While expressing your desire to "go back to the days of the founding fathers," you neglected to mention that the only people who had "skin" in the game, as far as the the founding fathers were concerned, were landowners whose skin was white and whose gender was male.
Your comments, although filled with undisputed facts, are bathed in the light of your own collectivism. Your strong opinions for one group do not look very good next to your facts. They do not strengthen their truths rather foster disbelief. The real problem you are trying to describe is that there needs to be a proper check and balance system not a blaming game. I could come up with the same amount of damning facts about FDR and smother it in lop sided ideals but that only starts a tug-o-war distraction from the erosion of the founding documents of individual liberty.
Wow, biased much? I suppose the opposite of all this is much better? Balanced is the way to go. The opposite of this is just as bad. That means being a far left liberal is just as bad a far right conservative.
* Iran-Contra treason.
* Lied about it.
* Likely encouraged Iran to keep US Embassy hostages until he was into office.
Fiscal:
* Supply-side economics.
* National debt tripled.
* $12 billion trade surplus --> $100+ billion trade deficit.
* Deregulated savings and loans, precipitated huge economic crisis.
* Tax raiser.
* Taxed the poor, cut taxes for the rich.
* SDI "Star Wars" boondoggle.
* Military spending increased to match imaginary spending in USSR.
* Deregulation caused oil bust.
* Broke air traffic control union.
Social:
* Gutted social welfare.
* Dismantled the mental healthcare system.
* Release of mental patients without recourse, homeless population up.
* Ignored AIDS crisis.
* Abstinence-only sex education.
* Strengthened ATF, banned automatic weapons, blamed Democrats for it.
* Privatized the prison industry and made incarceration a profitable industry.
* Increased spending for War on Drugs.
* National drinking age of 21.
* Underfunded NEA.
* EPA Superfund grants manipulated to help Republicans in local elections.
* Deregulated kids' tv, initiated 22 minute toy ads.
* Killed energy programs.
* Crack in the ghettos. (? Due to support for Contras and Noriega?)
Foreign:
* Wars all over Central America, incl Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras.
* Promoted Iran-Iraq war.
* Sent Marines into Beirut, abandoned mission after terrorist bombing.
* Broke detente with USSR until Gorbachev personally made things better.
* Backed Contras in drug running schemes.
* Supported right-wing dictators and movements everywhere, including:
* Apartheid regime in SA.
* Marcos regime in Phillipines.
* Saddam Hussein and Baathist regime in Iraq, even after Kurds gassed.
* Taliban in Afghanistan.
* Manuel Noriega in Panama.
* Augusto Pinochet in Chile.
Concepts:
* Welfare queens.
* Trees cause pollution.
* Ketchup as a vegetable.
Appointments:
* 30+ convicted appointees.
* Ed Meese at Justice, porn freak.
* James Watt at Interior, idiot, corrupt. (believed Christ would return after last tree died on earth)
* William Casey at CIA, religious nut, strikes into Uzbekistan. (? Uzb part of USSR, maybe mean Afghanistan?)
* HUD a corrupt mess in general.
* Politicised CIA.
* Robert Bork to SCOTUS (failed), segregationist and asshole.
* Antonin Scalia, same but he got in.
Personal:
* Unfit to serve due to Alzheimer's disease by term's end.
* Horrible excuse for a human being in general.
* McCarthyite.
* Backed Moral Majority.
* Pardoned Robert Walker, who went on to kill his wife.
* Started presidential campaign at racist murder crime scene in Philadelphia, MS.
* Laid wreath and made speech at SS cemetery in Germany.
* Vietnam War a "noble cause."
* Helped start right-wing noise machine, by promoting myth of liberal media and destroying Fairness Doctrine
* Hated sex, made Ron Jr. feel like a sissy and quit ballet.
* Believed in astrology and used it to run government.
* Innovated "talking points" cue cards.
* "I don't recall" to weasel out of press questions.
* Confused movies with reality.
* "Outlawed Russia forever, started bombing in five minutes."
I love to refer to his fiscal record as 'cutting the deficit in triple'.
And when you mention Contra and Central American wars you should also mention the phrase 'death squads': They were Ronald Reagan's 'freedom fighters' (his words) who slaughtered and raped thousands of innocent peasants.
Afghanistan: He helped build, train and finance what later became the Taleban and Al Qaida.
Personal: When the Gipper's Alzheimer's became obvious Nancy got more and more involved in day-to-day government business. Her chief advisor: An astrologer.
Also, during the McCarthy era Ronald Reagan was ratting on untold numbers of his fellow actors, his FBI informer code name was Confidential Informant "T-10". As president of the Screen Actors Guild, mind you.
Completely gutting funding for college grant programs. reagan is almost entirely the reason US students now go into astronomical debt to attend college.
Conservatives have always hated college because education at it's very core is a 'liberal' idea; learning, knowledge, and spreading information is a 'liberal' concept. reagan used the conveniently partisan study that claimed 'college grads will make $1 million in their lifetime' and decided that this is a perfect excuse for the US government to no longer pay to educate people too much. this served two purposes, it insures the future of the republican party because more education means = democratic voting tendency, and because it handled billions and billions of dollars directly to private banks aka campaign contributors and friends who now created burdensome loans for students to put themselves into indentured servitude, creating lifelong wage-slaves and pseudo-wealthier consumers.
