if reagan did nothing else, he'd still be great.

[Freewill]

Reagan, the greatest ever if for no other reason then he, should have, made you proud to be an American. There was never any doubt of what country Reagan loved. So naturally those who hate America hate Reagan.

The Reagan Boom - Greatest Ever - NYTimes.com

We don't know whether historians will call it the Great Expansion of the 1980's or Reagan's Great Expansion, but we do know from official economic statistics that the seven year period from 1982 to 1989 was the greatest, consistent burst of economic activity ever seen in the U.S. In fact, it was the greatest economic expansion the world has ever seen - in any country, at any time.

The two key measures that mark a depression or expansion are jobs and production. Let's look at the records that were set. Creation of jobs. From November 1982, when President Ronald Reagan's new economic program was beginning to take effect, to November 1989, 18.7 million new jobs were created. It was a world record: Never before had so many jobs been created during a comparable time period. The new jobs covered the entire spectrum of work, and more than half of them paid more than $20,000 a year. As total employment grew to 119.5 million, the rate of unemployment fell to slightly over 5 percent, the lowest level in 15 years. Creation of wealth.

 

[Freewill]

Here is history in the making, the moment that Mondale lost the election.

 

[eagle7_31]

Reagan, the greatest ever if for no other reason then he, should have, made you proud to be an American. There was never any doubt of what country Reagan loved. So naturally those who hate America hate Reagan.

The Reagan Boom - Greatest Ever - NYTimes.com

We don't know whether historians will call it the Great Expansion of the 1980's or Reagan's Great Expansion, but we do know from official economic statistics that the seven year period from 1982 to 1989 was the greatest, consistent burst of economic activity ever seen in the U.S. In fact, it was the greatest economic expansion the world has ever seen - in any country, at any time.

The two key measures that mark a depression or expansion are jobs and production. Let's look at the records that were set. Creation of jobs. From November 1982, when President Ronald Reagan's new economic program was beginning to take effect, to November 1989, 18.7 million new jobs were created. It was a world record: Never before had so many jobs been created during a comparable time period. The new jobs covered the entire spectrum of work, and more than half of them paid more than $20,000 a year. As total employment grew to 119.5 million, the rate of unemployment fell to slightly over 5 percent, the lowest level in 15 years. Creation of wealth.

I doubt you will ever get left wingers to acknowledge that. Reagan should have used the veto more in his second term to get some control on spending.

 

[Freewill]

 

[CowboyTed]

He told Gorbochev to tear down the wall in W Berlin and Gorbie DID so. that changed the world, and for the better. Russia was revealed to be the paper tiger that they 'd really always been (ie, unable to do anything vs Afghanistan, despite being right next door and using criminal methods. ).

Reagan COULD have gone anti-gun after he was shot, and with him PUSHING such an agenda, we'd have lost all of our rights, but he didn't. So that's another HUGE reason to call him a great man. Perhaps not much of a President, but a great man, nonetheless.

[In a 1991 speech, Reagan said]: "I'm a member of the NRA. And my position on the right to bear arms is well known. But I support the Brady bill and I urge the Congress to enact it without delay. It's just plain common sense that there be a waiting period [7 days] to allow local law enforcement officials to conduct background checks on those who wish to buy a handgun."

Isn't this kind of awkward.... The messiah for the GOP actually wanted sensible gun control.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Yes, Reagan might have done much less damage if the only thing he'd done as president was to bitch about the Berlin Wall.

 

[Derideo_Te]

Creation of jobs. From November 1982, when President Ronald Reagan's new economic program was beginning to take effect, to November 1989, 18.7 million new jobs were created. It was a world record: Never before had so many jobs been created during a comparable time period.

Carter, JFK, Johnson and Nixon all did better than Reagan in the same time frames.

And Clinton holds the all time record for job creation.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Reagan, the greatest ever if for no other reason then he, should have, made you proud to be an American. There was never any doubt of what country Reagan loved. So naturally those who hate America hate Reagan.

The Reagan Boom - Greatest Ever - NYTimes.com

We don't know whether historians will call it the Great Expansion of the 1980's or Reagan's Great Expansion, but we do know from official economic statistics that the seven year period from 1982 to 1989 was the greatest, consistent burst of economic activity ever seen in the U.S. In fact, it was the greatest economic expansion the world has ever seen - in any country, at any time.

