Reply #15: REAGAN - end of discussion [View All]

I don't think we'd be in the mess we have today if it wasn't for that vile creep. He's the one that took serious cuts to social programs that worked - programs that helped people get out of poverty and make something of themsevles.

Yes we 'won' the cold war because we drained every feasible penny we could from social programs, spent our budget into serious debt in order to explode the budget for defense and outspend the hell out of USSR and every other country in this world.

And the ONLY reason George Bush JR. was picked to run was to help reinstall the Reagan cronies like Cheney & Rumsfeld. I highly doubt that Bush Sr. would have ever won an election on his own merits and the son would probably be drunk in a bar somewhere today if it wasn't for the fact they had to clean him up and make him electable so they could continue on with the Reagan 'legacy'

Nixon actually had a few good qualities when it came to some social issues but he was still a prick. There are absolutely no redeeming values about Reagan except one (which I didn't know until I watched the movie "Milk") - it seems Reagan was also against that horrible Prop #6 that would have fired teachers that were GLBT. That might have helped get support from the middle of the road. I guess Reagan is like a broken clock - he could be right once or twice in a lifetime.