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How the USA got from a nation of compassion, justice and equality to today

• 1935 Roosevelt - Supporting the marginalized - Social Security and The New Deal.
  

• Supporting democracies world wide - WWI (116,516 lives), WWII (405,399 lives). See wars.
  

• 1948 Truman Rebuilding Europe afer WWII the US spent $137 billion in 2025 dollars to rebuild Europe, The European Recovery Program (ERP) or Marshal Plan.
  

• 1945 The world leader in science and technology by the end of World War II
  

• The United States military remains the most powerful and technologically advanced armed force in the world,
  With a defense budget, exceeding $800 billion in 2025, which surpasses the combined military spending of the next ten largest military spenders, including China, Russia, India, and Saudi Arabia.

• 1964 Johnson The Civil Rights Act
  Proposed by President John F. Kennedy in June 1963, but it was opposed by filibuster in the Senate.
  The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 legally ended segregation but many Southern states, including Alabama, continued to enforce discriminatory practices, particularly in voter registration. Efforts to enforce voting rights in Selma led to increased tensions, culminating in the Selma to Montgomery marches in March 1965.
  See Racism, Slavery, Civil RIghts

• 1965 The voting Rights Act
  Initiated in the Senate by majority leader Mike Mansfield (D-MT) and Senate minority leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL).
  Dirksen did not originally intend to support voting rights legislation so soon after supporting the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but he expressed willingness to accept "revolutionary" legislation after learning about the police violence against marchers in Selma on Bloody Sunday.

• 1970 Nixon - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  1970 The Clean Air act
  1972 The clean Water ACT
  

  Start of emphasis on the wealthy:
  

• 1981 Reagan's Economic Recovery Tax Act (ERTA) of 1981, slashed top income tax rates from 70% to 50%. and the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which further reduced the top rate to 28%
  Called "Supply Side Economics" or trickle down economics., Reaganomics. The wealthy were supposed to reinvest their tax savings to create new jobs and grow the economy to creat more tax revenues making up the loss.
  George H.W. Bush called it VooDoo Economics in the 1980 republican primary.
  The national debt tripled from under $1 trillion to nearly $3 trillion under Reagan.
  In 2025 intrest on the national debt was over $1 trillion, the 3rd largest government expenditure (17%).
  

  Reagan was from California and understood the need for immigrants in agriculture. He praised immigrants in his final speech; not just for their labor, but for their contribution to our growth over the last 250 years.

• 1995 Political Polarization has significantly reduced compromise in the congress, making it difficult to pass legislation.
  In 1955 33% of house members and 39% of senators were centrists while it was 8 and 9% in 2004. See Polarization here.

• 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA - ObamaCare)
  Presidents since Truman have promised better healthcare, but were opposed by the AMA and others.
  The MAGA's tried but failed to repeal it in 2027.
  THe US healthcare system is worse and more expensive than than most developed countries.

  Area	Developed Countries	US
  Cost per person	$7,000- $9,000	$14,000- $15,000
  Life Expectancy 2023	82	77

• 2023 - The US spent $72 billion on foreign aid. This spending covers a range of programs, USAID, including, global health initiatives, disaster relief, and military support.

To:
-2025 A playground for the rich and ruthless¹.

Immigrant Deportation. As of December 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported that more than 605,000 immigrants had been deported.
There have been an estimated 1.9 million self-deportations.

Trump had planned to deport 1 million immigrants per year at an estimated cost of $88 billion annually, according to the American Immigration Council.

As of November 30, 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) held 65,735 individuals in detention facilities. Of these, 73.6% or 48,377 peopleÑhad no criminal convictions.

As of 2023, the number of unauthorized immigrants in the United States reached a record high of 14 million, according to a Pew Research Center estimate based on the U.S. Census BureauÕs 2023 American Community Survey.

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See USA for more history including some of my immigrant ancestors in the 1600's and ancestors who fought in our revolution.