Reagan Was A Shitty President

[AllieBaba]

Coming from splatter, that really means something.

Mebbe so Allie, but you have yet to put your own thoughts on this thread. Anyone can regurgitate rightwing blogs.

Anyone can, sure.

I don't, however.

I back up what I say with facts and links. You might try it some day, ignoramus.

 

[johnrocks]

I think he's been the "least shitty" of those that have been President in my 49 years but the Reagan worshipers have elevated him to "Elvis" status which does those who advocate less government no good at all. To be called a "Reagan conservative" is setting the bar pretty low.

 

[Truthmatters]

The Enduring Lies of Ronald Reagan -- In These Times


During a 1983 Congressional Medal of Honor ceremony Reagan told a story about military heroism that New York Daily News columnist Lars-Erik Nelson wrote never happened. Nelson had checked the citations on all 434 Congressional Medals of Honor awarded during WWII. The scene Reagan described did appear, however, in the 1944 film A Wing and a Prayer. Larry Speakes’ response? “If you tell the same story five times, it’s true.”

 

[Truthmatters]

In 1982, the Congressional Budget Office found that taxpayers earning under $10,000 lost an average of $240 from Reagan’s 1981 tax cuts, while those earning more than $80,000 gained an average of $15,130. By that fall, the jobless rate hit 10.1 percent—the worst in 42 years, and a year later 11.9 million were out of work. In 1983, the country’s poverty rate rose to 15 percent, the highest level since the mid-’60s. In 1984, a congressional study reported that cuts in welfare had pushed more than 500,000 people—the majority of them children—into poverty. Then-Attorney General Ed Meese’s response? “I don’t know of any authoritative figures that there are hungry children … people go to soup kitchens because the food is free and that’s easier than paying for it.”

 

[AllieBaba]

The Enduring Lies of Ronald Reagan -- In These Times


During a 1983 Congressional Medal of Honor ceremony Reagan told a story about military heroism that New York Daily News columnist Lars-Erik Nelson wrote never happened. Nelson had checked the citations on all 434 Congressional Medals of Honor awarded during WWII. The scene Reagan described did appear, however, in the 1944 film A Wing and a Prayer. Larry Speakes’ response? “If you tell the same story five times, it’s true.”

I always know when somebody reads only partisan rags when they lie about ME using "blogs" to source stuff.

"In These Times is a nonprofit and independent newsmagazine committed to political and economic democracy and opposed to the dominance of transnational corporations and the tyranny of marketplace values over human values. In These Times is dedicated to reporting the news with the highest journalistic standards; to informing and analyzing movements for social, environmental and economic justice; and to providing an accessible forum for debate about the policies that shape our future."

social justice, lol.

"In 1976, author and historian James Weinstein founded In These Times with the mission to “identify and clarify the struggles against corporate power now multiplying in American society.”

Weinstein was joined in establishing this independent magazine of news, culture and opinion by noted intellectuals Daniel Ellsberg, E.P. Thompson, Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, Julian Bond and Herbert Marcuse, all of whom were among the original sponsors of the magazine (see full list of founding sponsors below)."

That was from your website.

"The Wit and Wisdom of Noam Chomsky

Compiled by Paul Bogdanor

ON COMMUNISM...

“One might argue, at least I would argue, that council communism... is the natural form of revolutionary socialism in an industrial society.”
(Government in the Future [Seven Stories Press, 2005], p. 27)

ON POVERTY...

“if we ever get anything like a kind of just society, things like my standard of living may very well not exist. In that sense, there will be, I think, material deprivation in some manner for a large part of the population. And I think there ought to be.”
(Interview, Black Rose, No. 1, 1974)

ON REVOLUTION...

“I suppose that, at some point, the ruling class will simply strike back by force, and there has to be defense against that force, and that probably means violent revolution.”
(Interview, Black Rose, No. 1, 1974)

ON TERROR...

“If it were true that the consequences of not using terror would be that the peasantry in Vietnam would continue to live in the state of the peasantry of the Philippines, then I think the use of terror would be justified.”
(Alexander Klein, ed., Dissent, Power and Confrontation [McGraw-Hill, 1971], p. 119)

ON DICTATORSHIPS...

— Maoist China

“But take China, modern China; one also finds many things that are really quite admirable... a good deal of the collectivization and communization was really based on mass participation and took place after a level of understanding had been reached in the peasantry...”
(Alexander Klein, ed., Dissent, Power and Confrontation [McGraw-Hill, 1971], pp. 117-8)

— Stalinist North Vietnam

“I would like to express the great joy that we feel in your accomplishments... Your heroism reveals the capabilities of the human spirit and human will.”
(Radio Hanoi, April 14, 1970)

— Pol Pot’s Cambodia

“the evacuation of Phnom Penh, widely denounced at the time and since for its undoubted brutality, may actually have saved many lives. It is striking that the crucial facts rarely appear in the chorus of condemnations.”
(After the Cataclysm [South End Press, 1979], p. 160)

ON AMERICA...

