Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan were the leaders of the "Greed is Good" political movement...

[TeamPooka]

in the 1980's enacting laws that gave companies tax breaks to relocate their businesses ultimately decimating domestic manufacturing and leading to the rise of outsourcing that we continue to suffer from today.
So when right wing idiots say "Corporations are people" and "Tax breaks for the rich trickle down" they are repeating the long sewn seeds of bullshit originally spewed by these two morons that they worship even though they fucked up two countries economies for decades.

[Dawson Leery]

1. Exactly.

[byeya]

2. "There is no such thing as society"

[TeamPooka]

3. +100

[spanone]

4. the bu$hes faithfully carried it on......

[Rex]

5. Yes, they helped destroy capitalism as we knew it.

Fuck them both. I hope both are slowly being rotated in hell on the barby.

[TeamPooka]

7. +100

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Both played on people's fears of being demoted to the poor.

I preferred the Tories as aristocratic snobs and the Republicans as country club yacht owners. Thatcher and Reagan preyed on the middle class by portraying the poor as a threat that would deprive them of the money and reduce them to poverty themselves. Thus the "welfare queens" and "takers".

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

8. Chris Hayes is eviscerating her now!

[olddots]

9. Yuppies and coke---- me generation .

I call it the beginning of the end.

[TeamPooka]

10. More Jerry Falwell and Reagan fault than Yuppies and coke.