Ronald Reagan Facts

[Toddsterpatriot]

Where does Supply Side Theory say cheap labor is good?

You are one dumb fuck.
Did you actually read the article?
Of course not as you're too busy thinking you're too knowledgeable about it already.
I am NOT going to post article sentences for you as I suspect you're old enough and educated to actually read an article.
Now stop embarrassing yourself.

Did you actually read the article?

Feel free to post any portion of any article you feel backs up your claim.

In other words, you didn't read the article.

In other words, you still have no back up for your claims.

By the way, you never did tell us how young you are.
10?

Old enough to be working on the CBOE with my brother and sister during the Crash of 1987.

 

[Indeependent]

You are one dumb fuck.
Did you actually read the article?
Of course not as you're too busy thinking you're too knowledgeable about it already.
I am NOT going to post article sentences for you as I suspect you're old enough and educated to actually read an article.
Now stop embarrassing yourself.

Did you actually read the article?

Feel free to post any portion of any article you feel backs up your claim.

In other words, you didn't read the article.

In other words, you still have no back up for your claims.

By the way, you never did tell us how young you are.
10?

Old enough to be working on the CBOE with my brother and sister during the Crash of 1987.

Than you're an egocentric sociopath.
I know your type as I've worked with your type plenty and I wouldn't waste my saliva spitting on you.
Thanks for your honesty concerning your age if not your integrity as a human being.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

1. Character: Reagan's hands-off leadership style manifested into an inability to control his administration from potentially illegal activities, e.g. the "Iran-Contra" scandal. His "troika," the nickname given to Chief of Staff James Baker, Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver, and Counselor Edwin Meese, made many of Reagan's key administrative decisions for him.
   
   
2. Crime: In a Sep. 28, 1981 speech to the International Chiefs of Police, Reagan claimed that people who commit violent crimes "are not desperate people seeking bread for their families; crime is the way they've chosen to live." This attitude failed to address the stark realities underlying crime, namely the national culture of poverty and discrimination. Violent crime nationwide increased 21% from 1981-1989. The "War on Drugs" wasted billions of dollars and escalated drug-related crime.
   
   
3. Defense: Reagan increased the defense budget for an unprecedented six consecutive years. This spending produced an unsustainable bubble in the defense industry that led to decades of restructuring. By the early 1990s the defense industry had too many factories and too many workers to support with its smaller budgets. For example, in the early 1980s there were 50 large defense suppliers to the US government. By 2004 there were five.
   
   
4. Economy: Reagan pledged during his 1980 campaign for president to balance the federal budget, but never submitted a balanced budget in his eight years in office. In 1981, the deficit was $79 billion and, in 1986, at the peak of his deficit spending, it stood at $221 billion. The federal debt was $994 billion when he took office in 1981 and grew to $2.9 trillion when his second term ended in 1989. Reagan also added more trade barriers than any other president since Hoover in 1930. US imports that were subject to some form of trade restraint increased from 12% in 1980 to 23% in 1988.
   
   
5. Education: In his two terms in office, Reagan slashed federal aid to schools by more than $1 billion, and he cut the Department of Education budget by 19%. One of Reagan's campaign promises was to abolish the Department of Education, which he considered a "bureaucratic boondoggle." After intermittent attempts to fulfill this promise, he gave up in 1983 due to lack of Congressional support.
   
   
   
6. Environment: As a president who said "trees cause more pollution than automobiles do," Reagan issued leases for oil, gas, and coal development on tens of millions of acres of national lands. Reagan's appointee to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Anne Gorsuch, tried to gut the 1972 Clean Water Act, cut EPA funding by 25%, and mismanaged a $1.6 billion program to clean up hazardous waste dumps.
   
   
7. Foreign Policy: Reagan broke his own vows not to make deals with terrorists or states that aided them. In the "Iran-Contra" scandal, Reagan's administration bypassed congressional restrictions on aiding Nicaragua's Contra guerilla fighters, in part by diverting money to them from the sale of missiles to Iran. Reagan also initiated military involvement in Libya, Grenada, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Lebanon.
   
   
8. Health: Reagan almost completely ignored the growing AIDS epidemic. Although the first case of AIDS was discovered in the early 1980s, Reagan never publicly addressed the epidemic until May 31, 1987 when he spoke at an AIDS conference in Washington, DC. By that time, 36,058 Americans had been diagnosed with the disease and 20,849 had died.
   
   
9. Labor: On Aug. 3, 1981, Reagan ordered 12,176 striking air traffic controllers (PATCO) back to their jobs, disregarding the workers' complaints of stress, staff shortages, and outdated equipment. PATCO was one of the few unions that had endorsed Reagan in the 1980 election. Reagan repaid them by giving them only 48 hours to cancel the strike and banning them from federal service for life. The ban was not lifted until 1993 by President Bill Clinton.
   
   
10. Science/Technology: Reagan's over-ambitious space-based laser strategic defensive system, the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) or "Star Wars," proved to be too technically complex and expensive to complete. From its inception in 1983 to its demise in 1993, the program cost taxpayers $33 billion dollars.
    
    
11. Social Policy: Reagan believed that widespread freeloading plagued welfare and social programs. As Reagan slashed spending in his first term on programs such as food stamps and subsidized housing, the poverty rate climbed from 12% to 15% and unemployment rose from 7% to 11%.
    
