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Old 04-09-2013, 10:44 AM
 
Location: Lower east side of Toronto
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Heard on the radio this morning that British pop radio is playing "Ding dong the witch is dead" in an attempt to have the old tune go number one. Thatcher was typical elite...the nerve of the coal miners wanting to have a chicken dinner more than once a week?
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Old 04-09-2013, 11:08 AM
 
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I can only imagine how bunched your liberal panties would have gotten if, in the wake of the death of Ted Kennedy, a man who actually killed a woman while driving drunk, conservatives had behaved as you moonbats are behaving now during the immediate aftermath of Thatcher's death.
What do you care? Was she the Prime Minister if the United States for crying out loud?

People in her own country had their noses full of her, and yet you have the nerve to get angry at Americans for not exactly holding her in the highest esteem?
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Old 04-09-2013, 11:34 AM
 
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Bacialy is that what european progressive are now.Brutal dictators for saving the country from the huge mistakes of not reforming in the past such as germany did i the 90's. It just like always people thnk things come free then balme the perosn who stops it to save them.
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Old 04-09-2013, 11:48 AM
 
Location: Lower east side of Toronto
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Bacialy is that what european progressive are now.Brutal dictators for saving the country from the huge mistakes of not reforming in the past such as germany did i the 90's. It just like always people thnk things come free then balme the perosn who stops it to save them.
Thatcher understood where the idea of of EU was going. She knew it was the beginning of the end of the British Empire. European progressives have proved Thatcher to be right...They have more equality..now everyone in Europe and Britain are equal - equally poor!

To be honest if someone like Thatcher was president of the United States Of America, there would not be a decline in national wealth or international status. She would not be so foolish as to send aid to a nation like Pakistan or Egypt who harbor our enemies. She like a mother lioness would have stood up for her pride.
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Old 04-09-2013, 11:53 AM
 
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Liberals are in general sick people. She is dead. Because they didnt like her politics, they celebrate her death and say disgusting things.

yucky people.
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Old 04-09-2013, 11:55 AM
 
Location: Londonderry, NH
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The British Empire died in WWI. It just took a while for the corpse to come apart. Thatcherism was a feeble attempt to resurrect the importance of the City in world commerce. She would support any tyrant that was ready to sacrifice his country to pay an uncollectable debt.

I remember the vituperation heaped on Ted Kennedy before and after he died. Most was just nonsense. At least with Thatcher we have good reasons to loath the creature.
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Old 04-09-2013, 11:56 AM
 
Location: Tejas
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Heartless soulless woman, glad she is gone.

RIP Bobby Sands & Co

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Old 04-09-2013, 12:26 PM
 
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lol @ all the Progressive haters. They love to cheer someone's death!
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Old 04-09-2013, 02:44 PM
 
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Where Thatcher excelled was on the international scene. Her embrace of Gorbachev despite Reagan's initial misgivings was huge. Plus, her willing to go to war over the Falklands showed that, while the Empire was over, the British were still relevant on the world stage and could project power if necessary Yes, she did support Pinochet, but so did the US.

Where she failed, and why she is intensely disliked by many in the UK, was her full embrace of trickle down economics and her scorched earth approach to "reform" British labor. Her government sold off the country's manufacturing base and in effect wrote off swaths of Scotland and the north (places that didn't vote for her party) to benefit of her backers in London. It's hard to understate how much they hated her in the north.
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Old 04-09-2013, 04:12 PM
 
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Maggie "the witch" Thatcher was a complete creation of the City of London. She only cared about the upper crust's profits and did not consider anyone else to be really human. She and Ronnie Raygun started our slide onto rule by extragovernmental plutocracy. We are reaping the crop they sowed and a bitter crop it is.

It all works great at first. The first shot of heroin is from the sale of the asset. Then the privatization floats securities which allows bank leverage to bloat the economy. Works great until all the equity is tapped out and what were free a clear public assets are now debt saturated.


If you are going to privatize something you cannot leave it as a fat worm for the banksters. When will people learn? Your water bill isn't paying for water when its mostly interest payments.
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