deltex1
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Here is what bothers me about reagan.![]()
Reagan cut taxes for the Rich, increased taxes on the Middle Class. Reagan was a serial tax raiser.
Tripled the National Debt, made the United States a debtor nation
Iran/Contra
Reagan funded Terrorists
Unemployment issues; Unemployment soared after Reagans 1981 tax cuts Reagan grew the size of the federal government tremendously - even more than the Bush Dynasty.
Reagan gave amnesty to 3 million Undocumented Immigrants
Ignoring AIDS; he refused to even utter the word
His attack on Unions and the Middle Class
GREAT THOUGHTS OF RONALD REAGAN
"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
"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
"...the moral equal of our Founding Fathers." --President Reagan, describing the Nicaraguan contras, March 1, 1985
"Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal." --Ronald Reagan, quoted in Time, May 17, 1976
"...a faceless mass, waiting for handouts." --Ronald Reagan, 1965. (Description of Medicaid recipients.)
"Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders." --California Governor Ronald Reagan, in the Sacramento Bee, April 28, 1966
"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
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US: 8 reasons why Ronald Reagan was the worst President of our lifetime -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net
Criminalize Conservatism: Reagan: Worst President of Our Lifetime
Anyone want to add anything?
When Iranians over ran our embassy in Iran and took 52 Americans hostage they were committing an act of war against the United States. President Carter knew that if he responded and attacked Iran the hostages would immediately be put to death so he tried to broker a deal with the Iranians. The Iranians refused to deal with Carter.
However, while this was going on george h. w. bush made a secret trip to France where it was reported he met with Iranian officials.
As the hostage crisis dragged on campaigning for the next election in America was taking place. During the campaigning reagan used the crisis to his advantage and defeated Carter.
Here is where it starts to get crazy. On the day of reagan's inauguration the Iranians assembled all the hostages and loaded them on planes. Strangely, these planes were held on the ground while the inauguration was taking place in Washington. At the moment reagan took the oath of office the planes were released and started bringing the hostages home.
With the hostages being free and out of the hands of the Iranians reagan was free to take the action that Carter could not. So, what did reagan do about the fact that the Iranians had committed an act of war against the US? HE DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! That's right, he did not take a single action against a country that had attacked us.
What struck me as very strange was the planes with the hostages being held on the runways until reagan took the oath of office. It was almost like the Iranians were sending us a message that reagan/bush had arranged a deal behind Carter's back. The minute reagan became president the hostages were set free. Such a deal would have been an act of treason.
If a deal had been made between Iran and reagan it would go a long way to explaining the Iran-Contra scandal. The question that would have to be asked is why would reagan sell arms to a country that committed an act of war against us? I believe it was a part of the secret deal reagan made with Iran. In other words, to win the presidency reagan made a deal with Iran that if they released the hostages after he took the presidential oath he would take no military action against Iran and he would sell them American made arms.
If the above is true it would make reagan one of the biggest traitors in American history.
That was not worth typing....Gertrude.