    
12. Taxes: Reagan's "voodoo" economic policy, where tax cuts were believed to somehow generate tax revenues, failed to account for his administration's excessive spending which increased from $591 billion in 1980 to $1.2 trillion in 1990. Reagan both increased and cut taxes. In 1980, middle-income families with children paid 8.2% in income taxes and 9.5% in payroll taxes. By 1988 their income tax was down to 6.6%, but payroll tax was up to 11.8%, a combined increase in taxes. Reagan pushed through Social Security tax increases of $165 billion over seven years.
    
    
13. Other: Reagan opposed many important civil rights measures that further alienated him and the Republican Party from African-Americans. On Mar. 16, 1988, Reagan vetoed the Civil Rights Restoration Act. He was opposed to extending provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. He initially opposed making Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a national holiday. He was also loyal to apartheid South Africa, considering that country a friend and ally.

Side notes.

Ronald Reagan's economic advisor was Milton Friedman, the creator of the economic philosophy that says that there is no such a thing as a free lunch.
Technically that is true, however that doesn't pay the bill, or absolve society of its responsibilities to the country.
And his economics have been responsible for almost every single economic downturn in recent American political history.
Milton Friedman is amongst the worst economists ever, right along side the French economist that created "Laissez Faire".

WHY the fuck are we talking about a President from decades ago when today's issues are TODAY'S? When Reagan was president liberals had a brain so how he delt with issues then is irrelevant to how we deal with them today.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Did you actually read the article?

Feel free to post any portion of any article you feel backs up your claim.

In other words, you didn't read the article.

In other words, you still have no back up for your claims.

By the way, you never did tell us how young you are.
10?

Old enough to be working on the CBOE with my brother and sister during the Crash of 1987.

Than you're an egocentric sociopath.
I know your type as I've worked with your type plenty and I wouldn't waste my saliva spitting on you.
Thanks for your honesty concerning your age if not your integrity as a human being.

If you ever pull your head out of your ass, and find actual back up for your stupid claims about Supply Side economics, let me know.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

Reagan: he called the Left's home team an "evil empire", vowed to defeat them, and by the time he left office the USSR was finished

He freed hundreds of million from the crushing oppression of Soviet Communism and that's why the Left hates him

Fucking losers

Wait... did Reagan defeat the USSR? Or is socialism an unsustainable system that defeats itself?

Which is it?

The USA is about to find out.

 

[Indeependent]

In other words, you didn't read the article.

In other words, you still have no back up for your claims.

By the way, you never did tell us how young you are.
10?

Old enough to be working on the CBOE with my brother and sister during the Crash of 1987.

Than you're an egocentric sociopath.
I know your type as I've worked with your type plenty and I wouldn't waste my saliva spitting on you.
Thanks for your honesty concerning your age if not your integrity as a human being.

If you ever pull your head out of your ass, and find actual back up for your stupid claims about Supply Side economics, let me know.

If you worked on the CBOE I can fully understand why you had your head in your portfolio and noticed nothing going on around you.
You're going to tell me you didn't see US money and factories leaving the US and that Black Monday didn't destroy hundreds of businesses in Chicago.
You're so full of shit I wouldn't be surprised if the font of your postings started turning brown.
And of course you didn't notice the Top 8 Accounting Firms becoming the Top 4 and thousands of people being laid off.
You really are a major sociopath.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

1. Character: Reagan's hands-off leadership style manifested into an inability to control his administration from potentially illegal activities, e.g. the "Iran-Contra" scandal. His "troika," the nickname given to Chief of Staff James Baker, Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver, and Counselor Edwin Meese, made many of Reagan's key administrative decisions for him.
   
   
2. Crime: In a Sep. 28, 1981 speech to the International Chiefs of Police, Reagan claimed that people who commit violent crimes "are not desperate people seeking bread for their families; crime is the way they've chosen to live." This attitude failed to address the stark realities underlying crime, namely the national culture of poverty and discrimination. Violent crime nationwide increased 21% from 1981-1989. The "War on Drugs" wasted billions of dollars and escalated drug-related crime.
   
   
3. Defense: Reagan increased the defense budget for an unprecedented six consecutive years. This spending produced an unsustainable bubble in the defense industry that led to decades of restructuring. By the early 1990s the defense industry had too many factories and too many workers to support with its smaller budgets. For example, in the early 1980s there were 50 large defense suppliers to the US government. By 2004 there were five.
   
   
4. Economy: Reagan pledged during his 1980 campaign for president to balance the federal budget, but never submitted a balanced budget in his eight years in office. In 1981, the deficit was $79 billion and, in 1986, at the peak of his deficit spending, it stood at $221 billion. The federal debt was $994 billion when he took office in 1981 and grew to $2.9 trillion when his second term ended in 1989. Reagan also added more trade barriers than any other president since Hoover in 1930. US imports that were subject to some form of trade restraint increased from 12% in 1980 to 23% in 1988.
   
   
5. Education: In his two terms in office, Reagan slashed federal aid to schools by more than $1 billion, and he cut the Department of Education budget by 19%. One of Reagan's campaign promises was to abolish the Department of Education, which he considered a "bureaucratic boondoggle." After intermittent attempts to fulfill this promise, he gave up in 1983 due to lack of Congressional support.
   
   
   
6. Environment: As a president who said "trees cause more pollution than automobiles do," Reagan issued leases for oil, gas, and coal development on tens of millions of acres of national lands. Reagan's appointee to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Anne Gorsuch, tried to gut the 1972 Clean Water Act, cut EPA funding by 25%, and mismanaged a $1.6 billion program to clean up hazardous waste dumps.
   
