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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (68703)

4/27/2018 8:52:57 PM

From: koan

Respond to of 356551

Here is what you right wingers cannot get through you head!!

The country has not needed tax cuts for the rich or the excessive spending for the military since Nixon.

None of that was needed!

But what was needed, was money for health and welfare, infrastructure and education.

If Nixon, Reagan, the Bush's, and Trump and the Republicans had allocated all those trillions of dollars to what was really needed, mentioned, we would be the pearl of the world, but instead, the Republicans have made us a third rate democracy at the bottom of the barrel in everything from most people incarcerated, to gun deaths to health and welfare to academics.

Our position at the bottom of all the world's democracies in the important things a society needs to be happy and healthy is 100% the fault of the Republicans over the last 40 years!!

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Tax cuts wasn't government spending or wasting money. It was letting other people keep their own money and spend it how they wanted to.

Defense spending well you could make an argument that it shouldn't have been as large but by the late seventies (before Carter began the buildup that Regan extended) there was a serious need to replenish our military, and replace obsolete and/or worn out equipment. And that replacement allowed future presidents to not have to replace the equipment so it helped them control defense spending growth (except now some of that equipment is getting pretty old, and the stuff that wasn't replaced then like tankers and B-52s is even older)

But whatever spending should have been on is besides the point in this context. I'm noting that even then a big chunk of the money went to increased spending on social programs, and that since then most of it has gone in that direction. Its a positive (is/was) statement not a normative (ought) statement. You keep replying to "is/was" with "ought" as if that was some sort of refutation of what's really happened.