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Bernie Sanders

Spitfire of ATJ

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5. A lot of people forget that Reagan came to DC as a REFORMER....

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Sat May 30, 2015, 08:22 PM

May 2015

Reagan portrayed himself as the hero up against an intractable opposition. An over-bloated bureaucratic NIGHTMARE full of shadowy, overpaid pencil pushers.

He claimed he would cut the pork and the red tape and make government work for the PEOPLE instead of for itself and "special interest groups". (Hippies demanding clean air and water.)

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Bernie Sanders: Joseph Stiglitz... [View all] Playinghardball May 2015 OP

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A lot of people forget that Reagan came to DC as a REFORMER.... Spitfire of ATJ May 2015 #5

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