If I may presume, tired of all the lying and ideology... IMO, ideology, mainly.I think many Americans are tired of both parties.
fify.well, conservatives (not all republicans, not me, at least) have convinced themselves that reagan was a great president, so anything is possible with them.
If I may presume, tired of all the lying and ideology... IMO, ideology, mainly.
You must have missed the part in the article showing that spending under Obama's budget is actually going down. Why am I not surprised? Anything that conflicts with RW poutrage gets ignored :roll:
Reagan is another ideological president that replaced another ideological president: Jimmy Carter, who replaced another president: Tricky Dick Nixon.
The moral of this story? How the current administration performs greatly determines if the same political party stays in the White House, or is sent packing.
I could agree with this, though for reasons I'll never understood, Reagan is seen as a god by many, despite being thoroughly mediocre.
And it did. Though I don't think they believed him. Many just overlooked his record and clung to business acumen. Of course, the country isn't really a business. But few really understand that.
Ideologies are not in themselves a bad thing, if they involve the personal freedom of the individual. Gerald Ford was in that mix also.
They are when they are pretty much forced upon others.
Most ideologues are not patriots (lovers of America). They are lovers of their ideology.Ideologies are not in themselves a bad thing, if they involve the personal freedom of the individual. Gerald Ford was in that mix also.
Wasteful spending? Christ, (not profanity) are you a closet Libertarian - a tea partier?Yes, both of those things among others, like wasteful spending, of which both parties are guilty. I can't really say which bothers me the most.
What a coincidence, PPACA causes the quality of health care insurance and health care to go down, as well... Hum...You must have missed the part in the article showing that spending under Obama's budget is actually going down. Why am I not surprised? Anything that conflicts with RW poutrage gets ignored :roll:
I could agree with this, though for reasons I'll never understood, Reagan is seen as a god by many, despite being thoroughly mediocre.
all you ever needed to know about spending is in hereThe debt is increasing daily. If that's the case, how is spending going down? "If you exclude health care costs in ten years it will blah blah blah".
There are others who some might consider worse. Be it on things they did OR media. You hear a lot about how Jimmy Carter was a bad President. Good man, just ineffective.
As for Bill Clinton, you don't hear it a lot that he let bin Laden go and told the people who caught him that we don't want him, and to let him go - even though it was known that he tried to again attack failed targets.
Lyndon Johnson - potential conspirator behind the assassination of Kennedy - Johnson was under some kind of investigation and Kennedy was likely going to replace Johnson on the 1964 ticket - but the truth behind that has mixed answers.
Herbert Hoover - the Great Depression lasted during his entire 4 year Presidency.
And every President before Lincoln who supported slavery. Andrew Johnson supported it too, but even more-so supported the Union.
all you ever needed to know about spending is in here
2013 United States federal budget - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
If you bother look closely, most of the money is absorbed in Military and security related expenses followed closely by SS and then Medicare.
Nonsense. Undue credit given to a man who had little to do with the USSR collapse.Yes, the collapse of communism disappointed a great many people.
Reagan’s conviction that the Soviet Union was both a dangerous military power and a collapsing economic system derived not from any deep knowledge of the Soviet Union. Yet he proved to be the proverbial right man in the right place at the right time. By whatever means he arrived at his views regarding the Soviet Union, he drew from them policy directions that were devastatingly effective in undermining the rotten Soviet edifice. Because of the high oil prices of the 1970s the Soviet leadership avoided serious economic reforms, such as those that saved Deng Xiaoping’s China. Instead, it relied on oil revenues as a means of keeping its decrepit economy going. By the early 1980s the Soviet Union was becoming a hollow shell, with an unreformed and increasingly backward industrial base producing outmoded pre-computer armaments. Thus it was highly vulnerable to the pressures that the Reagan administration was planning.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" />
...contrary to Mr. Jones’ statement, "Reagan had much to do with it." One major thought that Mr. Jones and many others overlook is the thought that the USSR truly began to collapse with Nikita K’s famous “secret speech” which denounced Stalin back in the 50s.
which one of those is clearly a power delegated to the federal government in the Constitution
Nonsense. Undue credit given to a man who had little to do with the USSR collapse.
The Collapse of the Soviet Union and Ronald Reagan
Oh, well THAT settles it. :lamo
No, but it should make you think. Of course, it probably feels better to worship at Ronnie's feet like your handlers and propagandists want.
:lamo
As if I'm not extremely well-conversant with the era and subject matter. Some of us are actually educated, calamity.
Obviously not enough to look past the "Ronnie single handily destroyed the USSR" propaganda. :roll:
Wasteful spending? Christ, (not profanity) are you a closet Libertarian - a tea partier?