The eXile savages Reagan

dignity. And if all 285 million of you suckers are willing to sit there and let the jerks lie about him to your face, then you deserve him. He really was your kind of man. No one but a sucker would stand for the crap they're saying about Reagan. The claims they're making for Reagan aren't just

Re: remembering reagan

did reagan croak or something, gee, guess i missed it, didn't see anything in the news, seems there would have at least been a press release or obit notice... michael hoover

Re: remembering reagan

You didn't miss a thing Maybe he died, but how could anyone tell? - Original Message - From: Michael Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 4:51 AM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] remembering reagan did reagan croak or something, gee, guess i missed

Re: remembering reagan

: Subject: Re: [PEN-L] remembering reagan You didn't miss a thing Maybe he died, but how could anyone tell? - Original Message - From: Michael Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Newsflash: Reagan still dead!

[speaking of wikipedia articles, here's one that seems germane] http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Generalissimo-Francisco-Franco-is-still-dead Updated: Jun 08, 2004 Encyclopedia: Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead The

remembering reagan

http://www.kirktoons.com/june_2004/images/06_01_04_Remembering_Reagan.jpg

Re: remembering reagan

Please, Ravi, I want to forget the guy as soon as possible. I was in Berkeley when Reagan brought the National Guard to town. After they shot an innocent bystander, James Rector, the governor said, if it takes a bloodbath, so be it. He was a thoroughly nasty person, who could somehow charm some

Liberia: Another Reagan Legacy

of the Samuel Doe government. ...following the 1980 coup [led by Doe] the desire to prop up its new partner in West Afria led the US to grant $60 million in military assistance...Soon after the Reagan administration took power, Secretary of State George Schultz met Doe in Monrovia...that year America granted

Ronald Reagan, R.I.P.

someone I know reported that he once saw Ronald Reagan walk on water -- and then turn water into wine. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine

Re: Ronald Reagan, R.I.P.

From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] someone I know reported that he once saw Ronald Reagan walk on water -- and then turn water into wine. And mirabile dictu, he turned ketchup into a vegetable. Carl _ Getting married? Find great

Re: Ronald Reagan, R.I.P.

Yes, but he was smart enough to invade Grenada instead of Iraq. On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 02:51:19PM +, Carl Remick wrote: From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] someone I know reported that he once saw Ronald Reagan walk on water -- and then turn water into wine. And mirabile dictu, he

Re: odd bodkins on Reagan

Dan and the rest of the list, please do not send graphics to the list. It takes up enormous bandwidth. It fills up mailboxes and puts an inordinate cost on some people outside the United States. Just send a URL. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA

Re: odd bodkins on Reagan

Dan and the rest of the list, please do not send graphics to the list. It takes up enormous bandwidth. It fills up mailboxes and puts an inordinate cost on some people outside the United States. Just send a URL. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA

Re: odd bodkins on Reagan

Thanks. Tell your friend that I was a fan back then. -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Scanlan Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 1:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PEN-L] odd bodkins on Reagan Importance: High Dan and the rest of the list

Reagan dead

Reagan dead by Mark Laffey Did anyone else see the CNN hagiography? He was 93 - how many people died as a result of his policies? ^^^ CB: He was in the American actors' tradition of John Wilkes Booth. Our local paper headlined that Reagan brought hope back to America. What a big lie

Re: Reagan dead

did he regret never returning to Bitburg? jd -Original Message- From: Charles Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 6/7/2004 6:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: [PEN-L] Reagan dead Reagan dead

Reagan and D-Day

Too bad Reagan didn't live a couple of days longer so he could celebrate the 50th anniversary of when he stormed ashore at Omaha Beach. Gene Coyle

Reagan

You've seen one dead president, you've seen them all.