   
7. Foreign Policy: Reagan broke his own vows not to make deals with terrorists or states that aided them. In the "Iran-Contra" scandal, Reagan's administration bypassed congressional restrictions on aiding Nicaragua's Contra guerilla fighters, in part by diverting money to them from the sale of missiles to Iran. Reagan also initiated military involvement in Libya, Grenada, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Lebanon.
   
   
8. Health: Reagan almost completely ignored the growing AIDS epidemic. Although the first case of AIDS was discovered in the early 1980s, Reagan never publicly addressed the epidemic until May 31, 1987 when he spoke at an AIDS conference in Washington, DC. By that time, 36,058 Americans had been diagnosed with the disease and 20,849 had died.
   
   
9. Labor: On Aug. 3, 1981, Reagan ordered 12,176 striking air traffic controllers (PATCO) back to their jobs, disregarding the workers' complaints of stress, staff shortages, and outdated equipment. PATCO was one of the few unions that had endorsed Reagan in the 1980 election. Reagan repaid them by giving them only 48 hours to cancel the strike and banning them from federal service for life. The ban was not lifted until 1993 by President Bill Clinton.
   
   
10. Science/Technology: Reagan's over-ambitious space-based laser strategic defensive system, the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) or "Star Wars," proved to be too technically complex and expensive to complete. From its inception in 1983 to its demise in 1993, the program cost taxpayers $33 billion dollars.
    
    
11. Social Policy: Reagan believed that widespread freeloading plagued welfare and social programs. As Reagan slashed spending in his first term on programs such as food stamps and subsidized housing, the poverty rate climbed from 12% to 15% and unemployment rose from 7% to 11%.
    
    
12. Taxes: Reagan's "voodoo" economic policy, where tax cuts were believed to somehow generate tax revenues, failed to account for his administration's excessive spending which increased from $591 billion in 1980 to $1.2 trillion in 1990. Reagan both increased and cut taxes. In 1980, middle-income families with children paid 8.2% in income taxes and 9.5% in payroll taxes. By 1988 their income tax was down to 6.6%, but payroll tax was up to 11.8%, a combined increase in taxes. Reagan pushed through Social Security tax increases of $165 billion over seven years.
    
    
13. Other: Reagan opposed many important civil rights measures that further alienated him and the Republican Party from African-Americans. On Mar. 16, 1988, Reagan vetoed the Civil Rights Restoration Act. He was opposed to extending provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. He initially opposed making Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a national holiday. He was also loyal to apartheid South Africa, considering that country a friend and ally.

Side notes.

Ronald Reagan's economic advisor was Milton Friedman, the creator of the economic philosophy that says that there is no such a thing as a free lunch.
Technically that is true, however that doesn't pay the bill, or absolve society of its responsibilities to the country.
And his economics have been responsible for almost every single economic downturn in recent American political history.
Milton Friedman is amongst the worst economists ever, right along side the French economist that created "Laissez Faire".

If everything you are saying is true, how could Jimmy Carter lose to him??

I am always interested to hear about his re-election.

He hardly campaigned and almost gave Mondale the honor of being the first candidate to get zero electoral votes.

 

[Indeependent]

1. Character: Reagan's hands-off leadership style manifested into an inability to control his administration from potentially illegal activities, e.g. the "Iran-Contra" scandal. His "troika," the nickname given to Chief of Staff James Baker, Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver, and Counselor Edwin Meese, made many of Reagan's key administrative decisions for him.
   
   
2. Crime: In a Sep. 28, 1981 speech to the International Chiefs of Police, Reagan claimed that people who commit violent crimes "are not desperate people seeking bread for their families; crime is the way they've chosen to live." This attitude failed to address the stark realities underlying crime, namely the national culture of poverty and discrimination. Violent crime nationwide increased 21% from 1981-1989. The "War on Drugs" wasted billions of dollars and escalated drug-related crime.
   
   
3. Defense: Reagan increased the defense budget for an unprecedented six consecutive years. This spending produced an unsustainable bubble in the defense industry that led to decades of restructuring. By the early 1990s the defense industry had too many factories and too many workers to support with its smaller budgets. For example, in the early 1980s there were 50 large defense suppliers to the US government. By 2004 there were five.
   
   
4. Economy: Reagan pledged during his 1980 campaign for president to balance the federal budget, but never submitted a balanced budget in his eight years in office. In 1981, the deficit was $79 billion and, in 1986, at the peak of his deficit spending, it stood at $221 billion. The federal debt was $994 billion when he took office in 1981 and grew to $2.9 trillion when his second term ended in 1989. Reagan also added more trade barriers than any other president since Hoover in 1930. US imports that were subject to some form of trade restraint increased from 12% in 1980 to 23% in 1988.
   
   
5. Education: In his two terms in office, Reagan slashed federal aid to schools by more than $1 billion, and he cut the Department of Education budget by 19%. One of Reagan's campaign promises was to abolish the Department of Education, which he considered a "bureaucratic boondoggle." After intermittent attempts to fulfill this promise, he gave up in 1983 due to lack of Congressional support.
   
   
   
6. Environment: As a president who said "trees cause more pollution than automobiles do," Reagan issued leases for oil, gas, and coal development on tens of millions of acres of national lands. Reagan's appointee to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Anne Gorsuch, tried to gut the 1972 Clean Water Act, cut EPA funding by 25%, and mismanaged a $1.6 billion program to clean up hazardous waste dumps.
   
