Professor Susan did a pretty good job of presenting the real Ronald Reagan. For a more-detailed view check out: http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_thomas_b_070508_dreams_of_reagan__7e_m.htm
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It's a myth that Ronald Reagan had to combat a Democratic-controlled Congress. He went into office with a Republican Senate (Howard Baker was majority leader for 4 years and Bob Dole for 2) and conservative House (many who gave Democrats a majority then became Republicans to give GOP control later). And it was in those six years of GOP-conservative control that Reagan did the most damage to the nation
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To Wolf: It's obvious you didn't read the article referred to above. Please do. As for Reagan being a prophet. Nonsense. In 1951, Supreme Court Judge William O. Douglas, dissenting in an anti-communism hysteria case, foresaw and predicted the demise of communism. When I studied Marxist philosophy at Georgetown University Graduate School of Government in the 1960s as an extension of my employment at the National Security Agency, nearly the entire class predicted the end of communism unless it changed dramatically. The US intelligence community also saw communism as its own worst enemy and held firm that containment, not confrontation, was …
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to Wolf: Where is communism alive and well? China doesn't come close to practicing Marxism communism. North Korea and Cuba are only old-fashioned dictatorships that would go any direction its handlers wanted. Vietnam is a basic agrarian society that is trying to develop a capitalist economy. So where is this communism that you fear so much? Those four you mentioned had nothing to do with ending "communism" in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe or anywhere else, they only jumped on the bandwagon at the end of the game. That horrible stagflation was caused by OPEC oil embargoes; remember them? And since …
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Reagan's economics degree was in economics that gave us the Great Depression and depressions of the 1840s, 1870s and 1890s. Unemployment under Reagan hit 10.8 %, the highest since 1940 when we were still in the Depression. Reforms by FDR apparently saved us from a Reagan depression. Facts be facts. Every Republic president since WW II has given us a recession, Nixon gave us two. And those followed the GOP Coolidge-Hoover depression. Carter was the only Democrat president to have a recession, and his was the shortest, mildest and caused by OPEC oil embargoes, not policy. Its factual that over the …
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well scorp, you said: "Now several times recently someone has popped up and popped off that the end of the Soviet Union was “anticipated”. If so, there must surely be documentation to that effect: government documents, newspaper articles, policy analyses. Something that important should have been the subject of a report, or something. Can you give me any references? I. Think. Not. But I’m open to real evidence." Try reading. William O. Douglas' dissenting opinion in Beauharnais v Illinois (1952) in which he documented what you say isn't available. I was in the intelligence community at the time and we ertainly …
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to scorp again" Where did you get the idiotic notion that raising taxes is always a failed policy? Look at the history. After Reagan engineered massive tax cuts in 1981, the nation went into the deepest recession since the Great Depression. It lasted 16 months. He then steered higher taxes through a GOP Senate and conservative House ~ most notably the payroll tax in 1983 ~ and eliminated many tax write-offs the middle class used. The economy took off on what you call the Reagan Miracle. When the miracle stalled under George HW Bush, he raised taxes to address the huge …
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PS to scorp: FDR did not enter office in 1932. He was elected in 1932 but took office in late March of 1933 when the Depression had a strong grip on the economy after 3 1/2 years of do-nothing from Hoover. From the White House historical records: "By March there were 13,000,000 unemployed, and almost every bank was closed. "By 1935 the Nation had achieved some measure of recovery..." No one could turn an economy around in weeks, it takes considerable time. And FDR did that quite well And to others. Quit this lie that Reagan had to battle a Democratic-controlled …
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to chopper: Where do you get your "facts"? Your statement that: "Reagan’s tax cuts actually increased government revenue. The deficits resulted from government spening increasing even faster." is blatantly false. In the Reagan-Bush regime from 1981-1993 (12 years) tax collections increased 82%. In the same time period, population increased 12% and inflation was up 70% ~ 12 and 70 add up to 82 That means not a cent in extra tax revenues was generated by Reagan's tax cuts. But the wealthy and corporations got hundreds of billions of tax savings because of those cuts and that had to be made up …
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to scorp: You are so wrong on so many points. Unemployment didn't drop steadily after Reagan's tax cuts. They dropped after his tax INCREASES of 1983. The unemployment rate fell to 2% because 10 million men were take out of the work force for military duty. Don't use WWII rates to make a point because they were distorted. Your understanding of Reagan's tax cuts don't square with the architects of those cuts. They said that tax cuts would generate an additional $3 in tax receipts for every $10 in cuts. That means if you cut taxes $100 million, you will get …
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