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Not allowing the pension funds to be raided by the big steel and mining companies before bankruptcy? Job retraining and education programs? Relocation assista
by bsder 3y ago
Not allowing the pension funds to be raided by the big steel and mining companies before bankruptcy? Job retraining and education programs? Relocation assistance? Healthcare and assistance for children so families didn't break up?
You can help cushion some the results of a disaster even if you can't stop the disaster.
I can go on and on. None of it ever materialized.
Reagan and Co. were definitely in the "We've done not a damn thing, and it didn't work." camp.
- refurb 3y agoCan't you blame every single president since then for the same thing? Why single out Reagan? Keep in mind the Democrats controlled Congress during much of Reagans tenure. The President can't create laws, only support them. Clinton ('93 to '95), Obama ('9 to '11) all had periods where the Democrats held every single office - the House, Senate and Presidency and could have passed whatever they wanted along party lines. Yet they didn't.
- bsder 3y agoBecause they weren't in charge during the problem? Because by the time Clinton got elected we had been through 12 years of Voodoo Economics? By the time Clinton got elected, the damage was done. The pension funds had been looted. The companies had declared bankruptcy and were gone. Families were divorced and torn apart due to men working 200 miles away for 10+ years. etc. And I DO have beef about Clinton--NAFTA in particular. But nothing that Clinton or Obama did is even remotely on the level of the devastation during Reagan/Bush.
- refurb 3y ago> By the time Clinton got elected, the damage was done. But presumably the damage can be reversed? If so, then you should blame every president after. If it can't be reversed, then I guess it's not really worth arguing about?