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Can you guys give up the Reagan thing? For real, people liked him, he was an actor and had ruddy cheeks, kinda like santa. Before I start posting deficit charts, recession charts, poor job creation charts, economy charts.. to show you how lame he was to the middle class and the economy. Every single time the Repubs try trickle down it kills the economy. The market suffers, jobs suffer. ugh. wake-up!!
And lets not forget...there are still millions of homeless people especially Vietnam Vets sleeping in door ways in California because he kicked them out.
Many people did not like Reagan, and don't like that his policies put us on the road to the broken economy that we have today.
He lied about the "welfare queens" - he attacked Granada.
We called him Ronald Ray-guns.
Basically, lots of Americans hated him.
That's not going to stop your opinion, but he was no saint.
He had altzheimers, and acted his way from scripts.
He brought the neo-cons into the government.
His "trickle down" economic policy should be hailed with a monument to the urinal.
THE CLINTON-GORE ECONOMIC RECORD:
THE LOWEST UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN 30 YEARSTHE LOWEST UNEMPLOYMENT RATE SINCE 1969 AND MORE THAN 20 MILLION NEW JOBS. In 1992, when Bill Clinton was elected President, the American economy was barely creating jobs, wages were stagnant, and the unemployment rate was 7.5 percent. His bold, three-part economic strategy focused on three objectives: fiscal discipline, investing in education, health care, science and technology, and opening foreign markets. Today’s jobs release provides more evidence that this strategy is working: The Unemployment Rate Was 4.2 Percent in 1999 -- the Lowest Since 1969. The unemployment rate was 4.1 percent in December bringing the average unemployment rate for 1999 to 4.2 percent -- the lowest since 1969. The unemployment rate has fallen for seven years in a row. It has remained below 5 percent for 30 months in a row. For women the unemployment rate was 4.1 percent -- the lowest since 1953.
If you haven't seen it, The Power of Nightmares is a three part series shown on the BBC. It's a good history of the rise of the neoconservatives and the fundamentalist Islamic movement. The parallels are eerie.
Oh, and it's not like Nixon was a saint or anything either.
many of our economic woes can be traced back to ronald reagan. he was not an economist.
he was a b rate movie actor.
probably the greatest error was his teachings on debt. debt is not in fact meaningless.
He was also the governor of California. And when he left office, there was a surplus in that state. Probably because he didn't have to deal with a Democratic-controlled Congress. (The same Congress that outspent Reagan during the '80s.)
Clinton cooked the books, there was no budget surplus.
Surrrrrrrrrrre.
When faced with facts you don't like, just deny the reality of those facts.
Now it becomes clear why the GOP just got it clocked cleaned. They were burying their heads in the sand (or maybe somewhere not nearly as sanitary).
Ken
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