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Item #8 is key.
Are you willing to have your taxes raised to support more military spending?
No no no. The point is that Reagan raised the deficit to pump the economy and it was a good thing for the economy.
That is a wild economic theory that I am cautious about but not in disagreement with. It works like the New Deal. You borrow from tomorrow to pump today during bad times. Does it work? If the programs are good and help the future. Build some power plants, lower energy costs. Build some aircraft carriers, makes it easier to blow up Iraq.
We can argue about the benefits and costs of a strong Soviet Union but theh were the perceived threat then. China and the rising tide of Islamic terrorism were a future POTENTIAL problem. So while now I can say we should have HELPED the Soviets in Afghanistan not sure if I could have said it then. So I don't totally disagree with the military splurge. At least I understand it.
Now onto the Soviets vs or alligned with China problem...man scary if they alligned.
Reagan took office in the 'wake of a recession'?
The brief 1980 recession had been over for 6 months when Reagan became president. Within 6 months we were back into a DEEP 16 month recession.
The price of a gallon of gas certainly was a lot less by then, Sherlock.
The lines of us waiting to buy it were a lot shorter, too.
You have to stand in line to buy your gas? Since when has this been a thing?
war?You know Obama still isn't back to neutral from where he started. Unemployment is still higher, debt bigger, less people with health insurance, involved in more countries with a war, more people on food stamps and so on.
where do we have troops on the ground for the foreseeable future? 
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Item #8 is key.
Are you willing to have your taxes raised to support more military spending?
Righties, who claim to be deficit hawks, won't go there lol. They CLAIM to be deficit hawks but are the opposite.
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Item #8 is key.
Are you willing to have your taxes raised to support more military spending?
Clearly, you are a non-dimensional individual with a one-dimensional view of the world.
Enamored as you are with big government, it is outside of your ken to imagine that policies and spending of government are errors and could be curtailed for more advantageous programs.
A $ trillion a year and no decrease in "poverty."
Sure could be better spent.
Actually educating folks like you would be another well spent dollar.
Reagan took office in the 'wake of a recession'?
The brief 1980 recession had been over for 6 months when Reagan became president. Within 6 months we were back into a DEEP 16 month recession.
I'm sure after listening to this speech, as the events unfolded, I wouldn't think our nation to be in any economic trouble. Recession was clearly as uneventful as you portray it to be. Lucky for you, I was old enough to remember the Carter years.
From President Jimmy Carter's televised speech on July 15, 1979.
It's clear that the true problems of our Nation are much deeper -- deeper than gasoline lines or energy shortages, deeper even than inflation or recession. And I realize more than ever that as president I need your help.
In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we've discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning. We've learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.
The symptoms of this crisis of the American spirit are all around us. For the first time in the history of our country a majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.
First of all, we must face the truth, and then we can change our course. We simply must have faith in each other, faith in our ability to govern ourselves, and faith in the future of this nation. Restoring that faith and that confidence to America is now the most important task we face. It is a true challenge of this generation of Americans.
One of the visitors to Camp David last week put it this way: "We've got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start praying. The strength we need will not come from the White House, but from every house in America."
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Item #8 is key.
Are you willing to have your taxes raised to support more military spending?
Gee Dot follow the news, Afghanistan, Iraq and soon in Syria, if we aren't already there. Those fighter jets usually have ground spotters.
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Item #8 is key.
Are you willing to have your taxes raised to support more military spending?
Clearly, you are a non-dimensional individual with a one-dimensional view of the world.
Enamored as you are with big government, it is outside of your ken to imagine that policies and spending of government are errors and could be curtailed for more advantageous programs.
A $ trillion a year and no decrease in "poverty."
Sure could be better spent.
Actually educating folks like you would be another well spent dollar.
Is that a yes or a no?
Reagan took office in the 'wake of a recession'?
The brief 1980 recession had been over for 6 months when Reagan became president. Within 6 months we were back into a DEEP 16 month recession.
I'm sure after listening to this speech, as the events unfolded, I wouldn't think our nation to be in any economic trouble. Recession was clearly as uneventful as you portray it to be. Lucky for you, I was old enough to remember the Carter years.
From President Jimmy Carter's televised speech on July 15, 1979.
It's clear that the true problems of our Nation are much deeper -- deeper than gasoline lines or energy shortages, deeper even than inflation or recession. And I realize more than ever that as president I need your help.
In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we've discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning. We've learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.
The symptoms of this crisis of the American spirit are all around us. For the first time in the history of our country a majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.
First of all, we must face the truth, and then we can change our course. We simply must have faith in each other, faith in our ability to govern ourselves, and faith in the future of this nation. Restoring that faith and that confidence to America is now the most important task we face. It is a true challenge of this generation of Americans.
One of the visitors to Camp David last week put it this way: "We've got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start praying. The strength we need will not come from the White House, but from every house in America."[
Item #8 is key.
Are you willing to have your taxes raised to support more military spending?
Well, their story is that cutting taxes will produce more revenue and magically pay for their massive increases in defense spending.
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Gee Dot follow the news, Afghanistan, Iraq and soon in Syria, if we aren't already there. Those fighter jets usually have ground spotters.
"usually" is the operative word there Sugar Shorts. You said "wars". They involve sizable #'s of boots on the ground not isolated small groups. Don't equate small undisclosed forces w/ 650,000+ troop-levels like the last Repub had long-term in vietraq
Obama knows that if one soldier is captured and or killed Republicans will howl , like they always do BTW about just about everything.
lol. you ODS sufferers at least have a sense of humor once in a while
WIN AN ELECTION BITCHEZ!!!
This all came about because of the blowback from Republican unpaid-for Cowboy Diplomacy Sugar Shorts 
What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz and other armchair, weekend warriors in this administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne.
What I am opposed to is the attempt by political hacks like Karl Rove to distract us from a rise in the uninsured, a rise in the poverty rate, a drop in the median income — to distract us from corporate scandals and a stock market that has just gone through the worst month since the Great Depression. That's what I'm opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.
