David Bonoir-Edwards Spokesman- "Ronald Reagan Was No Friend To The Working Man"

Per MSNBC

:sarcasm: I do, because I lost my job during the "Reagan Recession"...you know, the one Obama hasn't been "invested" in....

Reagan gutted OSHA, reducing standards on such things as carcinogens in the workplace. Who knows how many people died or were injured and or killed as a direct result.

campaign in Philadelphia, Ms. right after the lynching of the civil rights workers.

was a big plus, too!!!

And the unleashing of the f*cking right wing anti-abortion crowd....

Great times we still have to deal with....

were kicked out of hospitals into the streets. Further, cut back of federal funds for all sorts of important services having to do with health and welfare were discontinued only to be picked up by cities and counties who were required to raise taxes. So, nothing was saved for the tax payer, on the feds saved.

In the end, he and his wife actually were consulting with fortune tellers before meeting with foreign presidents to make treaties. That's correct, fortune tellers. They were two crazy people that profoundly damaged American people. We don't need any candidate praising him about anything.
He wasn't even a very good actor.

But, as a snake oil salesman, he was one of the best. (I'm 72. I remember his tenure because I was alive when it was happening.)

most disconcerting about Obama's remarks about Reagan - I mean COME ON, BARACK...you're three years older than I am, and I haven't the slightest difficulty in recalling that this was one of the driving, underlying themes to Reagan's presidency!!

I really questioned as to whether there was a dangerous naivete about Obama following the South Carolina campaign fiasco with Donnie McClurkin, and this just brings this same concern back to the surface again.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9802E6DB1E39F934A35757C0A965948260

What other city can claim that Reagan demolished their economy so??

To the breathing man, the thinking man, or the peaceful man. Definitely not a friend to women of any kind. Not a friend to sexual minorities, even when his good buddy Rock Hudson died of AIDS, Reagan couldn't bring himself to utter the word publicly. Ronald Reagan was no friend to America, and his name is a blight on our landscape.

{Sits back to listen for the delicious sounds of little two-watt brains popping all over the country. Was that Pat Buchanan? Maybe Gordon Liddy?}

meeting with the Russian President.

History. (No one will ever be worse than Bush II)

:shrug:

This thread is for working folks who were harmed by Reagan's policies... In the spirit of your candidate you can start a thread about working folks who were helped by Reagan's policies...

by the time 84 rolled around even those who voted for him knew that...

I was in the automotive field at the time, and dozens and dozens of established tool manufacturers, unionized shops, producing high quality tools, small companies with deep roots and real a commitment to the towns they were in all across the Midwest and the local communities, went out of business.

Why? Because with deregulation any hustler could get virtually unlimited financing and set up manufacturing plants overseas producing exact copies of American made tools and flood the US market with them with no fear of the Reagan administration enforcing any laws against them. It also became easier, and far less risky, to get financing to set up a thousand junky identical chain outlets than it did for small local businesses to get credit or tax relief - restaurants, auto parts stores, hardware stores, grocery stores, florists - thousands and thousands of small businesses chewed up and destroyed.

We have a younger generation of people who have no personal experience with so many things - local businesses and tight knit communities, affordable, convenient and efficient public transportation, wages that allowed one person in a household enough income to support the family, homes that were homes, not investments, easy access to public recreation, confidence in the safety of food and other consumer items, all regulated and inspected for the public welfare, freedom from the relentless intrusion of corporations into our lives, and on and on and on.

Reagan destroyed the country, and if we try to gloss over that (which at the very least Obama's remarks have done) or if we buy into the dishonest rationales and excuses and obfuscations that the Reagan administration used to disguise their agenda and to sell it to the public, we surrender any chance at real change, we bury the coffin forever into which the right wingers have put the left - and by extension, the majority of the American people, and we condemn ourselves to living in this ongoing nightmare of destruction and human suffering.

It is not time to make nice with the Reagan legacy propagandists, even by implication or omission. It is time to relentlessly and fearlessly point out that the crisis the country is in is best described and analyzed as the chickens coming home to roost from the Reagan era.

It is time to fight. It is not time to heal or move on—no matter how attractive and appealing this may be—it is not time to paper over the profound divide in the country, it is not time to accommodate or apologize for or excuse those who destroyed our country. To do so is morally wrong, and beyond that it will not work.