re: The Myths of Reaganomics

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After all, blame certainly cannot reside with Islam and extremists.

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You're ridiculous, a religion isn't an acting entity. The extremists that were directly responsible for 9/11 were Reagan's freedom fighters.

tards and Reagan - hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaha

80's outlook > current one , i.e. frick you

kind of like when tards want to knock Texas

net migration going which way? frick you

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The left doesn't really know anything so I don't see the usefulness in this comment.

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During the 1970's the left was willing to let the Soviets overtake us in military might with little to no response. They also wanted to maintain detante by feeding the USSR thereby relieving some of the economic pressure on them. Had that continued or even expanded(because we were afraid of their missiles) you cannot say with any certainty that the Soviets wouldn't have moved along until some unforeseen favorable condition allowed them to regain a stronger footing. It's happened in China but fortunately they weren't our enemy in the way the Soviets were.

Additionally, Reagan did not govern in a vacuum and had to deal with people on the left who wanted to maintain the status quo Cold War.

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Yes, it wasn't that hard to see.

And he shouldn't have done anything, especially plunge me into debt before I was born.

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I suspect you're too young to remember those days so your knowledge comes from a few isolated voices, one which was Reagan's, but few people actually believed they would fall at any time in that near future. Again, you benefit from hindsight. Reagan was labeled a buffoon because he suggested during the 1970's they could be toppled. Everyone, including his fellow republicans and the Soviets themselves thought he was unhinged.

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And he shouldn't have done anything, especially plunge me into debt before I was born.

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We won a war without firing a shot and yet you complain. Again you have no real appreciation for the threat posed by even a failing USSR because you've had the luxury of growing up without it. Wars cost money and that victory was well worth it.

It has been over 25 years. The costs of the victory in the Cold War are but a small percentage of "your debt."

I understand all of this will fall on deaf ears as you've taken up a position of a know-it-all who rebels against and hates all viable political candidates in favor of a few purists who will never get elected, never see their purist goals implemented and therefore never have the opportunity to be criticized based on the actual side effects of their policies. So long as no one actually implements your unworkable purist ideology, you remain beyond reproach in the dark little corner from which you cast stones.

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And he shouldn't have done anything, especially plunge me into debt before I was born.

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Congress did that Josh.

Just as Jimmah Cahtah initiated Operation Cyclone.

Your Reagan blame is pathological.

BS.

Reaganomics was fully implemented, it was a disaster, and even Reagan realized it had to be tapered back.

Reagan's only lasting cluster frick was the drug war.

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Posted by SmackoverHawg Obama brags about bullshite stuff he had no hand in. Meanwhile, Reagan brought down the GD'd Berlin Wall, got the Iranian hostages released just by taking the oath of office, collapsed the Soviet mfing union, oversaw the space shuttle program, star wars, brought economy out of shitter and made us the premier economic power in the world as well as military, got fricking shot and walked into the gotdamned hospital, cut firewood, shut up ghadaffi's (sp.? frick him) for 30 years, wore mfing boots and a cowboy hat, asked clint eastwood to be vice president. I mean...shite!!! How much more 'murica can you get?

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I mean to say his economic policy is a myth is beyond anyone who lived in the 70's and saw the transition once he became president. He was probably the last true leader we had.