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Date Posted: 12:21:53 08/21/13 Wed
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Subject: Chapter 22: 1980-1988. The History of the United States of America

*Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome: AIDS. This is a sexually transmitted disease. No more one night stands. Well, at first, some; by 2000, the young women have sex on the first date typically. They are very needy. They go to the workplace, have sex with their boyfriend in the car at lunch. Because our society teaches so ridiculously. Sex in itself, you must have, or there is something wrong with you? �Young women feel they must have a man to validate their self esteem, today, exactly as women did in the old days.
I say these things, because the young ladies today, as always, actually, have no women�s lib for themselves. What I make in my pay, better be equal to a man. But if that is all women�s lib is to you, then you feel inferior absolutely. Tell the man to dress for you then. Seriously. �The old time religion, that you do not have sex until you are married, is self respect even. The young, born during the 1980�s, were not even born yet, to know the era.. �The young men could always be tramps though. Is sexist. �Young men are taught they are supposed to have sex. In reality, if masturbation does not satisfy an individual, then that individual is delusional thinking. As emotionally healthy people are for Universal Suffrage only, are honest only, are trustworthy only. � Anyone who refuses to believe ego is self excitement, will commit adultery if they are given any true opportunity to do so. Only emotionally healthy people are capable of being a true friend.. Loyalty stays true to your friend, is your spouse, is what children need, to learn, earn, inner loyalty. Children learn by example.

*The divorce rate: When I was in high school, early 1970�s, no one�s parents were divorced. {I didn�t know everyone; but divorce was still not common.] However, divorce became the normal around this same time, except it was the small children who will be affected, -- younger parents. By the 1990�s, divorce is so common, that more people are divorced then not. Belief in romance and Ego is the cause of divorce. Low wages are still the truest culprit to so many of our problems, aggravated by divorce.

Chapter 22: 1980 - 1988. The History of the United States of America

I am in my 20�s during this era, I say, because I tried very hard to make this well round- idly truthful. Honest people will speak up when they disagree, to educate.

The Democrats, the Liberals, [who are wealthy], were indeed fooled into believing how the economy works is mere opinion. The Democrats did parrot the Republicans, to be elected. It was actually, Jimmy Carter who had no idea about how the New Deal era economics worked, -- the first president not to understand stimulus since before the Great Depression. The Liberals are actually moderates; and it is the moderates who help the Republican Right.

As we do know, 1. Cut assistance, incomes to the poor, is this: they go frightened beyond repair to go homeless. So frightened to be unsafe actually! 2. Do not give proper medical care to the uninsured, the poor, is murder. 3. Stranded is unsafe physically. Be aware of what you do, self corrects, or you are murderer level temper for real. Willful people never change their mind.

The Reagan Revolution was nothing more then �We are all Republicans� in falsehood. Or rather, the Democratic party so parroted the right wing of the Republican party, that this is what we now have, regarding economics: cut the deficits, [created by low wages]. Actually, say very little about the economy.

The Reagan revolution was the Buckley Revolution; and finally, with Reagan as president, they won the debate, they won period. They lead now. They have finally disposed of all those liberal college deans and leaders for whom no longer are New Deal people either.
They despised these elitists. They mocked these universities for so long. And Yale University, does not understand the difference between a fact or an opinion is up surd.
The colleges have now for so long, ran the Word, and Reagan�s revolution wants you to note, that they, the liberal New Deal college professors, have been subversive, indoctrinating students instead of educating them is this: There is fact. There is opinion. Facts remain, is science. The science of economy has to be recovered now.

�The Lou Grant Show�, was on television, Monday nights, 9pm central time. I recall. This show was about an editor of a major news paper, and the very noble journalists, who report the truth no matter what. Yet, the end of journalist integrity as a need, is proven by 1989. No one is allowed to discuss what the network heads do not wish for them to report. Half of the story is all you get. As Cable is here, more or less, everywhere now. The debates are fake. They are simply chatting with one another, concerning issues that will solve nothing..

Republicans will say, to be elected, that the democrats are soft on crime, soft on communism. The Democrats are big spenders. The Democrats responded: Same thing back at you. �Both parties say the same thing mostly. Both pretend they are not saying the same thing. Caring about the lower classes is not mentioned; unless, we appeal to the middle class, as if the poor are inferior to appeal to.