The two key measures that mark a depression or expansion are jobs and production. Let's look at the records that were set. Creation of jobs. From November 1982, when President Ronald Reagan's new economic program was beginning to take effect, to November 1989, 18.7 million new jobs were created. It was a world record: Never before had so many jobs been created during a comparable time period. The new jobs covered the entire spectrum of work, and more than half of them paid more than $20,000 a year. As total employment grew to 119.5 million, the rate of unemployment fell to slightly over 5 percent, the lowest level in 15 years. Creation of wealth.

I doubt you will ever get left wingers to acknowledge that. Reagan should have used the veto more in his second term to get some control on spending.

It was not the 'Reagan boom'. It was an upturn in the business cycle that happened to occur while Reagan was president.

 

[eagle7_31]

Reagan, the greatest ever if for no other reason then he, should have, made you proud to be an American. There was never any doubt of what country Reagan loved. So naturally those who hate America hate Reagan.

The Reagan Boom - Greatest Ever - NYTimes.com

We don't know whether historians will call it the Great Expansion of the 1980's or Reagan's Great Expansion, but we do know from official economic statistics that the seven year period from 1982 to 1989 was the greatest, consistent burst of economic activity ever seen in the U.S. In fact, it was the greatest economic expansion the world has ever seen - in any country, at any time.

The two key measures that mark a depression or expansion are jobs and production. Let's look at the records that were set. Creation of jobs. From November 1982, when President Ronald Reagan's new economic program was beginning to take effect, to November 1989, 18.7 million new jobs were created. It was a world record: Never before had so many jobs been created during a comparable time period. The new jobs covered the entire spectrum of work, and more than half of them paid more than $20,000 a year. As total employment grew to 119.5 million, the rate of unemployment fell to slightly over 5 percent, the lowest level in 15 years. Creation of wealth.

I doubt you will ever get left wingers to acknowledge that. Reagan should have used the veto more in his second term to get some control on spending.

It was not the 'Reagan boom'. It was an upturn in the business cycle that happened to occur while Reagan was president.

Now that's weak even for you.

 

[Tehon]

Reagan, the greatest ever if for no other reason then he, should have, made you proud to be an American. There was never any doubt of what country Reagan loved. So naturally those who hate America hate Reagan.

The Reagan Boom - Greatest Ever - NYTimes.com

We don't know whether historians will call it the Great Expansion of the 1980's or Reagan's Great Expansion, but we do know from official economic statistics that the seven year period from 1982 to 1989 was the greatest, consistent burst of economic activity ever seen in the U.S. In fact, it was the greatest economic expansion the world has ever seen - in any country, at any time.

The two key measures that mark a depression or expansion are jobs and production. Let's look at the records that were set. Creation of jobs. From November 1982, when President Ronald Reagan's new economic program was beginning to take effect, to November 1989, 18.7 million new jobs were created. It was a world record: Never before had so many jobs been created during a comparable time period. The new jobs covered the entire spectrum of work, and more than half of them paid more than $20,000 a year. As total employment grew to 119.5 million, the rate of unemployment fell to slightly over 5 percent, the lowest level in 15 years. Creation of wealth.

This is Reagan's economic expansion explained, the drop in oil prices.

 

[guno]

He told Gorbochev to tear down the wall in W Berlin and Gorbie DID so. that changed the world, and for the better. Russia was revealed to be the paper tiger that they 'd really always been (ie, unable to do anything vs Afghanistan, despite being right next door and using criminal methods. ).

Reagan COULD have gone anti-gun after he was shot, and with him PUSHING such an agenda, we'd have lost all of our rights, but he didn't. So that's another HUGE reason to call him a great man. Perhaps not much of a President, but a great man, nonetheless.

Reagan is doing a great job where he is now

 

[CowboyTed]

This is getting worst:
“This is a matter of vital importance to the public safety ... While we recognize that assault-weapon legislation will not stop all assault-weapon crime, statistics prove that we can dry up the supply of these guns, making them less accessible to criminals.”
--Ronald Reagan, in a May 3, 1994 letter to the U.S. House of Representatives, which was also signed by Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford.



