Covid-19 Lessons

[Blues Man]

The lesson here is the republican party and their followers are a danger both to democracy and to the health and safety of the people. The effort starting largely by Reagan (and before) to destroy government shows today. South Korea is ahead of us in virus testing as is China. Learn this lesson folks and vote for progress next time. Trump answers tough questions from reporters like a school yard bully. Shooting the messenger is the response of the guilty. It is past time to bring back government of the people not special interests.

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government." Thomas Jefferson

'Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?' As a new coronavirus spread in 2020, so did concerns about the United States' preparedness for a potential pandemic.'

Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?

"Every Wednesday morning, a group of conspirators meets to plot out how to most effectively attack the federal government. This is not a group of rag-tag terrorists – they wear $2,000 suits and occupy powerful positions in society. But their ideas are politically radical and they do pose a real threat to the normal workings of government in the U.S. They are a group of leading conservatives who believe that government is a malevolent force in society and they have a fierce determination to drastically cut it back. They are convinced that the central problem in our country is too much government – too many social programs, too many regulations, and too much taxation – and they are committed to doing something about it."

http://www.governmentisgood.com/articles.php?aid=9

"For decades conservatives have been demonizing government and not enough has been done to defend it. Ever since Ronald Reagan declared in 1981 that "Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem," Republicans have been waging a political war against this institution. They have been joined in this anti-government crusade by libertarian thinkers, Tea Party activists, right-wing media pundits, and wealthy corporate lobbies. This powerful political coalition blithely ignores anything good about government and conducts a relentless smear campaign against this institution. They constantly play upon the fears and insecurities of average Americans and encourage them to blame all their problems on big bad government."
Government is Good - An Unapologetic Defense of a Vital Institution

"Well, I have been studying the Republican Party for over 12 years at close hand in the Capital of the United States. And by this time, I have discovered where the Republicans stand on most of the major issues.

Since they won't tell you themselves, I am going to tell you.

They approve of the American farmer-but they are willing to help him go broke.
They stand four-square for the American home--but not for housing.
They are strong for labor--but they are stronger for restricting labor's rights.
They favor a minimum wage--the smaller the minimum the better.
They indorse educational opportunity for all--but they won't spend money for teachers or for schools.
They think modern medical care and hospitals are fine--for people who can afford them.
They approve of social security benefits-so much so that they took them away from almost a million people.
They believe in international trade--so much so that they crippled our reciprocal trade program, and killed our International Wheat Agreement.
They favor the admission of displaced persons--but only within shameful racial and religious limitations.
They consider electric power a great blessing-but only when the private power companies get their rake-off.
They say TVA is wonderful--but we ought never to try it again.
They condemn "cruelly high prices"--but fight to the death every effort to bring them down.
They think the American standard of living is a fine thing--so long as it doesn't spread to all the people.
And they admire the Government of the United States so much that they would like to buy it.

Now, my friends, that is the Wall Street Republican way of life. But there is another way--there is another way--the Democratic way, the way of the Democratic Party.

Of course, the Democratic Party is not perfect. Nobody ever said it was. But the Democratic Party believes in the people. It believes in freedom and progress, and it is fighting for its beliefs right now.

In the Democratic Party, you won't find the kind of unity where everybody thinks what the boss tells him to think, and nothing else." Harry Truman

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/publicpapers/index.php?pid=1986

FYI Ronnie Ray gun expanded government like a drunken democrat and signed the single largest peace time tax hike in history.

Saying he destroyed the government is ludicrous

Reagan crushed your hometeam the USSR, this was shortly after Teddy Kennedy agree to sell them control of the DNC. It's changed hand a few times since then, but now Soros and the ChiComs bought control at a huge discount

The USSR collapsed under its own weight

Um, no. That's bullshit. Reagan formed a coalition to defeat them

Reagan and the Russians - 94.02

Atlantic Unbound: The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Online

www.theatlantic.com

Like I said, total fucking Bullshit to make you losers feel better

You have no clue as to what my political leanings are.

But you have obliviously swallowed for Reagan.

Reagan was not the small government guy he said he was, he gave Americans the single largest peacetime tax hike in history which basically clawed back every bit of the tax cuts he passed in his first term not to mention he tripled the debt.

I don't give a fuck about your "leanings", Jake, I'm calling your bullshit history revision out

It's you who doesn't know the facts.

Oh, please! Knock it off, Jake, no one believes you!

Posting Gorby Talking Points to try to detract from Reagan is sad and silly

That one has been schooled on the facts before.....but, indoctrination is indelible.

1. Under Reagan, the debt went up $1.7 trillion, from $900 billion to $2.6 trillion.
2. But….the national wealth went up $ 17 trillion
3. Reagan's near-trillion-dollar bulge in defense spending transformed the global balance of power in favor of capitalism. Spurring a stock-market, energy, venture-capital, real-estate and employment boom, the Reagan tax-rate cuts and other pro-enterprise policies added some $17 trillion to America's private-sector assets, dwarfing the trillion-dollar rise in public-sector deficits and creating 45 million net new jobs at rising wages and salaries.

George Gilder: The Real Reagan Lesson for Romney-Ryan

Reaganomics - Wikipedia

NAtional wealth?

Just another made up stat to hide the truth that Reagan was a nothing but a BIG government company man.

He increased the size of government so by his own philosophy that "government is the problem" he added to the problem

Let's check:

"Reagan’s legacy affects us dramatically today in two ways. First, Reagan’s anti-Communist foreign policy and his military buildup hastened the disintegration of the Soviet Union. In the past eight years, America’s victory in the Cold War generated a half-trillion-dollar peace dividend. That peace dividend grows every year, and it fell like manna from heaven into President Clinton’s lap. The budget deficit is falling, not primarily because Clinton raised taxes and not primarily because the congressional Republicans committed themselves to a balanced budget, but because the defense budget is nearly $100 billion lower today than when the Berlin Wall came down.

The second effect of the Reagan years was to launch America into what is now widely regarded as a remarkable 15-year low-inflation, high-employment bull market (the Dow was at 800 in 1982, 8,000 today)—interrupted only mildly in the middle Bush years. These 15 years of prosperity were propelled by Reaganomics: lower tax rates, a long-run decline in inflation and interest rates (which also lowers tax rates), freer international trade and a strong dollar. Even with the anti-supply-side Bush and Clinton tax hikes, the top tax rate today of 40% is far below the towering 70% tax rate that disabled the economy in the 1970s. The end of the Cold War has created an international environment of peace and stability, nudging the economy into still higher gear in recent years."
Who Balanced the Budget?

How many times are you going to repeat the lie that Reagan spending caused the downfall of the Soviet Union?

The fact is Soviet defense spending remained flat throughout the 80s. The Soviet economy was in trouble before Reagan came into power he just happened to be the one sitting in the oval office when it finally collapsed under its own weight as has every other command control economy has collapsed.

Let’s stop revising history: Reagan didn’t win the Cold War

Most Americans are unaware that Reagan recanted his description of the Soviet Union as an “evil empire,” dismissing his confrontational rhetoric as a relic of “another time, another era.”

thehill.com

 

[eagle1462010]

The lesson here is the republican party and their followers are a danger both to democracy and to the health and safety of the people. The effort starting largely by Reagan (and before) to destroy government shows today. South Korea is ahead of us in virus testing as is China. Learn this lesson folks and vote for progress next time. Trump answers tough questions from reporters like a school yard bully. Shooting the messenger is the response of the guilty. It is past time to bring back government of the people not special interests.

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government." Thomas Jefferson

'Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?' As a new coronavirus spread in 2020, so did concerns about the United States' preparedness for a potential pandemic.'

Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?

"Every Wednesday morning, a group of conspirators meets to plot out how to most effectively attack the federal government. This is not a group of rag-tag terrorists – they wear $2,000 suits and occupy powerful positions in society. But their ideas are politically radical and they do pose a real threat to the normal workings of government in the U.S. They are a group of leading conservatives who believe that government is a malevolent force in society and they have a fierce determination to drastically cut it back. They are convinced that the central problem in our country is too much government – too many social programs, too many regulations, and too much taxation – and they are committed to doing something about it."

http://www.governmentisgood.com/articles.php?aid=9

"For decades conservatives have been demonizing government and not enough has been done to defend it. Ever since Ronald Reagan declared in 1981 that "Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem," Republicans have been waging a political war against this institution. They have been joined in this anti-government crusade by libertarian thinkers, Tea Party activists, right-wing media pundits, and wealthy corporate lobbies. This powerful political coalition blithely ignores anything good about government and conducts a relentless smear campaign against this institution. They constantly play upon the fears and insecurities of average Americans and encourage them to blame all their problems on big bad government."
Government is Good - An Unapologetic Defense of a Vital Institution

"Well, I have been studying the Republican Party for over 12 years at close hand in the Capital of the United States. And by this time, I have discovered where the Republicans stand on most of the major issues.

Since they won't tell you themselves, I am going to tell you.

They approve of the American farmer-but they are willing to help him go broke.
They stand four-square for the American home--but not for housing.
They are strong for labor--but they are stronger for restricting labor's rights.
They favor a minimum wage--the smaller the minimum the better.
They indorse educational opportunity for all--but they won't spend money for teachers or for schools.
They think modern medical care and hospitals are fine--for people who can afford them.
They approve of social security benefits-so much so that they took them away from almost a million people.
They believe in international trade--so much so that they crippled our reciprocal trade program, and killed our International Wheat Agreement.
They favor the admission of displaced persons--but only within shameful racial and religious limitations.
They consider electric power a great blessing-but only when the private power companies get their rake-off.
They say TVA is wonderful--but we ought never to try it again.
They condemn "cruelly high prices"--but fight to the death every effort to bring them down.
They think the American standard of living is a fine thing--so long as it doesn't spread to all the people.
And they admire the Government of the United States so much that they would like to buy it.

Now, my friends, that is the Wall Street Republican way of life. But there is another way--there is another way--the Democratic way, the way of the Democratic Party.

Of course, the Democratic Party is not perfect. Nobody ever said it was. But the Democratic Party believes in the people. It believes in freedom and progress, and it is fighting for its beliefs right now.

In the Democratic Party, you won't find the kind of unity where everybody thinks what the boss tells him to think, and nothing else." Harry Truman

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/publicpapers/index.php?pid=1986

FYI Ronnie Ray gun expanded government like a drunken democrat and signed the single largest peace time tax hike in history.

Saying he destroyed the government is ludicrous

Reagan crushed your hometeam the USSR, this was shortly after Teddy Kennedy agree to sell them control of the DNC. It's changed hand a few times since then, but now Soros and the ChiComs bought control at a huge discount

The USSR collapsed under its own weight

Um, no. That's bullshit. Reagan formed a coalition to defeat them

Reagan and the Russians - 94.02

Atlantic Unbound: The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Online

www.theatlantic.com

Like I said, total fucking Bullshit to make you losers feel better

You have no clue as to what my political leanings are.

But you have obliviously swallowed for Reagan.

Reagan was not the small government guy he said he was, he gave Americans the single largest peacetime tax hike in history which basically clawed back every bit of the tax cuts he passed in his first term not to mention he tripled the debt.

I don't give a fuck about your "leanings", Jake, I'm calling your bullshit history revision out

It's you who doesn't know the facts.

Oh, please! Knock it off, Jake, no one believes you!

Posting Gorby Talking Points to try to detract from Reagan is sad and silly

That one has been schooled on the facts before.....but, indoctrination is indelible.

1. Under Reagan, the debt went up $1.7 trillion, from $900 billion to $2.6 trillion.
2. But….the national wealth went up $ 17 trillion
3. Reagan's near-trillion-dollar bulge in defense spending transformed the global balance of power in favor of capitalism. Spurring a stock-market, energy, venture-capital, real-estate and employment boom, the Reagan tax-rate cuts and other pro-enterprise policies added some $17 trillion to America's private-sector assets, dwarfing the trillion-dollar rise in public-sector deficits and creating 45 million net new jobs at rising wages and salaries.

George Gilder: The Real Reagan Lesson for Romney-Ryan

Reaganomics - Wikipedia

NAtional wealth?

Just another made up stat to hide the truth that Reagan was a nothing but a BIG government company man.

He increased the size of government so by his own philosophy that "government is the problem" he added to the problem

Let's check:

"Reagan’s legacy affects us dramatically today in two ways. First, Reagan’s anti-Communist foreign policy and his military buildup hastened the disintegration of the Soviet Union. In the past eight years, America’s victory in the Cold War generated a half-trillion-dollar peace dividend. That peace dividend grows every year, and it fell like manna from heaven into President Clinton’s lap. The budget deficit is falling, not primarily because Clinton raised taxes and not primarily because the congressional Republicans committed themselves to a balanced budget, but because the defense budget is nearly $100 billion lower today than when the Berlin Wall came down.

The second effect of the Reagan years was to launch America into what is now widely regarded as a remarkable 15-year low-inflation, high-employment bull market (the Dow was at 800 in 1982, 8,000 today)—interrupted only mildly in the middle Bush years. These 15 years of prosperity were propelled by Reaganomics: lower tax rates, a long-run decline in inflation and interest rates (which also lowers tax rates), freer international trade and a strong dollar. Even with the anti-supply-side Bush and Clinton tax hikes, the top tax rate today of 40% is far below the towering 70% tax rate that disabled the economy in the 1970s. The end of the Cold War has created an international environment of peace and stability, nudging the economy into still higher gear in recent years."
Who Balanced the Budget?