I have recovered how the economy works. Or did I discover it? Because no one who has their college degree, jotted the well rounded facts down. �.Again, if it had been any other type of science then economic fact, they would have had this simplified version 1950. �.If there was/is a bad man with a snake wrapped around his neck running this show, his name would be on bridges, schools, et cetera; or he is simply in view all the time.

Tax and spend. That is what the democrats are. No, you.

Since 1960, the Republicans are rejecting the New Deal era, and saying even, that those mean Union members, are communists. The communists are why Ronald Reagan had any real, honest fervor to be in politics. The Reagan Revolution is this: He had been the charismatic front man now, for 20 years, for Buckley�s Rightwing, -- including economist, Milton Freedman, and many others. He is elected, finalized the deal.

[Moral wages protects our nation in every way. Unions and Charity are emergency room measures, because the Law does not protect everyone from slave wages, nor appreciates we need job protection, is also physical safety.]

So when Mr. Reagan was elected president, they felt the word to heed, that rich people create a good economy, thus leave them alone, keep regulation off of them, lower taxes for the rich, and they will create jobs. Trickle down. All the while it never occurred to anyone that trickle anything isn�t working very well, -- as they keep wages as low as possible, prevents even a trickle. Who among us wants a faucet that trickles the water out? [If I receive great profits, then you are supposed to raise wages. Again, some big businesses who are international, are doing very well, and can afford to raise wages. The government should compensate businesses for the extra wage costs. Do this, will straighten out our economy forever. But the government cheats; never paying as much as they should. For whatever. Is against the law though to be unfair.] No such thing as the New Deal era now, however.

Supply-Side economics = keep costs off the wealthy job makers, and then, they will throw chump change at you, if they want to, -- or rather, trickle = chump change. The economy was an opinion and all this, and stuff, and things; poor people have been poor always, as if it is their station in life to enjoy the finer things no. My slow son, when he was 4, visited rich people, and he suggested to me, that we should spend the night, --in their beautiful home. [I had no reason to request such a spend over.] �Assign poverty, the United States does do, if you are lower in IQ or have ADHD, and can�t make it through the memorization schools, who pass out tedious reference books, or, you have no family unit who cares about you, thus will help you, -- as you will need to know someone to get a half way good job. �Why, the slow people are not trained at all. In nothing. Of course, they are more then able to be trained and become a great employee. Meanness to the slow, is why all of us are demeaned; envy leads anyway. People don�t wish to allow what other people create, or accomplish, is what this emotionally ill society has always been about.
�.You go to work, people will viciously lie to have you out, for the fun of it, [envy, making sure I am top dog]. Has it always been this bad?, when there is no Union to protect your job, -- most minimum wage jobs certainly. Only someone older then me can answer, -- who worked in these low wages positions to know.

Mr. Reagan, Republican, wins the Presidential election 1980; however, Jimmy Carter, was president, an incumbent, who oddly had a challenger. He shouldn�t. As all note Mr. Obama should have no one running against him? The truth is, there should also be a vigorous opposition to any sitting president in the primaries. This, and the fact that the poor don�t have a candidate, is why such an election, as the one 2012, is actually, illegal. The poor have to be represented actually. You cannot legally, constitutionally, leave any one group out. This is why the basic fundamental rights of the poor are pummeled upon.
Only people with money are able to defend themselves; as they can afford a lawyer.

1980, Senator Edward Kennedy, Mass., [President Kennedy�s youngest brother]: Fairly, Unions needed a better candidate for the poor, and urged Mr. Kennedy to run; as Carter was in reality, a Democrat who is Republican light, -- democratic only on a few social issues. �Kennedy, to his credit, was for universal health care, and offered hope for this. But actually, it was not the lower classes, but the fact that the U.N., along with the U.S. had voted against Israeli settlements in the West Bank, [ is supposed to become Palestine], that brought him support. Apparently, .. the Jewish voters were angry with Mr. Carter�s correct stance on this. ��Carter fought back by bringing up a horrible car wreck Mr. Kennedy had which killed his female passenger. [Intent is the law]. �Mr. Carter easily won, although Mr. Kennedy did end up with over a thousand delegates.

Mr. Reagan entered into politics after being a Union Leader for the movie making industry, and then, he was a motivational speaker, for General Electric, who sponsored his Television show. Mr. Reagan was interested in going into politics, because when he believed something, he felt very strongly, -- is what is said about him. Foremost, anti communism. This is number one reason to be with the Republicans. Besides, his buddies who support his acting career, are also supporting his motivational career, are Pro business..