Reagan dead

Did anyone else see the CNN hagiography? He was 93 - how many people died as a result of his policies? Mark Dr Mark Laffey Department of Politics and International Studies SOAS, University of London [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0207 898 4744

Re: Reagan dead

Mark Laffey wrote: Did anyone else see the CNN hagiography? He was 93 - how many people died as a result of his policies? Mark Most or all of the Reagan policies that led to so many deaths were policies initiated during the Carter administration. I think it especially important to recall

Re: Reagan dead

] Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Reagan dead Mark Laffey wrote: Did anyone else see the CNN hagiography? He was 93 - how many people died as a result of his policies? Mark Most or all of the Reagan policies that led to so many deaths were policies initiated during the Carter administration. I think

The Truth About the Reagan Deficits

The Truth About the Reagan Deficits Washington Post By Linda BilmesTuesday, February 10, 2004; Page A23 The Bush budget announced last week shows revenue falling some $500 billion short of projected spending. Is this a cause for alarm, or is it true that, as Vice President Cheney reportedly

RE: question regarding reagan tax cuts...

Unless there's a recession or near zero economic growth, tax revenue is likely to go up. The question re: Reagan was whether revenue was higher than it would have been with no tax cuts. If so, the tax cut would have 'paid for itself.' The consensus is it didn't (see The Tax Decade, C. Eugene

Re: RE: question regarding reagan tax cuts...

At 02:25 PM 6/11/01 +0100, you wrote: The Reagan cuts were in passed in 1981, at the very start of the recovery from '80 and '81 recessions. Because Reagan's term began at the bottom of the business cycle, his supporters like to attribute all subsequent good economic news to the '81 tax cuts

RE: Re: RE: question regarding reagan tax cuts...

I'll give them an ounce. But see Mike Meeropol's EPI issue brief on this, comparing Reagan '81 to Gerry Ford '75. mbs At 02:25 PM 6/11/01 +0100, you wrote: The Reagan cuts were in passed in 1981, at the very start of the recovery from '80 and '81 recessions. Because Reagan's term began

question regarding reagan tax cuts...

on another list, i read the below: John Kennedy cut taxes even more than Reagan. In both instances, after the cuts took effect gross collections increased because the incentive to evade was reduced and the incentive to earn more was increased. while the reasoning in the second

THE RETURN OF THE REAGAN TAX CUT -- CCDS Statement

THE RETURN OF THE REAGAN TAX CUT -- CCDS Statement a statement of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS) Before addressing the Bush tax cut proposal, we want to place this issue in its larger context. We, the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism

[PEN-L:12367] The real problem with the new Reagan biography

Village Voice, October 6 - 12, 1999 DUTCHED BY AN ANGEL BY RICK PERLSTEIN Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan By Edmund Morris Random House, 884 pp., $35 I've known Edmund Morris since the days he, Ronnie "Dutch" Reagan, and I went to Eureka College together back in the '30s. I

[PEN-L:1915] Libya Asks U.S. To Hand Over Reagan-Era Officials

Thursday December 31 7:19 AM ET Libya Asks U.S. To Hand Over Reagan-Era Officials TUNIS, Tunisia (Reuters) - Libya wants the United States to hand over nine officials of the Reagan administration -- one of them dead -- to face charges in connection with U.S. air raids on Libya in 1986

[PEN-L:1316] Re: Social Security change under Reagan

Ellen Frank wrote, But there is no pile of money, there never was and there never will be. That illusory "pile of money" is the papier-mâché rock upon which all right-wing economic wisdom is founded. If capital played by such a farcical pile-of-money rule, we'd all still be scraping the

[PEN-L:1330] RE: Social Security change under Reagan

Max writes: The earmarking gives rise to the Trust Fund balance, including its dates of cash deficits, overall deficit, and exhaustion of the fund balance, all of which are key to the current debate. As I said, accounting may be dull, but it is political. It is the Right which is demeaning

[PEN-L:1326] Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Re: Social Security changeunder Reagan

At 09:11 AM 12/7/98 -0500, you wrote: Max writes: The earmarking gives rise to the Trust Fund balance, including its dates of cash deficits, overall deficit, and exhaustion of the fund balance, all of which are key to the current debate. As I said, accounting may be dull, but it is political.

