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Miguelito Loveless

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10. It is a simplistic look
Thu May 8, 2025, 03:01 PM
May 2025

at Reaganomics. It looks at that method as a success, which it was from the conservative point of view (it got rid of environmental/fraud/health regulations, which was what conservatives wanted). But, at the same time, in trying to be fair, liberals have gone too far and created a process to apply for funding that meant that Biden's rural broadband program still hasn't given out a dollar, four years after the legislation passed. Had the money started flowing earlier, perhaps we would have won the election.

Why were we able to go from legislation to actual benefits from Medicare legislation in a single year in the mid 60s, to not being able to implement a far simpler program in four years today? Trump is now hampering the distribution of money that should have already been spent years ago. This is why we see Trump getting credit for spending he opposed.

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