Jesse Ventura on President Obama

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[halfast07]

That was after one year of Obama...lets hear what Jessie has to say now?

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not much of a ventura fan but he was spot on.

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Shawns Reagan

Reagan granted amnesty to millions of mexicans today he would be skinned alive by Shawn and palin among others

One of the biggest changes was in the economy. Under Reagan, income taxes for the rich were slashed while social security taxes, which mainly fall on working people, were raised. One of Reagan’s first acts was to break the air traffic controllers’ union, signaling an all-out war on organized labor. Reagan also continued the process of cutting back government regulation of business, especially in the financial sector.

The United States under Reagan launched a huge military build-up and increased U.S. nuclear weapons in Europe. Reagan also began to step up U.S. intervention and attacks on progressive governments by trying to overthrow the Sandinistas government of Nicaragua and by invading Grenada. The United States trained Latin American police, military and paramilitary terrorists in torture and assassination and freely gave aid to repressive governments in El Salvador and Honduras. In Afghanistan, the CIA funneled aid to the reactionary and brutal forces.

Here at home, Reagan began the process of undoing many of the reforms started during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and which were expanded due to people’s struggles in the 1960s. As governor of California, Reagan was the first to impose tuition on students at state colleges and universities. His anti-environmental stance was legendary, with his infamous secretary of the interior James Watt. The anti-immigrant movement grew under the banner of ‘English-only.’ Pat Buchanan, the administration’s communications director, remarked that AIDS was “nature's revenge on gay men.” Last but not least, Reagan introduced the ‘Christian right’ to the halls of power in Washington D.C. as they unleashed vicious and often violent attacks on women’s right to choose.

This is not to say that there were no victories in the people’s struggle under Reagan. In the Middle East, the United States was forced to withdraw from occupying Lebanon after hundreds of marines were killed in Beirut. Local workers’ struggles such as that by Chicano cannery workers in Watsonville and the fight of meatpackers in Minnesota were able to win wide community support. And Jesse Jackson’s historic 1984 run for the presidency galvanized many African Americans and progressives to action.

But all things considered, the Reagan presidency was a setback for the struggle for peace, justice and jobs. The gap between the rich and the poor widened and homelessness exploded in cities across the country under Reagan. Workers’ wages, after adjusting for the rising cost of living, were lower at the end of the Reagan presidency than they were at the beginning. The flight of U.S. corporations overseas accelerated, hitting African Americans particularly hard - in the 1980s the average income of blacks in the Midwest fell almost 20%. Deregulation of the economy opened the doors to corporate greed and fraud, leading to the great stock market crash of 1987 and the savings and loan crisis a couple of years later. Tax cuts for the rich tripled the federal debt from less than $1 trillion when Reagan came into office to almost $3 trillion eight years later.

CIA funding of reactionary, feudal forces in Afghanistan sowed the seeds of Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network, while Reagan’s military build-up and interventions, often in violation of international law, put the United States on track to occupy Iraq. Reagan’s rise to power also marked the end of the New Deal tradition of reform in the Democratic Party that began under Franklin Roosevelt. In response to Reagan, the Democratic Leadership Council moved the Democratic Party to the right, leading to the Clinton presidency - known for its embargo of Iraq, welfare ‘reform’ and promotion of Wall Street.

While politicians from George Bush on down try to raise the banner of Reaganism and reaction even higher, we have to learn from and gain inspiration from the millions who fought Reagan and his policies for the causes of peace, justice, equality and socialism.

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not much of a ventura fan but he was spot on.

Jesse has become somewhat of a kook and even kook's from time-to-time have a point. George did let us down on 9/11, but he wasn't the only one. I've had the misfortune of reading intelligence reports. They are anything but precise, they mostly reminded me of a desk-jockey trying to CYA. I doubt the one that Jesse keeps alluding to in this interview is as clear as he tries to make it. My memory does tell me there were reports about possible hi-jackings, but the reports didn't include using the aircraft in a Kamakazie Attack.

Yes Obama did inherit a mess. Much of it was of his own making. He was the lawyer who sparked the lawsuit about discriminatory lending that led to the financial melt-down of 2008. In this interview that revelation wasn't wildly known.

Anyhow like I said, George W does warrant much of the scorn Jesse has.

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Shawns Reagan

Reagan granted amnesty to millions of mexicans today he would be skinned alive by Shawn and palin among others

One of the biggest changes was in the economy. Under Reagan, income taxes for the rich were slashed while social security taxes, which mainly fall on working people, were raised. One of Reagan’s first acts was to break the air traffic controllers’ union, signaling an all-out war on organized labor. Reagan also continued the process of cutting back government regulation of business, especially in the financial sector.

