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Ame®icano;2092723 said:Reagan brought America back from socialist track.
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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Ame®icano;2092723 said:Reagan brought America back from socialist track.
Ame®icano;2092723 said:Reagan brought America back from socialist track.
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.
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.
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.
Alan Greenspan admitted that deregulation was a mistake.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
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?
I see, you can name no accomplishments of Reagan.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]