Name the accomplishments of Reagan

[PixieStix]

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[Ame®icano]

Reagan brought America back from socialist track.

 

[PixieStix]

Reagan brought America back from socialist track.

Yes he did

 

[NYcarbineer]

Well said Code.

I to voted for Carter and then Reagan twice.

Never regreted my votes for Reagan once. Sorry I can't say the same for Carter. What a fucking disaster that man was.

Reagan cleaned up a mess and made the country propesperous.

He was and still is my idea of a great Prez.

Sorry I can't say the same for Obama.

Cleaned up what mess? The economy was expanding when Reagan took office. Six months later it was in recession. Do you mean he cleaned up his own mess?

He cleaned up the mess that Carter left and it was a big one.

I lived it. Did you??

Inflation through the roof, unemployment. Oh yeah. It was loads of fun. The only thing missing today is the inflation.

Wonder when that will appear with the bozo's in charge now???

Of course everyone has an opinon. Yours is that Reagan sucked. Obama is the greatest.

My opinion is the exact opposite.

Thats what makes this country great. We can both have our opinons.

That being said, we could sure use Reagan in the WH now. Just my opinion. LOL


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Carter's unemployment was NEVER as bad as Reagan's was.

Carter appointed Paul Volcker Fed chairman; he fixed the inflation problem.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Reagan brought America back from socialist track.

By doing what exactly?

 

[Ame®icano]

 

[boedicca]

Reagan brought America back from socialist track.

And gave real hope to much of the world by contributing to the break up of the Soviet Union.

Sadly, that progress is currently unwinding.

 

[Toro]

Reagan's biggest accomplishment was imbuing Americans with a sense of optimism again. He reminded Americans that they were a great nation. Americans took it from there.

Also, deregulation.

 

[DE3]

He railed against big government then grew it like no peacetime president before him.

Another BALD faced lie. The Democratic Congress did that against his wishes. All he managed to do was increase defense spending which so pissed off the democrats they BRAGGED on National TV they would double Social spending.

Reagan was barely able to keep his defense spending by shutting the Government down on several occasions , he was powerless to stop the Democrats in Congress from increasing the deficit and social spending.

Go ahead look it up. Find Reagan's recommended budget and then see what he was forced to sign. EVERY year.

I did look it up and what I found is that Reagan's submitted budgets made up far more of the increases than anything added on by the Congress during that time. When you take the additional funds added to what he proposed it amounts to $112 billion. The growth in the government Reagan asked for in his budgets was $264 billion during his tenure.

 

[boedicca]

I did look it up and what I found is that Reagan's submitted budgets made up far more of the increases than anything added on by the Congress during that time. When you take the additional funds added to what he proposed it amounts to $112 billion. The growth in the government Reagan asked for in his budgets was $264 billion during his tenure.

As you have looked it up, please post the source data, which if it supports your claim, will break out the programs actually suggested by Reagan from the entitlements that were put in place during prior administrations. Also, please distinguish what was driven by the Democratically controlled Congress.

Thank you.

 

[Toro]

Reagan's biggest negative was that he legitimized Laffer's bizarre argument about lowering taxes raising revenues, at least as applied to the country as a whole. This has been an enormously damaging argument, as it became embedded within mainstream Republican thought, and the party began to promote tax costs, as the cure for most economics problems no matter what the cost.

But Reagan's positives outweighed his negatives.

 

[midcan5]

Reagan's biggest accomplishment was he made fantasy reality and many believed. Sadly 'W' believed as he gave speeches on the 'axis of evil,' but nothing happened! No wall collapsed this time, he should have waited 50 years.

I do sympathize with republicans as who else is there? Lincoln would be no republican today, so who do you look to: Coolidge? Hoover? GW? all complete and total nincompoops.

But having seen Reagan's start of the destruction of the middle class, I personally rate him our worst contemporary president. His lack of respect for the American worker gave corporate crooks the wonderland key hole to the early thirties - when Coolidge and Hoover failed. One can only wonder how someone, anyone, can govern when the thing they govern is what they see as wrong?

I was glad when I saw this article.

OpEdNews - Article: Ronald Reagan: Worst President Ever?

"....there's a growing realization that the starting point for many of the catastrophes confronting the United States today can be traced to Reagan's presidency. There's also a grudging reassessment that the "failed"- presidents of the 1970s--Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter--may deserve more credit for trying to grapple with the problems that now beset the country."


Amazon.com: Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan (9780393059304):


Kim Phillips-Fein: Books "Historian Phillips-Fein traces the hidden history of the Reagan revolution to a coterie of business executives, including General Electric official and Reagan mentor Lemuel Boulware, who saw labor unions, government regulation, high taxes and welfare spending as dire threats to their profits and power. From the 1930s onward, the author argues, they provided the money, organization and fervor for a decades-long war against New Deal liberalism—funding campaigns, think tanks, magazines and lobbying groups, and indoctrinating employees in the virtues of unfettered capitalism."

 

[DE3]

As for the current one, AGAIN one need only look to actions by Democrats in Congress to see why we are in the mess we are in. Dodd and Frank stopped EVERY effort to rein in Fanny and Freddy and put more regulation on the Housing banking market.

This is simply untrue.

The housing bubble started bursting in January 2007. The same month Democrats took control of congress. Dodd and Frank couldn't stop or block efforts to reign in F&F because they weren't in charge. ALL of the proposed legislation regarding F&F was stopped by Republicans.