These United States do not have a right to leave out of this political process, the lower classes, all the while, the rich corporations and individuals, buy politicians, who are then blind to any letter someone may write to them, because they are purchased to do what their financial contributors want them to do. ----We don�t need contributors to campaigns; they shouldn�t need money, if all are equally represented by the media, who should give to democracy also, a little. Is how to save our Republic, literally.

Yes, if you are in the movies, your love life is my business. The press is allowed to report. �.Fans were created by media; they know you personally, even though you don�t know me personally. Who is popular: usually, only because the gossip media decides. Ego may think it is more then that. Mostly, no, it is not. �Complain about being bothered, or having slander against you, is this. Slander is a trial by jury, and should have jail at the end of it, as it is so injurious. On the other hand, actors, even singers could be a number, and not reported about. It is the law. �Actors who die young. By god, you don�t know me; but I do know you is so.

Mr. Reagan will give the shirt off his back, is what they said about him. Everyone knows better then to believe you cut the deficit on people in poverty, and leave them homeless to go die, is somehow true, -- if you pretend to assume that this bootstrap will automatically become reality without making certain. This is vicious. Should be obvious this is not a true way to be; and future generations will have to earn why this generation is not knowing what they are about, typically.

While Mr. Reagan felt the rich people should have all regulations off them, and taxes lowered tremendously, for the rich only, corporations, will then allow for business to do well, thus create jobs: Meanwhile, once you are homeless, you will not be hired for this very reason!

Lady Diana, princess, wife to Prince Charles, of Great Britain. Young, very pretty. The press decides who is reported on. Lady Diana is being bothered by the press to ridiculous levels. Press members choose who is reported on. ..The press goes by appearance.
Mainstream America may not feel the same; yet, they are told they do. JFK Jr. �Did he pass his law exam�. Mainstream America is on this?

[My father observed that everyone in the world is neurotic. Everyone.
This is normal? Is this: We do not live in a normal world, because being emotionally healthy is factually, the True Normal. --Neurotic people take comfort in the problems of others.]

Meanwhile, during the 1980�s, unemployment grew terribly. Black people, who are a small minority in this country, yet, statistically speaking, a much larger percentage then white people are unemployed, in poverty. Racial quotas had been placed in, 1970�s, to help this. Statistics do prove racism at this time, ---consequently, the rude view is, that the poor white are poor because it is pretended they had opportunity. They didn�t have to overcome slavery. They are bad. [A just won�t type person, is a sociopath.] Every racist anyway, always mistreats their own family members terribly.

Commonly, who resented Quota�s, were not even poor. But they are stuck up. A good memorizer in the first place, went to college, so he is better, does not make him seem smartest. Or one has a cushy job only the degreed will be allowed today. He never received a degree. This same man would have only Sales offered him today; he is not all that outgoing. He�d have been poor instead, if a degree was the demand for his cushy job.

2012, and white and black, and Mexican people can work at the Indian Casino�s; but only for 7 years, -- as these businesses are made to employ the Tribal Members. I accept this as fair enough at this time. �1975, and Congress passed the American Indian Self-Determination Act. It is the new era of Tribes creating many businesses: Smoke shops, tax free; casinos�, pari-mutual wagering, retail of different types. Does not help poverty on the reservations when you make minimum wage, or close to that. �On the other hand, so many Tribes were disbanded by the U.S. government; and others, are still to this day, in terrible poverty. Rich Red men, the one percent, who have white men�s false values is all. Also.

Ronald Reagan, during the 1950�s, had been a huge New Deal proponent, originally. So what happened? The depression is over. General electric happened. No vacation for average I.Q. person. I am better then you is also the middle class who votes for the man.
�Whatever you say regarding economic fact.� -- is never mentioned as if, we need to figure it out better; everyone simply rather pretends they know. Why?

Reagan, it was honestly thus, that he was so worried about communism, that he projected the Unions were now infiltrated with communists. Hey, we can even play communist equals unions, [as if paying moral wages, and treating people ethically is communist, -- although the communists never did that, or they would have had a better economy.] He claimed to be against the communist black listing, but had his own lists, secretly. On top of this, all those protesting rabble rousers, made him furious. The protestors, he had to deal with as governor of California, during the 1960�s.

