You see, I read posts like this from Poodle and am convinced that he's about 25 and never lived through the 1980's, or he wouldn't spout such shit. Instead, he believes in some version of history he heard on Rush and Hannity.
[I love how upset freedom makes you because at the end of the day, freedom leaves you with no argument to stand on. And that really gets your little Victoria's Secret cross-dressing panties in a bunch.
No, I don't take the word "Freedom" seriously from you because to you, Freedom is the ability of rich assholes to **** over the rest of us. You bastardize the word.
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Right. And I said that wasn't true. What part of that did you not understand, stupid?
The part where we spent trillions of dollars on weapons we never used, and the USSR would have probably collapsed had we spent that money or not.
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You're the only idiot in world history who denies that Reagan won the Cold War. Gorbachev capitulated on every significant demand because he knew that A.) Reagan was hell bent on destroying communist threats to the world and B.) Reagan had built the U.S. back into the worlds military superpower after yet another idiot libtard (Jimmy Carter) had tore us down.
And when did Gorby do that, exactly? Again, you are probably about 25, and you don't remember what a clusterfuck the Iceland summit was, where Gorby wanted agreements, and Reagan just wouldn't give up his Star Wars fantasies, so they both went home empty handed.
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Reagan won the Cold War. Pick up a history book sometime. Oh wait - that's right - you prefer your own version of made up history where our founders were "evil slave rapers", where Dumbocrats fought to free the slaves while Abraham Lincoln four to keep them enslaved, and where communism has proven to be successful!
Not sure where you really equate the Southern Democrats of 1861 to today's version, other than the name. But, yeah, Tommy Jefferson raped the shit out of Sally Hemmings the minute the poor girl hit puberty.
More made up "history" by JoeB. He is proof that communists really do love their propaganda. (Psst...Joe...there is nothing the intelligence community doesn't know in advance - we had spies inside the Soviet government you ****'n moron. Hell, we even knew about 9/11 in advance - our leaders just refused to act in the information. Stop being such a naïve, immature, little puppet).
Guy, I was in the military at the time the USSR fell, and every year, we'd get a big glossy book telling us about how many divisions the USSR had, and what their weapons systems and capabilities were. And they were still sending this book out when Yelstin was standing on the tank, calling this all a bunch of foolishness.
And you are admitting Bush knew about 9/11 in advance? Really?
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So you agree that Obama has been completely irresponsible then? I mean, Reagan added $2 trillion to the debt while Obama has added $7 trillion (it was barely over $10 trillion when he got in - do the math asshole).
I have done the math. Reagan increased the debt from less than 1 Trillion to 4 trillion. In short, he increased it 300%. Now I want you to get your tiny brain around this. 200 years of history, two world wars, a Moon Program, Interstate highway system, and the total national debt at the end of that was less than a Trillion. And then along comes Reagan, big spending on weapons we don't need and big tax breaks to the rich, and he quadruples the debt.
Meanwhile, Obama has increased the debt by 70%. Mostly because Reagan made it easier to borrow than tax, and Bush made all these commitments he couldn't walk away from.
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Yeah, uh "trickle down" proved to be a spectacular success. Reagan took over the second worse economy in U.S. history and created an economic tidal wave which we rode until Bill Clintons socialist policies finally collapsed us around 2003. Conversely, you're trickle up poverty policies have been proven over and over to creat collapse - most recently with Detroit.
Again, I'm fairly convinced you are about 25, or you wouldnt' spout such bullshit.
First, the 1981 recession was caused because the fed felt inflation was too high. In short, it was a planned event, using unemployment to fight inflation. And Reagan continued that policy after Carter left, which is why unemployment didn't crest until 1983 when it hit 11%.
Of course, here's the thing. Middle class wages stopped growing when adjusted for inflation after Reagan got in. Meanwhile, CEO compensation increased from 40X average worker pay to 482X average worker pay.
And if you want to bring up Detroit, again- who did Detroit lose out to? A bunch of Any-Randian libertarians celebrating the 'wealth-creators'?
Nope. They lost to unionized Germans and Japanese with government subsidized health care, and CEO's that only make six figures.