Secondly, the proposed legislation regarding F&F dealt with their accounting, not regulating the housing market. Thirdly, even if the Republicans had been able to pass that legislation it wouldn't have changed anything a. because it would have gone into effect in November of 2006(the damage was already done) and b. F&F were doing less than 25% of the mortgage business at the time; Wall Street had taken over 75%.

 

[slackjawed]

When Reagan came into office, the economy sucked. The mood of the country was one of shame.
The biggest accomplishment of Reagan that I remember was that he brought back the idea that is was good to be American.
The rest of his accomplishments can be debated day after day, but the one thing he did do was bring back American pride.

One can also argue that he helped the left come together a a cohesive unit in a way never seen before. The first year that Mother Jones came out, he was on the cover every month.

So Reagan help organize the leftys. Reagan was a community organizer!

 

[DE3]

I did look it up and what I found is that Reagan's submitted budgets made up far more of the increases than anything added on by the Congress during that time. When you take the additional funds added to what he proposed it amounts to $112 billion. The growth in the government Reagan asked for in his budgets was $264 billion during his tenure.

As you have looked it up, please post the source data, which if it supports your claim, will break out the programs actually suggested by Reagan from the entitlements that were put in place during prior administrations. Also, please distinguish what was driven by the Democratically controlled Congress.

Thank you.

Google is your friend. "Reagan proposed budget 1982, '83, '84 ..." "1982, '83, '84... federal budget passed"

 

[blu]

1) sold weapons to iranians that were later used on usa troops
2) raised taxes higher as a percent of gdp than any other president
3) started the 'war on drugs' which was a huge stripping of civil liberities and wasted billions or maybe trillions now and keeps more people in jail for small bags of pot than any other offense

is that good enough for now?

 

[DE3]

As to the OP Reagan's biggest accomplishment was lifting the country's spirits. His chrasamtic optimism brought the country out its doldrums that had plagued it the previous 15 years.

 

[Political Junky]

1. Turn American enterprise back over to US entrepreneurs through lower taxes and regulations
2. Defeated Soviet Communism
3. Freed Eastern Europe

Close the thread right here

Alan Greenspan admitted that deregulation was a mistake.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/business/economy/24panel.html

By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
Published: October 23, 2008

WASHINGTON — For years, a Congressional hearing with Alan Greenspan was a marquee event. Lawmakers doted on him as an economic sage. Markets jumped up or down depending on what he said. Politicians in both parties wanted the maestro on their side.

CNBC Video: Greenspan Testimony
Greenspan Prepared Remarks

But on Thursday, almost three years after stepping down as chairman of the Federal Reserve, a humbled Mr. Greenspan admitted that he had put too much faith in the self-correcting power of free markets and had failed to anticipate the self-destructive power of wanton mortgage lending.

“Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity, myself included, are in a state of shocked disbelief,” he told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
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[slackjawed]

1) sold weapons to iranians that were later used on usa troops
2) raised taxes higher as a percent of gdp than any other president
3) started the 'war on drugs' which was a huge stripping of civil liberities and wasted billions or maybe trillions now and keeps more people in jail for small bags of pot than any other offense

is that good enough for now?

While Nixon first termed it the "war on drugs", Reagan certainly continued it. i think what you are looking for is that Reagan pushed for laws, or interpeptations of the constitution that allowed for drug testing. Before Reagan, there was no drug testing, there was a "war on drugs".
from time:
"Although the U.S. government has battled drugs for decades — President Eisenhower assembled a 5-member Cabinet committee to "stamp out narcotic addiction" in 1954 — the term "War on Drugs" was not widely used until President Nixon created the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in 1973 to announce "an all-out global war on the drug menace."

Read more: A Brief History of The War on Drugs - TIME

 

[Political Junky]

Tell us what the man did well for the country. Give us an honest list of his achievements here.

In his re-election, Reagan came within 0.95% of the votes in Minnesota of carrying all 50 states. He carried a record number of Electoral Votes and would have carried Minnesota if his opponent was not a very popular multi term Senator from that state.

Mondale carried only 40.6% of the popular vote. Given the numbers of the declared Republicans in the country, that % of popularity demands that Reagan carried all of the Republicans and all of the Independants and some of the Democrats.

You don't need to be genius to figure this out. The whole country liked what this man was doing when he was doing it. The Liberal elite did not get it then and don't get it now.

Give us an honest list of the achievements of your father. Only those things that can be quantified and have been recorded by the national media. Was he a positive influence on you or not? Enriching the spirit, fulfilling your hopes, applauding your success and ability, making you laugh, finding your strength and building your charachter are things that can't be measured by the NYT.

You sure do know it when it's happening. You sure do remember ti when the going gets tough.

I was there and I remember how it felt when Carter 1.0 was failing as a leader. It feels the same as Carter 2.0 feels today. I voted for Carter. After 4 years, I voted for Reagan and then voted for him again.

A leader leads. It is his followers who achieve. What did Eisenhower do to win WW2?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan#Second_term.2C_1985.E2.80.931989

That November, Reagan was re-elected, winning 49 of 50 states.[159] The president's landslide victory saw Mondale carry only his home state of Minnesota (by 3800 votes) and the District of Columbia. Reagan won a record 525 electoral votes, the most of any candidate in United States history,[160] and received 58.8% of the popular vote to Mondale's 40.6%.[159]

I see, you can name no accomplishments of Reagan.