Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: AMuzi Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: 80th Celebration Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 14:42:22 -0600 Organization: Yellow Jersey, Ltd. Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: <2o8VO.17155$Aty4.12354@fx03.iad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 21:42:21 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b8de645d513a2ad9887e72a05266e6db"; logging-data="238463"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+lMsW122ICDNUJSQw+Kz23" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:3ir7ytyC9HY7qHbufvLQSUK76XQ= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3192 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 >> wrote: >> >>> 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. >> >> Sounds very "repuglican" to me. Uggh !!! >> That was in 1996, right? Who had the majority? >> >> >>> Overnight my brother went from living comfotably with a good retirement >>> income and good health insurance to living on Social Security and >>> Medicare. >> >> 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. -- Andrew Muzi am@yellowjersey.org Open every day since 1 April, 1971