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bvar22

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18. The DEFINITION of 3rd Way Democrats:

Mon May 5, 2014, 08:55 PM

May 2014

[font size=3]"disguising the upward transfer of wealth by making the rest of us feel better off than we actually are while enriching themselves in the process."[/font]

The Old Traditional Democrats (FDR/LBJ) New Deal/Great Society Democrats built the largest, wealthiest, Most Upwardly Mobile Working/Middle Class the WORLD had ever seen.
Lets try THAT again,
IIRC, the top marginal rate was 90%.

Why do we even need "3rd Way Democrats" or "New Democrats".
At least with the "Old" Democrats, we were moving in the right direction.

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