How many times are you going to repeat the lie that Reagan spending caused the downfall of the Soviet Union?

The fact is Soviet defense spending remained flat throughout the 80s. The Soviet economy was in trouble before Reagan came into power he just happened to be the one sitting in the oval office when it finally collapsed under its own weight as has every other command control economy has collapsed.

Let’s stop revising history: Reagan didn’t win the Cold War

Most Americans are unaware that Reagan recanted his description of the Soviet Union as an “evil empire,” dismissing his confrontational rhetoric as a relic of “another time, another era.”

thehill.com

Where were you.........back then..............doubt you were even a egg in your mom's ovaries...........where you with me in operation Team Spirit off Vlad Russia.............didn't see you..................I saw the USSR destroyers.........the Bear and migs sent out to play War Games.............

Where were you.............doubt you even existed.............doubt you served on rust buckets that were well beyond their lifespans.............

Oh well.........go eat your baby food and do your chores in mommies basement.

 

[Blues Man]

The lesson here is the republican party and their followers are a danger both to democracy and to the health and safety of the people. The effort starting largely by Reagan (and before) to destroy government shows today. South Korea is ahead of us in virus testing as is China. Learn this lesson folks and vote for progress next time. Trump answers tough questions from reporters like a school yard bully. Shooting the messenger is the response of the guilty. It is past time to bring back government of the people not special interests.

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government." Thomas Jefferson

'Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?' As a new coronavirus spread in 2020, so did concerns about the United States' preparedness for a potential pandemic.'

Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?

"Every Wednesday morning, a group of conspirators meets to plot out how to most effectively attack the federal government. This is not a group of rag-tag terrorists – they wear $2,000 suits and occupy powerful positions in society. But their ideas are politically radical and they do pose a real threat to the normal workings of government in the U.S. They are a group of leading conservatives who believe that government is a malevolent force in society and they have a fierce determination to drastically cut it back. They are convinced that the central problem in our country is too much government – too many social programs, too many regulations, and too much taxation – and they are committed to doing something about it."

http://www.governmentisgood.com/articles.php?aid=9

"For decades conservatives have been demonizing government and not enough has been done to defend it. Ever since Ronald Reagan declared in 1981 that "Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem," Republicans have been waging a political war against this institution. They have been joined in this anti-government crusade by libertarian thinkers, Tea Party activists, right-wing media pundits, and wealthy corporate lobbies. This powerful political coalition blithely ignores anything good about government and conducts a relentless smear campaign against this institution. They constantly play upon the fears and insecurities of average Americans and encourage them to blame all their problems on big bad government."
Government is Good - An Unapologetic Defense of a Vital Institution

"Well, I have been studying the Republican Party for over 12 years at close hand in the Capital of the United States. And by this time, I have discovered where the Republicans stand on most of the major issues.

Since they won't tell you themselves, I am going to tell you.

They approve of the American farmer-but they are willing to help him go broke.
They stand four-square for the American home--but not for housing.
They are strong for labor--but they are stronger for restricting labor's rights.
They favor a minimum wage--the smaller the minimum the better.
They indorse educational opportunity for all--but they won't spend money for teachers or for schools.
They think modern medical care and hospitals are fine--for people who can afford them.
They approve of social security benefits-so much so that they took them away from almost a million people.
They believe in international trade--so much so that they crippled our reciprocal trade program, and killed our International Wheat Agreement.
They favor the admission of displaced persons--but only within shameful racial and religious limitations.
They consider electric power a great blessing-but only when the private power companies get their rake-off.
They say TVA is wonderful--but we ought never to try it again.
They condemn "cruelly high prices"--but fight to the death every effort to bring them down.
They think the American standard of living is a fine thing--so long as it doesn't spread to all the people.
And they admire the Government of the United States so much that they would like to buy it.

Now, my friends, that is the Wall Street Republican way of life. But there is another way--there is another way--the Democratic way, the way of the Democratic Party.

Of course, the Democratic Party is not perfect. Nobody ever said it was. But the Democratic Party believes in the people. It believes in freedom and progress, and it is fighting for its beliefs right now.

In the Democratic Party, you won't find the kind of unity where everybody thinks what the boss tells him to think, and nothing else." Harry Truman

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/publicpapers/index.php?pid=1986

FYI Ronnie Ray gun expanded government like a drunken democrat and signed the single largest peace time tax hike in history.

Saying he destroyed the government is ludicrous

Reagan crushed your hometeam the USSR, this was shortly after Teddy Kennedy agree to sell them control of the DNC. It's changed hand a few times since then, but now Soros and the ChiComs bought control at a huge discount

The USSR collapsed under its own weight

Um, no. That's bullshit. Reagan formed a coalition to defeat them

Reagan and the Russians - 94.02

Atlantic Unbound: The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Online

www.theatlantic.com

Like I said, total fucking Bullshit to make you losers feel better

You have no clue as to what my political leanings are.

But you have obliviously swallowed for Reagan.

Reagan was not the small government guy he said he was, he gave Americans the single largest peacetime tax hike in history which basically clawed back every bit of the tax cuts he passed in his first term not to mention he tripled the debt.

I don't give a fuck about your "leanings", Jake, I'm calling your bullshit history revision out

It's you who doesn't know the facts.

Oh, please! Knock it off, Jake, no one believes you!

Posting Gorby Talking Points to try to detract from Reagan is sad and silly

Another moron who believes that Reagan was a "small government guy"

The 'moron' contingent are those who don't recognize Reagan as the most successful and important President in a hundred years.
He saved the American consumer, and Western Civilization.
Raise your paw.

Home ownership went DOWN under Reagan.

Reagan ushered in the legislative changes that were the root cause of the S& L debacle.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Excellent analysis and prognosis. Listen and learn.

Thanks, Obama! Couldn't have done it without you funding the Wuhan Flu

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The lesson here is the republican party and their followers are a danger both to democracy and to the health and safety of the people. The effort starting largely by Reagan (and before) to destroy government shows today. South Korea is ahead of us in virus testing as is China. Learn this lesson folks and vote for progress next time. Trump answers tough questions from reporters like a school yard bully. Shooting the messenger is the response of the guilty. It is past time to bring back government of the people not special interests.

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government." Thomas Jefferson

'Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?' As a new coronavirus spread in 2020, so did concerns about the United States' preparedness for a potential pandemic.'

Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?

"Every Wednesday morning, a group of conspirators meets to plot out how to most effectively attack the federal government. This is not a group of rag-tag terrorists – they wear $2,000 suits and occupy powerful positions in society. But their ideas are politically radical and they do pose a real threat to the normal workings of government in the U.S. They are a group of leading conservatives who believe that government is a malevolent force in society and they have a fierce determination to drastically cut it back. They are convinced that the central problem in our country is too much government – too many social programs, too many regulations, and too much taxation – and they are committed to doing something about it."

http://www.governmentisgood.com/articles.php?aid=9

"For decades conservatives have been demonizing government and not enough has been done to defend it. Ever since Ronald Reagan declared in 1981 that "Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem," Republicans have been waging a political war against this institution. They have been joined in this anti-government crusade by libertarian thinkers, Tea Party activists, right-wing media pundits, and wealthy corporate lobbies. This powerful political coalition blithely ignores anything good about government and conducts a relentless smear campaign against this institution. They constantly play upon the fears and insecurities of average Americans and encourage them to blame all their problems on big bad government."
Government is Good - An Unapologetic Defense of a Vital Institution

"Well, I have been studying the Republican Party for over 12 years at close hand in the Capital of the United States. And by this time, I have discovered where the Republicans stand on most of the major issues.

Since they won't tell you themselves, I am going to tell you.

They approve of the American farmer-but they are willing to help him go broke.
They stand four-square for the American home--but not for housing.
They are strong for labor--but they are stronger for restricting labor's rights.
They favor a minimum wage--the smaller the minimum the better.
They indorse educational opportunity for all--but they won't spend money for teachers or for schools.
They think modern medical care and hospitals are fine--for people who can afford them.
They approve of social security benefits-so much so that they took them away from almost a million people.
They believe in international trade--so much so that they crippled our reciprocal trade program, and killed our International Wheat Agreement.
They favor the admission of displaced persons--but only within shameful racial and religious limitations.
They consider electric power a great blessing-but only when the private power companies get their rake-off.
They say TVA is wonderful--but we ought never to try it again.
They condemn "cruelly high prices"--but fight to the death every effort to bring them down.
They think the American standard of living is a fine thing--so long as it doesn't spread to all the people.
And they admire the Government of the United States so much that they would like to buy it.

Now, my friends, that is the Wall Street Republican way of life. But there is another way--there is another way--the Democratic way, the way of the Democratic Party.

Of course, the Democratic Party is not perfect. Nobody ever said it was. But the Democratic Party believes in the people. It believes in freedom and progress, and it is fighting for its beliefs right now.

In the Democratic Party, you won't find the kind of unity where everybody thinks what the boss tells him to think, and nothing else." Harry Truman

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/publicpapers/index.php?pid=1986

FYI Ronnie Ray gun expanded government like a drunken democrat and signed the single largest peace time tax hike in history.

Saying he destroyed the government is ludicrous

Reagan crushed your hometeam the USSR, this was shortly after Teddy Kennedy agree to sell them control of the DNC. It's changed hand a few times since then, but now Soros and the ChiComs bought control at a huge discount

The USSR collapsed under its own weight

Um, no. That's bullshit. Reagan formed a coalition to defeat them

Reagan and the Russians - 94.02

Atlantic Unbound: The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Online

www.theatlantic.com

Like I said, total fucking Bullshit to make you losers feel better

You have no clue as to what my political leanings are.

But you have obliviously swallowed for Reagan.

Reagan was not the small government guy he said he was, he gave Americans the single largest peacetime tax hike in history which basically clawed back every bit of the tax cuts he passed in his first term not to mention he tripled the debt.

I don't give a fuck about your "leanings", Jake, I'm calling your bullshit history revision out

It's you who doesn't know the facts.

Oh, please! Knock it off, Jake, no one believes you!

Posting Gorby Talking Points to try to detract from Reagan is sad and silly

Another moron who believes that Reagan was a "small government guy"

The 'moron' contingent are those who don't recognize Reagan as the most successful and important President in a hundred years.
He saved the American consumer, and Western Civilization.
Raise your paw.

Home ownership went DOWN under Reagan.

Reagan ushered in the legislative changes that were the root cause of the S& L debacle.

Sucks that Reagan defeated your former home team, the USSR, so badly they were forced to sell the DNC for pennies on the dollars to the ChiComs.

 

[eagle1462010]

The lesson here is the republican party and their followers are a danger both to democracy and to the health and safety of the people. The effort starting largely by Reagan (and before) to destroy government shows today. South Korea is ahead of us in virus testing as is China. Learn this lesson folks and vote for progress next time. Trump answers tough questions from reporters like a school yard bully. Shooting the messenger is the response of the guilty. It is past time to bring back government of the people not special interests.

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government." Thomas Jefferson

'Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?' As a new coronavirus spread in 2020, so did concerns about the United States' preparedness for a potential pandemic.'

Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?

"Every Wednesday morning, a group of conspirators meets to plot out how to most effectively attack the federal government. This is not a group of rag-tag terrorists – they wear $2,000 suits and occupy powerful positions in society. But their ideas are politically radical and they do pose a real threat to the normal workings of government in the U.S. They are a group of leading conservatives who believe that government is a malevolent force in society and they have a fierce determination to drastically cut it back. They are convinced that the central problem in our country is too much government – too many social programs, too many regulations, and too much taxation – and they are committed to doing something about it."

http://www.governmentisgood.com/articles.php?aid=9

"For decades conservatives have been demonizing government and not enough has been done to defend it. Ever since Ronald Reagan declared in 1981 that "Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem," Republicans have been waging a political war against this institution. They have been joined in this anti-government crusade by libertarian thinkers, Tea Party activists, right-wing media pundits, and wealthy corporate lobbies. This powerful political coalition blithely ignores anything good about government and conducts a relentless smear campaign against this institution. They constantly play upon the fears and insecurities of average Americans and encourage them to blame all their problems on big bad government."
Government is Good - An Unapologetic Defense of a Vital Institution

"Well, I have been studying the Republican Party for over 12 years at close hand in the Capital of the United States. And by this time, I have discovered where the Republicans stand on most of the major issues.

Since they won't tell you themselves, I am going to tell you.

They approve of the American farmer-but they are willing to help him go broke.
They stand four-square for the American home--but not for housing.
They are strong for labor--but they are stronger for restricting labor's rights.
They favor a minimum wage--the smaller the minimum the better.
They indorse educational opportunity for all--but they won't spend money for teachers or for schools.
They think modern medical care and hospitals are fine--for people who can afford them.
They approve of social security benefits-so much so that they took them away from almost a million people.
They believe in international trade--so much so that they crippled our reciprocal trade program, and killed our International Wheat Agreement.
They favor the admission of displaced persons--but only within shameful racial and religious limitations.
They consider electric power a great blessing-but only when the private power companies get their rake-off.
They say TVA is wonderful--but we ought never to try it again.
They condemn "cruelly high prices"--but fight to the death every effort to bring them down.
They think the American standard of living is a fine thing--so long as it doesn't spread to all the people.
And they admire the Government of the United States so much that they would like to buy it.