   
7. Foreign Policy: Reagan broke his own vows not to make deals with terrorists or states that aided them. In the "Iran-Contra" scandal, Reagan's administration bypassed congressional restrictions on aiding Nicaragua's Contra guerilla fighters, in part by diverting money to them from the sale of missiles to Iran. Reagan also initiated military involvement in Libya, Grenada, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Lebanon.
   
   
8. Health: Reagan almost completely ignored the growing AIDS epidemic. Although the first case of AIDS was discovered in the early 1980s, Reagan never publicly addressed the epidemic until May 31, 1987 when he spoke at an AIDS conference in Washington, DC. By that time, 36,058 Americans had been diagnosed with the disease and 20,849 had died.
   
   
9. Labor: On Aug. 3, 1981, Reagan ordered 12,176 striking air traffic controllers (PATCO) back to their jobs, disregarding the workers' complaints of stress, staff shortages, and outdated equipment. PATCO was one of the few unions that had endorsed Reagan in the 1980 election. Reagan repaid them by giving them only 48 hours to cancel the strike and banning them from federal service for life. The ban was not lifted until 1993 by President Bill Clinton.
   
   
10. Science/Technology: Reagan's over-ambitious space-based laser strategic defensive system, the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) or "Star Wars," proved to be too technically complex and expensive to complete. From its inception in 1983 to its demise in 1993, the program cost taxpayers $33 billion dollars.
    
    
11. Social Policy: Reagan believed that widespread freeloading plagued welfare and social programs. As Reagan slashed spending in his first term on programs such as food stamps and subsidized housing, the poverty rate climbed from 12% to 15% and unemployment rose from 7% to 11%.
    
    
12. Taxes: Reagan's "voodoo" economic policy, where tax cuts were believed to somehow generate tax revenues, failed to account for his administration's excessive spending which increased from $591 billion in 1980 to $1.2 trillion in 1990. Reagan both increased and cut taxes. In 1980, middle-income families with children paid 8.2% in income taxes and 9.5% in payroll taxes. By 1988 their income tax was down to 6.6%, but payroll tax was up to 11.8%, a combined increase in taxes. Reagan pushed through Social Security tax increases of $165 billion over seven years.
    
    
13. Other: Reagan opposed many important civil rights measures that further alienated him and the Republican Party from African-Americans. On Mar. 16, 1988, Reagan vetoed the Civil Rights Restoration Act. He was opposed to extending provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. He initially opposed making Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a national holiday. He was also loyal to apartheid South Africa, considering that country a friend and ally.

Side notes.

Ronald Reagan's economic advisor was Milton Friedman, the creator of the economic philosophy that says that there is no such a thing as a free lunch.
Technically that is true, however that doesn't pay the bill, or absolve society of its responsibilities to the country.
And his economics have been responsible for almost every single economic downturn in recent American political history.
Milton Friedman is amongst the worst economists ever, right along side the French economist that created "Laissez Faire".

If everything you are saying is true, how could Jimmy Carter lose to him??

I am always interested to hear about his re-election.

He hardly campaigned and almost gave Mondale the honor of being the first candidate to get zero electoral votes.

Mondale/Ferraro and Mondale's declaration that our taxes would go up.
Yeah, that was real good strategy.
What the hell was Mondale thinking?

 

[Sun Devil 92]

Gorbachev destroyed the USSR with glasnost and perestroika. We're lucky Raygun's ridiculous bluster didn't bring back the hardliners. S+L scandal/recession, anyone? A disaster of pander to the greedy rich and fooling the dupes we're still seeing play out...

Oh no.....

I had almost forgotten that there was a bigger asswipe than RDean on this board.

And then you posted....

 

[Sun Devil 92]

1. Character: Reagan's hands-off leadership style manifested into an inability to control his administration from potentially illegal activities, e.g. the "Iran-Contra" scandal. His "troika," the nickname given to Chief of Staff James Baker, Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver, and Counselor Edwin Meese, made many of Reagan's key administrative decisions for him.
   
   
2. Crime: In a Sep. 28, 1981 speech to the International Chiefs of Police, Reagan claimed that people who commit violent crimes "are not desperate people seeking bread for their families; crime is the way they've chosen to live." This attitude failed to address the stark realities underlying crime, namely the national culture of poverty and discrimination. Violent crime nationwide increased 21% from 1981-1989. The "War on Drugs" wasted billions of dollars and escalated drug-related crime.
   
   
3. Defense: Reagan increased the defense budget for an unprecedented six consecutive years. This spending produced an unsustainable bubble in the defense industry that led to decades of restructuring. By the early 1990s the defense industry had too many factories and too many workers to support with its smaller budgets. For example, in the early 1980s there were 50 large defense suppliers to the US government. By 2004 there were five.
   
   
4. Economy: Reagan pledged during his 1980 campaign for president to balance the federal budget, but never submitted a balanced budget in his eight years in office. In 1981, the deficit was $79 billion and, in 1986, at the peak of his deficit spending, it stood at $221 billion. The federal debt was $994 billion when he took office in 1981 and grew to $2.9 trillion when his second term ended in 1989. Reagan also added more trade barriers than any other president since Hoover in 1930. US imports that were subject to some form of trade restraint increased from 12% in 1980 to 23% in 1988.
   
   
5. Education: In his two terms in office, Reagan slashed federal aid to schools by more than $1 billion, and he cut the Department of Education budget by 19%. One of Reagan's campaign promises was to abolish the Department of Education, which he considered a "bureaucratic boondoggle." After intermittent attempts to fulfill this promise, he gave up in 1983 due to lack of Congressional support.
   
