... a bullshit ass'd excuse.

Of his policies

Most of it was because of huge tax cuts and increased military spending. During the Reagan years, the American public first got wind of the massive rip-offs by the military industrial complex. $600 wrenches and $2,000 toilet seats or whatever. Warehouses full of spare parts that would never be used.

Republicans see spending as evil when Dems do it and Holy when they do.

That is pretty much the whole story of GOP Ideology.

""government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.""

Treason

Government of the people, by the people, and for the people is not the problem. People like Ronald Regan are the problem. Lying dirt bags who cut taxes on the wealthy, and stuck us with the bill. Us and our children.

It does have a specific definition, and I wish that people of all political persuasions would quit labeling their political opponents with it erroneously.

Is in my book the definition of treason. As America fails, other nations win. Attacking our government is for the direct benefit of our enemies. Agree?

the dictionary nor the United States Code.

was treason and his Iran Contra scandal sure was an impeachable offense

It was a very corrupt administration

Would have lost WWII

Reaganomics got it started.... and it still with us....

Falling oil prices slowed inflation - with an assist from the Reagan recession, albeit at the cost of 10.8% unemployment - and falling inflation, in turn, pushed interest rates down sharply starting in August 1982.

In all, however, we had the same average rate of growth under Reagan as we did under Carter (3.3%). The difference being, of course, that while Carter left the national debt at a post-war low in relation to GDP (30%, federal only) under Reagan the national debt tripled (see chart above).

to because they are not able to deal with reality so instead they make up a delusional fantasy about Reagan as some sort of modern Davy Crockett/George Washington.

hand, stop the spending, and get our inflation under control by being more responsible, put on sweaters and quit giving our enemies exactly what they want.

So much for that.

Reagan taught us that we could just borrow, that good jobs and producing things isn't necessary.

That has led us to the environmental and financial shit hole that is the US today, as everyone since then has been too cowardly to reverse our course.

So the next generation will be poorer, their world will be burning, and the folks who used it up and handed it to them may get to pay a price after all.

Carter's energy policy, moreover, is what finally broke OPEC and popped the burdensome commodities bubble brought about by Nixon's pulling out of Bretton Woods (I bet Tricky Dick loaded up commodities futures as he was doing so too).

The fall in commodities prices beginning in 1980 helped push down inflation and interest rates by 1982, thus making the Reagan recovery possible.

Had it not been for Reagan we could have actually had all that without the trillions in extra debt or the S&P collapse - or Iran-Cocaine-Contra, or the crack epidemic, or Executive Order 12333 (the one that lets the NSA spy on Americans), or Al-Qaeda, or so many other unnecessary and deleterious things we could have easily avoided.

Qué será.

and the auto industry collapsed. He destroyed Detroit. Fuck him.

This is especially true when there is no added economic protections you are gaining by that spending. Saint Ronnie loaded Cold War 2.0 during a time when the USSR was already swirling the drain. So the myth that Saint Ronnie beat the Soviets is just that. The fall of the USSR would have happened with or without his efforts. If anything, Saint Ronnie extended the Cold War by giving the Soviet hardliners more fuel to keep it going for as long as it did. So the reality is that he pissed away around a $trillion 1980's dollars. Although increased military technology occassionally has civilian applications, usually it just manages to kill more people more efficiently.

Had Saint Ronnie invested in infrastructure or education rather than the military, the economic returns would have been an order of magnitude higher.