Showing posts with label Harry Truman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harry Truman. Show all posts
Friday, May 2, 2025

Federal employment is 1.1% of civilian population in April 2025: This is the swamp billionaires want to drain

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 The worst it ever got was 2.4% in December 1952 while Truman was still president. The leisure class of state capitalism has to have somethi...
Thursday, October 24, 2024

Kamala Harris isn't the first Democrat to demonize a Republican as Hitler: It's a family tradition with a long history that works

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 CHICAGO, Oct. 25 -- A Republican victory on election day will bring a Fascistic threat to American freedom that is even more dangerous tha...
Wednesday, August 9, 2023

Hero, part two

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Sunday, August 6, 2023

Hero

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Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Hi, I'm president Joe Biden and the buck stops with COVID-19, Vladimir Putin, and high fuel costs, not with me

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 Joe just wants you to forget that his anti-fossil fuel policies pushed gasoline from $2.09 to $3.44 in one year from his election, that he ...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Harry Truman knew where the buck stopped, Trump just keeps blaming bad laws which never stopped Obama from deporting

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Presidential weakness encourages more Central Americans to risk it.
Saturday, January 28, 2017

Alan Blinder's alternative facts about the politics of GDP

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Alan Blinder, Bill Clinton's Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve, quoted and discussed here : “Here is an interesting historical fac...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

Michael Warren of The Weekly Standard is convinced the polls are right because they are "scientific"

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The guy probably believes the Arctic is ice-free, too. Here : Cohen's obstinate challenge to the plain fact that scientific p...
Friday, February 13, 2015

Howard Dean thinks a president must have a college degree, unless the president is a Democrat

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Yeaaaaaaahhhhhh! Seen here : SCARBOROUGH: Are you serious? You're saying [Scott Walker] might not be qualified because he didn...
Tuesday, August 27, 2013

The Real Fascist Threat To America Comes From The Left, But Only Because It Won

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Dennis Prager, here : [I]f there is a real fascist threat to America, it comes from the left, whose appetite for state power is essentially ...
Sunday, August 18, 2013

Under Harry Truman Federal Spending Was Slashed More Than Two Thirds

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Between fiscal years 1945 and 1948 inclusive federal spending declined 67.85%, from $92.7 billion in 1945 to $29.8 billion in 1948. By the e...
Sunday, June 9, 2013

Obama Biographies Deliberately Omitted That His Mentor Was A Flaming Communist

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Including for the Associated Press, and both biographies by John Meacham and David Remnick. Herbert Meyer, here : For example, during the 20...
Monday, November 26, 2012

Truman Cut Spending Big Time In 1945. The Economy Boomed.

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Speaker John Boehner, wake up. Arnold Kling, here : When World War II ended in 1945, President Harry Truman faced a problem. Public opinion ...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012

The Best Presidents For The Economy Club

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1 2 3 4 4 On a scale of 7 to 70, 7 being best and 70 being worst, their scores are: Truman 21, Clinton 24, Eisenhower 26, JFK/LBJ 29.
Monday, September 24, 2012

Can Liberals Count? Can Liberals Remember?

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George Bush won Ohio in 2004 by 118,000 votes, but Andrew Sullivan remembers it differently, here : "At this point in 2004, one recalls...
Saturday, September 22, 2012

Obama Replaces Bush For Worst Economic Conditions Since WWII

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If you thought George W. Bush was the worst president ever, you were right . . . until now. Compared to every president since WWII in seven ...
Sunday, September 16, 2012

US Gross Public Debt Grew Most Under Reagan, Least Under Truman Since WWII

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The record of Ronald Reagan for increasing the US gross public debt is so bad in the post-war era it is a veritable outlier compared to ever...