tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772956368752433326.post6789847201926825068..comments2024-03-29T05:23:06.618-04:00Comments on Ramona's Voices: There's Chutzpah and Then There's A.I.GRamona Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07160614050077886238noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772956368752433326.post-75028869278272238932009-03-22T23:12:00.000-04:002009-03-22T23:12:00.000-04:00Deregulation was always such a loony idea, you hav...Deregulation was always such a loony idea, you have to wonder how it could have gained such a foothold. Sure, money buys votes, but the citizens should have been outraged long before now.<BR/><BR/>I'm really tired of the Reagan-as-American-hero myth. He did more to destroy the fabric of this country than any other president--until GWB came along and make a piker out of him.<BR/><BR/>Clinton disappointed me, too. He had the chance to make important changes and he caved under the weight that Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. Sure wish he'd kept his pants on. He might have done great things.Ramona Grigghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07160614050077886238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772956368752433326.post-15536957504089261692009-03-22T21:52:00.000-04:002009-03-22T21:52:00.000-04:00"I'm going to ask this, but I really don't expect ..."I'm going to ask this, but I really don't expect an answer:<BR/>Where is the America that never would have allowed this to happen?"<BR/><BR/>imnsho, that America died in 1980 when Reagan came into office and began deregulating everything he could get his hands on. Bush I continued and, sadly, so did Clinton [tho, imo, less so than the first 2] then Bush II came in and pulled down the house whose foundations, by that time, were rotten through and through.<BR/><BR/>but, seeing as how I'm a pshrink -- one of the groups that knows absolutely nothing about financial stuff -- I may well be wrong about all this.<BR/>so take it with a pound or two of salt. still -----two crowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14289442473441279230noreply@blogger.com