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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Wed Apr 17, 2013, 12:28 PM Apr 2013

Reaganism And Thatcherism Pretty Much Has Destroyed Both Countries.

The Reagan/Thatcher kind of conservatism has pretty much destroyed both countries. And conservatives in both the US and GB pretty much want to keep it that way. Economic stagnation and erosion is their legacy.

As far as I am concerned unless we and the British end conservative death grip the future of both countries is in doubt. That is because all they did was guarantee that the rich pretty much rule at the expense of everyone else.

All we get with both revolutions is high unemployment, work instability and lowering wages. And the economic anemia will continue for the next 30 years and beyond.

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Reaganism And Thatcherism Pretty Much Has Destroyed Both Countries. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Apr 2013 OP
As wretched as Thatcher was . . . HughBeaumont Apr 2013 #1
I hope they are reunited in their own special corner of hell.... femmocrat Apr 2013 #2
Reagan crashed the housing market with 20% interest, but the rich kept building mansions Coyotl Apr 2013 #3
Yes, as simple as that. nt ladjf Apr 2013 #4

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
1. As wretched as Thatcher was . . .
Wed Apr 17, 2013, 12:33 PM
Apr 2013

. . . deep down . .. and when I say "deep" I mean RRRRRREAAAALLLY DEEP . . . she knew dismantling their social safety net (particularly NHS) would get her paraded around on a stick.

Reagone wasn't even THAT compassionate. He was an addled Donald Regan/MIC/Big Oil/GE sock puppet who masturbated over a privatized 'Murca.

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
2. I hope they are reunited in their own special corner of hell....
Wed Apr 17, 2013, 12:37 PM
Apr 2013

and haunted for eternity by the souls of those whose lives were ruined by their greed and ignorance.

 

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
3. Reagan crashed the housing market with 20% interest, but the rich kept building mansions
Wed Apr 17, 2013, 01:04 PM
Apr 2013

and since that day, the housing industry has never been the same.

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