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Re:Poor kids who do things right don't do better than rich k... by refurb on Monday October 24, 2016 @03:38PM (#12782081)
Reagan was last president almost 30 years ago. Time to blame someone else.
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Re:Poor kids who do things right don't do better than rich k... by ethanbond on Monday October 24, 2016 @04:02PM (#12782325)
Yeah, everyone knows that causality has a hard limit of 25 years!

It's a ruse to imply that Reagan's policies don't play a role in this. GP didn't claim that he's exclusively responsible, just that correcting those mistakes would be a good place to start.

Do you think that kids aren't thrown in jail every single day for war-on-drug offenses simply because Reagan was president almost 30 years ago?

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Re:Poor kids who do things right don't do better than rich k... by refurb on Monday October 24, 2016 @05:30PM (#12783100)
just that correcting those mistakes would be a good place to start

That's my point. Regan has been dead for a while, he can't fix things now. If you don't like how things are going, blame the current people in power.

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Re:Poor kids who do things right don't do better than rich k... by ethanbond on Monday October 24, 2016 @05:57PM (#12783255)
Nobody asked a dead man to fix things. GP asked us/the govt to fix the problems the dead man created.
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Re:Poor kids who do things right don't do better than rich k... by jowiar on Monday October 24, 2016 @03:40PM (#12782112)
Sam Brownback?
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Re:Poor kids who do things right don't do better than rich k... by busterarm on Monday October 24, 2016 @04:58PM (#12782833)
Who said anything about him being President? Look at what he did to the university system in California as Governor. That was the model for the disaster that followed.

Gotta love the kneejerk downvotes I'm getting from people who likely don't have a clue what happened.

http://www.newfoundations.com/Clabaugh/CuttingEdge/Reagan.ht... http://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/28/science/california-weighs-... https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/from-master-plan-to-... http://www.salon.com/2014/07/05/ronald_reagan_stuck_it_to_mi... http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Ronald_Reagan_Education.htm

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