Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for July 18, 2023

reagan. very bad years. he ruined a lot of middle class and farmers’ lives, wrecked the military command structure with his china shop bullying. we didn’t get the 20 aircraft carrier fleet either. fraud. the Teflon Administration.

The Volcker years.

ACTUALLY, Reagan worked to PROMOTE a tight money policy by appointing Volker. Volker raised interest rates to make money supply tighter. It was the loose money policy causing inflation by printing money and devaluing the Dollar.

It doesn’t really scan, Opus.

People forget that the Reagan Years were plagued by high inflation.

Oh yes South Africa is such a paradise since they threw out whitey. Apartheid needed to end, but they threw the baby out with the bath water. Same thing happened in Rhodesia, now known as Zimbabwe, which used to be the bread basket of Africa, but now cannot even feed their own people.

If you want some good economics-based music, check out bluegrass musician Merle Hazard https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/country-crooner-merle-hazard-s

Oh, the horror of mixed and/or shared messages! It’s not easy being a radical penguin sousaphonist….