BrendaninBrooklyn
Jfk tax cuts r ref to the revenue act of 1964 but the tax cuts embodied in that act were coloured by the fact that the highest marginal tax rates before that were as high as 91 per cent! So it was clear tax reform was badly needed. Hence to make a direct comparison of that with the present day, would be not apt.
On nasa, the founder and rreal father of the program was undoubtedly eisenhower who was republican who not only founded nasa but started the mercury program that was necessary as the precursor to the apollo program. As for making it bigger, rather than being visionary jfk was reacting to yuri gagaryn’s seminal orbit and so it was a mere progression from what eisenhower had begun. Had eisenhower been in power at that time, he would have likely done the same thing.
Incidentally the president who warned the world presciently of the military industrial complex and how it would be a serious threat was Dwight eisenhower. Jfk who came immediately aftrt eisenhower learned the hard way how it almost drove him into ww3 as the establishment caused the bay of pigs debacle to happen and induced the Cuban missile crisis. Jfk turned against it and he gave orders not to get into the war in Vietnam. And then jfk was assassinated merely weeks later … lyndon johnson who was his vp but who didn’t share jfk views willingly did the bidding of the war hawks and drove rhe country headlong into the Vietnam war…
My point is that the things u credit the democrat party for was either done more by republicans or was at least a bipartisan effort or was not a good thing at all. In fact to this day what is galling is that if u ask most blacks which was the party who fought against slavery during the civil war, they would say the democrat party and that the republicans were the party of the South! Thanks to mass media and hollywood perversions of the truth, they don’t even know who the real enemy is, that the party many of them vote for was the one that had enslaved their forefathers and ehicj opposed reconstruction through among othere the ku klux klan! The democrat party continues to put African Americans in shackles of the mind and putting them into a Victimised mentality to blame the White Man and systemic racism for their ills instead of empowering them by having the attitudeto take responsibility to move themselves up by their efforts.
Did u know that in the history of the us, only republican president’s havr ever been assassinated and the only democrat president who has been assassinated was jfk and that was only after he turned against the militwry industrial complex? The republic has always had the establishment working shadowily in the darkness out of sight and the democrat party has always been a tool of that establishment to a greater degree than the republicans have…..