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40 years is 2 full generations. Those who were born in 1980 grew up and sired the following generation .
People who were 20 in 1980 are now 60. By this coming July, we will be closer to 2050 than 1990.
Why wouldnt everybody have voted for the man that is promising to send Chesterfields to everybody that votes for him? Cause we are all his friends, right?
And of course we will always have a president that looks nice and tidy... cause he can twist it, he can curl it, he can bend it, he can twirl it.... meaning the truth of course.
Actually I voted for Ed Clark, the Libertarian Party candidate in 1980. But dont forget Republican Congressman John Anderson ran as an independent. He was part of that now extinct species, a moderate Republican. Ronald debated him in one national debate that Jimmy Carter declined to participate. Then another debate just Ronald and Jimmy. I think Ronald's idea was that Anderson would take more votes away from Jimmy.
Iranian hostage situation and high interest rates were what did in Jimmy though.
I will say Jimmy was best ex-president by far, no other comes close.
I wasn't old enough to vote in 80, but had I been I would have voted Reagan. Carter the great give away president. For those who wonder why we are stuck giving Israel and Egypt billions every year? James Carter is the reason.
I wasn't old enough to vote in 80, but had I been I would have voted Reagan. Carter the great give away president. For those who wonder why we are stuck giving Israel and Egypt billions every year? James Carter is the reason.
Dont forget Reagan sent US military into Grenada to make world safe for democracy..... that didnt cost anything? Oh he did earn some money selling missles to Iran, remember Iran-Contra scandal? If you want details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E...3Contra_affair
Oh and why didnt Ronald just stop payments to Israel.... oh thats right it would cost votes. Israel has quite the team of lobbyists in Congress. Thats why US taxpayers have to prop up the regime there and its political death to stop that subsidy. Easier to discontinue Social Security and confiscate NRA guns, than to discontinue sending billions to Israel.
I grew up in a blue collar, union family in Macomb County, MI. As solidly "blue" as it gets back then, although the parties weren't characterized as "colors" then.
The first general I was eligible to vote in was 1980. I like the rest of the country had had quite enough of the ineptitude, and ineffectiveness, and downright anti American mamby pamby left wing BS of Carter after four years. The Macomb County Republican converts helped push MI to Reagan's column that year.
The Carter administration converted many lifelong, and freshly indoctrinated Democrats like myself, to becoming lifelong Republican voters.
Yep, I voted R in 1980, as soon as I could, and never looked back. Thanks to Carter. The worst POTUS ever, until 0bama.......but even 0bama had eight years to work at it. Carter did the damage in four.
Carter was just unlucky. The second Gas shortage caused by Saudi and friends created the inflationary craziness. The failure of the rescue attempt of the Hostages was the final nail in the coffin.
Deficits ballooned every year under Reagan, reaching $212 billion in 1986. Apart from that, Reagan didn't actually DO much during his two terms,.
Yep, you are right. Mr. Reagan didn't do much during his two terms. Let's see...
- ended the Cold War
- brought about the collapse of the Soviet Union
- ended double digit inflation
- tore down the Berlin Wall
- ended the monthly air raid drills (where children crouched beneath their desks in their elementary school classrooms waiting for the atom bomb to drop)
Yep, you are right. He didn't actually DO much.
Deficits ballooned during Mr Reagan's two terms because Democrats controlled both chambers of Congress. He submitted a budget to the House each year. Tip O'Neill promptly tossed the budget into the trash bin.
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