cadenas -> RE: New Warheads: America the hypocrites (3/4/2007 1:39:57 PM)
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ORIGINAL: popeye1250 Slaveluci, when Reagan was President there were a *LOT* less poor people in this country! Everyone was working then and the jobs paid good money and had something called "Benefits." You got full medical, 12 holidays paid, 2-4 weeks vacation, dental, life insurance, disability insurance, free turkeys on thanksgiving, profit sharing. No-one thought of "globalising" those jobs or "outsourcing" them. Yes, when Reagan took office. By the time he left office, much of that had already been dismantled. Remember the Air Traffic Controller strike, and how Reagan turned ATC from well-paying jobs with benefits into low-benefit low-paying jobs with ridiculous work rules? Remember the deregulation that led to the S&L crisis? Remember the growth of homelessness and poverty, in particular in inner cities, during the Reagan years? True, by the time Reagan left, there was still a lot left to do. It is a testament to the quality of our system from the 1970s that it took nearly 30 years of Republican rule to destroy it as thoroughly as Reagan, Bush, Gingrich, DeLay and Bush did. Oh, and "full medical?" We have never had "full medical" in the history of the USA. We have had union-negotiated and employer-provided health benefits. Employer-paid health care was simply an ideological masterpiece from the 1950s. Back then, individual health coverage had become difficult to get (same as today). Employer-provided health benefits was simply the price big business paid for avoiding universal health care, which was ideologically unacceptable.
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