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Old 11-05-2005, 12:03 AM
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Re: History will reveal itself in due course

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Originally posted by hoosier

The ensuing two decades saw unprecedented economic growth, victory in the Cold War, and a gradual diminution of the timidity about employing U.S. military force overseas that is known as the "Vietnam syndrome."
You forgot that under reagan, we saw diminishing academic performance, explosive growth in the gap between rich and poor, exodus of manufacuturing jobs overseas, creation of a multi-billion dollar trade deficit and finally, the genesis, under reagan, of the multi-trillion dollar budget deficit, that was only paid down under a Democratic president, yet to be resurrected by the joke of a president known as GWB.
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