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When was America great?

Lukey

Senator
Rather than vaguely babbling like that, challenge yourself and answer the questions:

When was America great? And when did that greatness end?

Your answers - not those you think would come from someone else.
Your tired agenda that consists of doubling down on the failed Obama policies doesn't really require anything more than a boiler plate smack down.
 

Bugsy McGurk

President
PSA #3.....Goalposts now on the sidelines. Bugsy ignores a noble attempt to school him in the realities of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Yet he continues in questioning mode, hoping I'll continue to educate him for FREE....what a piker.
Translation: Hmm...that bastid pointed out my goofy illogic. I said that WJC made America "not great," that my GOP cult hero made it great again, that it's not great now, and I can't say when, or why. My mind is a mess.

;-)
 

Bugsy McGurk

President
Your tired agenda that consists of doubling down on the failed Obama policies doesn't really require anything more than a boiler plate smack down.
Your babbling smacks nothing down. It's just babbling.

Let me know if you can answer my questions.
 

Drumcollie

* See DC's list of Kook posters*
Trump's asinine slogan - Make America Great Again - suggests that America is not now great, but that it was great in the past.

When was America great? And when did that greatness end?

Can anyone make sense of Trump's dopey slogan?
Do you even know what you are talking about?
 

Drumcollie

* See DC's list of Kook posters*
My pictures -- Been talking to my stalker have ya?

You're probably correct though .. even though i only understand one out of every three or so of your posts, by now i should know how to speak "Steve". ;)

Your stalker is you...it's your conscience trying to be a real person.
 

Arkady

President
Trump's asinine slogan - Make America Great Again - suggests that America is not now great, but that it was great in the past.

When was America great? And when did that greatness end?

Can anyone make sense of Trump's dopey slogan?
They're uncomfortable getting into specifics for obvious reasons. Any date you pick will be much worse than today in some glaring ways. For example, lots of conservatives wax nostalgic about the 1950s, but that was a time when many career and education avenues were all but closed to women and minorities, and there was racial segregation throughout the South. Any time before that will have those same problems, plus additional ones depending on how far back you go (mass lynchings, women not having the vote, slavery, etc.) You could make a case for the late 1990s as being better for the majority of people (based on lower poverty rates, higher median real incomes, lower unemployment, etc.), but even that case requires you to ignore the situation for gay people, since gay couples didn't even have the right to get married, they could be discharged from the military just for being gay, and it was legal to fire someone for being gay in most states. It was also a time with higher violent crime rates and murder rates than today.
 

Bugsy McGurk

President
They're uncomfortable getting into specifics for obvious reasons. Any date you pick will be much worse than today in some glaring ways. For example, lots of conservatives wax nostalgic about the 1950s, but that was a time when many career and education avenues were all but closed to women and minorities, and there was racial segregation throughout the South. Any time before that will have those same problems, plus additional ones depending on how far back you go (mass lynchings, women not having the vote, slavery, etc.) You could make a case for the late 1990s as being better for the majority of people (based on lower poverty rates, higher median real incomes, lower unemployment, etc.), but even that case requires you to ignore the situation for gay people, since gay couples didn't even have the right to get married, they could be discharged from the military just for being gay, and it was legal to fire someone for being gay in most states. It was also a time with higher violent crime rates and murder rates than today.
I just can't get one to tell us when America ceased being great, or why.

They seem fine with sopping up inane slogans.

;-)
 

Bo-4

Senator
Stockman explained it in pretty simple terms. It's not rocket science. Fiat currency explodes the use of debt, which in our case´was being used to fund consumption that wasn't paid for by production (required under Say's law for a strong, sustainable economy), as the progressive anti-capitalist tax and regulatory agenda and the ongoing currency debasement made our economy (and workers) uncompetitive on the world markets. So we just borrowed and spent and borrowed and spent and borrowed and spent as we built our economy on a shaky foundation of health, education, welfare and housing instead of making and selling things so we could earn foreign exchange. In the process we blew a capacity bubble in China that is now coming undone as all the demand borrowed from the future has maxed us out:
For every economist who thinks returning to the gold standard is a great idea, there are ten who think it would be catastrophic.
 
C

Capitalist

Guest
Trump's asinine slogan - Make America Great Again - suggests that America is not now great, but that it was great in the past.

When was America great? And when did that greatness end?

Can anyone make sense of Trump's dopey slogan?
Oh Heavens to Betsy. Another Trump slam.

i'm shocked. shocked i tell you.
 
C

Capitalist

Guest
For every economist who thinks returning to the gold standard is a great idea, there are ten who think it would be catastrophic.
Not a glowing endorsement of fiat money!

It's like saying for every criminal who is in favor of the death penalty there are ten who are against it.
 

SW48

Administrator
Staff member
Supporting Member
Trump's asinine slogan - Make America Great Again - suggests that America is not now great, but that it was great in the past.

When was America great? And when did that greatness end?

Can anyone make sense of Trump's dopey slogan?
Always been great and still is. Its just a political slogan.
 
top 10 great moments in American history, in no particular order:

10 - coming to the aid of England and France in world war 2

9 - coming to the aid of England and France in world war 1

8 - the wright brothers, and the invention of flight

7 - the modern assembly line, which brought affordable transportation to the masses

6 - several centuries of medical advances led by the USA

5 - putting a man on the moon

4 - safe haven for all sorts of scientists and artists, from Einstein to Werner von Braun to Solzinitsin, Auden, Stravinsky, Stern, Tesla, Rothko . . .

3 - leading the formation of the UN

2 - our film industry

1 - inventing the nuclear deterrent, and resisting its further use for 70 years after the intitial demonstration
 

trapdoor

Governor
When we defeated the Nazis and the Japenese, and did so without conquest -- setting the standard for what constituted democracy worldwide for the past 75 years.
 
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