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2021-07-02 Home Front: Politix

Ronald Reagan: A Time For Choosing (27 Oct 1964) video

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Posted by Besoeker 2021-07-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 The impressive thing, aside from the rhetorical quality of The Speech, is how current it remains. All the numbers would have to be increased by several orders of magnitude, and some references changed, but otherwise it's good to go. For example:

"We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one. So they're going to solve all the problems of human misery through government and government planning. Well, now, if government planning and welfare had the answer -- and they've had almost 30 [make that 85 or so] years of it -- shouldn't we expect government to read the score to us once in a while? Shouldn't they be telling us about the decline each year in the number of people needing help? The reduction in the need for public housing?"

Posted by Matt 2021-07-02 09:05|| 2021-07-02 09:05|| Front Page Top

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