   
   
6. Environment: As a president who said "trees cause more pollution than automobiles do," Reagan issued leases for oil, gas, and coal development on tens of millions of acres of national lands. Reagan's appointee to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Anne Gorsuch, tried to gut the 1972 Clean Water Act, cut EPA funding by 25%, and mismanaged a $1.6 billion program to clean up hazardous waste dumps.
   
   
7. Foreign Policy: Reagan broke his own vows not to make deals with terrorists or states that aided them. In the "Iran-Contra" scandal, Reagan's administration bypassed congressional restrictions on aiding Nicaragua's Contra guerilla fighters, in part by diverting money to them from the sale of missiles to Iran. Reagan also initiated military involvement in Libya, Grenada, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Lebanon.
   
   
8. Health: Reagan almost completely ignored the growing AIDS epidemic. Although the first case of AIDS was discovered in the early 1980s, Reagan never publicly addressed the epidemic until May 31, 1987 when he spoke at an AIDS conference in Washington, DC. By that time, 36,058 Americans had been diagnosed with the disease and 20,849 had died.
   
   
9. Labor: On Aug. 3, 1981, Reagan ordered 12,176 striking air traffic controllers (PATCO) back to their jobs, disregarding the workers' complaints of stress, staff shortages, and outdated equipment. PATCO was one of the few unions that had endorsed Reagan in the 1980 election. Reagan repaid them by giving them only 48 hours to cancel the strike and banning them from federal service for life. The ban was not lifted until 1993 by President Bill Clinton.
   
   
10. Science/Technology: Reagan's over-ambitious space-based laser strategic defensive system, the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) or "Star Wars," proved to be too technically complex and expensive to complete. From its inception in 1983 to its demise in 1993, the program cost taxpayers $33 billion dollars.
    
    
11. Social Policy: Reagan believed that widespread freeloading plagued welfare and social programs. As Reagan slashed spending in his first term on programs such as food stamps and subsidized housing, the poverty rate climbed from 12% to 15% and unemployment rose from 7% to 11%.
    
    
12. Taxes: Reagan's "voodoo" economic policy, where tax cuts were believed to somehow generate tax revenues, failed to account for his administration's excessive spending which increased from $591 billion in 1980 to $1.2 trillion in 1990. Reagan both increased and cut taxes. In 1980, middle-income families with children paid 8.2% in income taxes and 9.5% in payroll taxes. By 1988 their income tax was down to 6.6%, but payroll tax was up to 11.8%, a combined increase in taxes. Reagan pushed through Social Security tax increases of $165 billion over seven years.
    
    
13. Other: Reagan opposed many important civil rights measures that further alienated him and the Republican Party from African-Americans. On Mar. 16, 1988, Reagan vetoed the Civil Rights Restoration Act. He was opposed to extending provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. He initially opposed making Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a national holiday. He was also loyal to apartheid South Africa, considering that country a friend and ally.

Side notes.

Ronald Reagan's economic advisor was Milton Friedman, the creator of the economic philosophy that says that there is no such a thing as a free lunch.
Technically that is true, however that doesn't pay the bill, or absolve society of its responsibilities to the country.
And his economics have been responsible for almost every single economic downturn in recent American political history.
Milton Friedman is amongst the worst economists ever, right along side the French economist that created "Laissez Faire".

If everything you are saying is true, how could Jimmy Carter lose to him??

I am always interested to hear about his re-election.

He hardly campaigned and almost gave Mondale the honor of being the first candidate to get zero electoral votes.

Mondale/Ferraro and Mondale's declaration that our taxed would go up.
Yeah, that was real good strategy.
What the hell was Mondale thinking?

Mondale was a token as was Ferraro.....

The democrats knew it was going to be a real asskicking.....no one wanted to run.

Reagan was just such a lousy president.

 

[Indeependent]

1. Character: Reagan's hands-off leadership style manifested into an inability to control his administration from potentially illegal activities, e.g. the "Iran-Contra" scandal. His "troika," the nickname given to Chief of Staff James Baker, Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver, and Counselor Edwin Meese, made many of Reagan's key administrative decisions for him.
   
   
2. Crime: In a Sep. 28, 1981 speech to the International Chiefs of Police, Reagan claimed that people who commit violent crimes "are not desperate people seeking bread for their families; crime is the way they've chosen to live." This attitude failed to address the stark realities underlying crime, namely the national culture of poverty and discrimination. Violent crime nationwide increased 21% from 1981-1989. The "War on Drugs" wasted billions of dollars and escalated drug-related crime.
   
   
3. Defense: Reagan increased the defense budget for an unprecedented six consecutive years. This spending produced an unsustainable bubble in the defense industry that led to decades of restructuring. By the early 1990s the defense industry had too many factories and too many workers to support with its smaller budgets. For example, in the early 1980s there were 50 large defense suppliers to the US government. By 2004 there were five.
   
   
4. Economy: Reagan pledged during his 1980 campaign for president to balance the federal budget, but never submitted a balanced budget in his eight years in office. In 1981, the deficit was $79 billion and, in 1986, at the peak of his deficit spending, it stood at $221 billion. The federal debt was $994 billion when he took office in 1981 and grew to $2.9 trillion when his second term ended in 1989. Reagan also added more trade barriers than any other president since Hoover in 1930. US imports that were subject to some form of trade restraint increased from 12% in 1980 to 23% in 1988.
   