[PEN-L:1311] Re: Re: Social Security change under Reagan

In response to Bill Lear's question, I've attached a short piece I wrote on SS for a local union publication. Ellen Frank Each year, American workers pay more into the Social Security (SS) system than retirees take out. The difference, now about $90b per year, is

[PEN-L:1310] RE: Re: RE: Re: Re: Social Security change under Reagan

Max replied: Unlike welfare, and like insurance, beneficiaries make earmarked payments into the program. ... since funds are shifted about between various government budgets, the "earmarked" part is pretty unimportant. . . . The earmarking gives rise to the Trust Fund balance, including

[PEN-L:1279] Re: Re: Social Security change under Reagan

The SS Budget was merged into the overall Fedeal Budget during the Johnson Administration. Reason: SS Budget was always in surplus but the Fed Budget, becasue of Viet Nam War, was running a big deficit. By merging them Johnsoon and Humphry were able to have their "happy little war" a budget

[PEN-L:1282] RE: Social Security change under Reagan

My brother tells me that under the Reagan administration the accounting of Social Security was changed. He says that they used to be separate budgets, but now they are combined accounts. He also says that the government has borrowed money from the Social Security accounts and not paid

[PEN-L:1285] RE: Re: Social Security change under Reagan

Sorry I don't have time to elaborate too much on all the questions, but a few answers: . . . 1) If I read this correctly, it sounds as if SS has never been a "savings" account where money is paid into the account, invested for the lifetime of the payees and then paid back to them when they

[PEN-L:1286] RE: Re: Re: Social Security change under Reagan

... 3) I'm not quite sure why social security is not "insurance". How does "insurance" differ from "government redistribution" in the case of SS? I would say that SS _is_ a form of insurance. Insurance companies redistribute money from those whose houses don't burn down to those whose

[PEN-L:1298] Re: stock market promotes productive capacity (under Reagan)

I wrote: Putting this surplus into the stock market wouldn't promote the productive capacity of the economy, BTW, since the vast majority of stocks purchased are not new issues financing capital investment. "Big Wayne" writes: --- except insofar as the liquidity of "old" shares of

[PEN-L:1295] Re: Re: RE: Social Security change under Reagan

In a message dated 12/6/1998 9:48:40 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the government has borrowed money from the Social Security accounts and not paid it back. Max (anyone), is this accurate? Of what importance is this, if so? --- as a biker, i'm aware that the

[PEN-L:1284] Re: Re: Social Security change under Reagan

Bill Lear writes: 1) If I read this correctly, it sounds as if SS has never been a "savings" account where money is paid into the account, invested for the lifetime of the payees and then paid back to them when they retire (or exit the workforce for whatever "legitimate" reasons). If this is

[PEN-L:1283] RE: Re: Social Security change under Reagan

.. . . FDR supported the separation of social security form the rest of the budget to preserve the illusion that social security (OASI, now OASDHI) was a form of insurance. In fact, it is a government redistribution program largely indistinguishable from welfare. . . . This implies either a

[PEN-L:1280] Re: Social Security change under Reagan

On Sun, December 6, 1998 at 06:58:00 (-0500) Gerald C Friedman writes: FDR supported the separation of social security from the rest of the budget to preserve the illusion that social security (OASI, now OASDHI) was a form of insurance. In fact, it is a government

Re: Pat Buchanan attacks Reagan and Thatcher's legacy

conservatives, however lothesome his beliefs. He has become no less conservative, just evolved into a different species than the liberatarian globalists that came to dominate the Republicans under Reagan. I wonder how much of this latest version of Buchananism is related to the problems of Reaganism

Re: Pat Buchanan attacks Reagan and Thatcher's legacy

michael wrote: Pat Buchanan might not be a fascist, but I think that we have to give him credit for fashioning the language of hate that has become the mainstay of modern politics. He deserves to share that credit with Kevin Phillips, who has become something of a darling of the liberals these

Re: Pat Buchanan attacks Reagan and Thatcher's legacy

MScoleman wrote: I also happen to think that Buchanan is one of the more honest conservatives, however lothesome his beliefs. He has become no less conservative, just evolved into a different species than the liberatarian globalists that came to dominate the Republicans under Reagan

Re: Pat Buchanan attacks Reagan and Thatcher's legacy

into a different species than the liberatarian globalists that came to dominate the Republicans under Reagan. michael, you misquote me dreadfully! This was reprinted in my message as a quote from someone else -- i forget who. My comment to this was something like: I think the buchanan

