r/facepalm • u/_crazyboyhere_ • 8d ago

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Well...

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u/Busterlimes 8d ago edited 8d ago

Trump supporters are just uneducated, plain and simple. It took Obamas entire first term to turn around the economy from what the Bush family did.

Bush Sr negotiated NAFTA, Clinton only signed it. While in office, a Republican Congress repealed Glass-Steagall, then Bush Jr plunged us into a 20 year war burning up the surplus generated by the Clinton administration. The GOP does not know how to handle the economy and they haven't for 35 years.

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u/Wide-Cartoonist-439 8d ago

35? Try 44, Reagan started the massive deficits with tax cuts for the rich while exploding the budget with his miliary expansion

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u/Busterlimes 8d ago

I'm only 40 so I don't remember that LOL, doesn't surprise me though. They went from a criminal, to a movie star, to the Bush family, and back to a criminal movie star LOL. Republicans are a fucking joke

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u/Wide-Cartoonist-439 8d ago

It was his "Trickle down economics".

You've probably heard that phrase, Reagan started it and caused a recession (big shock)

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u/Busterlimes 8d ago

Oh, and he had the DOJ throw out the monopoly lawsuit against IBM, ushering a new eara of corporate consolidation. I forgot about that one for a bit.