Remember that the older generation and the young adult generation of the 1960�s were farther apart in view then ever before in modern history. Much more then now. That sex is not until you are married, but on the first date, so on, further aggravated and disenfranchised older people, as did the idea to take new drugs, -- unlike good old alcohol. We do have to appreciate that the generation gap was immense, keeping Mr. Reagan from truly understanding this young generation, who were in his mind, traitors.. But still, he does sound very bad with this quote:

�During the People's Park protests in 1969, for example, he sent 2,200 National Guard troops onto the Berkeley campus of the University of California, infamously remarking, "If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with."�, said Mr. Reagan. [New World Encyclopedia on the internet] Mr. Reagan sounds like a madman here. To be so angry at protestors who he had to know were well meaning.

As governor of California, Mr. Reagan allowed an Indian reservation to be flooded to save a dollar.

Ronald Reagan was very enigmatic, personable, a good speaker, tall and handsome, all that is needed to be an actor, is what you need to be a politician.
Ronald Reagan stood for right! Well, this best be honestly believed then. Stances he claimed to hold as if �fact�. They are: cut the deficits on welfare programs, [leaves out the fact that people will be left in harms way], be rid of government regulation, [leaves the fact out that regulation protects us from crooks]; he wanted rid of public education, [or rather, poor can pay up]; and of course, he is for military spending. �He and Mr. Freeman want school choice, -- ignores equal education. By the year 2000, Charter schools come from the ideas Milton Freeman came up with. Ignoring Equal education for all, is not right. Unequal education will make it impossible for some to get ahead, ever. So what? Facts won�t become false, because you wish to be dishonest. Dismissing facts, is the same thing. Unequal education is the problem. Learning materials are entertaining actually, is real and true school reform, is this book. Equal has all people on equal footing, true equal opportunity.

School Reform came out to the forefront largely due to the voice of a Texas Wealthy man, Ross Perot, -- who also ran for President as an Independent. Everyone knows equal education, and school reform is first and foremost, excellent entertaining materials, includes entertaining books, not reference books. All sorts of clever people came out to show their stuff; all were ignored by a stuck up Congress who knows more why? Instead, they increased the drop out rate to 50%, up to this very day!, by bringing in punitive ideas instead. So now, students can�t have any fun extra curricular thing going on, unless they make good grades; teach to the testing; no more D grades. From C to F. Accept that you raised the drop out rate to these ridiculous levels. [The high school I attended, during the 1970�s, asked my Dad if he would mentor a student at his work. Well, he would, except he felt those not doing so well scholastically, would benefit the best; and the school did not feel this way; so Dad decided not to work with the school.] This same school had a congressman [Mr. Krueger], come to speak. Only straight A students could see him speak. Misses the point. [I didn�t make good grades; but I was in attendance only due to the fact that I was taking a Journalism class. Being ADHD myself, is why I do know why students do badly.]

Up to this date, �why I will bully over the lower classes, only the rich people matter.
Only the wealthy people�s points matter. We will pretend to defend that the poor are bad.
Is pretend. I worry for your soul, to see you can have poor people dead, if you pretend it is their fault. It never is, unless that individual does die eternally. Sociopaths win at all costs to you, meanwhile, is why they usually are allowed to work. All said in this paragraph, if I had been present and accounted for during the 1820�s for example, I likely would have observed the same facts.

Get those regulations off of government only if you can without leaving crooks in, is well rounded truth. [Stop telling small business, or people wanting to be in business, they have to spend money to be allowed.] �.Get those regulations off will increase the tax revenues. --Pardon? You know this? -- [Not if business isn�t making profits due to in affordability issues, it won�t.] Supply Side economics: is merely this. Leave the rich alone. Jesus does not love the poor, if you can have them work full time and still not be able to support his family. You do know better. Almost all of societies problems, caused by low wages. Moral wages = most of societies problems solved, thus no monies need to be thrown at it, = no money needed to be allocated. When Reverend Jesse Jackson said this, but said it in a different way. So what? The press also, this is to.

The term �Trickle down economics� came from President Coolidge originally, it is said. Yet, President Coolidge taxed the rich, not the poor.

