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   From: brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com   
      
   On Nov 30, 2025 at 7:50:49 PM MST, "pothead" wrote   
   <10givq9$tpkf$1@pothead.dont-email.me>:   
      
   > On 2025-11-30, -hh  wrote:   
   >> On 11/27/25 23:44, Barnacle Scully wrote:   
   >>> In article <692921b9$6$24$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>,   
   >>> brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com says...   
   >>>>   
   >>>> On Nov 27, 2025 at 6:56:57 PM MST, "chrisv" wrote   
   >>>> <250iikltaig205qckn08bnrf2l9fhmt07v@4ax.com>:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Alan wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> You don't think a minimum wage that has lost a third of it's buying   
   >>>>>> power isn't "labor abuse"?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Obviously not, child, and finding a job that pays way more than   
   >>>>> minimum wage is trivially easy.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> If so then such jobs would be gone.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Funny how I can drive through town and town and see people living in   
   >>>>> nice homes and nice cars and all the other trappings of middle-class   
   >>>>> life in America, yet dipshits run it down and claim that only   
   >>>>> billionaires benefit.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The middle class is dying.   
   >>>   
   >>> And you can blame the lefty elites for that.   
   >>   
   >> Especially that bastion of liberalism ... Ronald Reagan!   
   >>   
   >> -hh   
   >   
   > An argument can be made for both sides regarding Reagan good vs bad.   
      
   He did good and bad... but on the whole he destroyed the economy and it has   
   not recovered. Trickle Down is idiotic.   
      
   > I was fresh out of college in my first job when Reagan was POTUS and   
   > I remember certain basic middle class typical deductions that   
   > went away.   
   > Interest on credit cards and loans for one.   
   > Personally I liked Reagan's foreign policy but TBH he wasn't great for my   
   > bottom line.   
      
      
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