The poverty in much of rural Wisconsin is severe, yet we don't have massive immigrant labor here. If there really is a problem of too many migrant workers in a particular area, the answer is to require companies to comply with the law, imposing harsh penalties for those who don't. But our economic crisis has little to do with our economic crisis. On illegal immigrants taking jobs, one must fill out a job application form which requires information about citizenship. The employer is required by law to verify this information. If they don't they are breaking the law, and yet I …
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Infant mortality rates among America's poor significantly increased as a direct result of welfare "reform", to the point of surpassing that found in most Third World countries. When will those legislators who are responsible for welfare "reform" be held accountable for the resulting deaths?
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Maybe you need to be over 50 to understand the differences between pre- and post- Reagan America, and to see how the Reagan administration has caused such tremendous damage to this country. Things that define the Reagan legacy: Some of the worst economic disparities in the Western world; the use of economic measures to censor the news media and turn it into a political spin machine; the highest infant mortality rate among all modern nations, coupled with a rapidly declining life expectancy for America's (rapidly increasing number of) poor; the destruction of the "social safety net" by allowing corporations to loot …
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There is always a large turnout when a celebrity dies. Even Stalin had a magnificent funeral. During Carter's administration, when a person needed help, it was available. Our "failed welfare system" enabled over 80% of recipients to work their way off welfare in under 5 years, moving up to the middle class. The general economy saw a cyclical downturn, but instead of heaping billions of dollars of welfare...er, I mean "tax cuts"...on the wealthiest 1%, the nation Carter administration began investing in the education and job skills training that enabled the poor to escape poverty. And the depth and breadth of …
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Nope, not making it up. I don't recall ever saying that Carter was a great president, although he is a very a good man. He was a showman, unlike Reagan, nor did he have that quality of celebrity that Americans tend to value above integrity and competence. A successful ad campaign leads to high sales, regardless of quality and value. We were a little more naive back then, when it came (what has come to be called) "the selling of the candidate". We are STILL paying for the deficit spending of the Reagan Era. What did Reagan do that had any …
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