Quote:Are you kidding?

 

First 80 years of the nation the poor were LITERALLY SLAVES.

 

Slavery in the first 80 years.

 

After that came the Gilded Age which brought us such boons to the working class as company scrip and work camps.

 

Then came Teddy Roosevelt and started trying to establish a system of labor laws to help people.

 

A few years later a bunch of women died in a factory fire in NYC, perhaps you've heard of it?

 

Worker laws started improving, then we got the 1920's which mirrored GWB's years in a lot of ways. CUT TAXES and let the markets go nuts, leading directly to the great depression and the greatest leader this nation has ever had, FDR.

 

He terrified the right wing. He was ELECTED AS PRESIDENT FOUR TIMES!!!!

 

It's thanks to him that we have such luxuries as 30 year fixed rate mortgages.

 

It was during the ensuing 40 years from the middle of FDR's time in office until Reagan came along that the poor and middle class in this country pulled themselves up to the extent they did thanks to social programs and inexpensive education.

 

Really?  You know I'm not talking about slaves and newly freed slaves.  That's an insult on intelligence.

 

FDR was elected 4 times because he kept giving people things.  Point blank.  Real leadership is knowing when to say 'no.'  I could win an election if I promised to increase the minimum wage to $15/hr, granted citizenship to all illegals, and promised massive reparations to all blacks.

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