You don't understand, Tony---I like Reagan as a person. He is down-to-earth, a kind of every-man, his love and care after the space shuttle disaster were outstanding. When he played Kanute Rockney and said, "Do one for the Gipper," I was ready to jump up and run a touchdown.
I have no reason to doubt he wrote his radio scripts BUT that was not true when he became the President. My first Cousin should respond to your worship. He was a PATCO Traffic Controllers after his duty in Vietnam. He had a piece of shrapnel hit the sandbag an inch from his head as his Forward Air Controller duty put him on the line close up and personal. His assumption was that the compassionate Reagan, having been a union leader in Hollywood and knowing their requests were honest, would help them get the equipment and proper pay for their critical job with Air Control here, would do what was right. Instead, he turned a deaf ear and fired anyone who dared complain. In their places were hired inexperienced "don't-give-a-care" types who laughed at a near miss in their control space. He had 2 sides. That of the doting grandfather / that of the tight-fisted tyrant. I never met him as did my Cousin. I am just sharing the real story of Reagan . . . |
Why would a President spend hours and hours doing his own research and comedy? HOWEVER he beat Reagan hands down with genuine humor. The best Reagan could do was chuckle, old sport!!!
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Gentlemen ~~~ I have some Reagan tonic which I carefully saved from that era. It is still in great condition since I froze it. It is guaranteed to eliminate all gray from your hair / make your mind appear to be functional / cover any effects of Alzheimers / make you appear to be nice at all times in public and able to be a GOP mean as a snake when off camera!
OOPS---I forgot it --- enables you to read without glasses and say that script as if it were all your own ideas. . . My cost is reasonable and I need to sell it to make up for the house and business I lost to this little Bush Recession . . . Interested???? |
Tony, you have to construct me a post of these essential truths.
Ronald Reagan is the main reason I became a Republican, and served then my county 18 years, and yet, I bet Gene considers Ronald Reagan 10 fold to my desire to do so. |
Reagan began changes which exist to today. He spent billions on Star Wars weapons that never really worked. Then we start going to war and unbalance the budget in big amounts.
No President comes in and snaps his fingers for instant change. We have certain major turns under past Administrations that live to today. Frankly, I think there should be an automatic 10-year limit to any legislation. At that moratorium point you either re-do it or it drops off the books. Had we done such with Title XX (War on Poverty) legislation, we would be far better off. The real culprit of deficit spending is here: costsofwar.org |
I LIKED Reagan / he was a great speaker and script reader / he was NOT the CREATOR of the concept he sold --- just as he did 20-mule Team Borax and GE on his TV show! HOWEVER---the tax code put in under him and the idea that the rich and corps will share their wealth came from some strange planet inhabited by idealists KNOWING NOTHING ABOUT HUMAN GREED, man. Maybe it was named CONSERVITAS!
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I'll say it Reagan died about a decade ago. He was president even further back.
If you did not like Reagan, that is your right as a Liberal, but Reagan is gone now. You have to try to get over it. |
Stan~~~maybe full disclosure by Conservatives would be better~~~then students had a full picture from Reagan VooDoo Economics / 1% now owning 80% of all US money / Costs of War vs. maintaining America / the FACT we are still in a RECESSION since 2007 brought on by Reaganomics, no bank/Wall Street regulation / and WHO WAS THE PRESIDENT AT THAT POINT IN TIME???
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Hence, Liberals should learn math, and learn to use it.
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One theory of education is that you should be able to get a job with the new knowledge and pay back the loan in 10 years. So if you borrow $100,000 for a degree in Liberal Arts and get a job making $30,000 with nothing in the budget for loans, you will have a math problem.
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It is similar to your differences with me on a political outlook---even though we BOTH were reared in the same time and place. My Cousin had a personal sense of sacrifice when an issue was MORAL and ETHICAL.
The LAW you cite for ATC personnel is almost identical to those over SLAVES. "Legally," the slaves were the property of their masters in the South. Even those given their freedom by the master were still in constant danger of being arrested or killed---unless they went North where all blacks were not "assumed to be" escaped slaves! Some who were captured got their papers destroyed so they could be re-sold for profit from the hunters of slaves!
Just because "it is law" does not equate with "it is right." If you take the position "America, right or wrong, is always right"---you can get in deep trouble. Ask all those people abused for years in Baltimore.
You and Stan, seem to take your focus to the "outside agitators" and looters, but the core of the protest is still LOCAL CITIZENS TIRED OF ABUSE. WE BOTH thought little about the sign on the City buses---"Colored to the Back." If you were white, you had no thought / if you were black, you KNEW ABOUT discrimination!
Kennedy and Johnson both advocated for VOTER RIGHTS which is constitutional and the SCOTUS ruled such. LBJ went further to start the War on Poverty (Title XX) and that is with us 5 generations later--spoiling workers to the front porch rocker!
From either extreme---LEGAL and MORAL/ETHICAL are not the same, my friend!