Congress’s Secret Plan to Pass Obamacare

[Jamo]

Originally Posted by cobra bill

For almost 40 years we had stability in the country, and it was growing at a steady rate, then Reagan came along with his tax cuts and, it took so much away from the government, that he had to use social security funds to come closer to a balanced budget. That's when the tax burden was shifted to the middle class, and then when Bush gave us his tax cut, that was the last straw, the country could not handle it anymore, for 30 years the government let the infrastructure go, because there was no money to keep up with normal maintenance. Wages were stagnated for middle and lower class for 30 years and so there was no way to make up the gap in revenue, so here we are, after 40 years of republican fiscal lunacy, the country is broken the middle class is all but gone, and the rich are swimming in money, a great way to form a banana republic! When 1% control 50% of the nation's wealth, and have more money than the bottom 90% the gap is so severe, this is what has caused revolutions, and not the astro turf ginned up tea baggers,
I mean like the French revolution, if you study history, you will note that the gap between the haves, and the have not's, was right where we are today!
So maybe we should break out the guillotine and start offing the heads of the tyrants that put us here.

Grammar still sucks, but now we're running into a math problem...

"40 years of stability" (pre-Reagan)

"30 years of infrastructure failing/wage stagnation" (post-Reagan)

"40 years of Republican fiscal lunacy"

Reagan was President from 1981-1989.

So, the "40 years of stability" you're talking about must have run from 1941 to 1981, which includes the trauma of WWII, the Korean War and Viet Nam, not to mention the Cold War, the 60s, Plato's Retreat and bad hair (I'm not counting big bell bottoms, the Gas Crisis or assorted other "stabilizing" scenarios).

"30 years of failing infrastructure/wage stagnation" must've run from 1989 to 2019, which includes 8 years of Clinton and 9 months of Obama, with 10 years to go.

"40 years of Republican fiscal lunacy." Hmmmm....Reagan (8 years) plus Bush I (4 years) plus Bush II (8 years) adds up to 20 years. I guess Clinton (8 years) just doesn't count?

What followed the "wonderful" French Revolution? Anarchy and a short Corsican.

One more assinine post and you're gone forever. The rest of us here deserve better than this.