HELP! . . . need a summary of Reagan's record . . .

[OneBlueSky]

the REAL record . . . to respond to a lengthy opinion piece in my local weekly that virtually canonizes St. Ronnie . . . I'd like to prepare a factual response, and I know I've seen several posts that talked about the real Reagan record and/or linked to articles that did the same . . . if someone could point me to one or more, I'd be grateful . . . thanx . . .

[RBHam]

1. ok

REAGAN FACT AND FANTASY
Greg Palast
The Observer (London), Sunday edition of The Guardian
Sunday Jun 13, 2004

You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But in this case, I have to. Ronald Reagan was a conman. A coward. A killer.
In 1987 I found myself stuck in a little town in Nicaragua named Chaguitillo. The people were kind, though hungry, except for one surly young man. His wife had just died of tuberculosis. People don't die of TB if they get antibiotics. But Reagan had put a embargo on medicine to Nicaragua because he didn't like the government the people had elected.

As Ronnie was cracking those famous jokes, the lungs of that mother of three were filling up and drowning her.

And when Hizbollah terrorists murdered hundreds of United States marines in their sleep in Lebanon, the TV warrior with the B-movie grin ran from the scene like a whipped dog ... then turned around and invaded Grenada. That little Club Med war was a murderous PR stunt so that Ronnie could hold parades for gunning down Cubans building an airport.

I remember Nancy, in designer dresses, some of the 'gifts' that flowed to the Reagans - from hats to million-dollar homes - from cronies well compensated with government loot. It used to be called bribery.

The New York Times wrote that Reagan projected 'faith in small town America' and 'old-time values'. Values, my ass. It was union busting and a declaration of war on the poor and anyone who couldn't buy designer dresses. It was the New Meanness, bringing starvation back to America so that every millionaire could get another million.

And then, in ...
http://gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=339&row=0

[DEMVET-USMC]

2. Do Google with: reagan+governor+bloodbath

There are a very many sites explaining all. ...Oscar

[whistle]

4. the link page has been deleted

[DEMVET-USMC]

5. The Pigs are at work my freind. Use keywords:reagan+governor+bloodbath

in a google search and there are many active sites to visit. ...Oscar

[Neoplatonist]

3. I read most of these on Bartcop.com and also added a few

•Iran-contra scandal, 14 convictions.

•Decisions being made by Nancy's astrologer.

•HUD scandal, 16 convictions. $8 bn. in taxpayers money lost.

•S&L scandal, $1 trillion in cost to taxpayer.

•32 convictions in his administration during 8-year term.

•Record deficits and huge national debt.

•Supply side (voodoo) economics.

•Billions wasted on star wars spending, escalation of arms race, which delayed nuclear weapons reductions.

•234 Marines KIA (killed in action) in Beruit, Lebanon, bombing, 151 WIA (wounded in action)--no coherent foreign policy, exited Lebanon in disgrace.

•LBOs of $64 bn/yr destroyed many good businesses and companies.

•CIA never predicted weakness of Soviet Union and its ultimate demise, which should have been shocking considering that the then vice president, George Bush, was once the CIA Director.

•Destruction of the labor movement.

•At least 130 separate Investigations against the Defense Dept.'s largest contractors.

•Love Canal and numerous other destructions against the enviornment (due to his corrupt policies)--with little or no consequences to big companies or states or Federal government.
            

...it was always mourning in America.

[OneBlueSky]

6. thanks, folks . . . that's plenty to work with . . . n/t

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