   
5. Education: In his two terms in office, Reagan slashed federal aid to schools by more than $1 billion, and he cut the Department of Education budget by 19%. One of Reagan's campaign promises was to abolish the Department of Education, which he considered a "bureaucratic boondoggle." After intermittent attempts to fulfill this promise, he gave up in 1983 due to lack of Congressional support.
   
   
   
6. Environment: As a president who said "trees cause more pollution than automobiles do," Reagan issued leases for oil, gas, and coal development on tens of millions of acres of national lands. Reagan's appointee to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Anne Gorsuch, tried to gut the 1972 Clean Water Act, cut EPA funding by 25%, and mismanaged a $1.6 billion program to clean up hazardous waste dumps.
   
   
7. Foreign Policy: Reagan broke his own vows not to make deals with terrorists or states that aided them. In the "Iran-Contra" scandal, Reagan's administration bypassed congressional restrictions on aiding Nicaragua's Contra guerilla fighters, in part by diverting money to them from the sale of missiles to Iran. Reagan also initiated military involvement in Libya, Grenada, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Lebanon.
   
   
8. Health: Reagan almost completely ignored the growing AIDS epidemic. Although the first case of AIDS was discovered in the early 1980s, Reagan never publicly addressed the epidemic until May 31, 1987 when he spoke at an AIDS conference in Washington, DC. By that time, 36,058 Americans had been diagnosed with the disease and 20,849 had died.
   
   
9. Labor: On Aug. 3, 1981, Reagan ordered 12,176 striking air traffic controllers (PATCO) back to their jobs, disregarding the workers' complaints of stress, staff shortages, and outdated equipment. PATCO was one of the few unions that had endorsed Reagan in the 1980 election. Reagan repaid them by giving them only 48 hours to cancel the strike and banning them from federal service for life. The ban was not lifted until 1993 by President Bill Clinton.
   
   
10. Science/Technology: Reagan's over-ambitious space-based laser strategic defensive system, the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) or "Star Wars," proved to be too technically complex and expensive to complete. From its inception in 1983 to its demise in 1993, the program cost taxpayers $33 billion dollars.
    
    
11. Social Policy: Reagan believed that widespread freeloading plagued welfare and social programs. As Reagan slashed spending in his first term on programs such as food stamps and subsidized housing, the poverty rate climbed from 12% to 15% and unemployment rose from 7% to 11%.
    
    
12. Taxes: Reagan's "voodoo" economic policy, where tax cuts were believed to somehow generate tax revenues, failed to account for his administration's excessive spending which increased from $591 billion in 1980 to $1.2 trillion in 1990. Reagan both increased and cut taxes. In 1980, middle-income families with children paid 8.2% in income taxes and 9.5% in payroll taxes. By 1988 their income tax was down to 6.6%, but payroll tax was up to 11.8%, a combined increase in taxes. Reagan pushed through Social Security tax increases of $165 billion over seven years.
    
    
13. Other: Reagan opposed many important civil rights measures that further alienated him and the Republican Party from African-Americans. On Mar. 16, 1988, Reagan vetoed the Civil Rights Restoration Act. He was opposed to extending provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. He initially opposed making Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a national holiday. He was also loyal to apartheid South Africa, considering that country a friend and ally.

Side notes.

Ronald Reagan's economic advisor was Milton Friedman, the creator of the economic philosophy that says that there is no such a thing as a free lunch.
Technically that is true, however that doesn't pay the bill, or absolve society of its responsibilities to the country.
And his economics have been responsible for almost every single economic downturn in recent American political history.
Milton Friedman is amongst the worst economists ever, right along side the French economist that created "Laissez Faire".

If everything you are saying is true, how could Jimmy Carter lose to him??

I am always interested to hear about his re-election.

He hardly campaigned and almost gave Mondale the honor of being the first candidate to get zero electoral votes.

Mondale/Ferraro and Mondale's declaration that our taxed would go up.
Yeah, that was real good strategy.
What the hell was Mondale thinking?

Mondale was a token as was Ferraro.....

The democrats knew it was going to be a real asskicking.....no one wanted to run.

Reagan was just such a lousy president.

Reagan was great if one already had a big portfolio.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

1. Character: Reagan's hands-off leadership style manifested into an inability to control his administration from potentially illegal activities, e.g. the "Iran-Contra" scandal. His "troika," the nickname given to Chief of Staff James Baker, Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver, and Counselor Edwin Meese, made many of Reagan's key administrative decisions for him.
   
   
2. Crime: In a Sep. 28, 1981 speech to the International Chiefs of Police, Reagan claimed that people who commit violent crimes "are not desperate people seeking bread for their families; crime is the way they've chosen to live." This attitude failed to address the stark realities underlying crime, namely the national culture of poverty and discrimination. Violent crime nationwide increased 21% from 1981-1989. The "War on Drugs" wasted billions of dollars and escalated drug-related crime.
   
   
3. Defense: Reagan increased the defense budget for an unprecedented six consecutive years. This spending produced an unsustainable bubble in the defense industry that led to decades of restructuring. By the early 1990s the defense industry had too many factories and too many workers to support with its smaller budgets. For example, in the early 1980s there were 50 large defense suppliers to the US government. By 2004 there were five.
   
   
4. Economy: Reagan pledged during his 1980 campaign for president to balance the federal budget, but never submitted a balanced budget in his eight years in office. In 1981, the deficit was $79 billion and, in 1986, at the peak of his deficit spending, it stood at $221 billion. The federal debt was $994 billion when he took office in 1981 and grew to $2.9 trillion when his second term ended in 1989. Reagan also added more trade barriers than any other president since Hoover in 1930. US imports that were subject to some form of trade restraint increased from 12% in 1980 to 23% in 1988.
   
