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nehalem said:Reagan would never have advocated the gutting of our health care industry with a government run monstrocity, which is why the Reagan = OBama comparison doesn't hold a drop of water with me.
"Not since the days of the Roman emperors—and never in the history of the United States Presidency—has an astrologer played such a significant role in the nation's affairs of State."
(Joan Quick, astrologer to the Reagans)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Quigley
That's correct. People forget that the President can't do much of anything to stop spending if there is a majority of his opponents in congress that want to. Reagan may have been a spender, but compared to Bush and even more so Obama, he was a penny pincher.
Reagan would never have advocated the gutting of our health care industry with a government run monstrocity, which is why the Reagan = OBama comparison doesn't hold a drop of water with me.
Huh? Why?
It's just like anything with politics I suppose. Once you start tying your identity to a particular person or idea, that person or idea can never be wrong (lest you, as a person, are wrong)
A penny pincher?!? Another example of the myth of Reagan not lining up with the reality. If he was such a penny pincher, please remind me of how many spending bills he vetoed?
Can I just point something out that had me laughing, Blue?
You're 28, and talking about a president whose last term was finishing before you were able to remember anything about it.
It's nothing bad, it just struck me as humorous all of a sudden!
Can I just point something out that had me laughing, Blue?
You're 28, and talking about a president whose last term was finishing before you were able to remember anything about it.
It's nothing bad, it just struck me as humorous all of a sudden!
Personal insults are cool.
It's not an insult. It's just that as you get older, you just realize that having lived through something gives you a better understanding that merely having read about it after the fact.
I feel that way when discussing Nixon. It's like I know many of the facts but I'll never have a true understanding of the context of the era.
Thanks, I think?
Personal insults are cool.
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