Can the Right Wingers here answer me as to why you worship President Ronald Reagan ?

[tradeunionsupporter]

Can the Right Wingers here answer me as to why you worship President Ronald Reagan as a God ? In my opinion Reagan is the worst President that the United States of America has ever had. Ronald Reagan busted a Trade or Labor Union called PATCO he fired the Air Traffic Controller Workers he claimed to be pro Union but I believe he only did this for the Working Class Votes he cut Welfare Spending for the Poor after he said he would not he also caused People to become Homeless. My point is that Reagan declared War on the Working Class. Reagan also cut Medicare and Social Security and Medicaid don't forget that in the 1960's Reagan was anti Medicare and anti Medicaid. And just one more thing Reagan was pro War.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Libya_(1986)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/15/newsid_3975000/3975455.stm

WW in 1986: Stop Reagan’s terrorism against Libya!

Published Oct 12, 2008 7:56 PM
Workers World is in its 50th year of publication. We are reprinting articles from our archives on major developments of past years. This one on the bombing of Libya appeared originally in the April 24, 1986, issue.

By Joyce Chediac

The Reagan administration’s murderous bombing of Libya, which resulted in at least 100 civilian deaths, was a long-planned act of aggression and war.

http://www.workers.org/2008/world/ww_1986_1016/

And then there were the wake-up calls -- the terrorist bombing of a Berlin discotheque only a few blocks away from my living quarters. In response, Reagan ordered the bombing of Libya, even though it later turned out that we had no proof they did it.

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/Aboutme.htm

[tradeunionsupporter]

Myth: Carter ruined the economy; Reagan saved it.

Fact: The Federal Reserve Board was responsible for the events of the late 70s and 80s.

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-carterreagan.htm

Myth: The recession of 1982 was Carter's fault.

Fact: That recession occurred in the second year of Reagan's term, following tax cuts and deregulation.

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-recession1982.htm
THE REAGAN YEARS:
A Statistical Overview of the 1980s
The following statistics offer a quick but comprehensive overview of all the major trends of the Reagan-Bush era. They include tax cuts, income inequality, corporate lobbying, deficits, debts, economic growth, poverty, welfare, and a comparison of the U.S. to other rich nations.

This whirlwind tour should take about as long as it takes to read a newspaper. It is the compilation of statistics that I wish I had found when I was researching the 80s. Understanding them is crucial because today's Congress is pursuing all the same policies: cutting taxes on the rich, slashing welfare for the poor, and spending more money than it takes in. No voter is informed without knowing the statistical results of these policies.

This website is designed to be read in two ways. The first way -- reading it straight through -- gives a bird's-eye view of the 80s. The second way is to select the links entitled "More," which gives detailed comments on each point and hopefully answers questions and counter-arguments raised by the overview. I highly recommend reading the overview first, since the comments can get somewhat lengthy and digressive. A plain-English summary follows at the end for the statistically impaired. :-)

Sections:

Events leading to the 80s:
The Rise of the Corporate Special Interest System (http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/2before80s.htm#corporate)
The Economic Slowdown of the 70s (http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/2before80s.htm#slowdown)
The Rise of Supply-Side Economics (http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/2before80s.htm#rise)

Statistics of the 80s:
Wealth and Income Inequality (http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/4Inequality.htm)
(http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/4Inequality.htm)Taxes (http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/3Taxes.htm)
(http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/3Taxes.htm)Budgets and Deficits (http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/5Debt.htm)
(http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/5Debt.htm)Economic Performance (http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/6Economy.htm)
(http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/6Economy.htm)Poverty and Welfare (http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/7Welfare.htm)
(http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/7Welfare.htm)Comparison of U.S. to Other Rich Nations (http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/8Comparison.htm)
Summary (http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/9Summary.htm)

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/1THE_REAGAN_YEARs.htm

PANELS DEEPEN REAGAN MEDICARE CUTS

By BERNARD WEINRAUB, Special to the New York Times

Published: June 9, 1981


http://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/09/us/panels-deepen-reagan-medicare-cuts.html

Ronald Reagan's Legacy

His destructive economic policies do not deserve the press's praise.

by John Miller

Dollars and Sense magazine, July / August 2004 http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Ronald_Reagan/Ronald_Reagan_Legacy.html<H1>The Ronald Reagan Myth</H1><H3>The Progressive Review http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Ronald_Reagan/Ronald_Reagan_Myth.htmlLabor - And A Whole Lot More
Ronald Reagan's War on Labor
Reagan,in any case, was a true ideologue of the anti-labor political right. Yes, he had been president of the Screen Actors Guild, but he was notoriously pro-management, leading the way to a strike-ending agreement in 1959 that greatly weakened the union and finally resigning under membership pressure before his term ended. http://www.dickmeister.com/id89.html </H3>

Christopher Hitchens Dispels Ronald Reagan Greatness Myths(1996)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONNMiuWI4Fo

Published on Sunday, February 6, 2011 by The Nation (http://www.thenation.com/article/158321/reagans-real-legacy)
Reagan's Real Legacy


by Peter Dreier (http://www.commondreams.org/peter-dreier)

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/06-0

[Bud Struggle]

Good jokes about Communism.

QAWuro5-B0Y

[Judicator]

Because he won the Cold War

[RichardAWilson]

Because he won the Cold War


Wow! How enlightened the right-wing truly is.... :laugh: Ray-gun saved us from the Evil Empire. Die Darth Vader!~

[Judicator]

Wow! How enlightened the right-wing truly is.... :laugh: Ray-gun saved us from the Evil Empire. Die Darth Vader!~

Or you could say that socialism defeated itself. Take your pick.

[eric922]

Here is what I want know. How come right-wingers love to whine about deficits, but they don't mind the fact that Reagan tripped the national debt and spent more than every other president before him combined. He raised the debt ceiling 18 times.

[RichardAWilson]

Or you could say that socialism defeated itself. Take your pick.

The Soviet-Union didn't dissolve because of Socialism. You don't even know the meaning of the word, so spare me.

[Judicator]

The Soviet-Union didn't dissolve because of Socialism. You don't even know the meaning of the word, so spare me.

It's a case study in the disaster that is state socialism/planned economy.

[RedGrunt]

Reagan was a PAWN. And his communist jokes suck.

[The Jay]

I think that the short answer is his deification by the right wing propaganda machine.

[CAleftist]

He managed to cut taxes for the capitalist class, raise taxes on the working class, create new investment opportunities for American capital (both at home and abroad), create a deflationary recession (ok, that was Volcker and the Fed, but still...), then take credit for the economic "recovery", and his CIA wars in Central America murdered a lot of men, women, and children who had the gall to create democracies in their home countries. Oh, and he sold arms for hostages, lied about it, and said that "my heart tells me I was right, but the facts tell a different story."

What's not to love?

(If you're a capitalist piece of swine, that is...)

[Revolution starts with U]

Have you posted that before, or am I just experiencing an extreme case of deja vu, because I have not slept in 30hrs? :confused:

[RGacky3]

It's a case study in the disaster that is state socialism/planned economy.

It desolved because it was trying to engage in a arms war with the United States (who became the top dog out of WW2, because they did'nt get damaged that much at all) while comming out of the third world and comming out of a world war with HUGE damages done to the country, and while they were trying to industrialize, and obviously they could'nt keep it up.

I'd say the most responsible for it was Truman for starting the arms race, that the US was going to win no matter what and that would bankrupt the USSR.