“Such facts as these... raise the question whether what is needed in the United States today is dissent or denazification... I myself believe that what is needed is a kind of denazification.”
(Ethics, October 1968)

ON REPUBLICANS...

“The new Republicans represent a kind of proto-fascism. There’s a real sadism. They want to go for the jugular. Anybody who doesn’t meet their standards, they want to kill, not just oppose, but destroy.”
(The Progressive, March 1996)

ON ZIONISM...

“Hitler’s conceptions have struck a responsive chord in current Zionist commentary.”
(Fateful Triangle [rev. ed., Pluto Press, 1999], p. 208)

ON JUDAISM...

“In the Jewish community, the Orthodox rabbinate imposes its interpretation of religious law... Were similar principles to apply to Jews elsewhere, we would not hesitate to condemn this revival of the Nuremberg laws.”
(Foreword, Sabri Jiryis, The Arabs in Israel [Monthly Review Press, 1976], p. viii)

ON ISRAEL...

“Israel’s ‘secret weapon’ ... is that it may behave in the manner of what have sometimes been called ‘crazy states’ in the international affairs literature... eventuating in a final solution from which few will escape.”
(Fateful Triangle [rev. ed., Pluto Press, 1999], pp. 468-9)

ON JEWS...

“The Jewish community here is deeply totalitarian. They do not want democracy, they do not want freedom.”
(Interview, Shmate: A Journal of Progressive Jewish Thought, Summer 1988)"

The Wit and Wisdom of Noam Chomsky

Your source is a commie rag, you nitwit.

 

[Madeline]

Reagan began the most recent wave of demonizing the poor. Clinton, that raggedy asswipe, pandered to it as well.

 

[AllieBaba]

Yeah, whatever, ding dong.

 

[fyrenza]

Just STFU, eh?

Made-A-Line, I don't even read your posts, and UNLESS someone quotes you,

you just basically Do Not Exist.

You've proven yourself to be a REPEATER ~ you haven't even come CLOSE to being an Amplifier.

If anything? You DENIGRATE the postings of the folks you repeat.

Time for a little screen name change-up, imho.

 

[Truthmatters]

The facts in the story are correct allin babble

 

[AllieBaba]

No, no they aren't.

 

[AllieBaba]

Besides, they aren't facts at all. They're opinion.

And wrong.

 

[uscitizen]

What really amazes me is how those who worship Reagan zing Obama for using teleprompters.

Liberals are not allowed to use teleprompters I suppose.

 

[Truthmatters]

No, no they aren't.

“If you tell the same story five times, it’s true.” was never said and reagan never gave that speach?

The CBO never scored the reagan tax cuts?

 

[Big Fitz]

WTF is this?

NOW,

y'all are going to blame Reagan?!?

Cripes.

This is reality as they wish it. Not as it is. The big lie is a tool for them to handle the fact that reality and their desires will never meet. The problem is, the rest of us pay for their mental illness more than they do.

 

[uscitizen]

Reagan deserves his share of the blame, along witrh several other presidents and the majority of congress.
Lets not forget the private sector and their well deserved blame either.

 

[Big Fitz]

The facts in the story are correct allin babble

"Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, everyone's not entitled to their own facts."
Joe Biden

 

[Truthmatters]

Reagan gave us massive debt and deregulation that later turned into the savings and loan debacle.

He sold arms for hostages.

He increased racial tention.

He made children go hungry.

He decreased the ranks of the middle class.

 

[Jeremy]

Reagan gave us massive debt and deregulation that later turned into the savings and loan debacle.

He sold arms for hostages.

He increased racial tention.

He made children go hungry.

He decreased the ranks of the middle class.

That asshole ate kittens for breakfast and raped grandmothers too!!

 

[Big Fitz]

Reagan gave us massive debt and deregulation that later turned into the savings and loan debacle.

Who writes the laws again? Usually before they vote on them?

He sold arms for hostages.

There were no convictions only allegations.

He increased racial tention.

Prove it. Credible news sources only, not moonbat conspiracy blogs please.

He made children go hungry.

1. Cite one proven case that links the president to child starvation. 2. Where were the children's parents? 3. Its the government's job to feed children? When'd that become a constitutional power?

He decreased the ranks of the middle class.

He increased the size of the upper class as well. I guess helping people get rich is a bad thing.

 

[Big Fitz]

Reagan gave us massive debt and deregulation that later turned into the savings and loan debacle.

He sold arms for hostages.

He increased racial tention.

He made children go hungry.

He decreased the ranks of the middle class.

That asshole ate kittens for breakfast and raped grandmothers too!!

went down to the hobo jungle, stole cans of beans from the bums there and ate them in the white house kitchen too.

Jeez! Let's try and make a boogyman while we're at it! I hear if you say his name 5 times fast he'll come back and kill you with the iron hook he has for his hand!

Wet the bed much, TroofMutters?