Posted on 05/05/2010 6:28:05 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
IN THE summer of 1984, Ronald Reagan declared “morning in America”. Running for re-election after a tumultuous first term during which unemployment rose to a postwar record of 10.8%, the president needed a hopeful message to take to the American people. When Reagan’s television advertisement ran, nearly two years after the official end of recession, unemployment was still high, at about 7.5%. But the president could accurately claim: “Today more men and women will go to work than ever before in our country’s history.”
(Excerpt) Read more at economist.com ...
Communism never works and we are infested with it.
Seems this UK writer gets that...while the ruling class here doesn’t.
UK is further down the wrong road than we are.
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