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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Just Wonderful"...We finally get to learn about the excellent awesome coolness of Ronald Reagan!
............now we finally get to learn about the excellent awesome coolness of Ronald Reagan!
We are told that President Reagans rhetoric inspired many, particularly his emphasis that (1) budgets should be balanced and (2) trade and business should be free from government interference. These principles reflected the most basic tenets of free enterprise capitalism that had made America great. The Reagan years became the longest period of vigorous and continuous economic growth since World War II, with lower taxes and less government regulation. Though deficit spending and the national debt skyrocketed, sound conservative thought flourished on many levels during the 1980s.
Wait, what was that thing about balanced budgets again? And the Reagan tax increases? Oh, never mind, it was all just wonderful! And never mind that the economic expansion of the 1990s was actually a little longer; it happened under a guy who lied about a blowjob, so it does not count.
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Remember, boys and girls... If the US does not bankrupt itself with military spending and annihilate all life on the planet through a nuclear holocaust, the communists win.
Read more at http://wonkette.com/498694/sundays-with-the-christianists-a-world-history-textbook-that-spins-one-for-the-gipper#psEsA70TGWrd9fCq.99
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"Just Wonderful"...We finally get to learn about the excellent awesome coolness of Ronald Reagan! (Original Post)
kpete
Jan 2013
OP
Rancid Ronnie turned America from a Creditor Nation into a Debtor Nation
Lesmoderesstupides
Jan 2013
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Morning Dew
(6,539 posts)1. "Sound conservative thought"
What a laughable phrase that is.
Lesmoderesstupides
(156 posts)2. Rancid Ronnie turned America from a Creditor Nation into a Debtor Nation
Thanks Reagan Dems it could not have been accomplished without you!
Uncle Joe
(58,417 posts)3. One dino riding another,
who would've thunk that up?
Thanks for the thread, kpete.
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)4. Exactly how many budgets did St. Ronnie balance as president?
Oh, that's right--none. Instead the deficit grew from what he inherited from that evil Jimmy Carter.
4Q2u2
(1,406 posts)5. Tough Guy?
How many service members were killed in terrorist attacks that he did nothing about. These were cited by OBL as to Americas weakness and that we were a paper tiger.
Berlum
(7,044 posts)6. Why, he's a brilliantly unique sparkle pony