baby! Stick me in your nasty private prison and do dirty things to me all day every day! Mmm.

Humiliate me and show me you care! Tell me what a worthless person I am and how I deserve this. Oh, Master! Oh my. Yes. I do deserve it. I didn't do the right things. Degrade me all the way to the streets and tie me up in compassionately conservative way. Tell me I'm free while you hold the keys in front of me and make me drool with desire as you force me to watch all things I can't have on your bondage TV!

Take away everything I have left because it TURNS ME ON BABY! Let's buy some real estate in Stockholm together and I will lay hog-tied on the floor of your mansion while you tell me about your exploits and stuff torn-up copies of the Constitution in my mouth while spitting in my face.

Oh, you know how to treat a slave, Master! The world and the future you have in store is so hot ... but I have to ask for permission before I can ...

 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
3. Great read for those who wish to be outraged/bummed/depressed.
Mon Apr 1, 2013, 10:27 AM
Apr 2013

Thanks for posting kpete. The truth hurts, but needs to be heard.

 

AnotherMcIntosh

(11,064 posts)
4. The Reagan/Conservatives didn't do it alone.
Mon Apr 1, 2013, 10:36 AM
Apr 2013

Which politicans betrayed their base by approving of let's-send-American-jobs-to-foreign-countries-free-trade-agreements?

Are we supposed to overlook their actions?

99Forever

(14,524 posts)
6. You are correct.
Mon Apr 1, 2013, 10:56 AM
Apr 2013

The enablers are complicit in this, and it would seem to anyone looking at it honestly, not by accident. The Good cop/Bad cop scam continues unabated to this day.

 

CANDO

(2,068 posts)
7. The Big Dog
Mon Apr 1, 2013, 10:56 AM
Apr 2013

To many low information cons, it was all Bill Clinton. Never mind if free trade agreements were always a conservative darling baby.

mrdmk

(2,943 posts)
5. Reagan was a smooth talker all right
Mon Apr 1, 2013, 10:51 AM
Apr 2013

Remember how hostile people became when that liberal Jimmy Carter took over. I really think people were just burned out from the sixties and early seventies thing and just wanted to forget and party. Too much thinking going on!

Now that Iran Contra is now out of the bag, people need to put two and two together. Reagan and his America First Elect Me Act! Yep, it was an act all right, Reagan's people bargained with captors of Americans to delay their release. Then took money in exchange for weapons from these same captors. Proceeded to fund a war that Congress specifically told the Executive Branch to stay out of. Some people in the White House lost their jobs will others went to jail for a short period of time.

Reagan could give two cents to the common person. All he wanted was the label of President, none of the responsibility that came with it, nor the ramification of his actions. As matter of fact, it was given a name, "The Reagan Revolution!. Good branding, too bad nothing good has came from it and sinks to high heaven.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
9. The lesson no one seems to learn. Probably because we cannot understand why they - American
Mon Apr 1, 2013, 11:28 AM
Apr 2013

citizens - would do such a thing.

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