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To: Sam who wrote (206306)	10/30/2012 10:29:55 AM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541853

<<<<<Steve, we went off track with the Reagan administration>>>>> I do not disagree. But Reagan was handed a basket case - like Obama was handed a basket case. Reagan had to deal with outrageous inflation. I built houses for people that were borrowing mortgage money in the teens!!! Imagine that today. If you give Obama a pass on the debt (which I pretty much do) then why wouldn't you give Reagan a pass? .............The real REAL damage was done during the Bush administration when our country was led by a moron.

To: Sam who wrote (206306)	10/30/2012 10:40:32 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 541853

It started here... No Mo Mo's article I’m a Californian so I faced the current version of American greed early. Proposition 13, the initiative that froze property taxes and made it nearly impossible to raise taxes in our state, went into effect in 1978, two years before California’s former governor Ronald Reagan won the presidency, in part by catering to greed. Prop 13, as it came to be known, went into effect when California was still an affluent state with the best educational system in the world, including some of the top universities around, nearly free to in-staters all the way through graduate school. Tax cuts have trashed the state and that education system, and they are now doing the same to our country. The public sphere is to society what the biosphere is to life on earth: the space we live in together, and the attacks on them have parallels. Message 28508637