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>>> The _truth_ upsets rightards.

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>>> Bret Cahill

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>> That confidence stimulated investment and
>> along with Reagan tax cuts, spurred the economy on toward �that lasted
>> up until 9-11 (save for a downturn due to a supply
>> pipeline disruption in auto industry in 1991 that helped oust Senior
>> Bush in 1992). �Clinton also reaped a lion's share of productivity gains
>> through computerization that had been ongoing since the '70s...but
>> peaking through the 90's.

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> Reagan's "unprecedented growth" was in fact a unprecedented growth in
> debt and corporatism. It did not 'trickle down" it did not spur
> investment outside of M&A consolidation. Energy conservation and
> alternatives to oil use, which was in fact a consumer revolution, was
> systematically undermined. Form became function, thought became slogans
> and reasoning was sacrificed up to cheap emotion. America became a
> kindergarten nation lead by a play cowboy who wore too much rouge and who
> called his wife 'mommy'.
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> Saddam was a good guy. Noriega was a good guy. Crime paid. Lying was cool
> and power became it's own virtue. The right became 'tarded'.