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Tripled debt, became pals with Saddam, S+L bust, screwed the middle class, gave us the disgraceful propaganda machine that turned you and half the country into functional morons/dupes of the greedy idiot billionaire chickenhawk jackasses...Reagan was a complete failure and that that fact is hidden from most, demonstrates the power of propaganda on the uneducated. Reagan did raise taxes many times even as America became a debtor nation under his management. He also agreed to keep social security solvent so I'll give him that. His plan to protect the nation through star war like technology wasted billions and was a failure. Imagine if that money had gone into infrastructure etc. What a joke that anyone even mentions him today.
The Obama Economy vs. The Reagan Economy: It's Literally No Contest
If you have the guts to read history check out 'Liberty Under Siege: American Politics, 1976-1988' by Walter Karp.
"It’s conservative lore that Reagan the icon cut taxes, while George H.W. Bush the renegade raised them. As Stockman recalls, "No one was authorized to talk about tax increases on Ronald Reagan’s watch, no matter what kind of tax, no matter how justified it was." Yet raising taxes is exactly what Reagan did. He did not always instigate those hikes or agree to them willingly–but he signed off on them. One year after his massive tax cut, Reagan agreed to a tax increase to reduce the deficit that restored fully one-third of the previous year’s reduction. (In a bizarre bit of self-deception, Reagan, who never came to terms with this episode of ideological apostasy, persuaded himself that the three-year, $100 billion tax hike–the largest since World War II–was actually "tax reform" that closed loopholes in his earlier cut and therefore didn’t count as raising taxes.)
Faced with looming deficits, Reagan raised taxes again in 1983 with a gasoline tax and once more in 1984, this time by $50 billion over three years, mainly through closing tax loopholes for business. Despite the fact that such increases were anathema to conservatives–and probably cost Reagan’s successor, George H.W. Bush, reelection–Reagan raised taxes a grand total of four times just between 1982-84." Newsflash: Ronald Reagan Raised Taxes (You Idiots) - Shadowproof
Reagan's record: RVC--Graphs
"....there's a growing realization that the starting point for many of the catastrophes confronting the United States today can be traced to Reagan's presidency. There's also a grudging reassessment that the "failed"- presidents of the 1970s--Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter--may deserve more credit for trying to grapple with the problems that now beset the country." Ronald Reagan: Worst President Ever?
'The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed' by David Stockman
To compare the failures of Reagan to anyone at all shows a lack of knowledge so deep it would be unreachable. He should have been impeached for providing arms to Iran and consider too his destruction of regulatory policy. Is it any wonder conservatives are failures and an embarrassment to the nation. They know nothing and demonstrate it daily. American Conservatives are Embarrassing
"Reagan was a complete failure..."
Gads, you're a moron.
One Obama deficit is bigger than all of Reagans COMBINED deficits
One Obama deficit is great than ENTIRE REAGAN budgets! Reagan ran the entire government on less than an Obama deficit
the debt/deficit monster rears its ugly head again.... pay no attention
If you have trouble following, I can explain it to you with charts and small words