The 'Wisdom' of Reagan

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"Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do." -- Ronald Reagan, 1981


"I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself."

"A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?"
--Ronald Reagan (Governor of California), quoted in the Sacramento Bee, opposing expansion of Redwood National Park, March 3, 1966


"All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk."
--Ronald Reagan (Republican candidate for president), quoted in the Burlington (Vermont) Free Press, February 15, 1980.

"Approximately 80 percent of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation. So let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards for man-made sources."
--Ronald Reagan, quoted in Sierra, September 10, 1980


"It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas."
--Ronald Reagan (candidate for Governor of California), interviewed in the Fresno Bee, October 10, 1965

Government does not tax to get the money it needs; government always finds a need for the money it gets.
([ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iShCXx_xZDQ[/ame] 9:05)

"...the moral equal of our Founding Fathers."
--President Reagan, describing the Nicaraguan contras, March 1, 1985

"I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at the point of a bayonet, if necessary."
--Ronald Reagan, Los Angeles Times, October 20, 1965

"I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964."
--Ronald Reagan, Los Angeles Times, June 17, 1966

" Once you have mastered sincerity. . .you've got it made."

"If there has to be a bloodbath then let's get it over with."
--Ronald Reagan (Governor of California), quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle, May 15, 1969. (Reagan reveals how he intends to deal with student protesters at the University of California, Berkeley.)

"We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry every night. Well, that was probably true. They were all on a diet."
--Ronald Reagan, TV speech, October 27, 1964


"Well, I learned a lot....I went down to (Latin America) to find out from them and (learn) their views. You'd be surprised. They're all individual countries"


"We are trying to get unemployment to go up, and I think we're going to succeed."

"It would be a user fee."
Reagan explaining that his proposed
five-cent-a-gallon gasoline tax would not
be a Tax at all."
11/11/1982
 
Thanks for that.
The left wing at the time caricatured Reagan as out of touch and uninformed. Of course he went on to be probably the greatest president of the 20th century. Similarly the Left caricatured George W Bush. Not in the same category, but a good president anyway.
So caricaturing by the Left is a negative indicator for how good a president is. And I notice they are strangely silent on Obama.
 
"I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964."
--Ronald Reagan, Los Angeles Times, June 17, 1966


Damn. Righty's, comments?

I think I will use it as a signature for while. Damn, just damn.
 
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Thanks for that.
The left wing at the time caricatured Reagan as out of touch and uninformed. Of course he went on to be probably the greatest president of the 20th century. Similarly the Left caricatured George W Bush. Not in the same category, but a good president anyway.
So caricaturing by the Left is a negative indicator for how good a president is. And I notice they are strangely silent on Obama.
''If IT makes you happy, then why the hell are you such a sad sac?''

Ronald Reagan came into office in DC after breaking most every important promise he made as a candidate 4 Governor (and which he did as Prez) qnd after co-starring with a friggin' chimp. So the left made fun out of him? lol

Reagan was belittled by conservatives while in office and especially after he left.

Only a few years later did they decide to embrace the man and his myths.
 
"I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964."
--Ronald Reagan, Los Angeles Times, June 17, 1966


Damn. Righty's, comments?

I think I will use it as a signature for while. Damn, just damn.

cough cough Grand Kleagel Byrd and Gore Sr cough cough
 
Why NOT embellish this THREAD with some truth?

THE REAL RONALD REAGAN

*MERRY CHRISTMAS* INDEED...

Truth? Like saying when you say ''we did not trade arms for hostages'' you listened to your heart and not your head?

Reagan sucked except he did give Americansa sense of pride....but at what cost? George Bush and Clinton both had to raise taxes to get us out of the Reagan miracle/delusion.

and btw Clinton left office with a surplus and a balanced budhet...you know, the very things Reagan claimed he would do.
 
