Emulate Thatcher and Reagan - what does this mean to you?

[donnashuggy]

Abbott said this today.

Does it mean we are going to have riots in the street?

How can this be good for us?

[just_me_karen]

Some businesses do treat their staff well, but trickle down economics is not about current staff, but employing new ones and investing in communities and the economy. Trickling their increased wealth down into the general economy...

As we see with our big banks, when they make gigantic profits, they keep it. The only people to benefit are shareholders. The banks don't expand the number of branches, increase staff or do much of anything at all for people outside their walls. That's the Aussie way... Unlike in the USA where philanthropy has a strong culture within big businesses (even so, as the wine glass pic shows, it doesn't trickle far.. certainly not to those who really need it).

[monman12]

MP: "What exactly did he say?"

"“There’s the Reagan democrats, the blue-collar Tories, Howard’s battlers . . . they were the conservative working class who voted for Reagan, Thatcher and Howard. And if the next Coalition government is to be a long-lived government, yeah, we need to do that.”

"He’s also thinking about the type of government he would like to lead – it will be one, he hopes, that will come to sit within the pantheon of the popular conservative governments of Reagan, Thatcher and Howard."

However  I think that our history loving DY  might be somewhat confused when she remembers  that Thatcher and Reagan  welcomed  wall bashing!

[donnashuggy]

Are you listening Nero?

I don't gamble and I don't particularly like Rudd

Please stay on topic 

[**meep**]

To me, Margaret Thatcher will be remembered and respected  for her Cold War policy.

Mrs Thatcher was a symbol of universal values: toughness in adversity, self-reliance, success through hard work. She will be remembered as an iconic figure of what we used to call the West. We in the former Eastern Europe, meanwhile, will continue to remember her with gratitude as someone who hastened the day when we joined the family of democratic nations.

More here, if you're interested: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/margaret-thatcher/9982098/Margaret-Thatcher-A-Cold-War-ange...

[donnashuggy]

The only thing I liked was the movie about her.

She's a cold blooded murderer (indirectly)

[**meep**]

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@donnashuggy wrote:

The only thing I liked was the movie about her.

She's a cold blooded murderer (indirectly)

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To me, she was a saviour. 

[***super_nova***]

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@**meep** wrote:

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@donnashuggy wrote:

The only thing I liked was the movie about her.

She's a cold blooded murderer (indirectly)

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To me, she was a saviour. 

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Do you really believe that the Eastern Block collapsed because Reagan and Thatcher told them to make changes?  I think that things changed because of some very brave people in the Soviet Union who put on the line not only their own lives, but lives of all their families.  In the past anybody making little bit of waves ended up in Siberia.  It makes me sick when Reagan is being credited with the change. 

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@**meep** wrote:

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@donnashuggy wrote:

The only thing I liked was the movie about her.

She's a cold blooded murderer (indirectly)

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To me, she was a saviour. 

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An interesting concept. Who did she save, and from whom did she save them.

[**meep**]

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@***super_nova*** wrote:

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@**meep** wrote:

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@donnashuggy wrote:

The only thing I liked was the movie about her.

She's a cold blooded murderer (indirectly)

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To me, she was a saviour. 

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Do you really believe that the Eastern Block collapsed because Reagan and Thatcher told them to make changes?  I think that things changed because of some very brave people in the Soviet Union who put on the line not only their own lives, but lives of all their families.  In the past anybody making little bit of waves ended up in Siberia.  It makes me sick when Reagan is being credited with the change. 

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Its not what I believe, it is what I know.  I was there.   The fall of Communism did not begin in the Soviet Union.

[**meep**]

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

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@**meep** wrote:

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@donnashuggy wrote:

The only thing I liked was the movie about her.

She's a cold blooded murderer (indirectly)

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To me, she was a saviour. 

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An interesting concept. Who did she save, and from whom did she save them.

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Interesting?

I am referring to Thatcher's support of Solidarity (as per my earlier post)   Without that support, as Lech Walesa said, what was achieved would not have been possible. 

I keep making the same mistake by assuming that all this is common knowledge.