Posted on 05/05/2019 3:30:17 PM PDT by Rummyfan
I thought this was about the Rod Stewart song & I was going to say I heard it on the radio yesterday & it’s still a great song ; )
Presumably there was nothing in Hayak’s book about the right to keep and bear arms, because she confiscated all self loading center fire rifles in 1989
Thatcher was the perfect remedy for the malady at the time. She was an avowed economic libertarian. But she was not a social conservative by the standards of Free Republic...
Ha! Same thing here. But that Maggie is closer to 50 years. Good Lord that make me feel old.
Having lived through her reign, I’m going to have to go ahead and disagree. Something needed to be done, but destroying the manufacturing base of the country wasn’t it.
This is one reason why Sir Mick gets a pass from me.
He was one of the few rock artists that publicly said he supported Thatcher.
You can blame Atlee and the Socialists for that, not modernizing Britain after the end of the war. The bill came due.
The Iron Lady was a great British leader.
And a true friend of Reagan and the U.S.
Sir Roger Scruton, eminent conservative and Philosopher, and a contemporary of Thatcher, states what I stated. And even he is somewhat to the left of FR. The kind of robust evangelical Christianity that is the predominant philosophy here would be alien to Thatcher...
Ha!
I was talking about her economic policies, destruction of manufacturing industries in favor of finance and tourism.
“Don’t go wobbly on us Ron.”
May not be the exact quote but she and Reagan had the future of the English speaking world in their minds and hands. We seem to have that kind of leader today in POTUS Trump. May God watch over him.
And today there are Germans,Belgians,Frenchmen,Irish and Scots trying to destroy her again.
No arguments with her economic policies.
I think how fortunate in the 80s that we had Reagan, Thatcher, Pope John Paul II, and Helmut Kohl.
Outside of Trump, look what we’ve got today.
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