Margaret Thatcher is dead.

[DinoDoc]

Once upon a time I had exactly that opinion until I came to understand quite how far that would tip the balance against working people. The human cost is just too high to give corporations that much power.

Once upon a time I had exactly that opinion until I came to understand quite how far that would tip the balance against working people. The human cost is just too high to give corporations that much power.

Are you trying to be the new Jon Miller?

[kentonio]

Are you trying to be the new Jon Miller?

It's driving me ****ing crazy. I now understand why Jon lost his mind.

[Berzerker]

she took George Wobbly Bush's hand and led him into the Iraqi quagmire Britain created and that gave us 9/11

[Dauphin]

Lots of confusion with the hashtag #nowthatchersdead.

Cher isn't dead.

[Hauldren Collider]

she took George Wobbly Bush's hand and led him into the Iraqi quagmire Britain created and that gave us 9/11

....what? I think you have your Bushes confused...

created 9/11? What? I thought you stopped doing drugs?

[Sava]

At the time Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister in 1979, decades of statist policies had turned Britain into the sick man of Europe. The government owned the big manufacturing firms in industries such as autos and steel. The top individual MTRs on income were 83 percent on "earned income" and an eye-popping 98 percent on income from capital. Frequent labor strikes paralyzed transportation and led to garbage piling up in the streets of London. Much of the housing stock was government-owned. Britain had lagged other European economies for decades, growing far more slowly than most economies on the continent. Thatcher's reforms were among the most comprehensive in the world, and by the mid-1980s, Britain was growing faster than the other major European economies. - Scott Sumner

You are going to have to do better than "planning is bad".

[DinoDoc]

I've provided more evidence than either you or MOBIUS to support my claims.

[Sava]

created 9/11?

OBL's main complaint against the US was the presence of troops in Saudi Arabia. You should really read his thoughts on the matter instead of pretending like you know.

[Sava]

I've provided more evidence than either you or MOBIUS to support my claims.

My only claim is that right wing extremism is retarded. The whole state of the world economy is the proof I need.

The only opposing view comes from the people most responsible for current conditions... and the idiots who read their blogs.

[DinoDoc]

Lots of confusion with the hashtag #nowthatchersdead.

Cher isn't dead.

They should have paraphrased The Beat and gone with #MargaretStoodDown

[Dauphin]

....what? I think you have your Bushes confused...

created 9/11? What? I thought you stopped doing drugs?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush_vomiting_incident

[Sava]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...iting_incident

I love that a man who was such a cunning and conniving politician had such a joke of a presidency. He was a lot better at becoming President than he was being President. Kinda like Obama, but without the charisma.

[Berzerker]

....what? I think you have your Bushes confused...

created 9/11? What? I thought you stopped doing drugs?

9/11 was preceded by 2 Shrubs and a Bubba, 1 war in Iraq, and a decade of attacks on the US army in Saudi Arabia enforcing sanctions
- and it all began with Maggie telling George Bush to clean up Britain's mess designed to keep the Muslims fighting each other while they grabbed their oil

and I'm getting old, I'm on more drugs

[Sava]

- and it all began with Maggie telling George Bush to clean up Britain's mess designed to keep the Muslims fighting each other while they grabbed their oil

I don't think H-dub needed anyone to tell him to grab the Muslim's oil.

[Dinner]

Mrs Thatcher never gave a damn about her 'political base', like her or hate her she did what she believed was right.

That's not even remotely true. Many of her moves, like closing down the coal mines instead of ever even trying to modernize them, was 100% designed to kill a union which opposed her. She frequently did that, took actions which harmed the countries economy but which under mined her opposition so she did it any way.