Now, my friends, that is the Wall Street Republican way of life. But there is another way--there is another way--the Democratic way, the way of the Democratic Party.

Of course, the Democratic Party is not perfect. Nobody ever said it was. But the Democratic Party believes in the people. It believes in freedom and progress, and it is fighting for its beliefs right now.

In the Democratic Party, you won't find the kind of unity where everybody thinks what the boss tells him to think, and nothing else." Harry Truman

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/publicpapers/index.php?pid=1986

FYI Ronnie Ray gun expanded government like a drunken democrat and signed the single largest peace time tax hike in history.

Saying he destroyed the government is ludicrous

Reagan crushed your hometeam the USSR, this was shortly after Teddy Kennedy agree to sell them control of the DNC. It's changed hand a few times since then, but now Soros and the ChiComs bought control at a huge discount

The USSR collapsed under its own weight

Um, no. That's bullshit. Reagan formed a coalition to defeat them

Reagan and the Russians - 94.02

Atlantic Unbound: The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Online

www.theatlantic.com

Like I said, total fucking Bullshit to make you losers feel better

You have no clue as to what my political leanings are.

But you have obliviously swallowed for Reagan.

Reagan was not the small government guy he said he was, he gave Americans the single largest peacetime tax hike in history which basically clawed back every bit of the tax cuts he passed in his first term not to mention he tripled the debt.

I don't give a fuck about your "leanings", Jake, I'm calling your bullshit history revision out

It's you who doesn't know the facts.

Oh, please! Knock it off, Jake, no one believes you!

Posting Gorby Talking Points to try to detract from Reagan is sad and silly

Another moron who believes that Reagan was a "small government guy"

The 'moron' contingent are those who don't recognize Reagan as the most successful and important President in a hundred years.
He saved the American consumer, and Western Civilization.
Raise your paw.

Home ownership went DOWN under Reagan.

Reagan ushered in the legislative changes that were the root cause of the S& L debacle.

By fixing the BS of Peanut head...........

Did you stand in the gas lines under Peanut head............did you watch for a year wondering when we would kick Irans ass and get our people back.

Tell me about the Kuwaiti mine fields..........how does that shit work.......or the migs forcing us to put missiles on the rail

Now go do your homework......or I'll get the belt out.

 

[PoliticalChic]

The lesson here is the republican party and their followers are a danger both to democracy and to the health and safety of the people. The effort starting largely by Reagan (and before) to destroy government shows today. South Korea is ahead of us in virus testing as is China. Learn this lesson folks and vote for progress next time. Trump answers tough questions from reporters like a school yard bully. Shooting the messenger is the response of the guilty. It is past time to bring back government of the people not special interests.

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government." Thomas Jefferson

'Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?' As a new coronavirus spread in 2020, so did concerns about the United States' preparedness for a potential pandemic.'

Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?

"Every Wednesday morning, a group of conspirators meets to plot out how to most effectively attack the federal government. This is not a group of rag-tag terrorists – they wear $2,000 suits and occupy powerful positions in society. But their ideas are politically radical and they do pose a real threat to the normal workings of government in the U.S. They are a group of leading conservatives who believe that government is a malevolent force in society and they have a fierce determination to drastically cut it back. They are convinced that the central problem in our country is too much government – too many social programs, too many regulations, and too much taxation – and they are committed to doing something about it."

http://www.governmentisgood.com/articles.php?aid=9

"For decades conservatives have been demonizing government and not enough has been done to defend it. Ever since Ronald Reagan declared in 1981 that "Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem," Republicans have been waging a political war against this institution. They have been joined in this anti-government crusade by libertarian thinkers, Tea Party activists, right-wing media pundits, and wealthy corporate lobbies. This powerful political coalition blithely ignores anything good about government and conducts a relentless smear campaign against this institution. They constantly play upon the fears and insecurities of average Americans and encourage them to blame all their problems on big bad government."
Government is Good - An Unapologetic Defense of a Vital Institution

"Well, I have been studying the Republican Party for over 12 years at close hand in the Capital of the United States. And by this time, I have discovered where the Republicans stand on most of the major issues.

Since they won't tell you themselves, I am going to tell you.

They approve of the American farmer-but they are willing to help him go broke.
They stand four-square for the American home--but not for housing.
They are strong for labor--but they are stronger for restricting labor's rights.
They favor a minimum wage--the smaller the minimum the better.
They indorse educational opportunity for all--but they won't spend money for teachers or for schools.
They think modern medical care and hospitals are fine--for people who can afford them.
They approve of social security benefits-so much so that they took them away from almost a million people.
They believe in international trade--so much so that they crippled our reciprocal trade program, and killed our International Wheat Agreement.
They favor the admission of displaced persons--but only within shameful racial and religious limitations.
They consider electric power a great blessing-but only when the private power companies get their rake-off.
They say TVA is wonderful--but we ought never to try it again.
They condemn "cruelly high prices"--but fight to the death every effort to bring them down.
They think the American standard of living is a fine thing--so long as it doesn't spread to all the people.
And they admire the Government of the United States so much that they would like to buy it.

Now, my friends, that is the Wall Street Republican way of life. But there is another way--there is another way--the Democratic way, the way of the Democratic Party.

Of course, the Democratic Party is not perfect. Nobody ever said it was. But the Democratic Party believes in the people. It believes in freedom and progress, and it is fighting for its beliefs right now.

In the Democratic Party, you won't find the kind of unity where everybody thinks what the boss tells him to think, and nothing else." Harry Truman

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/publicpapers/index.php?pid=1986

FYI Ronnie Ray gun expanded government like a drunken democrat and signed the single largest peace time tax hike in history.

Saying he destroyed the government is ludicrous

Reagan crushed your hometeam the USSR, this was shortly after Teddy Kennedy agree to sell them control of the DNC. It's changed hand a few times since then, but now Soros and the ChiComs bought control at a huge discount

The USSR collapsed under its own weight

Um, no. That's bullshit. Reagan formed a coalition to defeat them

Reagan and the Russians - 94.02

Atlantic Unbound: The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Online

www.theatlantic.com

Like I said, total fucking Bullshit to make you losers feel better

You have no clue as to what my political leanings are.

But you have obliviously swallowed for Reagan.

Reagan was not the small government guy he said he was, he gave Americans the single largest peacetime tax hike in history which basically clawed back every bit of the tax cuts he passed in his first term not to mention he tripled the debt.

I don't give a fuck about your "leanings", Jake, I'm calling your bullshit history revision out

It's you who doesn't know the facts.

Oh, please! Knock it off, Jake, no one believes you!

Posting Gorby Talking Points to try to detract from Reagan is sad and silly

Another moron who believes that Reagan was a "small government guy"

The 'moron' contingent are those who don't recognize Reagan as the most successful and important President in a hundred years.
He saved the American consumer, and Western Civilization.
Raise your paw.

The I9 form law that everyone bitched about under Reagan..........is way to make the leftist piss themselves.......enforce the law passed Reagan...........Destroy the fake ID. network ...........and the decades of IDENTITY THEFT.........and the left wouldn't have a pot to piss in.

This is backed up by the Social Security Admin and IRS who have under oath stated that there are MILLIONS OF KNOWN FAKE SSN's and workers in this country.........

Millions could be arrested and deported under REAGAN'S ACT............

Informative.



"The biggest misconception about the problem of non-citizen voting is that illegal aliens are "undocumented." That's nonsense. Some experts believe that up to 75% of illegals who work in America have fraudulent Social Security cards. Fake licenses, birth certificates, and green cards are incredibly common. The fake ID industry is worth more than $2 billion."
Report: As Many as 5.7 Million Non-Citizens Voted in 2008 Election

 

[PoliticalChic]

The lesson here is the republican party and their followers are a danger both to democracy and to the health and safety of the people. The effort starting largely by Reagan (and before) to destroy government shows today. South Korea is ahead of us in virus testing as is China. Learn this lesson folks and vote for progress next time. Trump answers tough questions from reporters like a school yard bully. Shooting the messenger is the response of the guilty. It is past time to bring back government of the people not special interests.

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government." Thomas Jefferson

'Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?' As a new coronavirus spread in 2020, so did concerns about the United States' preparedness for a potential pandemic.'

Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?

"Every Wednesday morning, a group of conspirators meets to plot out how to most effectively attack the federal government. This is not a group of rag-tag terrorists – they wear $2,000 suits and occupy powerful positions in society. But their ideas are politically radical and they do pose a real threat to the normal workings of government in the U.S. They are a group of leading conservatives who believe that government is a malevolent force in society and they have a fierce determination to drastically cut it back. They are convinced that the central problem in our country is too much government – too many social programs, too many regulations, and too much taxation – and they are committed to doing something about it."

http://www.governmentisgood.com/articles.php?aid=9

"For decades conservatives have been demonizing government and not enough has been done to defend it. Ever since Ronald Reagan declared in 1981 that "Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem," Republicans have been waging a political war against this institution. They have been joined in this anti-government crusade by libertarian thinkers, Tea Party activists, right-wing media pundits, and wealthy corporate lobbies. This powerful political coalition blithely ignores anything good about government and conducts a relentless smear campaign against this institution. They constantly play upon the fears and insecurities of average Americans and encourage them to blame all their problems on big bad government."
Government is Good - An Unapologetic Defense of a Vital Institution

"Well, I have been studying the Republican Party for over 12 years at close hand in the Capital of the United States. And by this time, I have discovered where the Republicans stand on most of the major issues.

Since they won't tell you themselves, I am going to tell you.

They approve of the American farmer-but they are willing to help him go broke.
They stand four-square for the American home--but not for housing.
They are strong for labor--but they are stronger for restricting labor's rights.
They favor a minimum wage--the smaller the minimum the better.
They indorse educational opportunity for all--but they won't spend money for teachers or for schools.
They think modern medical care and hospitals are fine--for people who can afford them.
They approve of social security benefits-so much so that they took them away from almost a million people.
They believe in international trade--so much so that they crippled our reciprocal trade program, and killed our International Wheat Agreement.
They favor the admission of displaced persons--but only within shameful racial and religious limitations.
They consider electric power a great blessing-but only when the private power companies get their rake-off.
They say TVA is wonderful--but we ought never to try it again.
They condemn "cruelly high prices"--but fight to the death every effort to bring them down.
They think the American standard of living is a fine thing--so long as it doesn't spread to all the people.
And they admire the Government of the United States so much that they would like to buy it.

Now, my friends, that is the Wall Street Republican way of life. But there is another way--there is another way--the Democratic way, the way of the Democratic Party.

Of course, the Democratic Party is not perfect. Nobody ever said it was. But the Democratic Party believes in the people. It believes in freedom and progress, and it is fighting for its beliefs right now.

In the Democratic Party, you won't find the kind of unity where everybody thinks what the boss tells him to think, and nothing else." Harry Truman

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/publicpapers/index.php?pid=1986

FYI Ronnie Ray gun expanded government like a drunken democrat and signed the single largest peace time tax hike in history.

Saying he destroyed the government is ludicrous

Reagan crushed your hometeam the USSR, this was shortly after Teddy Kennedy agree to sell them control of the DNC. It's changed hand a few times since then, but now Soros and the ChiComs bought control at a huge discount

The USSR collapsed under its own weight

Um, no. That's bullshit. Reagan formed a coalition to defeat them

Reagan and the Russians - 94.02

Atlantic Unbound: The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Online

www.theatlantic.com

Like I said, total fucking Bullshit to make you losers feel better

You have no clue as to what my political leanings are.

But you have obliviously swallowed for Reagan.

Reagan was not the small government guy he said he was, he gave Americans the single largest peacetime tax hike in history which basically clawed back every bit of the tax cuts he passed in his first term not to mention he tripled the debt.

I don't give a fuck about your "leanings", Jake, I'm calling your bullshit history revision out

It's you who doesn't know the facts.

Oh, please! Knock it off, Jake, no one believes you!

Posting Gorby Talking Points to try to detract from Reagan is sad and silly

Another moron who believes that Reagan was a "small government guy"

The 'moron' contingent are those who don't recognize Reagan as the most successful and important President in a hundred years.
He saved the American consumer, and Western Civilization.
Raise your paw.

Home ownership went DOWN under Reagan.

Reagan ushered in the legislative changes that were the root cause of the S& L debacle.