   
5. Education: In his two terms in office, Reagan slashed federal aid to schools by more than $1 billion, and he cut the Department of Education budget by 19%. One of Reagan's campaign promises was to abolish the Department of Education, which he considered a "bureaucratic boondoggle." After intermittent attempts to fulfill this promise, he gave up in 1983 due to lack of Congressional support.
   
   
   
6. Environment: As a president who said "trees cause more pollution than automobiles do," Reagan issued leases for oil, gas, and coal development on tens of millions of acres of national lands. Reagan's appointee to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Anne Gorsuch, tried to gut the 1972 Clean Water Act, cut EPA funding by 25%, and mismanaged a $1.6 billion program to clean up hazardous waste dumps.
   
   
7. Foreign Policy: Reagan broke his own vows not to make deals with terrorists or states that aided them. In the "Iran-Contra" scandal, Reagan's administration bypassed congressional restrictions on aiding Nicaragua's Contra guerilla fighters, in part by diverting money to them from the sale of missiles to Iran. Reagan also initiated military involvement in Libya, Grenada, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Lebanon.
   
   
8. Health: Reagan almost completely ignored the growing AIDS epidemic. Although the first case of AIDS was discovered in the early 1980s, Reagan never publicly addressed the epidemic until May 31, 1987 when he spoke at an AIDS conference in Washington, DC. By that time, 36,058 Americans had been diagnosed with the disease and 20,849 had died.
   
   
9. Labor: On Aug. 3, 1981, Reagan ordered 12,176 striking air traffic controllers (PATCO) back to their jobs, disregarding the workers' complaints of stress, staff shortages, and outdated equipment. PATCO was one of the few unions that had endorsed Reagan in the 1980 election. Reagan repaid them by giving them only 48 hours to cancel the strike and banning them from federal service for life. The ban was not lifted until 1993 by President Bill Clinton.
   
   
10. Science/Technology: Reagan's over-ambitious space-based laser strategic defensive system, the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) or "Star Wars," proved to be too technically complex and expensive to complete. From its inception in 1983 to its demise in 1993, the program cost taxpayers $33 billion dollars.
    
    
11. Social Policy: Reagan believed that widespread freeloading plagued welfare and social programs. As Reagan slashed spending in his first term on programs such as food stamps and subsidized housing, the poverty rate climbed from 12% to 15% and unemployment rose from 7% to 11%.
    
    
12. Taxes: Reagan's "voodoo" economic policy, where tax cuts were believed to somehow generate tax revenues, failed to account for his administration's excessive spending which increased from $591 billion in 1980 to $1.2 trillion in 1990. Reagan both increased and cut taxes. In 1980, middle-income families with children paid 8.2% in income taxes and 9.5% in payroll taxes. By 1988 their income tax was down to 6.6%, but payroll tax was up to 11.8%, a combined increase in taxes. Reagan pushed through Social Security tax increases of $165 billion over seven years.
    
    
13. Other: Reagan opposed many important civil rights measures that further alienated him and the Republican Party from African-Americans. On Mar. 16, 1988, Reagan vetoed the Civil Rights Restoration Act. He was opposed to extending provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. He initially opposed making Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a national holiday. He was also loyal to apartheid South Africa, considering that country a friend and ally.

Side notes.

Ronald Reagan's economic advisor was Milton Friedman, the creator of the economic philosophy that says that there is no such a thing as a free lunch.
Technically that is true, however that doesn't pay the bill, or absolve society of its responsibilities to the country.
And his economics have been responsible for almost every single economic downturn in recent American political history.
Milton Friedman is amongst the worst economists ever, right along side the French economist that created "Laissez Faire".

If everything you are saying is true, how could Jimmy Carter lose to him??

I am always interested to hear about his re-election.

He hardly campaigned and almost gave Mondale the honor of being the first candidate to get zero electoral votes.

Mondale/Ferraro and Mondale's declaration that our taxed would go up.
Yeah, that was real good strategy.
What the hell was Mondale thinking?

Mondale was a token as was Ferraro.....

The democrats knew it was going to be a real asskicking.....no one wanted to run.

Reagan was just such a lousy president.

Reagan was great if one already had a big portfolio.

I am not one to argue the issue of income disparity in our country.

You didn't need a big portfolio to do well under Ronnie. Or under Clinton.

You did need some advantage.

Our country is pretty ungrateful for what it already has and it seems our greed won't let us alone.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

In other words, you still have no back up for your claims.

By the way, you never did tell us how young you are.
10?

Old enough to be working on the CBOE with my brother and sister during the Crash of 1987.

Than you're an egocentric sociopath.
I know your type as I've worked with your type plenty and I wouldn't waste my saliva spitting on you.
Thanks for your honesty concerning your age if not your integrity as a human being.

If you ever pull your head out of your ass, and find actual back up for your stupid claims about Supply Side economics, let me know.

If you worked on the CBOE I can fully understand why you had your head in your portfolio and noticed nothing going on around you.
You're going to tell me you didn't see US money and factories leaving the US and that Black Monday didn't destroy hundreds of businesses in Chicago.
You're so full of shit I wouldn't be surprised if the font of your postings started turning brown.
And of course you didn't notice the Top 8 Accounting Firms becoming the Top 4 and thousands of people being laid off.
You really are a major sociopath.

