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If your one of the top 1% money earners in America, and you control most of what goes on in the government and media, then you would love Reagan. He was a great actor, and a great tool for the wealthiest class of people. Among his accomplishments:-Vetoing a bill that would of punished the white South African government with sanctions for it's practice of aparthied against the majority black.-Made the rich richer, and the poor poorer, widening the gap and more deeply dividing America.-Cutting welfare, after school programs, and assistance to the poor. When the poor and jobless responded angrily he biult more prisons for them.-Turned the word "welfare" into a bad word. Made people believe that taxes were high because of welfare reciepients wanting handouts. Turning the middle class against the poor class. When infact, taxes are high because the largest chunk of that money is going to steadily increase the size of the military.-Supporting minority rebel movements in Guatamala and other South American countries we had no business being in.-The Berlin wall fell inspite of Ronald Reagan and not becuase of Ronald Reagan. The arms race of the cold war only retarded the situation.
-Guess what? Welfare is a bad word. Its for fucking lazy ass americans who'd rather take the governments money then to work for a living like everyone else. They drain the federal governments money so they can sit at home watching tv, and eating tv dinners. Handing out hundreds of millions of dollars in welfare each year, And you dont think this affects taxes??
Quote from: rampant on June 07, 2004, 09:11:52 AM-Guess what? Welfare is a bad word. Its for fucking lazy ass americans who'd rather take the governments money then to work for a living like everyone else. They drain the federal governments money so they can sit at home watching tv, and eating tv dinners. Handing out hundreds of millions of dollars in welfare each year, And you dont think this affects taxes??In reality welfare accounts for a very small percentage of our taxes while paying for the US Military and it's operations in 100 countries around the world accounts for a huge chunk of our taxes.
once again...our government was made to govern and protect the people that live in the united states...that fact right there justifies the money spent on defense.welfare is dirty and they should make people ashamed to be on it...i live in a city that has one of the highest percentage of welfare recipiants and when i go downtown what do i see? about 50 satillite dishes hanging from every apartment building.....89 kids running around in the front lawn...all sporting Nike's and wearing Sean John clothing...it makes me sick to know that my tax money is being spent to support bad spending habits instead of actually going to a place that can help these peopleand then you complain about us supporting people directly to the south of us but and then complain about us not supporting people in africa....this alone makes you two of your statements contridictory....who are you to judge what we did is the right or wrong thing?he built more prisons for the poor and jobless? last time i checked, neither of those are crimes....again another ignorant commentand through out history, the richer do get richer and the poorer do get poorer so this isn't something reagan invented
Quote from: smerlus on June 07, 2004, 11:33:05 AMonce again...our government was made to govern and protect the people that live in the united states...that fact right there justifies the money spent on defense.welfare is dirty and they should make people ashamed to be on it...i live in a city that has one of the highest percentage of welfare recipiants and when i go downtown what do i see? about 50 satillite dishes hanging from every apartment building.....89 kids running around in the front lawn...all sporting Nike's and wearing Sean John clothing...it makes me sick to know that my tax money is being spent to support bad spending habits instead of actually going to a place that can help these peopleand then you complain about us supporting people directly to the south of us but and then complain about us not supporting people in africa....this alone makes you two of your statements contridictory....who are you to judge what we did is the right or wrong thing?he built more prisons for the poor and jobless? last time i checked, neither of those are crimes....again another ignorant commentand through out history, the richer do get richer and the poorer do get poorer so this isn't something reagan inventedStop your stereotyping, U dunno no one on welfare....oh yea, people on welfare get cable dishes and go buy their kids Sean John clothing....lmaoWho's complaining about Africa? stick to the subject, welfare is not a BLACK thing.Reagan didn't invent none of that shit yur talkin about, but was a big supporter and did nothing to improve the system. R.I.P regardless.PS: our government is there to protect? ok loll, but at this moment in time, who are they protecting us from going into middle east? If a terrorist act happens 2morrow, who are we to blame?