In The End of Prosperity, supply side guru Art Laffer and Wall Street Journal chief financial writer Steve Moore point out that this Reagan recovery grew into a 25-year boom, with just slight interruptions by shallow, short recessions in 1990 and 2001. They wrote:

"We call this period, 1982-2007, the twenty-five year boom-the greatest period of wealth creation in the history of the planet. In 1980, the net worth-assets minus liabilities-of all U.S. households and business ... was $25 trillion in today's dollars. By 2007, ... net worth was just shy of $57 trillion. Adjusting for inflation, more wealth was created in America in the twenty-five year boom than in the previous two hundred years."
http://theccpp.org/2011/05/reaganomics-vs-obamanomics-facts-and-figures-1.html



“Between the early 1980s and 2007 we lived in an economic Golden Age. Never before have so many people advanced so far economically in so short a period of time as they have during the last 25 years. Until the credit crisis, 70 million people a year were joining the middle class. The U.S. kicked off this long boom with the economic reforms of Ronald Reagan, particularly his enormous income tax cuts. We burst from the economic stagnation of the 1970s into a dynamic, innovative, high-tech-oriented economy. Even in recent years the much-maligned U.S. did well. Between year-end 2002 and year-end 2007 U.S. growth exceeded the entire size of China's economy.”

How Capitalism Will Save Us

If sensible rescue efforts continue--and they will--the immediate crisis will quickly pass.

www.forbes.com

Clearly, you are the intellectual rival of one of those insects that could exist on a basic level even if their heads were cut off.

 

[Blues Man]

The lesson here is the republican party and their followers are a danger both to democracy and to the health and safety of the people. The effort starting largely by Reagan (and before) to destroy government shows today. South Korea is ahead of us in virus testing as is China. Learn this lesson folks and vote for progress next time. Trump answers tough questions from reporters like a school yard bully. Shooting the messenger is the response of the guilty. It is past time to bring back government of the people not special interests.

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government." Thomas Jefferson

'Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?' As a new coronavirus spread in 2020, so did concerns about the United States' preparedness for a potential pandemic.'

Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?

"Every Wednesday morning, a group of conspirators meets to plot out how to most effectively attack the federal government. This is not a group of rag-tag terrorists – they wear $2,000 suits and occupy powerful positions in society. But their ideas are politically radical and they do pose a real threat to the normal workings of government in the U.S. They are a group of leading conservatives who believe that government is a malevolent force in society and they have a fierce determination to drastically cut it back. They are convinced that the central problem in our country is too much government – too many social programs, too many regulations, and too much taxation – and they are committed to doing something about it."

http://www.governmentisgood.com/articles.php?aid=9

"For decades conservatives have been demonizing government and not enough has been done to defend it. Ever since Ronald Reagan declared in 1981 that "Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem," Republicans have been waging a political war against this institution. They have been joined in this anti-government crusade by libertarian thinkers, Tea Party activists, right-wing media pundits, and wealthy corporate lobbies. This powerful political coalition blithely ignores anything good about government and conducts a relentless smear campaign against this institution. They constantly play upon the fears and insecurities of average Americans and encourage them to blame all their problems on big bad government."
Government is Good - An Unapologetic Defense of a Vital Institution

"Well, I have been studying the Republican Party for over 12 years at close hand in the Capital of the United States. And by this time, I have discovered where the Republicans stand on most of the major issues.

Since they won't tell you themselves, I am going to tell you.

They approve of the American farmer-but they are willing to help him go broke.
They stand four-square for the American home--but not for housing.
They are strong for labor--but they are stronger for restricting labor's rights.
They favor a minimum wage--the smaller the minimum the better.
They indorse educational opportunity for all--but they won't spend money for teachers or for schools.
They think modern medical care and hospitals are fine--for people who can afford them.
They approve of social security benefits-so much so that they took them away from almost a million people.
They believe in international trade--so much so that they crippled our reciprocal trade program, and killed our International Wheat Agreement.
They favor the admission of displaced persons--but only within shameful racial and religious limitations.
They consider electric power a great blessing-but only when the private power companies get their rake-off.
They say TVA is wonderful--but we ought never to try it again.
They condemn "cruelly high prices"--but fight to the death every effort to bring them down.
They think the American standard of living is a fine thing--so long as it doesn't spread to all the people.
And they admire the Government of the United States so much that they would like to buy it.

Now, my friends, that is the Wall Street Republican way of life. But there is another way--there is another way--the Democratic way, the way of the Democratic Party.

Of course, the Democratic Party is not perfect. Nobody ever said it was. But the Democratic Party believes in the people. It believes in freedom and progress, and it is fighting for its beliefs right now.

In the Democratic Party, you won't find the kind of unity where everybody thinks what the boss tells him to think, and nothing else." Harry Truman

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/publicpapers/index.php?pid=1986

FYI Ronnie Ray gun expanded government like a drunken democrat and signed the single largest peace time tax hike in history.

Saying he destroyed the government is ludicrous

Reagan crushed your hometeam the USSR, this was shortly after Teddy Kennedy agree to sell them control of the DNC. It's changed hand a few times since then, but now Soros and the ChiComs bought control at a huge discount

The USSR collapsed under its own weight

Um, no. That's bullshit. Reagan formed a coalition to defeat them

Reagan and the Russians - 94.02

Atlantic Unbound: The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Online

www.theatlantic.com

Like I said, total fucking Bullshit to make you losers feel better

You have no clue as to what my political leanings are.

But you have obliviously swallowed for Reagan.

Reagan was not the small government guy he said he was, he gave Americans the single largest peacetime tax hike in history which basically clawed back every bit of the tax cuts he passed in his first term not to mention he tripled the debt.

I don't give a fuck about your "leanings", Jake, I'm calling your bullshit history revision out

It's you who doesn't know the facts.

Oh, please! Knock it off, Jake, no one believes you!

Posting Gorby Talking Points to try to detract from Reagan is sad and silly

That one has been schooled on the facts before.....but, indoctrination is indelible.

1. Under Reagan, the debt went up $1.7 trillion, from $900 billion to $2.6 trillion.
2. But….the national wealth went up $ 17 trillion
3. Reagan's near-trillion-dollar bulge in defense spending transformed the global balance of power in favor of capitalism. Spurring a stock-market, energy, venture-capital, real-estate and employment boom, the Reagan tax-rate cuts and other pro-enterprise policies added some $17 trillion to America's private-sector assets, dwarfing the trillion-dollar rise in public-sector deficits and creating 45 million net new jobs at rising wages and salaries.

George Gilder: The Real Reagan Lesson for Romney-Ryan

Reaganomics - Wikipedia

NAtional wealth?

Just another made up stat to hide the truth that Reagan was a nothing but a BIG government company man.

He increased the size of government so by his own philosophy that "government is the problem" he added to the problem

Let's check:

"Reagan’s legacy affects us dramatically today in two ways. First, Reagan’s anti-Communist foreign policy and his military buildup hastened the disintegration of the Soviet Union. In the past eight years, America’s victory in the Cold War generated a half-trillion-dollar peace dividend. That peace dividend grows every year, and it fell like manna from heaven into President Clinton’s lap. The budget deficit is falling, not primarily because Clinton raised taxes and not primarily because the congressional Republicans committed themselves to a balanced budget, but because the defense budget is nearly $100 billion lower today than when the Berlin Wall came down.

The second effect of the Reagan years was to launch America into what is now widely regarded as a remarkable 15-year low-inflation, high-employment bull market (the Dow was at 800 in 1982, 8,000 today)—interrupted only mildly in the middle Bush years. These 15 years of prosperity were propelled by Reaganomics: lower tax rates, a long-run decline in inflation and interest rates (which also lowers tax rates), freer international trade and a strong dollar. Even with the anti-supply-side Bush and Clinton tax hikes, the top tax rate today of 40% is far below the towering 70% tax rate that disabled the economy in the 1970s. The end of the Cold War has created an international environment of peace and stability, nudging the economy into still higher gear in recent years."
Who Balanced the Budget?

How many times are you going to repeat the lie that Reagan spending caused the downfall of the Soviet Union?

The fact is Soviet defense spending remained flat throughout the 80s. The Soviet economy was in trouble before Reagan came into power he just happened to be the one sitting in the oval office when it finally collapsed under its own weight as has every other command control economy has collapsed.

Let’s stop revising history: Reagan didn’t win the Cold War

Most Americans are unaware that Reagan recanted his description of the Soviet Union as an “evil empire,” dismissing his confrontational rhetoric as a relic of “another time, another era.”

thehill.com

Where were you.........back then..............doubt you were even a egg in your mom's ovaries...........where you with me in operation Team Spirit off Vlad Russia.............didn't see you..................I saw the USSR destroyers.........the Bear and migs sent out to play War Games.............

Where were you.............doubt you even existed.............doubt you served on rust buckets that were well beyond their lifespans.............

Oh well.........go eat your baby food and do your chores in mommies basement.

You were there to get programmed by the propaganda.

The fact s are clear to anyone who is not looking at them through a warped lens.

Regan did not cut taxes. In fact he signed the largest peacetime tax hike in history.

Home ownership declined during his terms so it seems that he didn't do much for the economy there. In fact Reagan ushered in the legislative changes that made the S&L crisis possible

Taxes: What people forget about Reagan

Ronald Reagan is the patron saint of lower taxes and smaller government. He cut taxes, yes. But he also raised them several times, in part to reduce high deficits and in part to pave the way for true tax reform.

money.cnn.com

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The lesson here is the republican party and their followers are a danger both to democracy and to the health and safety of the people. The effort starting largely by Reagan (and before) to destroy government shows today. South Korea is ahead of us in virus testing as is China. Learn this lesson folks and vote for progress next time. Trump answers tough questions from reporters like a school yard bully. Shooting the messenger is the response of the guilty. It is past time to bring back government of the people not special interests.

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government." Thomas Jefferson

'Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?' As a new coronavirus spread in 2020, so did concerns about the United States' preparedness for a potential pandemic.'

Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?

"Every Wednesday morning, a group of conspirators meets to plot out how to most effectively attack the federal government. This is not a group of rag-tag terrorists – they wear $2,000 suits and occupy powerful positions in society. But their ideas are politically radical and they do pose a real threat to the normal workings of government in the U.S. They are a group of leading conservatives who believe that government is a malevolent force in society and they have a fierce determination to drastically cut it back. They are convinced that the central problem in our country is too much government – too many social programs, too many regulations, and too much taxation – and they are committed to doing something about it."

http://www.governmentisgood.com/articles.php?aid=9

"For decades conservatives have been demonizing government and not enough has been done to defend it. Ever since Ronald Reagan declared in 1981 that "Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem," Republicans have been waging a political war against this institution. They have been joined in this anti-government crusade by libertarian thinkers, Tea Party activists, right-wing media pundits, and wealthy corporate lobbies. This powerful political coalition blithely ignores anything good about government and conducts a relentless smear campaign against this institution. They constantly play upon the fears and insecurities of average Americans and encourage them to blame all their problems on big bad government."
Government is Good - An Unapologetic Defense of a Vital Institution

"Well, I have been studying the Republican Party for over 12 years at close hand in the Capital of the United States. And by this time, I have discovered where the Republicans stand on most of the major issues.

Since they won't tell you themselves, I am going to tell you.

They approve of the American farmer-but they are willing to help him go broke.
They stand four-square for the American home--but not for housing.
They are strong for labor--but they are stronger for restricting labor's rights.
They favor a minimum wage--the smaller the minimum the better.
They indorse educational opportunity for all--but they won't spend money for teachers or for schools.
They think modern medical care and hospitals are fine--for people who can afford them.
They approve of social security benefits-so much so that they took them away from almost a million people.
They believe in international trade--so much so that they crippled our reciprocal trade program, and killed our International Wheat Agreement.
They favor the admission of displaced persons--but only within shameful racial and religious limitations.
They consider electric power a great blessing-but only when the private power companies get their rake-off.
They say TVA is wonderful--but we ought never to try it again.
They condemn "cruelly high prices"--but fight to the death every effort to bring them down.
They think the American standard of living is a fine thing--so long as it doesn't spread to all the people.
And they admire the Government of the United States so much that they would like to buy it.

Now, my friends, that is the Wall Street Republican way of life. But there is another way--there is another way--the Democratic way, the way of the Democratic Party.

Of course, the Democratic Party is not perfect. Nobody ever said it was. But the Democratic Party believes in the people. It believes in freedom and progress, and it is fighting for its beliefs right now.

In the Democratic Party, you won't find the kind of unity where everybody thinks what the boss tells him to think, and nothing else." Harry Truman

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/publicpapers/index.php?pid=1986

FYI Ronnie Ray gun expanded government like a drunken democrat and signed the single largest peace time tax hike in history.

Saying he destroyed the government is ludicrous

Reagan crushed your hometeam the USSR, this was shortly after Teddy Kennedy agree to sell them control of the DNC. It's changed hand a few times since then, but now Soros and the ChiComs bought control at a huge discount

The USSR collapsed under its own weight

Um, no. That's bullshit. Reagan formed a coalition to defeat them

Reagan and the Russians - 94.02

Atlantic Unbound: The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Online

www.theatlantic.com

Like I said, total fucking Bullshit to make you losers feel better

You have no clue as to what my political leanings are.

But you have obliviously swallowed for Reagan.

Reagan was not the small government guy he said he was, he gave Americans the single largest peacetime tax hike in history which basically clawed back every bit of the tax cuts he passed in his first term not to mention he tripled the debt.

I don't give a fuck about your "leanings", Jake, I'm calling your bullshit history revision out

It's you who doesn't know the facts.

Oh, please! Knock it off, Jake, no one believes you!