“I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for defense of a home.”

--Ronald Reagan, in a speech at his 78th birthday celebration in Los Angeles on February 6, 1989.



“Certain forms of ammunition have no legitimate sporting, recreational, or self-defense use and thus should be prohibited.”

--Ronald Reagan, in an August 28, 1986 signing statement on a bill that banned the production and importation of armor-piercing bullets.



“With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases.”

--Ronald Reagan, speech at George Washington University in a on March 29, 1991.



“Every year, an average of 9,200 Americans are murdered by handguns, according to Department of Justice statistics. This does not include suicides or the tens of thousands of robberies, rapes and assaults committed with handguns. This level of violence must be stopped.”

--Ronald Reagan, in a March 29, 1991 New York Times op-ed in support of the Brady Bill.



“I think maybe there could be some restrictions that there had to be a certain amount of training taken.”

--Ronald Reagan, in a press conference in Toronto on June 21, 1988, suggesting that prospective gun owners should have to receive training before purchasing a firearm.


“Well, I think there has to be some (gun) control.”

--Ronald Reagan, during a question-and-answer session with high-school students on November 14, 1988.

Hang on Reagan looks like a Democrat. What the hell is happening here. Is Reagan asking for sensible gun control? Looks like Reagan was not in the pockets of the NRA.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Reagan, the greatest ever if for no other reason then he, should have, made you proud to be an American. There was never any doubt of what country Reagan loved. So naturally those who hate America hate Reagan.

The Reagan Boom - Greatest Ever - NYTimes.com

We don't know whether historians will call it the Great Expansion of the 1980's or Reagan's Great Expansion, but we do know from official economic statistics that the seven year period from 1982 to 1989 was the greatest, consistent burst of economic activity ever seen in the U.S. In fact, it was the greatest economic expansion the world has ever seen - in any country, at any time.

The two key measures that mark a depression or expansion are jobs and production. Let's look at the records that were set. Creation of jobs. From November 1982, when President Ronald Reagan's new economic program was beginning to take effect, to November 1989, 18.7 million new jobs were created. It was a world record: Never before had so many jobs been created during a comparable time period. The new jobs covered the entire spectrum of work, and more than half of them paid more than $20,000 a year. As total employment grew to 119.5 million, the rate of unemployment fell to slightly over 5 percent, the lowest level in 15 years. Creation of wealth.

I doubt you will ever get left wingers to acknowledge that. Reagan should have used the veto more in his second term to get some control on spending.

It was not the 'Reagan boom'. It was an upturn in the business cycle that happened to occur while Reagan was president.

Now that's weak even for you.

Why would you credit Reagan for it? I take it you have no idea what a business cycle is.

 

[NYcarbineer]

He told Gorbochev to tear down the wall in W Berlin and Gorbie DID so. that changed the world, and for the better. Russia was revealed to be the paper tiger that they 'd really always been (ie, unable to do anything vs Afghanistan, despite being right next door and using criminal methods. ).

Reagan COULD have gone anti-gun after he was shot, and with him PUSHING such an agenda, we'd have lost all of our rights, but he didn't. So that's another HUGE reason to call him a great man. Perhaps not much of a President, but a great man, nonetheless.

Reagan is doing a great job where he is now

Cold. lol

 

[guno]

Reagan actually ended up raising taxes - eleven times. That's according to former Republican Sen. Alan Simpson, a longtime Reagan friend who co-chaired President Obama's fiscal commission that last year offered a deficit reduction proposal.

"Ronald Reagan was never afraid to raise taxes," historian Douglas Brinkley, who edited Reagan's diaries, told NPR. "He knew that it was necessary at times. And so there's a false mythology out there about Reagan as this conservative president who came in and just cut taxes and trimmed federal spending in a dramatic way. It didn't happen that way. It's false."


It was Reagan who pushed through a tax break for corporations that was to help create jobs. However, since there was nothing in the bill to keep the money in the USA, the corporations built plants overseas and employed non-US workers. This was the beginning of the American jobless situation.