Your comments, although filled with undisputed facts, are bathed in the light of your own collectivism. Your strong opinions for one group do not look very good next to your facts. They do not strengthen their truths rather foster disbelief. The real problem you are trying to describe is that there needs to be a proper check and balance system not a blaming game. I could come up with the same amount of damning facts about FDR and smother it in lop sided ideals but that only starts a tug-o-war distraction from the erosion of the founding documents of individual liberty.
where are your sources for all these claims?
Wow, biased much? I suppose the opposite of all this is much better? Balanced is the way to go. The opposite of this is just as bad. That means being a far left liberal is just as bad a far right conservative.
Criminal:
* Iran-Contra treason.
* Lied about it.
* Likely encouraged Iran to keep US Embassy hostages until he was into office.
Fiscal:
* Supply-side economics.
* National debt tripled.
* $12 billion trade surplus --> $100+ billion trade deficit.
* Deregulated savings and loans, precipitated huge economic crisis.
* Tax raiser.
* Taxed the poor, cut taxes for the rich.
* SDI "Star Wars" boondoggle.
* Military spending increased to match imaginary spending in USSR.
* Deregulation caused oil bust.
* Broke air traffic control union.
Social:
* Gutted social welfare.
* Dismantled the mental healthcare system.
* Release of mental patients without recourse, homeless population up.
* Ignored AIDS crisis.
* Abstinence-only sex education.
* Strengthened ATF, banned automatic weapons, blamed Democrats for it.
* Privatized the prison industry and made incarceration a profitable industry.
* Increased spending for War on Drugs.
* National drinking age of 21.
* Underfunded NEA.
* EPA Superfund grants manipulated to help Republicans in local elections.
* Deregulated kids' tv, initiated 22 minute toy ads.
* Killed energy programs.
* Crack in the ghettos. (? Due to support for Contras and Noriega?)
Foreign:
* Wars all over Central America, incl Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras.
* Promoted Iran-Iraq war.
* Sent Marines into Beirut, abandoned mission after terrorist bombing.
* Broke detente with USSR until Gorbachev personally made things better.
* Backed Contras in drug running schemes.
* Supported right-wing dictators and movements everywhere, including:
* Apartheid regime in SA.
* Marcos regime in Phillipines.
* Saddam Hussein and Baathist regime in Iraq, even after Kurds gassed.
* Taliban in Afghanistan.
* Manuel Noriega in Panama.
* Augusto Pinochet in Chile.
Concepts:
* Welfare queens.
* Trees cause pollution.
* Ketchup as a vegetable.
Appointments:
* 30+ convicted appointees.
* Ed Meese at Justice, porn freak.
* James Watt at Interior, idiot, corrupt. (believed Christ would return after last tree died on earth)
* William Casey at CIA, religious nut, strikes into Uzbekistan. (? Uzb part of USSR, maybe mean Afghanistan?)
* HUD a corrupt mess in general.
* Politicised CIA.
* Robert Bork to SCOTUS (failed), segregationist and asshole.
* Antonin Scalia, same but he got in.
Personal:
* Unfit to serve due to Alzheimer's disease by term's end.
* Horrible excuse for a human being in general.
* McCarthyite.
* Backed Moral Majority.
* Pardoned Robert Walker, who went on to kill his wife.
* Started presidential campaign at racist murder crime scene in Philadelphia, MS.
* Laid wreath and made speech at SS cemetery in Germany.
* Vietnam War a "noble cause."
* Helped start right-wing noise machine, by promoting myth of liberal media and destroying Fairness Doctrine
* Hated sex, made Ron Jr. feel like a sissy and quit ballet.
* Believed in astrology and used it to run government.
* Innovated "talking points" cue cards.
* "I don't recall" to weasel out of press questions.
* Confused movies with reality.
* "Outlawed Russia forever, started bombing in five minutes."
I love to refer to his fiscal record as 'cutting the deficit in triple'.
And when you mention Contra and Central American wars you should also mention the phrase 'death squads': They were Ronald Reagan's 'freedom fighters' (his words) who slaughtered and raped thousands of innocent peasants.
Afghanistan: He helped build, train and finance what later became the Taleban and Al Qaida.
Personal: When the Gipper's Alzheimer's became obvious Nancy got more and more involved in day-to-day government business. Her chief advisor: An astrologer.
Also, during the McCarthy era Ronald Reagan was ratting on untold numbers of his fellow actors, his FBI informer code name was Confidential Informant "T-10". As president of the Screen Actors Guild, mind you.
Completely gutting funding for college grant programs. reagan is almost entirely the reason US students now go into astronomical debt to attend college.
Conservatives have always hated college because education at it's very core is a 'liberal' idea; learning, knowledge, and spreading information is a 'liberal' concept. reagan used the conveniently partisan study that claimed 'college grads will make $1 million in their lifetime' and decided that this is a perfect excuse for the US government to no longer pay to educate people too much. this served two purposes, it insures the future of the republican party because more education means = democratic voting tendency, and because it handled billions and billions of dollars directly to private banks aka campaign contributors and friends who now created burdensome loans for students to put themselves into indentured servitude, creating lifelong wage-slaves and pseudo-wealthier consumers.
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