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Was Reagan a good president?

Was Reagan a good president?

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Frolicking Dinosaurs said:
And what would you know about hardwood, Mr. TurtleTail :mrgreen:

Reagan's second term was just plain dreadful. I was raising kids - prices were growing far faster than paychecks and loan rates shot through the roof. He was an awful president IMO and that comes from my memory - not reading fluff pieces about how great he was.
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I guess old dinosaurs want a fossilized one?
 
TurtleDude said:
as opposed to taxing ourselves to prosperity?

such claims are all Greek to me
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My bet is that you inherited a few million and now maybe have 10-20 million and feel like you earned it all.
 
Awesome! said:
It's difficult to respond to this thread as Obama has set the bar so high as president. Makes Reagan look like an amateur if you do an apples to apples comparison.
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I think Obama could rise to Ronnie's level ... If he suffered a serious stroke or a serious head wound, rendering him incapable formulating common sense economic theory or following even rudimentary ethical precepts.
 
AdamT said:
I think Obama could rise to Ronnie's level ... If he suffered a serious stroke or a serious head wound,
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You're right, there's no hope for Obama. Oh well, at least he did that healthcare thing and bought GM... libs got something.


ps. Why are all the options in the poll including "(explain)". I'd like an option with no explanation next time (you know, like Obama), thanks.
 
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He was anti-Communist. That is always a plus in my book.
 
Sunbelt said:
He was anti-Communist. That is always a plus in my book.
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Too bad his anti-communist foreign policy helped create terrorist organizations that we are fighting today. If we were not so afraid of the USSR and would have let them collapse on their own, the Taliban and other such orginizations would have eventually crumbled as well. But when you fund and arm a group, they will then have the ability to last longer (say 20-30 years).
 
I disagreed with him about many things, but he handled the economy and the Cold War very well. If he wasn't the best POTUS of the 20th century, he was close.
 
mpg said:
I disagreed with him about many things, but he handled the economy and the Cold War very well. If he wasn't the best POTUS of the 20th century, he was close.
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He did nothing in the Cold War that wasn't already gonna happen! He didn't need to fund the locals of Afghanistan for the Russians to leave as they were already falling apart! The Berlin Wall would've been destroyed even if he wasn't there to provide his famous words. The Cold War was already pretty much over when he put his nose in it. The result, an armed Saddam Hussein, armed Taliban, American funded terrorists, and economic decline. That's poor handling if you ask me. George Bush 41 would've been a much wiser choice as his foreign policy was effectie and non-binding.
 
DaveFagan said:
My bet is that you inherited a few million and now maybe have 10-20 million and feel like you earned it all.
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My bet is your comments are not relevant to this thread. and you claiming to be a conservative made me snarf out a mouthful of mountain dew
 
Sunbelt said:
He was anti-Communist. That is always a plus in my book.
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which explains much of the hatred directed towards him on this thread
 
No. Started "Reagan Economics" which is the practice of curbing regulations to allow rich people to get richer. Makes no sense to me.
 
sookster said:
No. Started "Reagan Economics" which is the practice of curbing regulations to allow rich people to get richer. Makes no sense to me.
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so you don't think rich people should be able to get richer?
 
Fruityfact said:
They should be...just not at the cost of everyone else.
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so edify me as to how the rich should get richer in your opinion

I will tell you how I do. I don't spend all I make. In fact though my income has doubled in the last 10 years I spend about the same. Of course my taxes have gone up but what I don't pay in taxes and spend I invest. and that means I make more money.
 
AdamT said:
I think Obama could rise to Ronnie's level ... If he suffered a serious stroke or a serious head wound, rendering him incapable formulating common sense economic theory or following even rudimentary ethical precepts.
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Fortunately for us that hasn't happened. Our only challenge now is finding the strength and courage to consider ourselves worthy of Obama's leadership even though we don't deserve it and don't understand it in all its various for our own good complexities...
 
TurtleDude said:
so edify me as to how the rich should get richer in your opinion

I will tell you how I do. I don't spend all I make. In fact though my income has doubled in the last 10 years I spend about the same. Of course my taxes have gone up but what I don't pay in taxes and spend I invest. and that means I make more money.
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Locally, one of the owner/operator sawmills had huge fire. $4 million damage. The owner/operator had finished the bank payments three years earlier. Free and clear. 61 years old and could have taken the $4 million and moved to the Bahamas or such and lived off the investments of the $4 Million. Old enough to retire, but some 55 people were employees of the mill, he rebuilt to save those jobs, and this is a down time for timber products (housing crisis). The difference between the owner/operator and you is that he makes jobs and money. He doesn't shuffle paper to make paper profits.
 
DaveFagan said:
Locally, one of the owner/operator sawmills had huge fire. $4 million damage. The owner/operator had finished the bank payments three years earlier. Free and clear. 61 years old and could have taken the $4 million and moved to the Bahamas or such and lived off the investments of the $4 Million. Old enough to retire, but some 55 people were employees of the mill, he rebuilt to save those jobs, and this is a down time for timber products (housing crisis). The difference between the owner/operator and you is that he makes jobs and money. He doesn't shuffle paper to make paper profits.
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You have no clue what you talk about. strong the envy is in your posts
 
He belongs on Mt. Rushmore. Liberals like to bitch about him because he set them back 100 years. Much to their chagrin, Reagan's legacy remains untarnished even with the whining.
 
Meathead said:
He belongs on Mt. Rushmore. Liberals like to bitch about him because he set them back 100 years. Much to their chagrin, Reagan's legacy remains untarnished even with the whining.
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What!? For what does he deserve to be placed on Mt Rushmore for? Please excuse awkward wording.
 
Awesome! said:
Fortunately for us that hasn't happened. Our only challenge now is finding the strength and courage to consider ourselves worthy of Obama's leadership even though we don't deserve it and don't understand it in all its various for our own good complexities...
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this is one of the most outlandish statements I have seen in awhile, unless its a sarcastic comment.

"finding the strength and courage to consider ourselves worthy of Obama's leadership
even though we don't deserve it and don't understand it in all its various for our own good complexities"

Oh, I get it now, he was called the "One".
should I get down on my knees and pray now.

One thing is right, we didn't deserve Obama, but the damage is done.
 
Meathead said:
He belongs on Mt. Rushmore. Liberals like to bitch about him because he set them back 100 years. Much to their chagrin, Reagan's legacy remains untarnished even with the whining.
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As a figurehead, Reagan was certainly one of our greatest presidents in that his administration won the Cold War by heating up the arms race enough to finally break the economic back of the USSR and send it into dissolution.

However, I'm not sure how much personal input he had in the decisions made by his administration, as he spent much of his presidency rehabilitating from a nearly fatal gunshot wound. What is more, he often exhibited signs of dementia during his second term.
 
Meathead said:
Probably a little easier this way.
Reagan Administration Accomplishments 1981-1989 — The Forerunner
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Do you really want me to take that subjective material as a reason for why he was a great president? So he made us feel good! That's great and all but the repercussions of his presidency were not as delightful as you say they are. He did nothing to do with the Middle Eastern problems which were already arising in this period. In contrast, he funded the problems! Iran was and still is goin AWOL, Afghanistan became terrorist led because of him, Saddam magically got his hands on chemical weapons and a lot of money with Reagan. I don't understand how you can see him as a great president because he smiled and made you feel good. Ivan say at least he wasn't Carter.
 
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