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so you equate liberalism with amnesty, abortion, blowing up debt, high taxes, love of failed programs, and negotiating with terrorists? are you trying to get people to hate liberals?
LOL, Nancy is that you? Just say no to drugs, remember.
Reagan's policies on defense were pretty much the polar opposite of Libertarian. He used deficit spending to massively expand the military so that he could get involved in conflicts all over the globe. It is laughable that the same person that cooked up schemes like Iran-Contra can be described as a Libertarian.
Of course I remember "just say no" that was Nancy's thing, not his. He also supported states rights, abortion, live and let live, but developed a strong military to keep us safe as well. You know, there are all levels within any group. Not everyone or everything is black and white. I am a conservative but I hold libertarian views on some issues. I probably hold some liberal views, but not many. As for Reagan, I will say again, if you only knew. As for the comment about "Just say no to drugs" and asking me if I remember? That is even funnier. You picked the wrong platform to ask me if I remember?
BTW, telling Mr. G to tear down this wall didn't end Communism in the Soviet Union, sport. Years of bankrupting them in the arms race and isolationism had a lot more to do with it than Ronnie did.
[quote] How profoundly different might have been the outcome if his leadership had generated compassion rather than hostility. "In the history of the AIDS epidemic, President Reagan's legacy is one of silence," Michael Cover, former associate executive director for public affairs at Whitman-Walker Clinic, the groundbreaking AIDS health-care organization in Washington. in 2003. "It is the silence of tens of thousands who died alone and unacknowledged, stigmatized by our government under his administration." [end quote]
How profoundly different might have been the outcome if his leadership had generated compassion rather than hostility. "In the history of the AIDS epidemic, President Reagan's legacy is one of silence," Michael Cover, former associate executive director for public affairs at Whitman-Walker Clinic, the groundbreaking AIDS health-care organization in Washington. in 2003. "It is the silence of tens of thousands who died alone and unacknowledged, stigmatized by our government under his administration." [end quote]
Regardless of what a leftist paper prints (notice no mention of the funds allowed for HIV/AIDS?), it's still a fact that the Reagan administration spent billion on HIV/AIDS throughout the 1980s. It's not my "estimation," it was actual figures I posted.
BTW, what did the Clinton administration do about HIV/AIDS?
How profoundly different might have been the outcome if his leadership had generated compassion rather than hostility. "In the history of the AIDS epidemic, President Reagan's legacy is one of silence," Michael Cover, former associate executive director for public affairs at Whitman-Walker Clinic, the groundbreaking AIDS health-care organization in Washington. in 2003. "It is the silence of tens of thousands who died alone and unacknowledged, stigmatized by our government under his administration." [end quote]
He WAS "losing jobs" - to the tune of 700,000+/month.
Ken
Let's see if your assertion is correct...
2009:
Feb. - -509,000
Mar. - -923,000
April - -69,000
May - -402,000
June - -245,000
July - -107,000
Aug. - -417,000
Sept. - -671,000
Oct. - -389,000
Nov. - +244,000
Dec. - -640,000
Besides there only being one month in his first year where 700,000+ jobs were lost and only two that were just under -700,000, even if you take the average you still only get -344,000 a month lost.
I'm going to assume you simply meant something entire different than you posted and in liberal la la land that's not a lie, you simply needed to wait until more facts came in (despite having those readily available to you).
Before the Reagan Revolution:
February 1961 (I) - December 1969(IV) - 106 months
June 1938 (II) - February 1945(I) - 80 months
Besides the fact that 3 of the top 5 longest expansions in US history occurred after the Reagan Revolution (i.e. low tax rates and a limiting of regulations) they also occurred at times of war and/or military buildups.
What can we gather from that? There is no correlation to US GDP and wages and at the very least there may be a small correlation to US GDP and shrinking jobs.
I'm going to say your theory doesn't pan out but feel free to correct me (with facts of course).
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