President Reagan says that government helping the poor, the homeless even, is stupid, and leads to dependency. Paying attention to people, giving government workforce and welfare workers the ability to truly help people, once they understand their true concerns, is moral only, but is not what the States do. Neglect is why we have dependency. Neglect is what the Republicans call for. �Pull yourself up by the bootstrap.� We will pretend there is a bootstrap is cruel. [While the middle class people who have theirs, and then put their entire self esteem into the idea, that they are middle class makes them better. The poor people need to exist for their self esteem? Is cruel.]

TO SLOW PEOPLE; A BAD HIGH IQ PERSON WHO ATTEMPTS TO PURSUADE YOU: YOU WILL NOT BE BEFUDDLED BY SAID PERSON�S IF YOU UNDERSTAND HE IS ALWAYS FALSE, TRYING TO PULL THE WOOL OVER YOUR EYES, IF SOME ONE OR GROUP WILL BE NEGLECTED/HURT WITH HIS IDEA. Who isn�t slow: same.

Bureaucracy. $500. toilets for the Defense industry. Was in the news. A penny for the poor is outrageous.

While a stimulus is a true need: Lowering taxes on middle incomes and lower, will also help with their ability to spend. Get medical care and transportation costs off of everyone, will also help very much. You do know full well you know, to be told.

By 1982 at least, the media, radio talk shows, {Rush Limbaugh, the most famous}, pretend all poor people are sociopaths, so they deserve to go homeless, and have very low wages. Well, no. Rush pretends they make living wages. Rush pretends poor people won�t work = they are sociopaths. Pretend about people you don�t personally know is called lying knowing you are. Self correction says I didn�t realize.

It is said poor people just won�t work, -- even those who make low wages, were treated as if they are not working at all, by these talkers who are now all over TV. As cable TV arrived everywhere in the U.S. now; and only �conservative� voices are heard. Why the poor are poor, is not even a concern to discuss.

The only true liberal voice: Michael Moore, was the only consistent liberal voice. Who makes documentaries about first, the selfish CEO from his town. [Sure, the CEO can take all profits for himself, and leave wages low as possible. Is Default.]

If it had not been for Michael Moore: he was the only voice that said truth will be back. Mr. Moore, the only voice for the poor; and one voice at least, made all of us note, that Truth always wins. But how scary to have this degree of censorship. This degree of censorship is also however, why the media is caught red handed. We will need money out of journalism as well now. Like money in politics, now. It is the real Law.

If it had not been for a Democratic Congress, Ronald Reagan would have done more harm to the poor. Yet, the Democrats also, don�t protect the poor always. Bad things occurred; and how people suffered, some never recovered, is a politician�s night mare, if he does not take his job more seriously then, going along to get along skirts facts. .

Mr. Reagan won the 1980 presidential election by a huge electoral landslide. Mr. Carter was no champion for the poor, he was simply kinder then Mr. Reagan. �.The Iranian hostages were released directly after Mr. Carter lost the election; and the Iranian Hostage Crisis of course greatly helped Mr. Reagan win, -- although it was President Carter who arranged for the release of the hostages; but President Reagan was the one accredited. �. As the Democrats are also tough on crime, tough on communists. Sure are! Everyone wants to protect our country from outside forces invading. Seriously, we do know this.

Why do people vote against themselves? My father wondered out loud. I wonder out loud still. They do so, because first, they are hoodwinked; secondly if a poor man is dishonest, he is a snob.

Middle Class, you voted against yourselves:
TAX REFORM: Reagan, the Congress, includes many democrats as well, very much lower rich men taxes, and very much raises middle class taxes; so now: middle class and the wealthy pay the same amount: 27%, -- criminal to tax the middle class that much! The lower classes are also paying out bigger now, for social security taxes; the rich barely pay anything. 27% taxation for anyone, is unfair, thus illegal. As we note, the super rich don�t pay taxes practically. It is said however, it was Jimmy Carter who began this; Reagan made it happen. �.Also, beginning with Mr. Carter, but profoundly, through out the Reagan years, deregulation of the savings and loan business, allowing the crooks to do as they please. And then, the Saving and Loan banks through out the country went bust.

[10% flat tax ideas are mentioned by this politician or that. -- John Anderson in this era. Old fashioned common sense. --- There are other taxes then income taxes that should have the very wealthy pay extra in other ways; but only reasonable taxation. �.You should have your taxes taken out, without need to �file�; and never then told you owe more. As this is not ethical.]

