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Libs generally worship intelligence.
Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do."
Reagan '81
It was true then and holds true today:
Tropical forests contain up to 40 percent of the carbon stored on Earth's continents and account for at least one-third of the annual exchange of carbon dioxide between the biosphere and the atmosphere, said Cleveland. Earth's soils are believed to store several times more carbon than all the planet's vegetation.
nsf.gov - National Science Foundation (NSF) News - Tropical Rainforest Nutrients Linked to Global Carbon Dioxide Levels - US National Science Foundation (NSF)
What? The best thing he did was be a cheerleader? What American people did he make feel good about themselves? It wasn't the Native Americans.
It was not the confrontation of the USSR that brought them down. The system was a failure plain and simple. Gorbachev is credited world round with the changing of Russia. Only American cons think it was Reagan and the rest of the world knows the reality.
the feel good thing is a myth too
First to go is the myth that Reagan was the most popular president since FDR. Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting reminds us, During the first two years of Reagans presidency, the public was giving President Reagan the lowest level of approval of all modern elected presidents. Reagans average first-year approval rating was 58 percentlower than Dwight Eisenhowers 69 percent, Jack Kennedys 75 percent, Richard Nixons 61 percent and Jimmy Carters 62 percent. At the end of his second year, (remember the Reagan recession?) Reagans approval rating was 41 percent; after the Iran-Contra scandal was revealed, Reagans approval rating stood at 46 percent. His approval rating for his entire presidency was lower than Kennedys, Eisenhowers and even Johnsons, and at times he was one of the most unpopular presidents in recent history.
Don't worry. You'll get used to feeling stupid if you keep this up.
this is absolute NONSENSE... you're confusing Reagan's tax cuts with the DEMOCRAT CONGRESSES ATTEMPT TO CLOSE "LOOP-HOLES" to "PAY" for Reagan's taxcuts... DUMBASS.In 1982, the Congressional Budget Office found that taxpayers earning under $10,000 lost an average of $240 from Reagan’s 1981 tax cuts, while those earning more than $80,000 gained an average of $15,130.
By WHAT FALL? 82? Reagan passed his first budget in October of 1981 dipshit... Reagan inhereited an economy in SHAMBLES...By that fall, the jobless rate hit 10.1 percent—the worst in 42 years,
and a year later 11.9 million were out of work. In 1983, the country’s poverty rate rose to 15 percent, the highest level since the mid-’60s.
In 1984, a congressional study reported that cuts in welfare had pushed more than 500,000 people—the majority of them children—into poverty.
Keep up your own silliness. If you think trees are harmful--chop all yours down and stay away from the Redwood Forests in my state.
The air in the forests of the giant redwoods is pristine.
US Dollar: Jobless Claims Reach Highest Since September 2001, Continuing Claims Highest Since December 1982
Now go prove the CBO report does not say what was claimed in the article
Really? That's amazing... Imagine a coastal forrest which realizes a massive influx of Pacific driven wind would have clean air...
YET:
Do trees pollute the atmosphere?
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Uh oh... Looks like the gipper was right AGAIN! Of course the left has declared the natural outgas of all mammals to be a pollutant and is taking measures to outlaw THAT... so of the two Ronald Regan and the ideological Left... The left is hands down the loser in any contest of IQ...
Reagan aides later said the then-presidential candidate had been misquoted and was referring only to certain types of pollutants, not to all air pollution.Before anyone advocates chopping down trees to clean up the air - forgetting, for one, that they give us the oxygen we breathe - scientists caution that whatever forests pump into the air is natural. They also provide shade and scrub many pollutants from the air.
"Calling it 'tree pollution' is a vast overstatement," said Ned Black, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ecologist in San Francisco.
Reagan was lampooned by Democrats in 1980 for having claimed that 80 percent of air pollution was caused by plants and trees. Reagan aides later said the then-presidential candidate had been misquoted and was referring only to certain types of pollutants, not to all air pollution.
Hey GREAT DODGE! Now go pretend you addressed the argument.
ROBERT REICH:
Ray, look, I don't want to be disrespectful to the memory of a beloved president. Many things that Ronald Reagan did were very important for this country, but Reaganomics had some major problems. For one thing, it created a huge deficit. In 1981 at the start of the Reagan administration the deficit was about 2.5 percent of the national economy. By the end it was about 5 percent of the national economy. Interest payments just on that debt went from $69 billion in 1981 to $169 billion at the end of the Reagan administration.
With that kind of deficit, eventually you've got to pay the piper. There is a day of reckoning, and the day of reckoning came with a huge recession in 1990 and 1991.
ROBERT REICH: Undoubtedly I respect job growth. In the 1990s when Bill Clinton became president, I was with him. We faced a huge mountain of debt. The only way we could get job growth restored in the 1990s -- and by the way under the Clinton administration 22 million net new jobs were added to the economy -- but the only way to actually get that going was to get out from under that mountain of debt and reduce the deficit which is what we spent most of our time doing at least in the first few years of the Clinton administration.
Let me, if I may, just make one other comment. That is that undoubtedly the economy was very bad in the late 1970s, but inflation was the major culprit. Inflation was out of control. Ronald Reagan should get some credit, but Paul Volcker heading the Federal Reserve Board actually gets most of the credit. He broke the back of inflation by increasing interest rates substantially. In fact some would say that he ended the Carter administration because we were plunged into a recession with those huge interest rate increases, but we got out from under inflation.
No I keep finding referances to this CBO report and you just keep claiming I made it up.
Its in the 1982 CBO report on Reagans taxs cuts.
Go prove its doesnt say this.
what do the experts say?
In the more than 15 years since the late President Ronald Reagan left office, experts have continued to debate the merits of his policies. His economic agenda -- known as Reaganomics -- was characterized by tax cuts, deficit spending and lower inflation.