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Showing Original Post only (View all)I was 19 years old when Ronald Reagan was first elected... [View all]
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And although I didn't realize it immediately, it didn't take that long for me to realize that my entire future, as well as that of my entire generation and the generations that were to come after, were all going to have our potential for economic growth and prosperity taken away from us.
It pretty much happened first in Detroit and the rest of the Midwest and spread on from there.
The closing the factories, the destruction of unions and the livelihood of working class wage earners, being ripped away. The crumbling of communities and draining away of spending power and investment, it all being sucked to the top, out of our ability to use it. Low wage earners exploited even more for relatively less and less pay, creating more and more wealth for those at the top and laws put in to weaken the rights of workers to collectively bargain for improved wages and benefits.
Instead of a nation that could inspire more employee owned enterprises, who are able to invest more for their post working lives, their own meager wealth was stolen from them with Wall Street ponzi schemes and risky tricks, with lies of better outcomes. A retirement life, supported by guaranteed pensions are now a anachronism, like Ozzie and Harriet and Leave It To Beaver.
Everywhere the nation, one whose economy towers over every other one on this planet, is rotting from within. And of course, we are all too invested in staying on this same disastrous course, until it collapses under it's own weight. It's the Roarin' 20s and the Gilded Age all rolled into one.
I blame this all on Ronald Reagan. I've seen enough fucking much, even though I'm glad that his rotting corpse is lying in his grave.
He pretty much fucked this nation, and to a greater extent, the whole world.
I was able to get a glimpse of the future while in Detroit as a young man
It still bothers me to this day that so many can't see how much he hurt this nation and most of the people in it.
Today is also SANDINISTA DAY (Liberation Day) in Nicaragua
I'm sure that they're hoping that he's roasting in hell too.