Posted on 08/12/2006 12:46:58 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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"Voo-doo" Economics at 25 too. (Bush I PWN3D!)
Unemploment %
1981 7.6
1982 9.7
No wonder I enlisted....Unemployment rates were even worse in Mi....
That should be unemployment %!
One Freepers name says it all for me - LongsForReagan.
How dearly I miss that great, great man.
I know you're invoking hyperbole to make your point, but you really don't want 0% unemployment. People would riot with frustration.
Reaganomics is across-the-board tax cuts, not only top-rate cuts exclusively which would be "supply side" only.
Maybe we should propose an amendment to limit the maximum tax rate (lots of folks would advocate a limit of zero, in favor of a national sales tax).
I'll read this later.
Right now I am suffering from malaise.
Some Reagan jokes:
"It is said that Castro was making a speech to a large assembly. And he was going on at great length and then a voice out in the crowd said, 'peanuts, popcorn, crackerjacks.' and he went on speaking and again the voice said, 'peanuts, popcorn, crackerjacks,'" Mr. Reagan said. "And about the fourth time this happened, he stopped in his regular speech and he said, "the next time," he said, "I'm going to find out who that is and kick him all the way to Miami.' And everybody in the crowd said, "peanuts, popcorn, crackerjacks.'"
A commissar in the Soviet Union went out to one of those state collective farms, grabbed the first worker he came to and said, 'Comrade, how are the crops?' "'Oh,' he said, 'Comrade Commissar, if we could put the potatoes in one pile, they would reach the foot of God.'" "And the commissar said, 'This is the Soviet Union. There is no God.' and he said, 'That's all right, there are no potatoes.'
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