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Its 2011 s0ns.........and the left owns the mess!!!
not winning..........
Nobody gives a rats ass about Ronald Reagan.
Its 2011 s0ns.........and the left owns the mess!!!
not winning..........
Nobody gives a rats ass about Ronald Reagan.
The Sad Legacy of Ronald Reagan
"Three hundred and fifty thousand: That's a conservative estimate for the number of offenders with mental illness confined in America's prisons and jails.
More Americans receive mental health treatment in prisons and jails than in hospitals or treatment centers. In fact, the three largest inpatient psychiatric facilities in the country are jails: Los Angeles County Jail, Rikers Island Jail in New York City and Cook County Jail in Illinois.
"We have a criminal justice system which has a very clear purpose: You get arrested. We want justice. We try you, and justice hopefully prevails. It was never built to handle people that were very, very ill, at least with mental illness," Judge Steve Leifman tells Laura Sullivan, guest host of weekends on All Things Considered.
When the government began closing state-run hospitals in the 1980s, people with mental illness had nowhere to turn; many ended up in jail."
The Sad Legacy of Ronald Reagan
"Three hundred and fifty thousand: That's a conservative estimate for the number of offenders with mental illness confined in America's prisons and jails.
More Americans receive mental health treatment in prisons and jails than in hospitals or treatment centers. In fact, the three largest inpatient psychiatric facilities in the country are jails: Los Angeles County Jail, Rikers Island Jail in New York City and Cook County Jail in Illinois.
"We have a criminal justice system which has a very clear purpose: You get arrested. We want justice. We try you, and justice hopefully prevails. It was never built to handle people that were very, very ill, at least with mental illness," Judge Steve Leifman tells Laura Sullivan, guest host of weekends on All Things Considered.
When the government began closing state-run hospitals in the 1980s, people with mental illness had nowhere to turn; many ended up in jail."
The article in the OP is not simply raw numbers. You are absolutely right on the disastrous foreign and domestic situations. But Reagan did not cut spending, lower taxes by any significant amount, or reduce the size of government. In fact, he did most the opposite. He truly was the Great Communicator, for he was able to have the widest policy-rhetoric gap of any politician in the history of the United States.The OP is yet another idiot take on the Reagan era, which simply dumps out raw numbers without analyzing the horrendous foreign and domestic situations Reagan inherited from the disastrous Carter administration. Noithing to see here, folks, move along.
I am a Republican. It is important to face reality if you want to overcome big government. Reagan's legacy is sad because it offered hope for reducing government, but ultimately the opposite happened. We can't make the same mistake in 2012.
Gorby ended the Soviet Union. We're just lucky all Reagan's bluster and covert BS didn't bring the hardliners back in...
Sad legacy because Dems are sad that Reagan defeated the USSR.
The Sad Legacy of Ronald Reagan
From the crazy libertarian types over at right wing mises institute ...
http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/1452/natldebtchartb.jpg
Increases in the National Debt Chart
Reagan tripled the debt, and Gorby ended the USSR with glastnost and Peristroika.
The article in the OP is not simply raw numbers. You are absolutely right on the disastrous foreign and domestic situations. But Reagan did not cut spending, lower taxes by any significant amount, or reduce the size of government. In fact, he did most the opposite. He truly was the Great Communicator, for he was able to have the widest policy-rhetoric gap of any politician in the history of the United States.
I am a Republican. It is important to face reality if you want to overcome big government. Reagan's legacy is sad because it offered hope for reducing government, but ultimately the opposite happened. We can't make the same mistake in 2012.
You want to go round and round with me on this? Hokay!
The OP WAS just raw numbers, without any analysis of the history behind the numbers.
Reagan HUGELY reduced tax rates with the 1981 tax cut.
Reagan agreed to a democrat proposal for a tax increase with a $2 for $1 spending cut in 1982.
Reagan had to greatly ramp up the military because of the consequences of carter's appeasement policy which unleashed a huge soviet military buildup and anti-US aggression all over the world. This was expensive. To do otherwise would have been almost treason. That he HAD to do this says NOTHING about his philospohy of cutting spending when it's POSSIBLE.
OK - now you repeat your standard anti-Reagan post.
from a man who ran Reagan's Office of Management and Budget:
FREELAND: You worked for Ronald Reagan. Do you think the American economy so youre, like, a red-blooded capitalist could it sustain higher taxes than it has now?
STOCKMAN: Absolutely. In 1982, we were looking at the jaws of the worst recession since the 1930s. We overdid it in 1981, cut taxes too much. We came back with a big deficit reduction plan in 1982. Unemployments at 10 percent, the economy is in dire shape, and we raise taxes by 1.2 percent of GDP, which would be $150 billion a year right now not 10 years down the road but right now
David Stockman: We Need To Raise Taxes. Like Reagan Did.
Reagan Budget Director: Absolutely Raise Taxes, Just Like Reagan Did | ThinkProgress
Raygun's Voodoo and covert BS in Afghan, Iraq brought us directly to Booosh, 9/11. the Taliban, and the Depression. Mediocre actor. Also to Rushbo, Fox etc and the most partisan BS ever seen...Absolute incompetence.
Reagan tripled the debt, and Gorby ended the USSR with glastnost and Peristroika.
The article in the OP is not simply raw numbers. You are absolutely right on the disastrous foreign and domestic situations. But Reagan did not cut spending, lower taxes by any significant amount, or reduce the size of government. In fact, he did most the opposite. He truly was the Great Communicator, for he was able to have the widest policy-rhetoric gap of any politician in the history of the United States.The OP is yet another idiot take on the Reagan era, which simply dumps out raw numbers without analyzing the horrendous foreign and domestic situations Reagan inherited from the disastrous Carter administration. Noithing to see here, folks, move along.
I am a Republican. It is important to face reality if you want to overcome big government. Reagan's legacy is sad because it offered hope for reducing government, but ultimately the opposite happened. We can't make the same mistake in 2012.
You want to go round and round with me on this? Hokay!
The OP WAS just raw numbers, without any analysis of the history behind the numbers.
Reagan HUGELY reduced tax rates with the 1981 tax cut.
Reagan agreed to a democrat proposal for a tax increase with a $2 for $1 spending cut in 1982.
Reagan had to greatly ramp up the military because of the consequences of carter's appeasement policy which unleashed a huge soviet military buildup and anti-US aggression all over the world. This was expensive. To do otherwise would have been almost treason. That he HAD to do this says NOTHING about his philospohy of cutting spending when it's POSSIBLE.
OK - now you repeat your standard anti-Reagan post.