Posting Gorby Talking Points to try to detract from Reagan is sad and silly

That one has been schooled on the facts before.....but, indoctrination is indelible.

1. Under Reagan, the debt went up $1.7 trillion, from $900 billion to $2.6 trillion.
2. But….the national wealth went up $ 17 trillion
3. Reagan's near-trillion-dollar bulge in defense spending transformed the global balance of power in favor of capitalism. Spurring a stock-market, energy, venture-capital, real-estate and employment boom, the Reagan tax-rate cuts and other pro-enterprise policies added some $17 trillion to America's private-sector assets, dwarfing the trillion-dollar rise in public-sector deficits and creating 45 million net new jobs at rising wages and salaries.

George Gilder: The Real Reagan Lesson for Romney-Ryan

Reaganomics - Wikipedia

NAtional wealth?

Just another made up stat to hide the truth that Reagan was a nothing but a BIG government company man.

He increased the size of government so by his own philosophy that "government is the problem" he added to the problem

Let's check:

"Reagan’s legacy affects us dramatically today in two ways. First, Reagan’s anti-Communist foreign policy and his military buildup hastened the disintegration of the Soviet Union. In the past eight years, America’s victory in the Cold War generated a half-trillion-dollar peace dividend. That peace dividend grows every year, and it fell like manna from heaven into President Clinton’s lap. The budget deficit is falling, not primarily because Clinton raised taxes and not primarily because the congressional Republicans committed themselves to a balanced budget, but because the defense budget is nearly $100 billion lower today than when the Berlin Wall came down.

The second effect of the Reagan years was to launch America into what is now widely regarded as a remarkable 15-year low-inflation, high-employment bull market (the Dow was at 800 in 1982, 8,000 today)—interrupted only mildly in the middle Bush years. These 15 years of prosperity were propelled by Reaganomics: lower tax rates, a long-run decline in inflation and interest rates (which also lowers tax rates), freer international trade and a strong dollar. Even with the anti-supply-side Bush and Clinton tax hikes, the top tax rate today of 40% is far below the towering 70% tax rate that disabled the economy in the 1970s. The end of the Cold War has created an international environment of peace and stability, nudging the economy into still higher gear in recent years."
Who Balanced the Budget?

How many times are you going to repeat the lie that Reagan spending caused the downfall of the Soviet Union?

The fact is Soviet defense spending remained flat throughout the 80s. The Soviet economy was in trouble before Reagan came into power he just happened to be the one sitting in the oval office when it finally collapsed under its own weight as has every other command control economy has collapsed.

Let’s stop revising history: Reagan didn’t win the Cold War

Most Americans are unaware that Reagan recanted his description of the Soviet Union as an “evil empire,” dismissing his confrontational rhetoric as a relic of “another time, another era.”

thehill.com

Where were you.........back then..............doubt you were even a egg in your mom's ovaries...........where you with me in operation Team Spirit off Vlad Russia.............didn't see you..................I saw the USSR destroyers.........the Bear and migs sent out to play War Games.............

Where were you.............doubt you even existed.............doubt you served on rust buckets that were well beyond their lifespans.............

Oh well.........go eat your baby food and do your chores in mommies basement.

You were there to get programmed by the propaganda.

The fact s are clear to anyone who is not looking at them through a warped lens.

Regan did not cut taxes. In fact he signed the largest peacetime tax hike in history.

Home ownership declined during his terms so it seems that he didn't do much for the economy there. In fact Reagan ushered in the legislative changes that made the S&L crisis possible

Taxes: What people forget about Reagan

Ronald Reagan is the patron saint of lower taxes and smaller government. He cut taxes, yes. But he also raised them several times, in part to reduce high deficits and in part to pave the way for true tax reform.

money.cnn.com

Take your meds

 

[eagle1462010]

Too young to remember.....killed himself by shooting himself in the head..........but no blood on the ground.

do a little cut on your head bro...........see how it bleeds.............S and L was just The Clinton Crime family in it's early stages........

Not to mention how they fucked us in Somalia by not supporting the military..........were you there youngster........I didn't see you..maybe I'm your real dad and you are from the Phillipines.

 

[Blues Man]

The lesson here is the republican party and their followers are a danger both to democracy and to the health and safety of the people. The effort starting largely by Reagan (and before) to destroy government shows today. South Korea is ahead of us in virus testing as is China. Learn this lesson folks and vote for progress next time. Trump answers tough questions from reporters like a school yard bully. Shooting the messenger is the response of the guilty. It is past time to bring back government of the people not special interests.

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government." Thomas Jefferson

'Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?' As a new coronavirus spread in 2020, so did concerns about the United States' preparedness for a potential pandemic.'

Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?

"Every Wednesday morning, a group of conspirators meets to plot out how to most effectively attack the federal government. This is not a group of rag-tag terrorists – they wear $2,000 suits and occupy powerful positions in society. But their ideas are politically radical and they do pose a real threat to the normal workings of government in the U.S. They are a group of leading conservatives who believe that government is a malevolent force in society and they have a fierce determination to drastically cut it back. They are convinced that the central problem in our country is too much government – too many social programs, too many regulations, and too much taxation – and they are committed to doing something about it."

http://www.governmentisgood.com/articles.php?aid=9

"For decades conservatives have been demonizing government and not enough has been done to defend it. Ever since Ronald Reagan declared in 1981 that "Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem," Republicans have been waging a political war against this institution. They have been joined in this anti-government crusade by libertarian thinkers, Tea Party activists, right-wing media pundits, and wealthy corporate lobbies. This powerful political coalition blithely ignores anything good about government and conducts a relentless smear campaign against this institution. They constantly play upon the fears and insecurities of average Americans and encourage them to blame all their problems on big bad government."
Government is Good - An Unapologetic Defense of a Vital Institution

"Well, I have been studying the Republican Party for over 12 years at close hand in the Capital of the United States. And by this time, I have discovered where the Republicans stand on most of the major issues.

Since they won't tell you themselves, I am going to tell you.

They approve of the American farmer-but they are willing to help him go broke.
They stand four-square for the American home--but not for housing.
They are strong for labor--but they are stronger for restricting labor's rights.
They favor a minimum wage--the smaller the minimum the better.
They indorse educational opportunity for all--but they won't spend money for teachers or for schools.
They think modern medical care and hospitals are fine--for people who can afford them.
They approve of social security benefits-so much so that they took them away from almost a million people.
They believe in international trade--so much so that they crippled our reciprocal trade program, and killed our International Wheat Agreement.
They favor the admission of displaced persons--but only within shameful racial and religious limitations.
They consider electric power a great blessing-but only when the private power companies get their rake-off.
They say TVA is wonderful--but we ought never to try it again.
They condemn "cruelly high prices"--but fight to the death every effort to bring them down.
They think the American standard of living is a fine thing--so long as it doesn't spread to all the people.
And they admire the Government of the United States so much that they would like to buy it.

Now, my friends, that is the Wall Street Republican way of life. But there is another way--there is another way--the Democratic way, the way of the Democratic Party.

Of course, the Democratic Party is not perfect. Nobody ever said it was. But the Democratic Party believes in the people. It believes in freedom and progress, and it is fighting for its beliefs right now.

In the Democratic Party, you won't find the kind of unity where everybody thinks what the boss tells him to think, and nothing else." Harry Truman

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/publicpapers/index.php?pid=1986

FYI Ronnie Ray gun expanded government like a drunken democrat and signed the single largest peace time tax hike in history.

Saying he destroyed the government is ludicrous

Reagan crushed your hometeam the USSR, this was shortly after Teddy Kennedy agree to sell them control of the DNC. It's changed hand a few times since then, but now Soros and the ChiComs bought control at a huge discount

The USSR collapsed under its own weight

Um, no. That's bullshit. Reagan formed a coalition to defeat them

Reagan and the Russians - 94.02

Atlantic Unbound: The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Online

www.theatlantic.com

Like I said, total fucking Bullshit to make you losers feel better

You have no clue as to what my political leanings are.

But you have obliviously swallowed for Reagan.

Reagan was not the small government guy he said he was, he gave Americans the single largest peacetime tax hike in history which basically clawed back every bit of the tax cuts he passed in his first term not to mention he tripled the debt.

I don't give a fuck about your "leanings", Jake, I'm calling your bullshit history revision out

It's you who doesn't know the facts.

Oh, please! Knock it off, Jake, no one believes you!

Posting Gorby Talking Points to try to detract from Reagan is sad and silly

Another moron who believes that Reagan was a "small government guy"

The 'moron' contingent are those who don't recognize Reagan as the most successful and important President in a hundred years.
He saved the American consumer, and Western Civilization.
Raise your paw.

Home ownership went DOWN under Reagan.

Reagan ushered in the legislative changes that were the root cause of the S& L debacle.

In The End of Prosperity, supply side guru Art Laffer and Wall Street Journal chief financial writer Steve Moore point out that this Reagan recovery grew into a 25-year boom, with just slight interruptions by shallow, short recessions in 1990 and 2001. They wrote:

"We call this period, 1982-2007, the twenty-five year boom-the greatest period of wealth creation in the history of the planet. In 1980, the net worth-assets minus liabilities-of all U.S. households and business ... was $25 trillion in today's dollars. By 2007, ... net worth was just shy of $57 trillion. Adjusting for inflation, more wealth was created in America in the twenty-five year boom than in the previous two hundred years."
http://theccpp.org/2011/05/reaganomics-vs-obamanomics-facts-and-figures-1.html



“Between the early 1980s and 2007 we lived in an economic Golden Age. Never before have so many people advanced so far economically in so short a period of time as they have during the last 25 years. Until the credit crisis, 70 million people a year were joining the middle class. The U.S. kicked off this long boom with the economic reforms of Ronald Reagan, particularly his enormous income tax cuts. We burst from the economic stagnation of the 1970s into a dynamic, innovative, high-tech-oriented economy. Even in recent years the much-maligned U.S. did well. Between year-end 2002 and year-end 2007 U.S. growth exceeded the entire size of China's economy.”

How Capitalism Will Save Us

If sensible rescue efforts continue--and they will--the immediate crisis will quickly pass.

www.forbes.com

Clearly, you are the intellectual rival of one of those insects that could exist on a basic level even if their heads were cut off.

Opinion of Reagan's lackeys is hardly reliable.

https://www.amazon.com/Tear-Down-This-Myth-Right-Wing/dp/1416597638&tag=ff0d01-20

 

[eagle1462010]

The lesson here is the republican party and their followers are a danger both to democracy and to the health and safety of the people. The effort starting largely by Reagan (and before) to destroy government shows today. South Korea is ahead of us in virus testing as is China. Learn this lesson folks and vote for progress next time. Trump answers tough questions from reporters like a school yard bully. Shooting the messenger is the response of the guilty. It is past time to bring back government of the people not special interests.

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government." Thomas Jefferson

'Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?' As a new coronavirus spread in 2020, so did concerns about the United States' preparedness for a potential pandemic.'

Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?

"Every Wednesday morning, a group of conspirators meets to plot out how to most effectively attack the federal government. This is not a group of rag-tag terrorists – they wear $2,000 suits and occupy powerful positions in society. But their ideas are politically radical and they do pose a real threat to the normal workings of government in the U.S. They are a group of leading conservatives who believe that government is a malevolent force in society and they have a fierce determination to drastically cut it back. They are convinced that the central problem in our country is too much government – too many social programs, too many regulations, and too much taxation – and they are committed to doing something about it."

http://www.governmentisgood.com/articles.php?aid=9

"For decades conservatives have been demonizing government and not enough has been done to defend it. Ever since Ronald Reagan declared in 1981 that "Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem," Republicans have been waging a political war against this institution. They have been joined in this anti-government crusade by libertarian thinkers, Tea Party activists, right-wing media pundits, and wealthy corporate lobbies. This powerful political coalition blithely ignores anything good about government and conducts a relentless smear campaign against this institution. They constantly play upon the fears and insecurities of average Americans and encourage them to blame all their problems on big bad government."
Government is Good - An Unapologetic Defense of a Vital Institution

"Well, I have been studying the Republican Party for over 12 years at close hand in the Capital of the United States. And by this time, I have discovered where the Republicans stand on most of the major issues.

Since they won't tell you themselves, I am going to tell you.

They approve of the American farmer-but they are willing to help him go broke.
They stand four-square for the American home--but not for housing.
They are strong for labor--but they are stronger for restricting labor's rights.
They favor a minimum wage--the smaller the minimum the better.
They indorse educational opportunity for all--but they won't spend money for teachers or for schools.
They think modern medical care and hospitals are fine--for people who can afford them.
They approve of social security benefits-so much so that they took them away from almost a million people.
They believe in international trade--so much so that they crippled our reciprocal trade program, and killed our International Wheat Agreement.
They favor the admission of displaced persons--but only within shameful racial and religious limitations.
They consider electric power a great blessing-but only when the private power companies get their rake-off.
They say TVA is wonderful--but we ought never to try it again.
They condemn "cruelly high prices"--but fight to the death every effort to bring them down.
They think the American standard of living is a fine thing--so long as it doesn't spread to all the people.
And they admire the Government of the United States so much that they would like to buy it.

Now, my friends, that is the Wall Street Republican way of life. But there is another way--there is another way--the Democratic way, the way of the Democratic Party.

