RetiredGySgt
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The worst thing Ronals Reagsn did as President was that he fostered this notion that "the government" is bad.
This has led a whole generation of Americans to distrust and even despise their government.
Our government is the very embodiment of our Constitution.
Am I saying I approve of everything our gov does? Hell no. But I believe in America and it is based on Constitutional Government. Those who continually debase the government are not lovers of America.
I'd really blame Nixon for starting any distrust in government.
And before that I blame the assassination of JFK making us distrust our government, and before that.....the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and after nixon and reagan, I blame letting 9/11 happen, not having enough Intelligence in our mists to prevent such from happening here on our homeland ground with the gazillion of dollars we spend on National Security, and then Katrina and the handling of such...taught me that our gvt can not be counted on in a natural disaster or crisis...this lead me to stock my own food and water for emergency purposes etc, then after that....the House of Cards that took place on Wall Street with the sub-prime Mortgage fiasco/bubble and our govt knowingly ALLOWING it to happen as my 401k's went down the drain...
there is much that has "gone wrong" that has lead me to believe that our government will never be perfect, mainly because it is not made up of Gods but made up of humans and bottom line, humans are not perfect.....no matter how much we may try to be, we are flawed, we make mistakes....and big ones at that!
I think the worst thing that Reagan did while he was President was give us working souls, a 100% Tax HIKE/ tax increase for our social security taxes....he DOUBLED what we were having to pay in Social security tax for both the worker and for their employer....the biggest tax increase on the working man, in our history! While, he did NOT put social security surplusses in a LOCK BOX at the time he raised our taxes, so that the hike really would have been for the boomer's retirement. Instead he began the trend of using the Social Security surplus taxes to pay for what income taxes should have been paying for and issuing essentially an IOU to SS.
That is the BIGGEST mistake he made that is hitting us now....over$4-5 trillion dollars of surplus SS dollars spent or given to the wealthiest in tax cuts, with IOU's coming due now, when we have no income tax money to pay for them....
and those rich ones that never pay in to SS on the entirety of what they make, got the bulk of that SS surplus in tax breaks for them, and they are now complaining about a tax increase that would make them pay back the SS surplus that they TOOK in tax cuts from the SS tax payer and from the workers in this country's SS retirement fund.
Care
Do you dumb asses even know how your Country works? A President has ZERO ABILITY to spend a single dollar, much less authorize the raiding of Social Security funds. That requires the House with consent from the Senate. Both controlled by Democrats under Reagan except for 2 years.
Presidents can not determine where money will come from, nor do they create or vote on Budgets or the means to pay for them. All a President does is either sign or veto spending bills submitted to him BY CONGRESS. And Reagan shut the Government down twice while he was President by doing JUST that.
The Democrats not Reagan began using Social Security funds. The Congress doubled the Social Security tax NOT the President. A Democratic control Congress.
LEARN HOW YOUR GOVERNMENT WORKS.