if reagan did nothing else, he'd still be great.

[CrusaderFrank]

The question is, why did the US under Reagan run such huge deficits when his tax cuts plus the economic expansion were supposed to produce such huge amounts of tax revenue?

Democrat Congress lied about the agreed to spending cuts. In any event, the military buildup collapsed the USSR and left them only one play: take up Ted Kennedy on his offer to have the Democrat Party run from Moscow

 

[Camp]

He told Gorbochev to tear down the wall in W Berlin and Gorbie DID so. that changed the world, and for the better. Russia was revealed to be the paper tiger that they 'd really always been (ie, unable to do anything vs Afghanistan, despite being right next door and using criminal methods. ).

Reagan COULD have gone anti-gun after he was shot, and with him PUSHING such an agenda, we'd have lost all of our rights, but he didn't. So that's another HUGE reason to call him a great man. Perhaps not much of a President, but a great man, nonetheless.

I hate to nit pick but you forgot a big one.

Reagan is the only president ( democrat or republican ) to significantly and permanently reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world.

He embraced the intermediate arms agreement which eliminated an entire class of nuclear weapons.

The Soviets and the US alike dismantled thousands of nukes as a result.

Many down play it as a trivial drop in the bucket but despite all the peace rhetoric from the left no one has ever come close to this accomplishment

Yup, he gets one for that.

 

[Camp]

The question is, why did the US under Reagan run such huge deficits when his tax cuts plus the economic expansion were supposed to produce such huge amounts of tax revenue?

To end the COLD WAR.... you really do know nothing of history, do you!

Some of us were busy living it.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Reagan is revered as a Liberator in Eastern Europe; the only people who hate him are former Politburo members and our low Information Commie Wannabe Progressives

Your concern for Europe is very touching but I'm more interested in my own country.




Reaga was one of the most corrupt, most crooked presidents. Made the US into a debtor nation. Brought our health care system to ruin. We will never get out from under the damage he did. Raised taxes 11 times on the working class, cut taxes for the wealthy, 11% unemployment (5.4 under Obama), tripled the fed deficit (Obama has cut it by 3/4ths). Reagan was a good prez for the 1% but almost everything he did harmed the country and the working class.

The well-meaning Socialist EMTALA was a disaster that wiped out many hospitals, trauma and burn centers and continues to cost the tax payers more than it was ever worth.

By any standard, Ronnie Ray-Gun and his astroligers were a disaster for the country.

OP needs to brush up on history. Gorby did not tear down the wall because Ronnie told him to. Reagan did do one thing right - he started the treaty that Obama brought to fruition. Reagan was most certainly in favor of gun control.

Raised taxes 11 times on the working class, cut taxes for the wealthy,

I never tire of this idiotic claim.

 

[Flash Farley]

The left hates Reagan because he helped defeat communism.

 

[Derideo_Te]

Reagans greatest accomplishment in ending the cold war was not exploiting the situation and allowing Russia and Gorbechev to save face. By allowing a graceful way out, Reagan prevented a potentially volatile situation from escallating

Did Reagan cause the Soviet Union to collapse? No way

The argument can be made that if it wasn't for St Reagan propping up the USSR it would have collapsed even sooner.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Reagans greatest accomplishment in ending the cold war was not exploiting the situation and allowing Russia and Gorbechev to save face. By allowing a graceful way out, Reagan prevented a potentially volatile situation from escallating

Did Reagan cause the Soviet Union to collapse? No way

The argument can be made that if it wasn't for St Reagan propping up the USSR it would have collapsed even sooner.

Yeah and the Berlin Wall just fell all by itself when the USSR didn't spend on infrastructure

Dems <3 Soviet Communism

 

[rightwinger]

The left hates Reagan because he helped defeat communism.

What did he do?

 

[Flash Farley]

The left hates Reagan because he helped defeat communism.

What did he do?

Um, do you read books?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The left hates Reagan because he helped defeat communism.

What did he do?

Called your home team an "Evil empire", vowed to defeat them and followed through on that promise

 

[Flash Farley]

Gorbachev repudiated the Brezhnev doctrine of use of violence to keep the Soviet Union a socialist state. That helped.

 

[Camp]

East Europeans drenched themselves in gasoline in front of the Kremlin and lit themselves on fire. That stirred things up a little bit.

 

[Camp]

This guy started the downfall and defeat of the USSR before Reagan ever stepped into office. Maybe some will disagree with the source. Perhaps it isn't conservative enough.

youtube.com/watch?v=obR-__x4-uE