Tag: Eisenhower

Social Program Cuts? Republicans Can’t Shoot Butter

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Republicans to Slash Needed Domestic Programs to Fund More War and Conquest

by Jude Cowell

Since Mr. Trump and the Republicans have their knives out intending to gut social programs for the weak, ill, and aging among us while massive tax cuts are put in place for the wealthy class, a review of the History of Medicare and Medicaid seems timely. And as you know, in 1972 (under Nixon) an expansion

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Truman And Eisenhower paid down US debt (video)

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Here’s progressive broadcaster Thom Hartmann explaining how a Democratic and a Republican president–Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower–handled US debt during their terms…they paid it down and grew the US economy simultaneously.Nowadays you’d think such a practical feat involves rocket science, wouldn’t you?My favorite part is Harry Truman in 1948 calling out the Republican Party as the

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