Re: 80th Celebration

On 1/10/2025 2:18 PM, Tom Kunich wrote:

On Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:41:44 -0300, Shadow wrote:
 

On Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:03:41 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
wrote:
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Congress in all its wisdom allowed the Union Pacfic railrosd to
purechase the Southern Pacific railroad for which my brother worked for
his entire life without honoring the union contract that the SP had
negotiated.

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Sounds very "repuglican" to me. Uggh !!!
That was in 1996, right? Who had the majority?
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Overnight my brother went from living comfotably with a good retirement
income and good health insurance to living on Social Security and
Medicare.

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It's what you get when you vote far-right. Well, at least you

learned

something.

  I cannot help it if you prefer to be a socialist. That is why Brazil is
such a world power.
 In '96 it was a 50-50 house and senate both.

Both the 104th (1995~6) and 105th (1996~7) Congresses were Republican majority:
https://www.infoplease.com/us/government/legislative-branch/composition-of-congress-by-political-party-1855-2017
The 1996 election, in which Mr Clinton won his 2d term, was a dramatic success for Mr Gingrich's Republican House members:
https://www.hoover.org/research/1996-house-elections-reaffirming-conservative-trend
resulting in significant shifts to Administration policies and negotiating positions, successfully implemented legislation and budgets, and eventually to the closest to balanced budget in decades; not seen since.
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