YeetPics ( @YeetPics@mander.xyz ) 24•4 months agoI believe the best Reagan is a corpse covered in piss.
AnarchoSnowPlow ( @AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social ) 5•4 months ago“trickle down economics”
fᵣₑfᵢ ( @frefi@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 4•4 months agoYes, may he rot in piss 🙏
MystikIncarnate ( @MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ) English7•4 months agoI just want to point out that when he said this, minimum wage was a living wage.
rainynight65 ( @rainynight65@feddit.de ) 3•4 months agoFormer Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison parroted this a 2019, as a way to deny an increase in welfare payments:
“The best form of welfare is a job.”
At that time, roughly 540000 welfare recipients in Australia were long-term unemployed, as in they’d been unable to find employment in at least 12 months.
LoamImprovement ( @LoamImprovement@beehaw.org ) 2•4 months agoIt clearly isn’t - there are likely more working homeless today than there were homeless in total at any point in Reagan’s presidency.
Dagwood222 ( @Dagwood222@lemm.ee ) 3•4 months agoThere were tons of homeless people during Reagan’s time.
He closed down California’s mental hospitals, promising that the mentally ill would be handled in the community. Without supervision they became street people. In the end, increased police costs of dealing with the homeless outweighed any benefit closing the hospitals could have had.
After it failed in California, he took it national.
Echo Dot ( @echodot@feddit.uk ) 1•4 months agoThe stupid thing is that back when that comment was made you actually could live off minimum wage, so they actually don’t even understand the context of their own post.