Reagan Insider: 'GOP Destroyed US Economy'

[Donnachaidh]

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/7735-reagan-insider-gop-destroyed-us-economy

"How my GOP destroyed the US economy." Yes, that is exactly what David Stockman, President Ronald Reagan's director of the Office of Management and Budget, wrote in a recent New York Times op-ed piece, "Four Deformations of the Apocalypse."

Get it? Not "destroying." The GOP has already "destroyed" the US economy, setting up an "American Apocalypse."

Yes, Stockman is equally damning of the Democrats' Keynesian policies. But what this indictment by a party insider - someone so close to the development of the Reaganomics ideology - says about America, helps all of us better understand how America's toxic partisan-politics "holy war" is destroying not just the economy and capitalism, but the America dream. And unless this war stops soon, both parties will succeed in their collective death wish.

But why focus on Stockman's message? It's already lost in the 24/7 news cycle. Why? We need some introspection. Ask yourself: How did the great nation of America lose its moral compass and drift so far off course, to where our very survival is threatened?

More at the link --

[RC]

1. +10 They are slowly waking up and speaking out.

Hopeful it is not too late.

[FSogol]

2. K & R. n/t

[Tippy]

3. K&R....and Thank you Donnachaidh

You certainly keep me busy reading.....

[Donnachaidh]

9. lol -- sorry!

There's just so much blooming out there to share ;-)

[bullwinkle428]

4. I'm sure he'll get booked for an interview on Hannity's show toot-sweet!

:rofl:

[liberal N proud]

5. When did they start?

During the Reagan years.

[sarcasmo]

6. IMHO, the American dream died with NAFTA. Sure it started to die under Ronnie

but the dream was squashed with NAFTA. Our country was great when we used to make quality products, now we just import shitty product.

[pampango]

11. Reagan and his successors killed it by breaking unions, slashing taxes for the rich,

gutting the safety net and "freeing" corporations from regulation. Progressive countries (Europe, Canada, Australia, etc.) do none of these things.

[L. Coyote]

7. Mission Accomplished yet?

Not really. They want to break up the country and steal all the public lands and minerals, over half of the land mass!!

[SpiralHawk]

8. "Smirk. Sneer." - xCommander AWOL Bush (R)

[HughBeaumont]

10. "I helped destroy America and all I got was away with it." - The Failure Fratster.

Pigs like this should be locked in a dungeon in the Hague and not be fed.

[sarcasmo]

13. Makes you wonder how many of those cash filled briefcases he received.

[moondust]

12. Stockman should be on a super duper committee to fix the economy.

Along with Krugman and Reich and this guy, to name a few.