Why NOT embellish this THREAD with some truth?
[SIZE=+2]You've got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan,
because when you quote him accurately
it's called mudslinging.-- Walter Mondale
[/SIZE]
 
The American people settled the Mondale Reagan debate fairly decisively
Indeed they did. *WE* are still combatting the same Big Government Horseshit Reagan spoke of in the speech I posted.

To those that say *Reaganism is dead*? I say the people don't agree. Current polls put it over 60%.

Obama and the current Congress are Dead People Walking...(Poltically, metaphorically, of course).

Thanks Frank...and

*MERRY CHRISTMAS* brother!
 
☭proletarian☭;1841865 said:
Why NOT embellish this THREAD with some truth?
[SIZE=+2]You've got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan,[/SIZE]
[SIZE=+2]because when you quote him accurately[/SIZE]
[SIZE=+2]it's called mudslinging.-- Walter Mondale[/SIZE]

I'll go boggin' with ANY of them anyplace, ANYTIME...


*Merry Christmas*
 
Why NOT embellish this THREAD with some truth?

THE REAL RONALD REAGAN

*MERRY CHRISTMAS* INDEED...

Truth? Like saying when you say ''we did not trade arms for hostages'' you listened to your heart and not your head?

Reagan sucked except he did give Americansa sense of pride....but at what cost? George Bush and Clinton both had to raise taxes to get us out of the Reagan miracle/delusion.

and btw Clinton left office with a surplus and a balanced budhet...you know, the very things Reagan claimed he would do.

You didn't WATCH the Video, DID YOU? Did any of it sound familiar? Of course it doesn't...YOU didn't watch it.
 
"I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964."
--Ronald Reagan, Los Angeles Times, June 17, 1966


Damn. Righty's, comments?

I think I will use it as a signature for while. Damn, just damn.

cough cough Grand Kleagel Byrd and Gore Sr cough cough

of course, and IF you wanna PUSH IT farther? GO BACK to the Time of the Lincoln asassination, and the Resistance -OF- Democrats, and their treatment of BLACKS that resulted IN the KKK?

Yep Folks...the KKK was a manufactured resonse of DEMOCRATS of the time...

"I'll take WHOM were the 'RADICAL REPUBLICANS' of the latter 1860's for $1000 Alex..."to prove my point...
 
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A sober review of Reagan's presidency doesn't yield the seamlessly conservative record being peddled today. Federal government expanded on his watch. The conservative desire to outlaw abortion was never seriously pursued. Reagan broke with the hardliners in his administration and compromised with the Soviets on arms control. His assault on entitlements never materialized; instead he saved Social Security in 1983. And he repeatedly ignored the fundamental conservative dogma that taxes should never be raised.

"Reagan's Liberal Legacy" by Joshua Green
 
"I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964."
--Ronald Reagan, Los Angeles Times, June 17, 1966


Damn. Righty's, comments?

I think I will use it as a signature for while. Damn, just damn.

It was ONLY because it WAS NEVER NEEDED...but don't let that desuade you any. YOU read more into it than need be Zona.

But then you DemocRATS succeed in keeping them ON the plantation anyway, and were the catalylst for the breakup OF the BLACK family, and others through Government imposed slavery.
 
☭proletarian☭;1841893 said:
A sober review of Reagan's presidency doesn't yield the seamlessly conservative record being peddled today. Federal government expanded on his watch. The conservative desire to outlaw abortion was never seriously pursued. Reagan broke with the hardliners in his administration and compromised with the Soviets on arms control. His assault on entitlements never materialized; instead he saved Social Security in 1983. And he repeatedly ignored the fundamental conservative dogma that taxes should never be raised.

"Reagan's Liberal Legacy" by Joshua Green

This has been TRUE no matter the President since HOOVER...

The problem remains the Elites, and their undue influence upon government, and policies since that time. It was hit home under Roosevelt, and the Socialists have never looked back.

What we witness NOW is the fruition. The 'Blackhead' on the face of this Republic.
 

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