Old fashioned basic common sense is Fresh Air on a dishonest world.

People were believing that Ronald Reagan�s cowboy charming appeal will protect us from the Communists. They even believe that the fall of the Soviet empire had to do with Ronald Reagan instead of Mr. Gorbachev. They should know better. As if Mr. Gorbachev dismantled the Soviet empire because he was scared of Mr. Reagan.

1984 presidential election, and Mr. Carter�s vice-president Walter Mondale, was the Democratic nominee. �Mondale remarked, "Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did."� Mr. Mondale may be honest here, but he also had nothing to offer lower income people. There is no candidate for them anymore. Nor for the middle class. Mr. Mondale�s honesty also proves honest stupidity reigned; a compliment. Taxation is stimulus avoidance discussion here; but did most of them even know?

If I make nudgets, sell them, make tons of money, I can give much money to candidates and rule the world? If I star in a show, make a lot of money,� today, campaign donors who are benevolent to note they should give money to the Democrats for the poor, still, don�t understand how the economy works, first of all, nor why the poor are poor, don�t truly understand that those candidates they have, for whom they can support, [are also, chosen for them], are not understanding the poor either, and behave like Republican Light.
�The donators who do give a care, can help, by being made aware, and making certain these concerns for the poor are addressed truly, by those they do support financially. Although we can�t keep a democracy on the hope that all moneyed are benevolent.

Ronald Reagan became president during a period of interest rate increases. The economy was pretty darn bad; and although he pretends Carter did it, Reagan did care they were raising interest rates? It is said, he was stupidly for, expensive money. And it continues. Double digit interest rates led to inflation, helped lead to double digit unemployment by 1982. Ten percent unemployment. The economy is worse then it ever has been since the early 1930�s.

The stock market was surging unbelievably; not because the economy was good, but because they thought this surge will go on forever. Instant millionaires, such as before the 1929 crash. Regulations were taken off everything Reagan could manage, and in the stock market, this spells disaster. [Oil price controls are now history, -- although OPEC is producing plenty of oil.] [No watch dogs anymore at the Department of Housing and Urban Affairs for instance, creating scandals that ended up indicting several people.]
And as always occurs, 20% interest rates is why people can�t get loans; thus, they make it easier to qualify people for a loan, [or no one will buy homes]. They offer house payments that one can afford, which will in a few years, increase to payments that one cannot afford.

By 1984, rents doubled. Absolutely. Caused by interest rates, and rising housing costs due to the fact that they allowed this bubble to continue by giving loans out to who cannot truly afford. �Was paying $325. a month, is now $600. a month. In a three year period. And Congress is to be blamed also, for this and keeping the minimum wage low, and never raising it.

Incomes now are decreased due to housing inflation foremost. Government never includes minimum wage jobs when they discuss how college jobs get wage increases.
So their statistics on that are false.

Cereal Wars: I mention, because the customers had a war on cereal which has kept cereal down to $2.00 until this very hour, 2012. Customers simply won�t pay more. [Apparently, now they will. Although, you can still find cereal under $2.00, is only because customers REFUSED to pay more for 30 years.] It was however, a secret war.

[My parents home in San Antonio, was worth $40,000 in 1969; a 4,000 square foot home on 2 acres of land. �My parents were not millionaires�.. Everyone in poverty pays at least 200. dollars more a month then my parents, for their dumpy home, these days, in San Antonio.] My Dad did not have a high school degree; he was bright, well read in his way; but in his day, you did not need a college degree to live the middle class dream.. Insist on a degree sets in around 1980. Caused by those who have degrees, then think everyone better get one too then. No equal opportunity employment, for a job you do know you can do well.

The middle class shrunk. � Vice-President George Bush Senior, running for president, spoke of our direction, �A thousand points of light.� �.Neil Young, musician, will sing, �a thousand points of light for the homeless man.�.

In the old days, they referred to boom and busts. The bust will come; because how the economy works won�t change, if we lie or wrongly think it works in a way that it does not. [As a 26 year old, during the 1980�s, I personally knew the bust was coming soon due to ignoring a shrinking middle class; didn�t you? Rich people don�t see it.]