Reagan also created the famous Iran Contra scandal, where he helped the "contras" in Nicaragua fight against the Nicaraguan democratic movement. This same group of people who were special agents for Reagan and his CIA director William Casey, dealt in narcotics, illegal arms sales to Iran and sent weapons and money to foment problems in all of South and Central America

Yea a great prez LOL

Reagan was the kind of man that President Dwight D. Eisenhower feared would one day be in the White House. Sadly, his fears were born out with the arrival of the actor Ronald Reagan, a man who did not write his own speeches, could not keep his mind together for more than two sentences, It is unsurprising that another idiot, Sarah Palin, would say we should take on more of Reagan's ideas and ways.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Great take on Reagan from British author Martin Amis.

Go to 1:25 if you have a short attention span:

Martin Amis depressed by US election - BBC News

 

[NYcarbineer]

Reagan was able to be president during a major cyclical upturn in the American economy and his contribution to it was to make irrational tax cuts that managed to give us massive deficits during a time when we should have been paying down debt.

 

[Freewill]

Creation of jobs. From November 1982, when President Ronald Reagan's new economic program was beginning to take effect, to November 1989, 18.7 million new jobs were created. It was a world record: Never before had so many jobs been created during a comparable time period.

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Carter, JFK, Johnson and Nixon all did better than Reagan in the same time frames.

And Clinton holds the all time record for job creation.

Clinton rode the greatest economic boom in the history of the world into recession. And his free trade put a whole lot of Americans out of a job. Reagan probably should have done better considering who he was following.

 

[Freewill]

Reagan, the greatest ever if for no other reason then he, should have, made you proud to be an American. There was never any doubt of what country Reagan loved. So naturally those who hate America hate Reagan.

The Reagan Boom - Greatest Ever - NYTimes.com

We don't know whether historians will call it the Great Expansion of the 1980's or Reagan's Great Expansion, but we do know from official economic statistics that the seven year period from 1982 to 1989 was the greatest, consistent burst of economic activity ever seen in the U.S. In fact, it was the greatest economic expansion the world has ever seen - in any country, at any time.

The two key measures that mark a depression or expansion are jobs and production. Let's look at the records that were set. Creation of jobs. From November 1982, when President Ronald Reagan's new economic program was beginning to take effect, to November 1989, 18.7 million new jobs were created. It was a world record: Never before had so many jobs been created during a comparable time period. The new jobs covered the entire spectrum of work, and more than half of them paid more than $20,000 a year. As total employment grew to 119.5 million, the rate of unemployment fell to slightly over 5 percent, the lowest level in 15 years. Creation of wealth.

This is Reagan's economic expansion explained, the drop in oil prices.

funny the oil prices have dropped now for about a year and we see no such expansion. Excuses, excuse for hating Reagan that is all.

 

[Freewill]

This is getting worst:
“This is a matter of vital importance to the public safety ... While we recognize that assault-weapon legislation will not stop all assault-weapon crime, statistics prove that we can dry up the supply of these guns, making them less accessible to criminals.”
--Ronald Reagan, in a May 3, 1994 letter to the U.S. House of Representatives, which was also signed by Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford.



“I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for defense of a home.”

--Ronald Reagan, in a speech at his 78th birthday celebration in Los Angeles on February 6, 1989.



“Certain forms of ammunition have no legitimate sporting, recreational, or self-defense use and thus should be prohibited.”

--Ronald Reagan, in an August 28, 1986 signing statement on a bill that banned the production and importation of armor-piercing bullets.



“With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases.”

--Ronald Reagan, speech at George Washington University in a on March 29, 1991.



“Every year, an average of 9,200 Americans are murdered by handguns, according to Department of Justice statistics. This does not include suicides or the tens of thousands of robberies, rapes and assaults committed with handguns. This level of violence must be stopped.”

--Ronald Reagan, in a March 29, 1991 New York Times op-ed in support of the Brady Bill.



“I think maybe there could be some restrictions that there had to be a certain amount of training taken.”

--Ronald Reagan, in a press conference in Toronto on June 21, 1988, suggesting that prospective gun owners should have to receive training before purchasing a firearm.


“Well, I think there has to be some (gun) control.”

--Ronald Reagan, during a question-and-answer session with high-school students on November 14, 1988.

Hang on Reagan looks like a Democrat. What the hell is happening here. Is Reagan asking for sensible gun control? Looks like Reagan was not in the pockets of the NRA.

Sounds like someone that the left would love.