On 10-Sep-2008, at 07:06, Charles Bennett wrote:
> On Sep 9, 2008, at 5:12 PM, LuKreme wrote:
>> On 9-Sep-2008, at 12:46, David P. Henderson wrote:
>>> Absolutely, and it's even worse since Reagan because the GOP has
>>> been
>>> largely taken over by social conservatives who think that they agree
>>> with Goldwater which is why they call themselves "Conservative".
>>
>> as much of a fucking criminal bastard as he was, Nixon was the last
>> real Republican President. And even there, the slide was beginning.
>
> Reagan wasn't bad. He cut taxes and increased revenues. The
> killer was that congress (both sides) spent above and beyond what he
> saved.
Wow, revisionist much? Reagan plunged the country into massive debt
(the first time the debt reached $1 Trillion (1 gigadollar) and
eventually increasing it to THREE TRILLION by increasing spending by
huge amounts on Defense projects. The debt load that Reagan built
exceeded the combine debt load of all previous Presidents combned by
more than 100%. Yes, he more than doubled the previous Presidents.
Our current debt is almost $10 trillion (over $30,000 for every man,
woman, child, and infant in the country)
Let's not forget his many accomplishments, like turning out millions
of mentally ill onto the streets, James Watt, gutting the school lunch
program (and declaring by fiat that ketchup is a vegetable), the 'wag
the dog' Invasion of Grenada, Antonin Scalia (and Robert Bork too)...
let's see, oh yeah, the HUD scandal which led to several convictions.
How about the Superfund scandal? The S&L scandal? Yeah, those are all
Reagan. Gutting the EPA? Reagan again. Star Wars?
How about the massive trade deficit he created? Hell, we're still
dealing with that now.
But yeah, Reagan is the classic "tax less and spend more" President.
Heck, he invented it.
Good thing we had Clinton to clean up some of that debt.
He cut Medicare, Food Stamps, and all sorts of programs that help the
bottom tier of our population and then spent 10 times what he cut on
tax breaks and military spending.
> OTOH, the Lipstick on a Pig comment was dunderheaded.
You mean how he used the EXACT SAME PHRASE that McCain used LAST YEAR
about Hillary Clinton's Health care plan?
Funny, it wasn't sexist then, but it is now?
> He started life as a typical fighter jock, playboy but because of
> the adversity of being captured and tortured, changed him for the
> better.
And his step up to the National political level in the last 10 years
changed him again, into a lying sack of shit who has already proved he
will do ANYTHING to get into 1600 Pennsylvania. ANYTHING at all.
> It's a hell of a story.
Yeah, it is.
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