The United States under Reagan launched a huge military build-up and increased U.S. nuclear weapons in Europe. Reagan also began to step up U.S. intervention and attacks on progressive governments by trying to overthrow the Sandinistas government of Nicaragua and by invading Grenada. The United States trained Latin American police, military and paramilitary terrorists in torture and assassination and freely gave aid to repressive governments in El Salvador and Honduras. In Afghanistan, the CIA funneled aid to the reactionary and brutal forces.

Here at home, Reagan began the process of undoing many of the reforms started during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and which were expanded due to people’s struggles in the 1960s. As governor of California, Reagan was the first to impose tuition on students at state colleges and universities. His anti-environmental stance was legendary, with his infamous secretary of the interior James Watt. The anti-immigrant movement grew under the banner of ‘English-only.’ Pat Buchanan, the administration’s communications director, remarked that AIDS was “nature's revenge on gay men.” Last but not least, Reagan introduced the ‘Christian right’ to the halls of power in Washington D.C. as they unleashed vicious and often violent attacks on women’s right to choose.

This is not to say that there were no victories in the people’s struggle under Reagan. In the Middle East, the United States was forced to withdraw from occupying Lebanon after hundreds of marines were killed in Beirut. Local workers’ struggles such as that by Chicano cannery workers in Watsonville and the fight of meatpackers in Minnesota were able to win wide community support. And Jesse Jackson’s historic 1984 run for the presidency galvanized many African Americans and progressives to action.

But all things considered, the Reagan presidency was a setback for the struggle for peace, justice and jobs. The gap between the rich and the poor widened and homelessness exploded in cities across the country under Reagan. Workers’ wages, after adjusting for the rising cost of living, were lower at the end of the Reagan presidency than they were at the beginning. The flight of U.S. corporations overseas accelerated, hitting African Americans particularly hard - in the 1980s the average income of blacks in the Midwest fell almost 20%. Deregulation of the economy opened the doors to corporate greed and fraud, leading to the great stock market crash of 1987 and the savings and loan crisis a couple of years later. Tax cuts for the rich tripled the federal debt from less than $1 trillion when Reagan came into office to almost $3 trillion eight years later.

CIA funding of reactionary, feudal forces in Afghanistan sowed the seeds of Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network, while Reagan’s military build-up and interventions, often in violation of international law, put the United States on track to occupy Iraq. Reagan’s rise to power also marked the end of the New Deal tradition of reform in the Democratic Party that began under Franklin Roosevelt. In response to Reagan, the Democratic Leadership Council moved the Democratic Party to the right, leading to the Clinton presidency - known for its embargo of Iraq, welfare ‘reform’ and promotion of Wall Street.

While politicians from George Bush on down try to raise the banner of Reaganism and reaction even higher, we have to learn from and gain inspiration from the millions who fought Reagan and his policies for the causes of peace, justice, equality and socialism.

Wow. I suppose you believe this to be the unvarnished truth. Don't think I'll put the effort out to refute it, it probably would be pointless.

[mudslinger47]

Ventura is a crack pot, no, I didn't bother to listen to the clip...

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Shawns Reagan

Reagan granted amnesty to millions of mexicans today he would be skinned alive by Shawn and palin among others

One of the biggest changes was in the economy. Under Reagan, income taxes for the rich were slashed while social security taxes, which mainly fall on working people, were raised. One of Reagan’s first acts was to break the air traffic controllers’ union, signaling an all-out war on organized labor. Reagan also continued the process of cutting back government regulation of business, especially in the financial sector.

The United States under Reagan launched a huge military build-up and increased U.S. nuclear weapons in Europe. Reagan also began to step up U.S. intervention and attacks on progressive governments by trying to overthrow the Sandinistas government of Nicaragua and by invading Grenada. The United States trained Latin American police, military and paramilitary terrorists in torture and assassination and freely gave aid to repressive governments in El Salvador and Honduras. In Afghanistan, the CIA funneled aid to the reactionary and brutal forces.

Here at home, Reagan began the process of undoing many of the reforms started during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and which were expanded due to people’s struggles in the 1960s. As governor of California, Reagan was the first to impose tuition on students at state colleges and universities. His anti-environmental stance was legendary, with his infamous secretary of the interior James Watt. The anti-immigrant movement grew under the banner of ‘English-only.’ Pat Buchanan, the administration’s communications director, remarked that AIDS was “nature's revenge on gay men.” Last but not least, Reagan introduced the ‘Christian right’ to the halls of power in Washington D.C. as they unleashed vicious and often violent attacks on women’s right to choose.

This is not to say that there were no victories in the people’s struggle under Reagan. In the Middle East, the United States was forced to withdraw from occupying Lebanon after hundreds of marines were killed in Beirut. Local workers’ struggles such as that by Chicano cannery workers in Watsonville and the fight of meatpackers in Minnesota were able to win wide community support. And Jesse Jackson’s historic 1984 run for the presidency galvanized many African Americans and progressives to action.