The Crash had nothing to do with Supply Side.
A week earlier, the Prime Rate jumped to 9.25%.
James Baker, over the weekend, threatened the Germans with a devaluation of the dollar.
Huge market declines occurred in Asia, before the NYSE opened.
Program trading...portfolio insurance...these were all contributing factors.

Is everyone who points out your idiocy a sociopath, or is that just me?

 

[Indeependent]

By the way, you never did tell us how young you are.
10?

Old enough to be working on the CBOE with my brother and sister during the Crash of 1987.

Than you're an egocentric sociopath.
I know your type as I've worked with your type plenty and I wouldn't waste my saliva spitting on you.
Thanks for your honesty concerning your age if not your integrity as a human being.

If you ever pull your head out of your ass, and find actual back up for your stupid claims about Supply Side economics, let me know.

If you worked on the CBOE I can fully understand why you had your head in your portfolio and noticed nothing going on around you.
You're going to tell me you didn't see US money and factories leaving the US and that Black Monday didn't destroy hundreds of businesses in Chicago.
You're so full of shit I wouldn't be surprised if the font of your postings started turning brown.
And of course you didn't notice the Top 8 Accounting Firms becoming the Top 4 and thousands of people being laid off.
You really are a major sociopath.

The Crash had nothing to do with Supply Side.
A week earlier, the Prime Rate jumped to 9.25%.
James Baker, over the weekend, threatened the Germans with a devaluation of the dollar.
Huge market declines occurred in Asia, before the NYSE opened.
Program trading...portfolio insurance...these were all contributing factors.

Is everyone who points out your idiocy a sociopath, or is that just me?

To use Market nomenclature, you are cherry picking Transactions out of an Order.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Reagan: he called the Left's home team an "evil empire", vowed to defeat them, and by the time he left office the USSR was finished

He freed hundreds of million from the crushing oppression of Soviet Communism and that's why the Left hates him

Fucking losers

Wait... did Reagan defeat the USSR? Or is socialism an unsustainable system that defeats itself?

Which is it?

Reagan defeated the USSR and your beloved Socialism is an unsustainable system

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Old enough to be working on the CBOE with my brother and sister during the Crash of 1987.

Than you're an egocentric sociopath.
I know your type as I've worked with your type plenty and I wouldn't waste my saliva spitting on you.
Thanks for your honesty concerning your age if not your integrity as a human being.

If you ever pull your head out of your ass, and find actual back up for your stupid claims about Supply Side economics, let me know.

If you worked on the CBOE I can fully understand why you had your head in your portfolio and noticed nothing going on around you.
You're going to tell me you didn't see US money and factories leaving the US and that Black Monday didn't destroy hundreds of businesses in Chicago.
You're so full of shit I wouldn't be surprised if the font of your postings started turning brown.
And of course you didn't notice the Top 8 Accounting Firms becoming the Top 4 and thousands of people being laid off.
You really are a major sociopath.

The Crash had nothing to do with Supply Side.
A week earlier, the Prime Rate jumped to 9.25%.
James Baker, over the weekend, threatened the Germans with a devaluation of the dollar.
Huge market declines occurred in Asia, before the NYSE opened.
Program trading...portfolio insurance...these were all contributing factors.

Is everyone who points out your idiocy a sociopath, or is that just me?

To use Market nomenclature, you are cherry picking Transactions out of an Order.

And I've never seen any serious person, anywhere, pick out Supply Side Economics as the cherry.

I'm sorry that your career as an accountant went down hill after 1987.
Must have been Reagan. LOL!

 

[francoHFW]

Gorbachev destroyed the USSR with glasnost and perestroika. We're lucky Raygun's ridiculous bluster didn't bring back the hardliners. S+L scandal/recession, anyone? A disaster of pander to the greedy rich and fooling the dupes we're still seeing play out...

And their hardliners couldn't have fixed their crappy economy.

They could have made it irrelevant. Their economy always suqed lol...

 

[francoHFW]

Reagan: he called the Left's home team an "evil empire", vowed to defeat them, and by the time he left office the USSR was finished

He freed hundreds of million from the crushing oppression of Soviet Communism and that's why the Left hates him

Fucking losers

Wait... did Reagan defeat the USSR? Or is socialism an unsustainable system that defeats itself?

Which is it?

Reagan defeated the USSR and your beloved Socialism is an unsustainable system

That's communism. Socialism works great.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Gorbachev destroyed the USSR with glasnost and perestroika. We're lucky Raygun's ridiculous bluster didn't bring back the hardliners. S+L scandal/recession, anyone? A disaster of pander to the greedy rich and fooling the dupes we're still seeing play out...

And their hardliners couldn't have fixed their crappy economy.

They could have made it irrelevant. Their economy always suqed lol...

When your economy sucks and your enemy is ramping up spending and modernizing, everything, and building a missile defense system........irrelevant? LOL!

 

[francoHFW]

Gorbachev destroyed the USSR with glasnost and perestroika. We're lucky Raygun's ridiculous bluster didn't bring back the hardliners. S+L scandal/recession, anyone? A disaster of pander to the greedy rich and fooling the dupes we're still seeing play out...

And their hardliners couldn't have fixed their crappy economy.

They could have made it irrelevant. Their economy always suqed lol...

When your economy sucks and your enemy is ramping up spending and modernizing, everything, and building a missile defense system........irrelevant? LOL!

You HAVE heard of totalitarianism right? Glasnost doesn't work against tanks and machine guns. Reagan was a sham. All that spending tripled our debt, nothing more. Gorbachev ended the USSR.