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Ginger's avatar

I take issue with calling laborers 'unskilled.' They were actually considered skilled laborers, trained in trades like pipefitting, electrical, plumbing work. An unskilled laborer had yet to be trained, journey-manned and certified. Give these wonderfully hardworking people some credit. Also, do a deep dive on the Koch Brothers; their father went to Nazi Germany in the 1930's and built oil refineries for the Third Reich. Koch was a total creep who left his two young boys with a dominatrix German nanny who abused them. Yup; captains of U.S. industry, those boys. One is sicker than the other!

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William Politt's avatar

"Ever since the Reagan Revolution, the phrase “big government” has been on the lips of Republican politicians" isn't quite accurate. The John Birch Society and its sympathizers railed against big government during my youth in the 1950s & 60s. They may have been the lunatic fringe of the Republican Party back then, but a part of it they most definitely were. Reagan's great accomplishment was to paste on a slick, Hollywood veneer.

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