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To: Texas Eagle

No, we won’t. The fact is, Reagan transformed American conservatism for over 190 years from a nationalist economic policy to an internationalist policy, with some important exceptions.

Reagan did not have the advantage of seeing what many of these internationalist policies would do, because in the SHORT RUN jobs were up, saving was up, etc. But in the long run, American industries started to get hollowed out. And because Reagan was correctly focused on the near term danger of defeating the USSR, and because the short run numbers all looked good, we all thought it was a workable policy. It wasn’t. Clinton perpetuated it, and got another decade of job growth out of it, while there was a fundamental shift going on within the economy. It was becoming obvious, though, by the end of the 1990s that the middle class was being destroyed as was American manufacturing and industry.

So, you’ll see in short order a repositioning of the American economy to the principles of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Calvin Coolidge. (Ike is an exception because the world destruction was so great any economy of any sort could pretty well have dominated trade and manufacturing simply because it wasn’t in rubble).


10 posted on 11/24/2016 8:45:04 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: LS
(Ike is an exception because the world destruction was so great any economy of any sort could pretty well have dominated trade and manufacturing simply because it wasn’t in rubble).

I have been saying the same thing for decades.

When so many people talk about how our parents' generation made things so great I mention the fact the rest of the industrial world had been destroyed during WWII and we were the only country that had not been touched. That makes it pretty darned easy to make and sell things.

Needless to say, I was usually excoriated for saying something so blasphemous.

54 posted on 11/24/2016 11:21:00 AM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: LS

Are you familiar with opic.gov?


59 posted on 11/24/2016 2:59:43 PM PST by bankwalker (Does a fish know that it's wet?)
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