You wanna hear a little story of how it all began? Once upon a time, there was a man named Ronald Reagan. He was known as the "Great Communicator" because he was good at spinning words.
He was a failing actor who decided to run for president. His campaign slogan in 1980 was "Let's Make America Great Again" and he won. Yeah, it was Reagan first.
Before Reagan was elected, the very wealthy paid 70% in taxes. He was so good at spinning words that he convinced the poor people of America that the rich needed to pay less in taxes. So he lowered it to 28%. He said this would create more jobs and opportunities for the poor - "Trickle Down."
Upon seeing his blunder in loss of tax revenues, in 1984, he decided to tax social security to make up some of the lossed tax revenue.
He wanted to end welfare and Medicare, saying, "Let's send those bums back to work (meaning blacks)." Americans (many) were like, hell yeah, I'm cool with that!!!
But, "Reaganomics" never worked. It didn't work then, and it doesn't work today. Oh, I forgot to mention how much he hated Unions and dismantled many of them.
His biggest achievement was separating the races and convincing poor people that the rich needed more. End of story?
Fun fact. Kids in class were passing this photo around, and the teacher got a hold of it. She contacted the principal, who then contacted my mother. When the principal asked “do you know what your son’s posting online?” my mom‘s response was “yeah bitch, I took the damn photo”
My child BROKE HIS FINGER at school today & I asked the nurse if I could verbally give permission to give him ibuprofen to help the swelling go down & she said, no, they aren't allowed to give him any meds but then I picked him up and he was a girl, I couldn't believe it
What she has forgotten to mention is that we are 2nd worse in infant mortality, and in the top 10 for teen pregnancy. We also have no Pre-K education, and turn down money to feed kids in need. We may birth them, but we sure don't take care of them! So, a weird, and sad, flex.
early on in walz’s rise, he said something on cnn that stuck out to me: americans just want to be able to go to dinner with their family without fighting about politics again. realizing now that this probably came from a place of genuine pain, the kind lots of us can relate to.