ssj12 said:
Mr Khan said:
Eisenhower's day, debt was low, the economy was mostly booming (cyclical stop-start issues throughout the late 50's, but the general trend was upward) the middle class was growing, unions were powerful and pervasive, and the tax rates on the wealthy were 70%
Almost utopian, if not for all the racism, sexism, anti-communist paranoia, and pervasive smoking
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thats why i said "since," he was the one before things went down hill.
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Right, but my indication is that the era that many libertarians point back to and speak of how "great" things were is an era of policies that would make most libertarians vomit
Though i've seen some real hardcore libs around here who say we haven't had a good president since Calvin Coolidge