Of course, the Democratic Party is not perfect. Nobody ever said it was. But the Democratic Party believes in the people. It believes in freedom and progress, and it is fighting for its beliefs right now.

In the Democratic Party, you won't find the kind of unity where everybody thinks what the boss tells him to think, and nothing else." Harry Truman

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/publicpapers/index.php?pid=1986

FYI Ronnie Ray gun expanded government like a drunken democrat and signed the single largest peace time tax hike in history.

Saying he destroyed the government is ludicrous

Reagan crushed your hometeam the USSR, this was shortly after Teddy Kennedy agree to sell them control of the DNC. It's changed hand a few times since then, but now Soros and the ChiComs bought control at a huge discount

The USSR collapsed under its own weight

Um, no. That's bullshit. Reagan formed a coalition to defeat them

Reagan and the Russians - 94.02

Atlantic Unbound: The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Online

www.theatlantic.com

Like I said, total fucking Bullshit to make you losers feel better

You have no clue as to what my political leanings are.

But you have obliviously swallowed for Reagan.

Reagan was not the small government guy he said he was, he gave Americans the single largest peacetime tax hike in history which basically clawed back every bit of the tax cuts he passed in his first term not to mention he tripled the debt.

I don't give a fuck about your "leanings", Jake, I'm calling your bullshit history revision out

It's you who doesn't know the facts.

Oh, please! Knock it off, Jake, no one believes you!

Posting Gorby Talking Points to try to detract from Reagan is sad and silly

That one has been schooled on the facts before.....but, indoctrination is indelible.

1. Under Reagan, the debt went up $1.7 trillion, from $900 billion to $2.6 trillion.
2. But….the national wealth went up $ 17 trillion
3. Reagan's near-trillion-dollar bulge in defense spending transformed the global balance of power in favor of capitalism. Spurring a stock-market, energy, venture-capital, real-estate and employment boom, the Reagan tax-rate cuts and other pro-enterprise policies added some $17 trillion to America's private-sector assets, dwarfing the trillion-dollar rise in public-sector deficits and creating 45 million net new jobs at rising wages and salaries.

George Gilder: The Real Reagan Lesson for Romney-Ryan

Reaganomics - Wikipedia

NAtional wealth?

Just another made up stat to hide the truth that Reagan was a nothing but a BIG government company man.

He increased the size of government so by his own philosophy that "government is the problem" he added to the problem

Let's check:

"Reagan’s legacy affects us dramatically today in two ways. First, Reagan’s anti-Communist foreign policy and his military buildup hastened the disintegration of the Soviet Union. In the past eight years, America’s victory in the Cold War generated a half-trillion-dollar peace dividend. That peace dividend grows every year, and it fell like manna from heaven into President Clinton’s lap. The budget deficit is falling, not primarily because Clinton raised taxes and not primarily because the congressional Republicans committed themselves to a balanced budget, but because the defense budget is nearly $100 billion lower today than when the Berlin Wall came down.

The second effect of the Reagan years was to launch America into what is now widely regarded as a remarkable 15-year low-inflation, high-employment bull market (the Dow was at 800 in 1982, 8,000 today)—interrupted only mildly in the middle Bush years. These 15 years of prosperity were propelled by Reaganomics: lower tax rates, a long-run decline in inflation and interest rates (which also lowers tax rates), freer international trade and a strong dollar. Even with the anti-supply-side Bush and Clinton tax hikes, the top tax rate today of 40% is far below the towering 70% tax rate that disabled the economy in the 1970s. The end of the Cold War has created an international environment of peace and stability, nudging the economy into still higher gear in recent years."
Who Balanced the Budget?

How many times are you going to repeat the lie that Reagan spending caused the downfall of the Soviet Union?

The fact is Soviet defense spending remained flat throughout the 80s. The Soviet economy was in trouble before Reagan came into power he just happened to be the one sitting in the oval office when it finally collapsed under its own weight as has every other command control economy has collapsed.

Let’s stop revising history: Reagan didn’t win the Cold War

Most Americans are unaware that Reagan recanted his description of the Soviet Union as an “evil empire,” dismissing his confrontational rhetoric as a relic of “another time, another era.”

thehill.com

Where were you.........back then..............doubt you were even a egg in your mom's ovaries...........where you with me in operation Team Spirit off Vlad Russia.............didn't see you..................I saw the USSR destroyers.........the Bear and migs sent out to play War Games.............

Where were you.............doubt you even existed.............doubt you served on rust buckets that were well beyond their lifespans.............

Oh well.........go eat your baby food and do your chores in mommies basement.

You were there to get programmed by the propaganda.

The fact s are clear to anyone who is not looking at them through a warped lens.

Regan did not cut taxes. In fact he signed the largest peacetime tax hike in history.

Home ownership declined during his terms so it seems that he didn't do much for the economy there. In fact Reagan ushered in the legislative changes that made the S&L crisis possible

Taxes: What people forget about Reagan

Ronald Reagan is the patron saint of lower taxes and smaller government. He cut taxes, yes. But he also raised them several times, in part to reduce high deficits and in part to pave the way for true tax reform.

money.cnn.com

Did you do your dang homework yet...........Or we'll ground your ass after we whoop your ass with the belt.

You don't know a dang thing about then..........I lived it.

 

[Blues Man]

The lesson here is the republican party and their followers are a danger both to democracy and to the health and safety of the people. The effort starting largely by Reagan (and before) to destroy government shows today. South Korea is ahead of us in virus testing as is China. Learn this lesson folks and vote for progress next time. Trump answers tough questions from reporters like a school yard bully. Shooting the messenger is the response of the guilty. It is past time to bring back government of the people not special interests.

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government." Thomas Jefferson

'Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?' As a new coronavirus spread in 2020, so did concerns about the United States' preparedness for a potential pandemic.'

Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?

"Every Wednesday morning, a group of conspirators meets to plot out how to most effectively attack the federal government. This is not a group of rag-tag terrorists – they wear $2,000 suits and occupy powerful positions in society. But their ideas are politically radical and they do pose a real threat to the normal workings of government in the U.S. They are a group of leading conservatives who believe that government is a malevolent force in society and they have a fierce determination to drastically cut it back. They are convinced that the central problem in our country is too much government – too many social programs, too many regulations, and too much taxation – and they are committed to doing something about it."

http://www.governmentisgood.com/articles.php?aid=9

"For decades conservatives have been demonizing government and not enough has been done to defend it. Ever since Ronald Reagan declared in 1981 that "Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem," Republicans have been waging a political war against this institution. They have been joined in this anti-government crusade by libertarian thinkers, Tea Party activists, right-wing media pundits, and wealthy corporate lobbies. This powerful political coalition blithely ignores anything good about government and conducts a relentless smear campaign against this institution. They constantly play upon the fears and insecurities of average Americans and encourage them to blame all their problems on big bad government."
Government is Good - An Unapologetic Defense of a Vital Institution

"Well, I have been studying the Republican Party for over 12 years at close hand in the Capital of the United States. And by this time, I have discovered where the Republicans stand on most of the major issues.

Since they won't tell you themselves, I am going to tell you.

They approve of the American farmer-but they are willing to help him go broke.
They stand four-square for the American home--but not for housing.
They are strong for labor--but they are stronger for restricting labor's rights.
They favor a minimum wage--the smaller the minimum the better.
They indorse educational opportunity for all--but they won't spend money for teachers or for schools.
They think modern medical care and hospitals are fine--for people who can afford them.
They approve of social security benefits-so much so that they took them away from almost a million people.
They believe in international trade--so much so that they crippled our reciprocal trade program, and killed our International Wheat Agreement.
They favor the admission of displaced persons--but only within shameful racial and religious limitations.
They consider electric power a great blessing-but only when the private power companies get their rake-off.
They say TVA is wonderful--but we ought never to try it again.
They condemn "cruelly high prices"--but fight to the death every effort to bring them down.
They think the American standard of living is a fine thing--so long as it doesn't spread to all the people.
And they admire the Government of the United States so much that they would like to buy it.

Now, my friends, that is the Wall Street Republican way of life. But there is another way--there is another way--the Democratic way, the way of the Democratic Party.

Of course, the Democratic Party is not perfect. Nobody ever said it was. But the Democratic Party believes in the people. It believes in freedom and progress, and it is fighting for its beliefs right now.

In the Democratic Party, you won't find the kind of unity where everybody thinks what the boss tells him to think, and nothing else." Harry Truman

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/publicpapers/index.php?pid=1986

FYI Ronnie Ray gun expanded government like a drunken democrat and signed the single largest peace time tax hike in history.

Saying he destroyed the government is ludicrous

Reagan crushed your hometeam the USSR, this was shortly after Teddy Kennedy agree to sell them control of the DNC. It's changed hand a few times since then, but now Soros and the ChiComs bought control at a huge discount

The USSR collapsed under its own weight

Um, no. That's bullshit. Reagan formed a coalition to defeat them

Reagan and the Russians - 94.02

Atlantic Unbound: The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Online

www.theatlantic.com

Like I said, total fucking Bullshit to make you losers feel better

You have no clue as to what my political leanings are.

But you have obliviously swallowed for Reagan.

Reagan was not the small government guy he said he was, he gave Americans the single largest peacetime tax hike in history which basically clawed back every bit of the tax cuts he passed in his first term not to mention he tripled the debt.

I don't give a fuck about your "leanings", Jake, I'm calling your bullshit history revision out

It's you who doesn't know the facts.

Oh, please! Knock it off, Jake, no one believes you!

Posting Gorby Talking Points to try to detract from Reagan is sad and silly

That one has been schooled on the facts before.....but, indoctrination is indelible.

1. Under Reagan, the debt went up $1.7 trillion, from $900 billion to $2.6 trillion.
2. But….the national wealth went up $ 17 trillion
3. Reagan's near-trillion-dollar bulge in defense spending transformed the global balance of power in favor of capitalism. Spurring a stock-market, energy, venture-capital, real-estate and employment boom, the Reagan tax-rate cuts and other pro-enterprise policies added some $17 trillion to America's private-sector assets, dwarfing the trillion-dollar rise in public-sector deficits and creating 45 million net new jobs at rising wages and salaries.

George Gilder: The Real Reagan Lesson for Romney-Ryan

Reaganomics - Wikipedia

NAtional wealth?

Just another made up stat to hide the truth that Reagan was a nothing but a BIG government company man.

He increased the size of government so by his own philosophy that "government is the problem" he added to the problem

Let's check:

"Reagan’s legacy affects us dramatically today in two ways. First, Reagan’s anti-Communist foreign policy and his military buildup hastened the disintegration of the Soviet Union. In the past eight years, America’s victory in the Cold War generated a half-trillion-dollar peace dividend. That peace dividend grows every year, and it fell like manna from heaven into President Clinton’s lap. The budget deficit is falling, not primarily because Clinton raised taxes and not primarily because the congressional Republicans committed themselves to a balanced budget, but because the defense budget is nearly $100 billion lower today than when the Berlin Wall came down.

The second effect of the Reagan years was to launch America into what is now widely regarded as a remarkable 15-year low-inflation, high-employment bull market (the Dow was at 800 in 1982, 8,000 today)—interrupted only mildly in the middle Bush years. These 15 years of prosperity were propelled by Reaganomics: lower tax rates, a long-run decline in inflation and interest rates (which also lowers tax rates), freer international trade and a strong dollar. Even with the anti-supply-side Bush and Clinton tax hikes, the top tax rate today of 40% is far below the towering 70% tax rate that disabled the economy in the 1970s. The end of the Cold War has created an international environment of peace and stability, nudging the economy into still higher gear in recent years."
Who Balanced the Budget?

How many times are you going to repeat the lie that Reagan spending caused the downfall of the Soviet Union?

The fact is Soviet defense spending remained flat throughout the 80s. The Soviet economy was in trouble before Reagan came into power he just happened to be the one sitting in the oval office when it finally collapsed under its own weight as has every other command control economy has collapsed.

Let’s stop revising history: Reagan didn’t win the Cold War

Most Americans are unaware that Reagan recanted his description of the Soviet Union as an “evil empire,” dismissing his confrontational rhetoric as a relic of “another time, another era.”

thehill.com

Where were you.........back then..............doubt you were even a egg in your mom's ovaries...........where you with me in operation Team Spirit off Vlad Russia.............didn't see you..................I saw the USSR destroyers.........the Bear and migs sent out to play War Games.............

Where were you.............doubt you even existed.............doubt you served on rust buckets that were well beyond their lifespans.............

Oh well.........go eat your baby food and do your chores in mommies basement.

You were there to get programmed by the propaganda.

The fact s are clear to anyone who is not looking at them through a warped lens.

Regan did not cut taxes. In fact he signed the largest peacetime tax hike in history.

Home ownership declined during his terms so it seems that he didn't do much for the economy there. In fact Reagan ushered in the legislative changes that made the S&L crisis possible

Taxes: What people forget about Reagan

Ronald Reagan is the patron saint of lower taxes and smaller government. He cut taxes, yes. But he also raised them several times, in part to reduce high deficits and in part to pave the way for true tax reform.

money.cnn.com

Take your meds

Stop drinking the Kool Aid

 

[Blues Man]

The lesson here is the republican party and their followers are a danger both to democracy and to the health and safety of the people. The effort starting largely by Reagan (and before) to destroy government shows today. South Korea is ahead of us in virus testing as is China. Learn this lesson folks and vote for progress next time. Trump answers tough questions from reporters like a school yard bully. Shooting the messenger is the response of the guilty. It is past time to bring back government of the people not special interests.

