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This blogger, like yours truly, will most likely owe the IRS money since he, like me, couldn't afford to have taxes taken out of his UI.

It might be the same for me next year, and the next year...and so on because now I have a meager pension, which I am lucky to get but will have to pay taxes on.
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Meanwhile, the man who once said unemployment compensation was an all-expenses paid vacation for freeloaders, Ronald Reagan, is being idolized by the media which propagandized on his behalf when he was president. Of course, the media got all kinds of goodies in exchange for the glowing press he received. However, the reality of Ronald Reagan's presidency is far different than the myth.

If anything, Reagan will be remembered for three things apart from his movie career, none of them good. The first was his firing the air traffic controllers (PATCO) and thus creating a situation where the middle class would be decimated because companies now were given permission to gut unions and go overseas to find cheap labor. The second was his indifference to the AIDS epidemic, which could have been contained. Only when his good friend Rock Hudson got sick and died of the disease did his administration actually do much in the way to combat it. The final thing he will be "remembered" for is his gutting of the Fairness Doctrine; this more than anything contributed to the rise of nonstop hate radio and outright propaganda posing as news (i.e., Fox).

Not a good record to be proud of. There are a lot of other negative things that happened during his term such as Iran-Contra, the rise of homelessness thanks to the cuts in mental health funding, the rise of neoliberal economic policies which are wrecking the world, and the issuance of the fraudulent A Nation at Risk education "report," but the three mentioned above will do for now.