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Short Hand · 06-20-2004, 08:19 PM

[quote:69e6d]Ronnie Reagan deregulated major industry and essentially loosed corporate America upon an unsuspecting populace, including the savings-and-loan companies, all while opening the national treasury for his wealthy pals to loot. He promised a crackdown on out-of-control deficit spending while working furiously to double the national debt. "Reagan taught us that deficits don't matter," oozed a very proud Dick Cheney, sneeringly.

But let's be fair. Let's look on Ronnie's good side, the legacy, the reason tens of thousands are mourning the Gipper's passing and why an aging boomer nation is still held rapt by this most beguiling and masterful of proto-American Hollywood salesmen.

Reagan was, as widely noted, a pragmatist. He was a seductive charmer. Gracious. He stood by his warped ideals and admitted his mistakes and followed through on many of his promises, even if those promises mutilated progressive ideas and stomped on the environment and gave piles of money to the wealthy, all while sucker-punching the poor and the working class and promising them nice shiny pennies and a big heap of false hope if they'd just shut the hell up.

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That pretty much sum's up your last statement their Noctis. You basicly fell for a con job.

You tend not to argue the facts but go off topic and bring clinton into this. Your using the fact that Reagen basicly fooled America over into feeling good and you see this as a good thing. I don't know how you find "conning" Americans into thinking he was great as a good thing for a powerful world leader....Honestly its this type of public con job's that facists and Nazi's used in order to win over their populace. may he rip, but lets not give this man a spot on RUshmore or consider him one of the great presidents, he was nothing of the sort, not even close.

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Short Hand is Offline Brigadier General Posts: 10,721 Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: C-eH-N-eH-D-eH eH?	06-20-2004, 08:19 PM [quote:69e6d]Ronnie Reagan deregulated major industry and essentially loosed corporate America upon an unsuspecting populace, including the savings-and-loan companies, all while opening the national treasury for his wealthy pals to loot. He promised a crackdown on out-of-control deficit spending while working furiously to double the national debt. "Reagan taught us that deficits don't matter," oozed a very proud Dick Cheney, sneeringly. But let's be fair. Let's look on Ronnie's good side, the legacy, the reason tens of thousands are mourning the Gipper's passing and why an aging boomer nation is still held rapt by this most beguiling and masterful of proto-American Hollywood salesmen. Reagan was, as widely noted, a pragmatist. He was a seductive charmer. Gracious. He stood by his warped ideals and admitted his mistakes and followed through on many of his promises, even if those promises mutilated progressive ideas and stomped on the environment and gave piles of money to the wealthy, all while sucker-punching the poor and the working class and promising them nice shiny pennies and a big heap of false hope if they'd just shut the hell up. [/quote:69e6d] That pretty much sum's up your last statement their Noctis. You basicly fell for a con job. You tend not to argue the facts but go off topic and bring clinton into this. Your using the fact that Reagen basicly fooled America over into feeling good and you see this as a good thing. I don't know how you find "conning" Americans into thinking he was great as a good thing for a powerful world leader....Honestly its this type of public con job's that facists and Nazi's used in order to win over their populace. may he rip, but lets not give this man a spot on RUshmore or consider him one of the great presidents, he was nothing of the sort, not even close.