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government." Thomas Jefferson

'Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?' As a new coronavirus spread in 2020, so did concerns about the United States' preparedness for a potential pandemic.'

Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?

"Every Wednesday morning, a group of conspirators meets to plot out how to most effectively attack the federal government. This is not a group of rag-tag terrorists – they wear $2,000 suits and occupy powerful positions in society. But their ideas are politically radical and they do pose a real threat to the normal workings of government in the U.S. They are a group of leading conservatives who believe that government is a malevolent force in society and they have a fierce determination to drastically cut it back. They are convinced that the central problem in our country is too much government – too many social programs, too many regulations, and too much taxation – and they are committed to doing something about it."

http://www.governmentisgood.com/articles.php?aid=9

"For decades conservatives have been demonizing government and not enough has been done to defend it. Ever since Ronald Reagan declared in 1981 that "Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem," Republicans have been waging a political war against this institution. They have been joined in this anti-government crusade by libertarian thinkers, Tea Party activists, right-wing media pundits, and wealthy corporate lobbies. This powerful political coalition blithely ignores anything good about government and conducts a relentless smear campaign against this institution. They constantly play upon the fears and insecurities of average Americans and encourage them to blame all their problems on big bad government."
Government is Good - An Unapologetic Defense of a Vital Institution

"Well, I have been studying the Republican Party for over 12 years at close hand in the Capital of the United States. And by this time, I have discovered where the Republicans stand on most of the major issues.

Since they won't tell you themselves, I am going to tell you.

They approve of the American farmer-but they are willing to help him go broke.
They stand four-square for the American home--but not for housing.
They are strong for labor--but they are stronger for restricting labor's rights.
They favor a minimum wage--the smaller the minimum the better.
They indorse educational opportunity for all--but they won't spend money for teachers or for schools.
They think modern medical care and hospitals are fine--for people who can afford them.
They approve of social security benefits-so much so that they took them away from almost a million people.
They believe in international trade--so much so that they crippled our reciprocal trade program, and killed our International Wheat Agreement.
They favor the admission of displaced persons--but only within shameful racial and religious limitations.
They consider electric power a great blessing-but only when the private power companies get their rake-off.
They say TVA is wonderful--but we ought never to try it again.
They condemn "cruelly high prices"--but fight to the death every effort to bring them down.
They think the American standard of living is a fine thing--so long as it doesn't spread to all the people.
And they admire the Government of the United States so much that they would like to buy it.

Now, my friends, that is the Wall Street Republican way of life. But there is another way--there is another way--the Democratic way, the way of the Democratic Party.

Of course, the Democratic Party is not perfect. Nobody ever said it was. But the Democratic Party believes in the people. It believes in freedom and progress, and it is fighting for its beliefs right now.

In the Democratic Party, you won't find the kind of unity where everybody thinks what the boss tells him to think, and nothing else." Harry Truman

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/publicpapers/index.php?pid=1986

FYI Ronnie Ray gun expanded government like a drunken democrat and signed the single largest peace time tax hike in history.

Saying he destroyed the government is ludicrous

Reagan crushed your hometeam the USSR, this was shortly after Teddy Kennedy agree to sell them control of the DNC. It's changed hand a few times since then, but now Soros and the ChiComs bought control at a huge discount

The USSR collapsed under its own weight

Um, no. That's bullshit. Reagan formed a coalition to defeat them

Reagan and the Russians - 94.02

Atlantic Unbound: The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Online

www.theatlantic.com

Like I said, total fucking Bullshit to make you losers feel better

You have no clue as to what my political leanings are.

But you have obliviously swallowed for Reagan.

Reagan was not the small government guy he said he was, he gave Americans the single largest peacetime tax hike in history which basically clawed back every bit of the tax cuts he passed in his first term not to mention he tripled the debt.

I don't give a fuck about your "leanings", Jake, I'm calling your bullshit history revision out

It's you who doesn't know the facts.

Oh, please! Knock it off, Jake, no one believes you!

Posting Gorby Talking Points to try to detract from Reagan is sad and silly

That one has been schooled on the facts before.....but, indoctrination is indelible.

1. Under Reagan, the debt went up $1.7 trillion, from $900 billion to $2.6 trillion.
2. But….the national wealth went up $ 17 trillion
3. Reagan's near-trillion-dollar bulge in defense spending transformed the global balance of power in favor of capitalism. Spurring a stock-market, energy, venture-capital, real-estate and employment boom, the Reagan tax-rate cuts and other pro-enterprise policies added some $17 trillion to America's private-sector assets, dwarfing the trillion-dollar rise in public-sector deficits and creating 45 million net new jobs at rising wages and salaries.

George Gilder: The Real Reagan Lesson for Romney-Ryan

Reaganomics - Wikipedia

NAtional wealth?

Just another made up stat to hide the truth that Reagan was a nothing but a BIG government company man.

He increased the size of government so by his own philosophy that "government is the problem" he added to the problem

Let's check:

"Reagan’s legacy affects us dramatically today in two ways. First, Reagan’s anti-Communist foreign policy and his military buildup hastened the disintegration of the Soviet Union. In the past eight years, America’s victory in the Cold War generated a half-trillion-dollar peace dividend. That peace dividend grows every year, and it fell like manna from heaven into President Clinton’s lap. The budget deficit is falling, not primarily because Clinton raised taxes and not primarily because the congressional Republicans committed themselves to a balanced budget, but because the defense budget is nearly $100 billion lower today than when the Berlin Wall came down.

The second effect of the Reagan years was to launch America into what is now widely regarded as a remarkable 15-year low-inflation, high-employment bull market (the Dow was at 800 in 1982, 8,000 today)—interrupted only mildly in the middle Bush years. These 15 years of prosperity were propelled by Reaganomics: lower tax rates, a long-run decline in inflation and interest rates (which also lowers tax rates), freer international trade and a strong dollar. Even with the anti-supply-side Bush and Clinton tax hikes, the top tax rate today of 40% is far below the towering 70% tax rate that disabled the economy in the 1970s. The end of the Cold War has created an international environment of peace and stability, nudging the economy into still higher gear in recent years."
Who Balanced the Budget?

How many times are you going to repeat the lie that Reagan spending caused the downfall of the Soviet Union?

The fact is Soviet defense spending remained flat throughout the 80s. The Soviet economy was in trouble before Reagan came into power he just happened to be the one sitting in the oval office when it finally collapsed under its own weight as has every other command control economy has collapsed.

Let’s stop revising history: Reagan didn’t win the Cold War

Most Americans are unaware that Reagan recanted his description of the Soviet Union as an “evil empire,” dismissing his confrontational rhetoric as a relic of “another time, another era.”

thehill.com

Where were you.........back then..............doubt you were even a egg in your mom's ovaries...........where you with me in operation Team Spirit off Vlad Russia.............didn't see you..................I saw the USSR destroyers.........the Bear and migs sent out to play War Games.............

Where were you.............doubt you even existed.............doubt you served on rust buckets that were well beyond their lifespans.............

Oh well.........go eat your baby food and do your chores in mommies basement.

You were there to get programmed by the propaganda.

The fact s are clear to anyone who is not looking at them through a warped lens.

Regan did not cut taxes. In fact he signed the largest peacetime tax hike in history.

Home ownership declined during his terms so it seems that he didn't do much for the economy there. In fact Reagan ushered in the legislative changes that made the S&L crisis possible

Taxes: What people forget about Reagan

Ronald Reagan is the patron saint of lower taxes and smaller government. He cut taxes, yes. But he also raised them several times, in part to reduce high deficits and in part to pave the way for true tax reform.

money.cnn.com

Did you do your dang homework yet...........Or we'll ground your ass after we whoop your ass with the belt.

You don't know a dang thing about then..........I lived it.

https://www.amazon.com/Tear-Down-This-Myth-Right-Wing/dp/1416597638&tag=ff0d01-20

Read a book

 

[PoliticalChic]

The lesson here is the republican party and their followers are a danger both to democracy and to the health and safety of the people. The effort starting largely by Reagan (and before) to destroy government shows today. South Korea is ahead of us in virus testing as is China. Learn this lesson folks and vote for progress next time. Trump answers tough questions from reporters like a school yard bully. Shooting the messenger is the response of the guilty. It is past time to bring back government of the people not special interests.

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government." Thomas Jefferson

'Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?' As a new coronavirus spread in 2020, so did concerns about the United States' preparedness for a potential pandemic.'

Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?

"Every Wednesday morning, a group of conspirators meets to plot out how to most effectively attack the federal government. This is not a group of rag-tag terrorists – they wear $2,000 suits and occupy powerful positions in society. But their ideas are politically radical and they do pose a real threat to the normal workings of government in the U.S. They are a group of leading conservatives who believe that government is a malevolent force in society and they have a fierce determination to drastically cut it back. They are convinced that the central problem in our country is too much government – too many social programs, too many regulations, and too much taxation – and they are committed to doing something about it."

http://www.governmentisgood.com/articles.php?aid=9

"For decades conservatives have been demonizing government and not enough has been done to defend it. Ever since Ronald Reagan declared in 1981 that "Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem," Republicans have been waging a political war against this institution. They have been joined in this anti-government crusade by libertarian thinkers, Tea Party activists, right-wing media pundits, and wealthy corporate lobbies. This powerful political coalition blithely ignores anything good about government and conducts a relentless smear campaign against this institution. They constantly play upon the fears and insecurities of average Americans and encourage them to blame all their problems on big bad government."
Government is Good - An Unapologetic Defense of a Vital Institution

"Well, I have been studying the Republican Party for over 12 years at close hand in the Capital of the United States. And by this time, I have discovered where the Republicans stand on most of the major issues.

Since they won't tell you themselves, I am going to tell you.

They approve of the American farmer-but they are willing to help him go broke.
They stand four-square for the American home--but not for housing.
They are strong for labor--but they are stronger for restricting labor's rights.
They favor a minimum wage--the smaller the minimum the better.
They indorse educational opportunity for all--but they won't spend money for teachers or for schools.
They think modern medical care and hospitals are fine--for people who can afford them.
They approve of social security benefits-so much so that they took them away from almost a million people.
They believe in international trade--so much so that they crippled our reciprocal trade program, and killed our International Wheat Agreement.
They favor the admission of displaced persons--but only within shameful racial and religious limitations.
They consider electric power a great blessing-but only when the private power companies get their rake-off.
They say TVA is wonderful--but we ought never to try it again.
They condemn "cruelly high prices"--but fight to the death every effort to bring them down.
They think the American standard of living is a fine thing--so long as it doesn't spread to all the people.
And they admire the Government of the United States so much that they would like to buy it.

Now, my friends, that is the Wall Street Republican way of life. But there is another way--there is another way--the Democratic way, the way of the Democratic Party.

Of course, the Democratic Party is not perfect. Nobody ever said it was. But the Democratic Party believes in the people. It believes in freedom and progress, and it is fighting for its beliefs right now.

In the Democratic Party, you won't find the kind of unity where everybody thinks what the boss tells him to think, and nothing else." Harry Truman

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/publicpapers/index.php?pid=1986

FYI Ronnie Ray gun expanded government like a drunken democrat and signed the single largest peace time tax hike in history.

Saying he destroyed the government is ludicrous

Reagan crushed your hometeam the USSR, this was shortly after Teddy Kennedy agree to sell them control of the DNC. It's changed hand a few times since then, but now Soros and the ChiComs bought control at a huge discount

The USSR collapsed under its own weight

Um, no. That's bullshit. Reagan formed a coalition to defeat them

Reagan and the Russians - 94.02

Atlantic Unbound: The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Online

www.theatlantic.com

Like I said, total fucking Bullshit to make you losers feel better

You have no clue as to what my political leanings are.

But you have obliviously swallowed for Reagan.

Reagan was not the small government guy he said he was, he gave Americans the single largest peacetime tax hike in history which basically clawed back every bit of the tax cuts he passed in his first term not to mention he tripled the debt.

I don't give a fuck about your "leanings", Jake, I'm calling your bullshit history revision out

It's you who doesn't know the facts.

Oh, please! Knock it off, Jake, no one believes you!

Posting Gorby Talking Points to try to detract from Reagan is sad and silly

Another moron who believes that Reagan was a "small government guy"

The 'moron' contingent are those who don't recognize Reagan as the most successful and important President in a hundred years.
He saved the American consumer, and Western Civilization.
Raise your paw.

Home ownership went DOWN under Reagan.

Reagan ushered in the legislative changes that were the root cause of the S& L debacle.

