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In reply to the discussion: What is ObamaCare? High-Cost Privatized Medicine That Provides Huge Profits To Insurance Industry [View all]girl gone mad
(20,634 posts)He has been one of the most outspoken critics of Reaganomics in recent years, even as our Democratic administration has openly embraced the cruelest aspects of Chicago School neo-liberal Austerian economics.
I'm sure it doesn't mean much to people like you. You've got yours, so fuck everyone else - I get it. But in the trenches, where we are fighting to get people basic services, to save people from losing their homes, to protect our already weak and fraying safety net, where we are trying to find jobs for people who have been unemployed for years now... it means so much to have a former Reagan administration official speak up and say 'trickle down is total fucking bullshit, I should know I was there'.
So yes, I will defend him against that charge.