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"...Ideology makes men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation." Deleuze/Guattari
Roaring Twenties, America turns inward after WWI, laissez faire economics prevail
Harding reduces taxes on the wealthy to spur growth
Three consecutive republican administrations, supply side economy, little regulation
Republicans align themselves with big business
Coolidge administration incompetent while speculation takes hold of nation
Hoover elected in landslide
Coolidge/Hoover presidencies, bubble mentality assures wall street speculation growth
Wall Street grows out of control, everyone wants in
Wall street market exchange cannot control speculative mood
Bubble bursts, banks collapse, investment trusts collapse, economy starts long downward spiral
Unable to control speculation wall street equally ineffective in controlling crash
Banking industry attempts control of securities crash
Republican policies fail to find workable solutions
Great Depression begins and shows weakness of American business and economic base
Hoover a businessman gets advice from the wealthy and National Association of Manufacturers
Faith in laissez faire crumbles but Hoover remains a believer
Hoover lowers taxes and attempts to balance budget
Hoover's policies fail
FDR elected, first 100 days creates job programs
FDR creates strong regulatory structure, starts minimum wage at 25 cents
These are the times of radio and newspapers
1937 FDR too tries balanced budget, economy declines
FDR creates the greatest single asset for all Americans: Social Security
FDR prepares America for the inevitable by funding training for fifty thousand new pilots
FDR masterfully fought WWII along with Churchill and Stalin
FDR wins three terms and is ranked by most as the greatest modern American president
New Deal creates a dynamic economy of technological growth
GI Bill passes and sets the stage for the growth of education and the middle class
American Medical Association killed universal health insurance under FDR and Truman
Fifty years of American exceptionalism follow FDR's presidency
Truman ends the savagery of World War II with Japan with the ultimate savagery
Truman employs UN in Korean war effort over fear of communism's spread
Truman extends New Deal and Civil rights
WWII end brings prosperity to America due to GI Bill, home growth, and durable goods growth
High tax rates continue until seventies and eighties
American corporations support the American worker with pensions and healthcare
United Nations declaration of universal rights
Eisenhower ignores right wing war mongering republicans, extends civil rights
Warren court hands down ruling on public school segregation
Eisenhower continues progressivism, Vietnam involvement continues from Truman
Eisenhower's grand idea and job's program, the Interstate highway begins
Interstate highway is based on Germany's autobahn
Eisenhower commits to helping South Vietnam
The 'Cold War' clouds the mind of America creating an atmosphere of fear and distrust
McCarthyism turns America into a land of fear and finger pointing
Nixon loses to Kennedy in first television influenced election
Kennedy buys into ridiculous Bay of Pigs plan from Eisenhower administration
America's youth gain power prestige and purchasing power
Advertising, aka propaganda, grows as TV replaces radio
Business begin its crusade against the New Deal and Unions
Kennedy reduces taxes for wealthy and corporations to stir growth
Battle for space with Russia consumes and grows America's technology
Blacks decide waiting any longer for equality is too long
Rosa Parks, among others, and Martin Luther King motivate a freedom movement long pass due
Camelot ends in Dallas
Lyndon Baines Johnson is swore in
Goldwater loses big due to perception of irrationality but race now enters politics as divisive element
LBJ starts big but ends his Great Society administration over a war born of fear
LBJ foolishly listens to war cries concerning domino effect and tragically involves America in Nam
LBJ advances civil rights and extended welfare so all Americans can have a little of the pie
Voter rights extended to all under Johnson Administration
George Wallace segregationist runs for president in 1968 and 1972
In the seventies religion combines with business against regulation and civil rights
Like FDR, Lyndon Baines Johnson moves America a bit closer to fairness and equality
AMA finally loses, LBJ creates another great American accomplishment Medicare
Anti-war demonstrations change attitudes and diminish LBJ social achievements
Nixon elected on law and order platform
Nixon has secret plan for ending Vietnam but paranoid personality ruins administration
Nixon end the war in Vietnam and starts the Environmental Protection Agency
Nixon opens up trade to China and negotiates with Mother Russia
Internet begins with DOD project to protect communications against Armageddon
Nixon's paranoid personality and his administration misfits create Watergate
Fearing impeachment Nixon resigns, Ford takes helm
Watergate changes campaign financing regulations
OPEC oil embargo over support for Israel in war
Carter elected, religion enters politics more openly
Carter inherits stagflation economy from Nixon / Ford
The 70's are a time of human rights
Carter signs onto the deregulation phenomenon
China begins its economic entry into the global world
Carter supports Afghanistan against Russian occupation, seeds are set for growth of insurgency terrorism
CNN and the start of 24 by 7 news begins
Carter reduces taxes for wealthy and increases military spending
Iranian militants take Americans captive
Under supply side economists, taxes become the major political tool of republicans
PACs grow as corporations seek control of government
Oil embargo hurts Carter but efforts at energy policy are forgotten as Reagan wins
Reagan starts the destruction of the middle class in part by making government and regulations the problem
Cultural issues and dog whistle racist politics join taxes as republican strategies
Reagan continues the destruction of regulatory agencies that eventually lead to the Great Recession of today
Reagan reduces taxes for wealthy - corporations and think tanks gain persuasive powers
Reagan or his administration realize their errors and raise taxes several times, including largest peace time tax
With bipartisan support, Reagan helps social security remain solvent
America becomes a debtor nation under Reagan, invades Grenada
Reagan escapes impeachment over Iran Contra
Government grows larger under Reagan
Free market worship fails to recognize reality of global market
Under Reagan wealth again as it did in the twenties is transferred to the wealthiest Americans
The middle class shrinks under Reagan and poverty increases
Bush Sr continuing deregulation predicts banking deregulation will protect taxpayers - think tarp
Bush Sr experiences effect of Reagan economic policies, economy collapses, real estate boom crash, S&L scandal, bailouts to rescue nation again after republican policies
Russian communism collapses from age and incompetence that all oligarchies face
G.H.W. Bush loses to William Jefferson Clinton as Republican policies once more fail the nation
"It's the economy, stupid." winning Clinton slogan
Internet commercialization grows as browsers develop and business goes online
Clinton raises taxes, economy recovers aided by millennium and Internet bubble
Armies of money and power go after Clinton on healthcare proposal, spending publicly and privately millions
Clinton buys into financial nonsense, supporting NAFTA, regulatory and welfare reform
Clinton raises minimum wage and job growth continues
Government shrinks under Clinton
Clinton foolishly continues deregulatory policies of republicans
Phil Gramm Texas, republican senator pushes the Financial Services Act of 1999
This change in banking law leads to great recession of 2008
Republicans waste millions on Whitewater fishing investigation
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