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Entry: The Dream team Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_dream_team#16726 Post contents: The significant dynamic in American politics is not "big government", but Identity Politics. It's frankly silly to think that the middle class caught between rising costs of housing, health care and college tuition--and their shrinking wages---is going to want more of the same, which is "free market" conservativism. When are you going to admit that the "free market" is a fraud. Ronald Reagan didn't do anything about cutting down the Dept of Eduction, but did a lot to cut down OSHA regulations that gave workers the right to know what dangerous chemicals they had in their workplace. Ronald Reagan's tax cuts didn't "grow" the economy, his huge Keynesian deficits did, and he stole from the Social Security trust fund to hide the failing of "supply side" economics, which is really just the conservative version of the free lunch. And as you rightly point out, he signed the immigration bill which has served to enable the unrestricted immigration that you "paleo-conservatives" complain about. It's is not the American people that are too blame, it's the fraud that you insist on perpetuating that conservativism was something other then giving those that have the most a little more, at the expense of everyone else. Sent at: 2008 11 22