Reagan's Speech at the 1964 RNC...wow...how it rings true today...

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Mar 16, 2011 9:06 PM
I can't believe how prophetic this speach was and how much it hits home with today's political atmosphere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt1fYSAChxs


Oh yeah, sorry I suck at the interwebs, something about a series of tubes and I can't imbed it.
Mar 16, 2011 9:06pm
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Mar 17, 2011 2:52 AM
Pretty remarkable. When Reagan was speaking of billions of dollars of American debt, I imagine he never thought that a few decades later we'd be looking at TRILLIONS of dollars of debt.

I loved it when he said at the time we were spending $45 billion dollars to "eliminate" poverty and that if we had divided that $45 billion among those who needed it most and added it to their existing incomes, they would have been brought out of poverty. But somehow a vast majority of that money never made it to the people who supposedly needed it. He quotes, "It would seem that someplace there must be some overhead."

The more things hope and change, the more they stay the same.
Mar 17, 2011 2:52am
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tsst_fballfan

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Mar 17, 2011 11:09 AM
the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant it's just that they know so much that isn't so .... roflmao
Mar 17, 2011 11:09am
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Mar 17, 2011 1:36 PM
Well at least we know it isn't just a recent thing to compare liberals to Marxists. ;)
Mar 17, 2011 1:36pm
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Mar 17, 2011 4:18 PM
uhhh.... didn't Reagan raise the national debt to its highest point ever five years in a row for the first five years of his presidency?

Mar 17, 2011 4:18pm
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Mar 18, 2011 12:42 PM
tsst_fballfan;715074 wrote:the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant it's just that they know so much that isn't so .... roflmao

That's funny . . . I think he would agree with "Liberals never think that what they're doing is wrong, they just think they haven't done enought of it yet."
Mar 18, 2011 12:42pm