In The End of Prosperity, supply side guru Art Laffer and Wall Street Journal chief financial writer Steve Moore point out that this Reagan recovery grew into a 25-year boom, with just slight interruptions by shallow, short recessions in 1990 and 2001. They wrote:

"We call this period, 1982-2007, the twenty-five year boom-the greatest period of wealth creation in the history of the planet. In 1980, the net worth-assets minus liabilities-of all U.S. households and business ... was $25 trillion in today's dollars. By 2007, ... net worth was just shy of $57 trillion. Adjusting for inflation, more wealth was created in America in the twenty-five year boom than in the previous two hundred years."
http://theccpp.org/2011/05/reaganomics-vs-obamanomics-facts-and-figures-1.html



“Between the early 1980s and 2007 we lived in an economic Golden Age. Never before have so many people advanced so far economically in so short a period of time as they have during the last 25 years. Until the credit crisis, 70 million people a year were joining the middle class. The U.S. kicked off this long boom with the economic reforms of Ronald Reagan, particularly his enormous income tax cuts. We burst from the economic stagnation of the 1970s into a dynamic, innovative, high-tech-oriented economy. Even in recent years the much-maligned U.S. did well. Between year-end 2002 and year-end 2007 U.S. growth exceeded the entire size of China's economy.”

How Capitalism Will Save Us

If sensible rescue efforts continue--and they will--the immediate crisis will quickly pass.

www.forbes.com

Clearly, you are the intellectual rival of one of those insects that could exist on a basic level even if their heads were cut off.

Opinion of Reagan's lackeys is hardly reliable.

Robot Check

I notice you only post dumb things in days of the week ending in ‘y’

1. The benefits from Reaganomics:
   1. The economy grew at a 3.4% average rate…compared with 2.9% for the previous eight years, and 2.7% for the next eight.(Table B-4)
   2. Inflation rate dropped from 12.5% to 4.4%. (Table B-63)
   3. Unemployment fell to 5.5% from 7.1% (Table B-35)
   4. Prime interest rate fell by one-third.(Table B-73)
   5. The S & P 500 jumped 124% (Table B-95) http://www.gpoaccess.gov/eop/tables10.html
   6. Charitable contributions rose 57% faster than inflation. Dinesh D’Souza, “Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary May Became an Extraordinary Leader,” p. 116

b. and c. Kiva Lending Team: Team REAL Americans | Kiva





While the ranks of the wealthy quickly multiplied, middle-class investors also entered the stock market in rapidly growing numbers. The creation by Congress in 1978 of the 401(k) tax-deferred retirement plan provided new incentives for workers to invest their savings in the stock market (often through mutual funds) rather than relying on company-funded pensions for retirement. The 401(k) led to a kind of democratization of Wall Street, as the percentage of American households owning some stake in the stock market—either directly or through mutual funds—shot quickly from 15.9% in 1983 to 29.6% in 1989.23 Thus the great bull market of the 1980s created more wealth, for more American families, than any previous boom in history.

Investment Company Institute, "Equity Ownership in America, 2005," http://www.ici.org/pdf/rpt_05_equity_owners.pdf,

The Reagan Era Learning Guide: Citations

Shmoop’s sources cited for The Reagan Era

www.shmoop.com

 

[Blues Man]

Too young to remember.....killed himself by shooting himself in the head..........but no blood on the ground.

do a little cut on your head bro...........see how it bleeds.............S and L was just The Clinton Crime family in it's early stages........

Not to mention how they fucked us in Somalia by not supporting the military..........were you there youngster........I didn't see you..maybe I'm your real dad and you are from the Phillipines.

What's that got to do with the Reagan myth?

And you think that because I'don't have my lips firmly planted on St Ronnie's dead ass that I am somehow a fan of the Clinton's?

Expand your world view outside your little 2 dimensional pigeonhole and see what happens.

 

[PoliticalChic]

The lesson here is the republican party and their followers are a danger both to democracy and to the health and safety of the people. The effort starting largely by Reagan (and before) to destroy government shows today. South Korea is ahead of us in virus testing as is China. Learn this lesson folks and vote for progress next time. Trump answers tough questions from reporters like a school yard bully. Shooting the messenger is the response of the guilty. It is past time to bring back government of the people not special interests.

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government." Thomas Jefferson

'Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?' As a new coronavirus spread in 2020, so did concerns about the United States' preparedness for a potential pandemic.'

Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?

"Every Wednesday morning, a group of conspirators meets to plot out how to most effectively attack the federal government. This is not a group of rag-tag terrorists – they wear $2,000 suits and occupy powerful positions in society. But their ideas are politically radical and they do pose a real threat to the normal workings of government in the U.S. They are a group of leading conservatives who believe that government is a malevolent force in society and they have a fierce determination to drastically cut it back. They are convinced that the central problem in our country is too much government – too many social programs, too many regulations, and too much taxation – and they are committed to doing something about it."

http://www.governmentisgood.com/articles.php?aid=9

"For decades conservatives have been demonizing government and not enough has been done to defend it. Ever since Ronald Reagan declared in 1981 that "Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem," Republicans have been waging a political war against this institution. They have been joined in this anti-government crusade by libertarian thinkers, Tea Party activists, right-wing media pundits, and wealthy corporate lobbies. This powerful political coalition blithely ignores anything good about government and conducts a relentless smear campaign against this institution. They constantly play upon the fears and insecurities of average Americans and encourage them to blame all their problems on big bad government."
Government is Good - An Unapologetic Defense of a Vital Institution

"Well, I have been studying the Republican Party for over 12 years at close hand in the Capital of the United States. And by this time, I have discovered where the Republicans stand on most of the major issues.

Since they won't tell you themselves, I am going to tell you.

They approve of the American farmer-but they are willing to help him go broke.
They stand four-square for the American home--but not for housing.
They are strong for labor--but they are stronger for restricting labor's rights.
They favor a minimum wage--the smaller the minimum the better.
They indorse educational opportunity for all--but they won't spend money for teachers or for schools.
They think modern medical care and hospitals are fine--for people who can afford them.
They approve of social security benefits-so much so that they took them away from almost a million people.
They believe in international trade--so much so that they crippled our reciprocal trade program, and killed our International Wheat Agreement.
They favor the admission of displaced persons--but only within shameful racial and religious limitations.
They consider electric power a great blessing-but only when the private power companies get their rake-off.
They say TVA is wonderful--but we ought never to try it again.
They condemn "cruelly high prices"--but fight to the death every effort to bring them down.
They think the American standard of living is a fine thing--so long as it doesn't spread to all the people.
And they admire the Government of the United States so much that they would like to buy it.

Now, my friends, that is the Wall Street Republican way of life. But there is another way--there is another way--the Democratic way, the way of the Democratic Party.

Of course, the Democratic Party is not perfect. Nobody ever said it was. But the Democratic Party believes in the people. It believes in freedom and progress, and it is fighting for its beliefs right now.

In the Democratic Party, you won't find the kind of unity where everybody thinks what the boss tells him to think, and nothing else." Harry Truman

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/publicpapers/index.php?pid=1986

FYI Ronnie Ray gun expanded government like a drunken democrat and signed the single largest peace time tax hike in history.

Saying he destroyed the government is ludicrous

Reagan crushed your hometeam the USSR, this was shortly after Teddy Kennedy agree to sell them control of the DNC. It's changed hand a few times since then, but now Soros and the ChiComs bought control at a huge discount

The USSR collapsed under its own weight

Um, no. That's bullshit. Reagan formed a coalition to defeat them

Reagan and the Russians - 94.02

Atlantic Unbound: The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Online

www.theatlantic.com

Like I said, total fucking Bullshit to make you losers feel better

You have no clue as to what my political leanings are.

But you have obliviously swallowed for Reagan.

Reagan was not the small government guy he said he was, he gave Americans the single largest peacetime tax hike in history which basically clawed back every bit of the tax cuts he passed in his first term not to mention he tripled the debt.

I don't give a fuck about your "leanings", Jake, I'm calling your bullshit history revision out

It's you who doesn't know the facts.

Oh, please! Knock it off, Jake, no one believes you!

Posting Gorby Talking Points to try to detract from Reagan is sad and silly

That one has been schooled on the facts before.....but, indoctrination is indelible.

1. Under Reagan, the debt went up $1.7 trillion, from $900 billion to $2.6 trillion.
2. But….the national wealth went up $ 17 trillion
3. Reagan's near-trillion-dollar bulge in defense spending transformed the global balance of power in favor of capitalism. Spurring a stock-market, energy, venture-capital, real-estate and employment boom, the Reagan tax-rate cuts and other pro-enterprise policies added some $17 trillion to America's private-sector assets, dwarfing the trillion-dollar rise in public-sector deficits and creating 45 million net new jobs at rising wages and salaries.

George Gilder: The Real Reagan Lesson for Romney-Ryan

Reaganomics - Wikipedia

NAtional wealth?

Just another made up stat to hide the truth that Reagan was a nothing but a BIG government company man.

He increased the size of government so by his own philosophy that "government is the problem" he added to the problem

Let's check:

"Reagan’s legacy affects us dramatically today in two ways. First, Reagan’s anti-Communist foreign policy and his military buildup hastened the disintegration of the Soviet Union. In the past eight years, America’s victory in the Cold War generated a half-trillion-dollar peace dividend. That peace dividend grows every year, and it fell like manna from heaven into President Clinton’s lap. The budget deficit is falling, not primarily because Clinton raised taxes and not primarily because the congressional Republicans committed themselves to a balanced budget, but because the defense budget is nearly $100 billion lower today than when the Berlin Wall came down.

The second effect of the Reagan years was to launch America into what is now widely regarded as a remarkable 15-year low-inflation, high-employment bull market (the Dow was at 800 in 1982, 8,000 today)—interrupted only mildly in the middle Bush years. These 15 years of prosperity were propelled by Reaganomics: lower tax rates, a long-run decline in inflation and interest rates (which also lowers tax rates), freer international trade and a strong dollar. Even with the anti-supply-side Bush and Clinton tax hikes, the top tax rate today of 40% is far below the towering 70% tax rate that disabled the economy in the 1970s. The end of the Cold War has created an international environment of peace and stability, nudging the economy into still higher gear in recent years."
Who Balanced the Budget?

How many times are you going to repeat the lie that Reagan spending caused the downfall of the Soviet Union?

The fact is Soviet defense spending remained flat throughout the 80s. The Soviet economy was in trouble before Reagan came into power he just happened to be the one sitting in the oval office when it finally collapsed under its own weight as has every other command control economy has collapsed.

Let’s stop revising history: Reagan didn’t win the Cold War

Most Americans are unaware that Reagan recanted his description of the Soviet Union as an “evil empire,” dismissing his confrontational rhetoric as a relic of “another time, another era.”

thehill.com

Where were you.........back then..............doubt you were even a egg in your mom's ovaries...........where you with me in operation Team Spirit off Vlad Russia.............didn't see you..................I saw the USSR destroyers.........the Bear and migs sent out to play War Games.............

Where were you.............doubt you even existed.............doubt you served on rust buckets that were well beyond their lifespans.............

Oh well.........go eat your baby food and do your chores in mommies basement.

You were there to get programmed by the propaganda.

The fact s are clear to anyone who is not looking at them through a warped lens.

Regan did not cut taxes. In fact he signed the largest peacetime tax hike in history.

Home ownership declined during his terms so it seems that he didn't do much for the economy there. In fact Reagan ushered in the legislative changes that made the S&L crisis possible

Taxes: What people forget about Reagan

Ronald Reagan is the patron saint of lower taxes and smaller government. He cut taxes, yes. But he also raised them several times, in part to reduce high deficits and in part to pave the way for true tax reform.

money.cnn.com

Did you do your dang homework yet...........Or we'll ground your ass after we whoop your ass with the belt.

You don't know a dang thing about then..........I lived it.

Robot Check

Read a book

 

[eagle1462010]

And made me wait in lines for over an hour for gas because you were a pussy on Iran..........

Let our people rot there for over a year.

Then it's Billy boy.........left our people to die begging for support in Somalia so we get the cool movie Black Hawk Down..........................

Then Obama ROE's ....killed more Americans than anthing else.......stood aside while Iranian made IEDs killed our men over there......................To top it off...............Gave the Fuckers money on top of that AFTER THEY KILLED AMERICANS.

This is the real HISTORY of APPEASEMENT and politicians getting our people killed.

 

[eagle1462010]

Too young to remember.....killed himself by shooting himself in the head..........but no blood on the ground.

do a little cut on your head bro...........see how it bleeds.............S and L was just The Clinton Crime family in it's early stages........

Not to mention how they fucked us in Somalia by not supporting the military..........were you there youngster........I didn't see you..maybe I'm your real dad and you are from the Phillipines.

What's that got to do with the Reagan myth?
You brought up the S and l BS................I didn't ..............just educating your young gerber eating ass......now go do your homework

Everyone from that firm except the clintons died or got tried............the so called suicide.......LMAO....shot in the head and no blood...........ESTABLISHMENT......and their BS politicians.

YOUR HEROES..........Hillary and Bill just as good in Libya as they were in Somalia.......or brothers died there.....for POS's like Billy boy and Hillary in Libya.....................

Then lied said a video did it...........

Go sell you ISM SOMEWHERE ELSE.
And you think that because I'don't have my lips firmly planted on St Ronnie's dead ass that I am somehow a fan of the Clinton's?

Expand your world view outside your little 2 dimensional pigeonhole and see what happens.