But all things considered, the Reagan presidency was a setback for the struggle for peace, justice and jobs. The gap between the rich and the poor widened and homelessness exploded in cities across the country under Reagan. Workers’ wages, after adjusting for the rising cost of living, were lower at the end of the Reagan presidency than they were at the beginning. The flight of U.S. corporations overseas accelerated, hitting African Americans particularly hard - in the 1980s the average income of blacks in the Midwest fell almost 20%. Deregulation of the economy opened the doors to corporate greed and fraud, leading to the great stock market crash of 1987 and the savings and loan crisis a couple of years later. Tax cuts for the rich tripled the federal debt from less than $1 trillion when Reagan came into office to almost $3 trillion eight years later.

CIA funding of reactionary, feudal forces in Afghanistan sowed the seeds of Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network, while Reagan’s military build-up and interventions, often in violation of international law, put the United States on track to occupy Iraq. Reagan’s rise to power also marked the end of the New Deal tradition of reform in the Democratic Party that began under Franklin Roosevelt. In response to Reagan, the Democratic Leadership Council moved the Democratic Party to the right, leading to the Clinton presidency - known for its embargo of Iraq, welfare ‘reform’ and promotion of Wall Street.

While politicians from George Bush on down try to raise the banner of Reaganism and reaction even higher, we have to learn from and gain inspiration from the millions who fought Reagan and his policies for the causes of peace, justice, equality and socialism.

I see this article word for word from this amoung other Communist websites. http://marxistleninist.wordpress.com...verty-and-war/

Is that what you believe in, is these sites as honest truth? And this one to!

http://marxistupdate.blogspot.com/2011/02/liberal-ridicule-of-reagan-masks-his.html

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I see this article word for word from this amoung other Communist websites. http://marxistleninist.wordpress.com...verty-and-war/

Is that what you believe in, is these sites as honest truth? And this one to!

http://marxistupdate.blogspot.com/20...masks-his.html

It looks like even a communist website can publish some truth now and then. Can you disprove, that Regan did raise SS contributions that effect the middle class mostly? Can you disprove, that Regan trashed the monopoly laws that have now created Banks to big to fail and Oil companies that can fix prices or even power companies that can fix prices? Can you disprove , that Regan lowered taxes on the highest incomes.

Reagan was very likable, but he was Corporate America's pawn. He was the military industrial complex's tool. The very industrial complex, that a good republican, by the name of Eisenhower, warned us about.

[kidrock]

It looks like even a communist website can publish some truth now and then. Can you disprove, that Regan did raise SS contributions that effect the middle class mostly? Can you disprove, that Regan trashed the monopoly laws that have now created Banks to big to fail and Oil companies that can fix prices or even power companies that can fix prices? Can you disprove , that Regan lowered taxes on the highest incomes.

Reagan was very likable, but he was Corporate America's pawn. He was the military industrial complex's tool. The very industrial complex, that a good republican, by the name of Eisenhower, warned us about.

You forgot to mention he also taught the conservatives and liberals how not to worry about the debt unless they needed it for talking points. After all he tripled the national debt.

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http://www.policymic.com/articles/15...-national-debt and obama has 3 more years to go

[kidrock]

http://www.policymic.com/articles/15...-national-debt and obama has 3 more years to go

I said conservatives and liberals there litee. Just read man just read lol.

[LITE-INN]

well he taught obummer well

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It looks like even a communist website can publish some truth now and then. Can you disprove, that Regan did raise SS contributions that effect the middle class mostly? Can you disprove, that Regan trashed the monopoly laws that have now created Banks to big to fail and Oil companies that can fix prices or even power companies that can fix prices? Can you disprove , that Regan lowered taxes on the highest incomes.

Reagan was very likable, but he was Corporate America's pawn. He was the military industrial complex's tool. The very industrial complex, that a good republican, by the name of Eisenhower, warned us about.

Most states require public hearings for the price of electrical power and the price per kilowatt is eventually determined by the State's Utility Board based upon improvements made to the transmission and distribution system.

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It looks like even a communist website can publish some truth now and then. Can you disprove, that Regan did raise SS contributions that effect the middle class mostly?

Since SS is taxed based upon earned income and the majority of people who earn "earned income" is the middle class, it is hardly surprising that they would pay the largest share. However, corporations/employers share also rose at the same time via payroll taxes. Employers are required to match the employees contribution both for SS and Medicare/Medicaid. The effects of raising SS was felt everywhere by most everyone.

Now why did SS have to be amended? It didn't even take 20 years for LBJ's Great Society to drain the coffers of SS and force a major revision with the hopes of keeping it solvent.