Ronald Reagan: Supply Side Economics & "Welfare Queens"
What a Creep
Sonia Mansfield
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Season 26, Episode 7
Ronald Reagan, trickledown economics & welfare queens
It’s time to talk about President Ronald Reagan’s “trickle-down economics” tax policy, which has been described as the most enduring failed policy idea in American politics. And that leads into Reagan’s narrative of “the welfare queen,” the undeserving women who are freeloading off of the American taxpayers, AND THAT feeds into the bigger story of people living in poverty who don’t want to work. What a creep.
Sources for this episode
- CBS
- Georgetown Law
- New America
- New York Times
- PBS
- The Roosevelt Institute
- Washington Post
- Wikipedia (Reaganomics)
- Wikipedia (Trickledown economics)
- Wikipedia (Welfare queens)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to What a Creep. The show with Margodaniu and Sonia Mansfield talking about |
| 0:06.0 | creeps from the past to the present. |
| 0:08.8 | This is your quick guide to the biggest Creeps, jerks, ass, and losers, the best of the worst. |
| 0:15.0 | From two nice ladies who want the world to be a Creep, this is Margot, you and my cohort in Crepe as always is the amazing |
| 0:32.4 | Sonia Mansfield. |
| 0:33.4 | Hey Sonia. |
| 0:34.4 | Hello my friend. |
| 0:35.8 | Hello my friend, we are the podcast that talks about Creeps from the past to the present. |
| 0:40.4 | Because it's an election season, election election year, we decided to talk about Reagan. |
| 0:45.0 | We've talked about him twice before. |
| 0:48.0 | This is part three. |
| 0:50.0 | This is part three, and today we are, in the past we focused on his handling of the AIDS crisis |
| 0:55.8 | wasn't great and we talked about in a episode previous to that we talked about how he |
| 1:01.6 | handled the mental health crisis. He wasn't great. |
| 1:06.2 | And today we're talking about his economical policies, economics that he, the voodoo economics |
| 1:12.3 | and all that crap. Yep this is so |
| 1:15.6 | exhausting. He didn't handle that well either. No but before we get to that we got |
| 1:21.5 | stuff we have to talk about first. We are always looking |
| 1:24.8 | for ideas for creeps and for non creeps and if this is your first time |
| 1:28.4 | listening we always end the show with somebody who is not a creep so you leave |
| 1:32.0 | feeling a little more elated about the world |
| 1:34.7 | than when you started. Not DNC conventionalated. I don't know if we could ever manage that, but pretty close. I would say, like waiting in line to get in kind of thing yeah |
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