Happy Reagan Day

I was explaining to my 9yo daughter who President Reagan was.

I told her that he was kind of like America’s Dad in how most people saw him back then.

I had just joined America’s Air Force (1984) and he was (thank GOD) the President. He gave the military back its pride after the dhimmi betrayal of Vietnam. During his tenure, promotions and pay raises went up. He effectively gave the US Military back its PRIDE. I will never forget him or his support for the US Military and will remember to my dying day his funeral which I watched while stationed in Guam. His illegal alien amnesty sucked and unfortunately has set the precedence for today’s stupidity. But, his strong stand against the then enemy’s of America was spot on. Unfortunately I don’t think we have another “Reagan” waiting in the wings simply because the current crop of politicians doesn’t give a fuck about America, only about their own power and making money off the backs of the middle class.

That’s you? I am jealous. I sure miss him

Cool, very cool. The picture on the back of the train is an all timer.

I flew to DC from Denver to stand where those 2 big streets fork(merge?) when his caisson passed by. I forget the names of the streets but you would look down one and you can see this dome, I think it’s Congress. I was just about the first one there and I remember it was really hot. It was the very least I could do to show my deep respect for this great man

Regan was a popular president - not a good one. In fact he was a VERY BAD president. He supported Nicaraguan Terrorists by flooding our streets with crack cocaine in order to fight communism. Under Reaganomics (the same vodoo economics denounced by the first Bush - and what we have today), we sent the deficit skyrocketing, growing faster in real dollars than under any other president, including the current one. We cut social spending to the bone, creating the homeless problem by turning hundreds of thousands of mentally ill people out on the streets. We cut school funding, trying to classify ketchup as a vegetable. We banned the Beach Boys as attracting the wrong sort of crowd. More appointed officials were indicted and convicted of crimes than under any other president. We gave chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein. We claimed that trees cause most pollution.

He catastrophically lowered taxes in 1981, creating debt so bad he raised taxes each of the next six years and still didn’t make up for it. And while he streamlined the complex and exemption-riddled income tax, his changes created the largest-ever shift of tax burden from the wealthy to the middle-class and working poor.

He was a bad president, who promulgated bad policies and appointed bad people. Selective memory is an amazing thing.

“Socialism collapsed because it did not allow the market to tell the economic truth. Capitalism may collapse because it does not allow the market to tell the ecological truth.”–Øystein Dahle, former Vice President of Exxon for Norway

Americans are rightly famous for being astonishly ignorant of their own even recent history, and indifferent to the truth anyway.

You might excuse Ol’ Grandad for being a bit ‘hands-off, but some pretty bad stuff happened on his watch, and it’s a matter of public record. Saying it’s not so doesn’t make it not so.

First, the ‘October Surprise’. Ronnie’s people illegally interfered in US foreign policy in order to ensure that the Hostages in Iran were not released until the very moment of his inauguration. This was treason, and while Ronnie got the hero treatment for their release, they were actually detained longer.

Ollie’s boys traded arms for hostages, and under North and Gen. Secord brought CIA planeloads of crack cocaine into the LA area, and from there it started spreading east. Money went to Ronnie’s ‘Freedom Fighters’, whom he likened to the Founding Fathers. But the Founding Fathers didn’t smash grenades into people’s mouths (peasants, teachers, farmers, children) and then blow their heads off. They didn’t murder nuns and nail women to barn doors. They didn’t spread maximum terror. Ronnie’s freedom fighters did. A strange kind of freedom.

One of Ronnie’s pals was ‘Blowtorch Bob’ D’Aubisson of El Salvadore. Blowtorch Bob liked to tie people up and burn them. For freedom of course. They sort of offed an Archbishop as well. Oh well. Maybe Ronnie forgot. Maybe everyone did. Or just didn’t give a damn.

That elements of the CIA imported crack into the US on CIA equipment is simply not arguable, but established fact.

As for Al Queida, its presence is negligible and is just one more Big Lie to justify an insane and illegal invasion. I suppose Saddam snuck over and planted Thermate in WTC Building Seven and the Towers? Lots of you deep thinkers seem to believe it. After all George said that there’s ‘evildoing bad guys’ out there. Maybe even under your bed. Watch out!

Tinfoil? If it prevented delusional and infantile thinking, I’d buy you a big roll. Extra strength. With a bow on it.

Good luck. You’re going to need it.

Mike,

That is an understatement!! Unmurrikan is an asinine useless idiot. Hate-filled, pre-programed with holier than thou leftist elitism and grossly ignorant.

Yes unmurikan, there are evil people out there and we try our best to fight them. However, worse are the enablers of evil, people like you. Enablers deny the evil in front of them, stab those who fight evil in the back, and spread lies and hate about the ones who dare stand up to evil. After the holocaust which evil people bring, these same enablers then blame the defenders they betrayed for not doing enough soon enough.

Fits you to a “T”.