1989, they refer to it as the Saving and Loan debacle.. The markets �crashed�, or rather, fell 500 points for the first time since the great depression. The FDIC, [as in 2011] protected the money of the broke Savings and Loan banks; and the government had to pay out $481. billion dollars to cover everything. If it hadn�t been for the internet revolution also helping the economy, and the income tax credit in the 1990�s, along with the FDIC�s protections, the 2010 crash would have occurred much sooner. The first attempt at a great depression was 1989.

The economy is crummy for now on. The Great Recession, they call depressions now.

�By 1988, the debt totaled $2.6 trillion. The country owed more to foreigners than it was owed, and the United States moved from being the world's largest international creditor to the world's largest debtor nation.� [New World Encyclopedia]

The national debt is now larger then it ever has been in all of U.S. history. Low wages are why, actually.

The Press chooses our candidates at this hour; or rather, they choose from the pack already chosen by committees, -- which sounds like China. So why would Reagan not be popular, even though the economy is officially destroyed, and it came tumbling down upon him, -- although Mr. George Bush Senior is president 1989, when the first crash of this Great Depression we are now in, occurred. Poor people felt the bad economy.

Partisan politicians, are a true danger to our Democracy. Didn�t our most famous founding fathers warn us?

1989, the era of high interest rates is over; because if they raise them, the markets will immediately crash. Depressions cannot afford high interest rates, causes inflation, thus lowering incomes all the more.

[1979, or so, an Air Steward caught the immune deficiency illness in Africa, HIV positive, turns into the incurable deadly disease, called AIDS. It so happens, he is gay; and lives in San Francisco. AIDS is catchy if you exchange fluids, includes having sex. Thus, AIDS was loose first, in the gay community. Having sex for fun was seriously dampened at this time.]

1980, and some inside sales companies actually have people working for free, unless they sell something on commission. 1989, this practice is still with us, but only barely, as the economy is too rough for this to occur. The public won�t work for such companies.

Statistics for latter 1980�s may seem to see, well, interest rates went down, and incomes raised. Minimum wage, $5.25/5.65 an hour, for 20-something more years to come. The inflationary trends decreased a little, due to the fact that interest rates are now being lowered after the downturn of 1982. Housing is however, doubled forever. Rich politicians and press members don�t notice.

But you know, the whole computer revolution kicked in during the Reagan administration; should have helped more then it did. Low wages dragged the economy down instead.

Meanwhile, Mr. Reagan named William Rehnquist Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme court, -- a conservative appointed by Richard Nixon. Two older Justices, William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall, liberals, retiring out of the court. The Golden Rule is fact only. No room for opinion, nor terms that suggest opinion can exist where fact remains.
The Rehnquist Court is said to have weakened the right to an abortion, brought back the death penalty, reduced the rights of detainees planning clinics from giving women information on abortions, and said that poor people could be forced to pay for public education, -- as if not a fundamental right. [Zinn] ..Conservative federal judges, pro-business appointees, and frankly, simply, a nationwide brainwashing of people with degrees who have money and never did understand why low wages creates people poor: Is why now, the Unions are being made less effective, and they are picking on poor people to suffer and never recover, to pay the debt.

1980, very wealthy one per centers made 4 times more then the middle class. By 1988, the very wealthy made 40 times more then the middle class. Minimum wages, never to be raised..

Republican Kevin Phillips who analyzed the Reagan years said, �Less and less wealth was going to people who produced something�disproportionate rewards to society�s economic, legal and cultural manipulators--from lawyers to financial advisors.� [Zinn]

So many �conservatives� in charge of committees, judges, �So when the Air Traffic Controllers went on Strike, Reagan had all the support to simply fire them. And he did. No job for them. They were replaced, forever. As unions now, are made less powerful. Why do some Democrats seem to think the American people are not for Unions. Why would they parrot this? It isn�t true that the American people believe not having their wages and working conditions protected is okay. The press censures all thought that has anything to do with human rights, what Jesus is for.

1981, a young man who has Schizophrenia, shot President Reagan and his Press Secretary James Brady. ..Mr. Brady also survived, but was shot in the head, and he has physical troubles caused by this shooting to this day. Mr. Reagan was shot in the chest region, inches from his heart, and quickly recovered. President Reagan said to his wife Nancy, �Honey, I forgot to duck.� He said to his doctors, �I hope you fellas are Republicans.� ---The shooters parents, did explain he was misdiagnosed, and they were told �tough love� by the psychiatrist; just tell the young adult to get a job.

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