Posted on 12/16/2009 6:30:33 AM PST by steve-b
This decade began and ended in dread. It began with Wall Street -- the World Trade Center -- targeted for mass murder. It ends with Main Street fearful and reeling from economic reverses that Wall Street helped create.
It was the decade of distraction. While the U.S. economy bubbled and then crumbled, the president for eight of the decade's 10 years embroiled us in a grudge match with Saddam Hussein and then persisted in throwing lives and money into the chaotic conflict that (as many predicted would happen) ensued. The decline of the American middle class was nowhere on his radar screen....
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WaPo retrospective on the 2000s.
Washington Post also hated the 80’s because of President Reagan was in the white house.
At the same time, the 60’s and the 90’s were great because the Democrats occupied the white house.
I have a friend who is employed at the post and this is the common theme by many Post employees.
Washington Post also hated the 80’s because of President Reagan was in the white house.
At the same time, the 60’s and the 90’s were great because the Democrats occupied the white house.
I have a friend who is employed at the post and this is the common theme by many Post employees.
Thanks Rahm.
What would we do without lil steve-b to post commie drivel on FR.
Gee, no mention of the time bombs planted in the glorious decade of the 90’s that were the root causes of the painful past 10 years; untethering financial checks and balances in CRA; using home equity to refloat the dot.com bomb; and best of all: bombing Sudan and Afghanistan because your Jewish princess was to testify about some sticky stuff on a dress. Now who fits these three “root causes” of our current malaise? Typical WaPo revisionist history. WaPo - you can’t handle the truth. Eat Sh*t and die, and take Webb with you.
Zer0 blames everything on Bush yet if Bush tried to blame his problems on Clinton he would get slammed for it. Yet Bush would have been right, especially on how our defenses suffered in the 1990s.
I also call the 90s a decade of greed. It was then that most Americans seemed to decide that as long as they were doing well and the economy was good that they did not care if the president was a sleaze or that he and his administration were weakening the nation, and the Constitution. That was a real sign we were declining, IMO.
so then the decade of the “teens”, the 2010-2019 decade, will be a time of glorious eutopia, as they hope to look back on Obama being president up through Jan. 20, 2017.
I think to the liberals/Democrats/radicals, the 80s were the decade of greed because of Reagan. The 90s were a glorious decade because of Clinton.
Not that I agree with this half-baked reasoning, but that’s how they look at it, and the MSM looks at it. If there is a good Democrat president, then life is wonderful. If an evil Republican is president, then we have entered the Dark Times.
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