Re: Pat Buchanan attacks Reagan and Thatcher's legacy

At 03:19 PM 4/7/98 -0700, Jim Devine wrote: valis writes: Get excited if you (pl.) must, but I wouldn't believe Buchanan if he stated the color of his eyes. This loathsome lizard, who has spent his entire life turning sentences around, is simply testing the fickle winds for another crack at the

Re: Pat Buchanan attacks Reagan and Thatcher's legacy

Nathan Newman exults: This column by Pat Buchanan is remarkable in its near-repudiation of his old boss, Ronald Reagan, arguing that economic conservatism is ultimately the enemy of the social conservatism that is Buchanan's true loyalty. (In this, he echoes scholar Daniel Bell's thesis

Re: Pat Buchanan attacks Reagan and Thatcher's legacy

valis writes: Get excited if you (pl.) must, but I wouldn't believe Buchanan if he stated the color of his eyes. This loathsome lizard, who has spent his entire life turning sentences around, is simply testing the fickle winds for another crack at the presidency, where he'd do...what? I don't

Re: Pat Buchanan attacks Reagan and Thatcher's legacy

Nathan Newman exults: This column by Pat Buchanan is remarkable in its near-repudiation of his old boss, Ronald Reagan, arguing that economic conservatism is ultimately the enemy of the social conservatism that is Buchanan's true loyalty. (In this, he echoes scholar Daniel Bell's thesis

Re: Pat Buchanan attacks Reagan and Thatcher's legacy

Pat Buchanan might not be a fascist, but I think that we have to give him credit for fashioning the language of hate that has become the mainstay of modern politics. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL

Re: Pat Buchanan attacks Reagan and Thatcher's legacy

Just a question, how much credence are we going to give Reagan and Thatcher's tax cuts for economic growth? I see those tax cuts as fueling the speculative commercial real estate and residential building boom that both countries experienced, rather than any increases in real investment. Any

Re: Pat Buchanan attacks Reagan and Thatcher's legacy

At 02:05 PM 4/7/98 -0700, Pat Buchanan wrote: But unbridled capitalism is also an awesome destructive force. It makes men and women obsolete as rapidly as it does the products they produce and the plants that employ them. And the people made obsolete and insecure are workers, employees, "R

Pat Buchanan attacks Reagan and Thatcher's legacy

This column by Pat Buchanan is remarkable in its near-repudiation of his old boss, Ronald Reagan, arguing that economic conservatism is ultimately the enemy of the social conservatism that is Buchanan's true loyalty. (In this, he echoes scholar Daniel Bell's thesis on the cultural contradictions

Re: Burch's Two Volumes on Right-Wing Politics under Reagan and Bush

ted States. It promises to be a basic reference source. SUPPLEMENT 1 (1997), RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY REAGAN, BUSH, AND RIGHT-WING POLITICS: ELITES, THINK TANKS, POWER AND POLICY, by Philip H. Burch, Rutgers University ... PART A: THE AMER

Re: Burch's Two Volumes on Right-Wing Politics under Reagan and Bush

. SUPPLEMENT 1 (1997), RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY REAGAN, BUSH, AND RIGHT-WING POLITICS: ELITES, THINK TANKS, POWER AND POLICY, by Philip H. Burch, Rutgers University ... PART A: THE AMERICAN RIGHT-WING TAKES COMMAND: KEY EXECUTIVE BRANCH APPOINTMENTS

Burch's Two Volumes on Right-Wing Politics under Reagan and Bush

REAGAN, BUSH, AND RIGHT-WING POLITICS: ELITES, THINK TANKS, POWER AND POLICY, by Philip H. Burch, Rutgers University (Introduction and summary for both Parts appear in Volume 16 of the Research in Political Economy.) PART A: THE AMERICAN

[PEN-L:5831] What Kind of Keynesian was Reagan? (long)

Increasingly, there has been a recognition that President Reagan was a Keynesian. In addition to Paul Davidson, we can cite books by Kenneth Galbraith, Martin Walker, and most recently Michael Moynihan (See review in The New York Times, August 5, 1996, p. C-18) that come