vcczar Posted Sunday at 07:58 PM Share Posted Sunday at 07:58 PM Bill Bradley of NJ was a former NBA Basketball star. The strange thing is that you'd think a sports star politician would be exciting, but he was more of a nerdy policy wonk. A male Elizabeth Warren, except centrist. I have a vague memory of him challenging VP Gore for the 2000 nom, but it seemed like he was a threat for maybe a week or two. Gore pretty much had it in the bag. His actions: Bradley, Bill 1981 Sides w/ Reagan on spending cuts Bradley, Bill 1982 Bradley-Gephardt tax reform plan Bradley, Bill 1986 co-sponsors Tax Reform Act (part of Reaganomics) Bradley, Bill 1987 introduces bill to return 1.3 million acres of SD to the Sioux (dies in committee) Bradley, Bill 1988 Declines pressure to run for president Bradley, Bill 1992 Sponsors Freedom Support Act to encourage market capitalism w/ former Soviet states Bradley, Bill 2000 Dem pres cand Bradley, Bill 2002 Declines suggestion to run for his old US Sen seat again Bradley, Bill 2008 Supports Obama over Clinton early in Dem primary Bradley, Bill 2008 Considered for Sec of Health by Obama Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vcczar Posted Sunday at 07:59 PM Author Share Posted Sunday at 07:59 PM He isn't that bad, but his support for Reaganomics does him in for me. I see Reaganomics as the key factor of income gap inequality today, low wages, low quality of life, high cost of living, etc. today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pringles Posted Sunday at 10:24 PM Share Posted Sunday at 10:24 PM 2 hours ago, vcczar said: He isn't that bad, but his support for Reaganomics does him in for me. I see Reaganomics as the key factor of income gap inequality today, low wages, low quality of life, high cost of living, etc. today. I can certainly see some criticism of Reaganomics, mainly the whole deficit spending, however, low wages? Low quality of life? Not sure how you include things that America is quite high in to support that point. For all the Bernie Bro/Progressive talk of the middle class shrinking, sure it has been! Because more and more Americans are joining the Upper Income brackets. That is what the statistics show. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vcczar Posted Sunday at 10:44 PM Author Share Posted Sunday at 10:44 PM 18 minutes ago, Pringles said: I can certainly see some criticism of Reaganomics, mainly the whole deficit spending, however, low wages? Low quality of life? Not sure how you include things that America is quite high in to support that point. For all the Bernie Bro/Progressive talk of the middle class shrinking, sure it has been! Because more and more Americans are joining the Upper Income brackets. That is what the statistics show. Rather than type out a huge paragraph, this pretty much sums it up well into charts and such: https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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