The Sad Legacy of Ronald Reagan

[CrusaderFrank]

Frank sir. So the budget problem we have this year is not Obama's fault?

So Ronald was not the great communicator but a President hamstrung by a Congress which created the recovery despite him?

I mean no disrespect nor do I intend to threaten or insult you enough to belittle me. Just making conversation.

Well you're not terribly bright, so its not an illuminating conversation.

The budget is Obama Reid and Pelosi fault, no budget in over 1,000 days and a Scary Redistributer as POTUS

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Someone with even a passing, grade school familiarity with our form of government would know that Congress controls spending...

Also, did you know that Reagan called for eliminate[huh?] of teh[sic] Department of Education aqs[sic] a way to control spending?

Did you know that Democrats (who controlled Congress) declared Reagan's budgets "Dead on arrival"?

Defeating the USSR was something Reagan did as CinC.

Congress controls spending

Calls for getting rid of Dept of Ed were silly and meant for political talking points.

Democrats declared Reagan budgets as dead on arrival? Care to post credible links to this nugget of wisdom?

Reagan did not defeat the USSR nor did anyone else. btw, The Berlin Wall was a German matter.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Sixty-three Democrats subsequently joined the solid Republican minority, sending Reagan's budget to the Senate with a vote of 253-176.

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After Reagan proposed his Economic Recovery Plan, Speaker Tip O'Neill said, "We're not going to let them [the Republicans] tear asunder programs we've built over the years.


All through the spring and summer of 1981, Reagan lobbied Congress to cut welfare, the food stamp program, school meals, and Medicare and Medicaid. Congress went along with most of the president's plan, passing the Economic Recovery Tax Act on July 29, 1981.

Ask Gleaves: Reagan's Budgets and Hinckley - Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies - Grand Valley State University

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Dante when are you going to do "The Sad Legacy of obama" thread?

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Dante when are you going to do "The Sad Legacy of obama" thread?

I would think after he is out of office and people who denigrated him later support an Obama Legacy Project?

even Newt called Reagan weak on defense and the Soviet Threat.

That work goes on, with Reagan's acolytes still building and burnishing. The Reagan Legacy Project, started in 1997 by the conservative ...
The Legacy Project - New York Times

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Dante when are you going to do "The Sad Legacy of obama" thread?

I would think after he is out of office and people who denigrated him later support an Obama Legacy Project?

even Newt called Reagan weak on defense and the Soviet Threat.

That work goes on, with Reagan's acolytes still building and burnishing. The Reagan Legacy Project, started in 1997 by the conservative ...
The Legacy Project - New York Times

They will it will be called FEMA 3 after the disaster.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Dante when are you going to do "The Sad Legacy of obama" thread?

I would think after he is out of office and people who denigrated him later support an Obama Legacy Project?

even Newt called Reagan weak on defense and the Soviet Threat.

That work goes on, with Reagan's acolytes still building and burnishing. The Reagan Legacy Project, started in 1997 by the conservative ...
The Legacy Project - New York Times

They will it will be called FEMA 3 after the disaster.

would be funny if I could get the picture of you out of my mind --- the one where you wet your pants thinking people actually listen to your opinions on Obama. When you stop being so irrational, you may find people listening

good luck with life
D

 

[Mr. Shaman]

And Crack Cocaine....Thanks Reagan!

.....And, GENOCIDE!!!!​

February 13, 1989

"The Salvadoran army attacked the Encuentros hospital where they raped and killed patients."

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ReRon's Band O' Salvadoran Brothers​

 

[Political Junky]

And Crack Cocaine....Thanks Reagan!

.....And, GENOCIDE!!!!​

February 13, 1989

"The Salvadoran army attacked the Encuentros hospital where they raped and killed patients."

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ReRon's Band O' Salvadoran Brothers​

Excellent link to El Savador's history and Reagan.

 

[Dot Com]

Too bad the only President that conservatives & neocons like Kristol (PNAC & Fox employee) ceaselessly point to is Ronnie:
The Legacy Project - New York Times

Still, with the impending publication of Reagan's White House diaries, the legacy-building is likely to intensify -- if only because his followers are banking everything on him. In the pantheon of modern presidents, the Democrats claim Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy and Johnson. The Republicans have only Reagan. Neither Ford nor Nixon commands his party's devotion, and Eisenhower, who resisted McCarthyism, has little to offer the cultural and religious conservatives who dominate the party today.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

And Crack Cocaine....Thanks Reagan!

.....And, GENOCIDE!!!!​

February 13, 1989

"The Salvadoran army attacked the Encuentros hospital where they raped and killed patients."

*

ReRon's Band O' Salvadoran Brothers​

Excellent link to El Savador's history and Reagan.

.....In lieu of finding any-such-references in Texas-approved History-textbooks.....much like.....

BANANA REPUBLIC
The United Fruit Company

"At this time in Guatemala, just 2.2 percent of the population owned over 70 percent of the country's land. Only 10 percent of the land was available for 90 percent of the population, most of whom were Indians. Most of the land held by the large landowners was unused. Arevalo was succeeded in another free election by Jacobo Arbenz who continued the reform process begun under Arevalo. Arbenz proposed to redistribute some of the unused land and make it available for the 90 percent to farm. Here is where the problem arose: United Fruit was one of the big holders of unused land in Guatemala. The pressure mounted against UFCO and finally the company complained to the many friends it had within the U.S. government including President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, saying that Guatemala had turned communist.

The U.S. State Department and United Fruit embarked on a major public relations campaign to convince the American people and the rest of the U.S. government that Guatemala was a Soviet "satellite".​

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The Sad Lunacy of the American Left, they hate Reagan for defeating Soviet Communism

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Was defeating the USSR a good thing?

 

[Dot Com]

The Sad Lunacy of the American Left, they hate Reagan for defeating Soviet Communism

so we outspent them (deficit spending) on armaments whilst simultaneously slashing services to the poor & elderly. They couldn't keep up w/ our deficit spending & their economy collapsed. BFD.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The Sad Lunacy of the American Left, they hate Reagan for defeating Soviet Communism

so we outspent them on armaments whilst simultaneously slashing services to the poor & elderly. BFD.

Really?

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

The Sad Lunacy of the American Left, they hate Reagan for defeating Soviet Communism

so we outspent them (deficit spending) on armaments whilst simultaneously slashing services to the poor & elderly. BFD.

He certainly has a better legacy than Teddy Roosevelt, Wilson, FDR and all the other progressive dirt bags.

 

[Dot Com]

The Sad Lunacy of the American Left, they hate Reagan for defeating Soviet Communism

so we outspent them on armaments whilst simultaneously slashing services to the poor & elderly. BFD.

Really?

Reagan left a budget surplus & he didn't cut services to the non-rich & the elderly?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

so we outspent them on armaments whilst simultaneously slashing services to the poor & elderly. BFD.

Really?

Reagan left a budget surplus & he didn't cut services to the non-rich & the elderly?

Do you know who Reagan was? You seem to not have even a tiny clue.

Taking advantage of a damaged Presidency, the Progressives passed the "Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974" which neutered the Executive branch ability to control the national purse strings.

Reagan asked for a line-item veto about a million times and that was BEFORE the Democrats lied to his face that they would cut spending by $2 for every $1 tax increase

 

[Mr. Shaman]

The Sad Lunacy of the American Left, they hate Reagan for defeating Soviet Communism

......Except he didn't.

He entertained Gorbachev with stories about "little green men".

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Was defeating the USSR a good thing?

Yeah.....waiting-around for them to collapse really took a lot outta us.