"Reagan did a lot of great things..." Then I ask them to name ONE...

[maveric]

And they come up with "Well he did but I just cant remember one right now".
Besides the ridiculous "He ended the Cold War", statement, they cant name ANYTHING ELSE!

Try this sometime.

[rockymountaindem]

1. He eliminated the tax deduction for graduate school tuition!

Oh wait...

[neutron]

12. He provided open air bedrooms

Evening in NYC looked like Bombay circa 1940. Thousands were homeless
and sacked out all over the sidewalks. Nothing like it in our nations history.

[neutron]

15. Great generals like Ollie North

of Fox News

[Not Me]

29. He got rid of Carter's alternative energy tax credits and CAFE standards

Which has contributed to many of the problems we have today.

[niyad]

2. I tell them to read the chapter in the book "the last days of the late, great state of CA"

which shows what a clueless cretin he was even as governor.

do I remember correctly that the national debt doubled in his years in office?

[Zynx]

3. He got rid of the Social Security college benefits for orphaned children...

wait.....

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

11. Like myself. But on the bright side I got a bunch of student loans.

Oh wait.....

[Zynx]

18. I'm ashamed to say my Grandmother, a total witch, said "That's more money

for us!" referring to herself and my grandfather when Reagan did that. Yeah, Reagan sure appealed to the best in people.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

24. According to my father in law it was her fault for not having enough savings.

That's of course after she lost a job of 20 something years in Eastern Airlines and being "too old" to get another one. That was very Reaganesque of him.

[niyad]

31. as a practicing witch, I implore you NOT to use that word when referring to people

like your grandmnother.

[murielm99]

17. Title IX.

He tried to destroy Title IX by watering it down.

Does anyone remember that?

Title IX is not in place only for women's sports. The lawsuit originated when a well-qualified woman was not given a full professorship because she was too strong "for a woman."

[Zynx]

4. Dupe

[niyad]

5. he fired the air traffic controllers

oops

[niyad]

6. iran-contra

oops

[Beausoleil]

7. Arms for hostages?

No?

[EFerrari]

8. Star Wars program is a great metaphor for his whole tenure.

Pie in the sky that did nothing for us but enrich the cronies.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. He was good at forming neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid-beta plaques.

I'm really glad he did that.

[sinkingfeeling]

10. Upped payroll deductions for SS, saying that it would guarantee the boomers would have their

benefits as a result.

[donkeyotay]

16. Damn! I had forgotten that one. St. Ronnie and Greenspan fixed SS

We've been paying in extra to build up a surplus so that SS would be there for us when we retired. Ha! Now we just have a bunch of gen x'ers telling us how we're sucking up too much oxygen. Thanks Ronnie. Thanks repos. Thanks Reagan dems.

[sandyj999]

13. Sometimes as years go by we forget the junk.

I didn't think he was a great president, He wasn't even a great actor in my opinion.

[Danger Mouse]

14. 'Great' in the same way Lord Voldemort did 'Great' things.

In which case, he did lots of great stuff.

[iconoclastic cat]

19. Made it okay for men to sleep with chimps in pajamas? nt

[DJ13]

20. "Reagan did a lot of great things..." Then I ask them to name ONE...

"And they come up with "Well he did but I just cant remember one right now"."


People say that about Clinton's Presidency too.

[Winterblues]

26. Clinton presided over the greatest economic expansion in history

Before Bush* Reagan presided over the greatest expansion of our National Debt in history. Bush* came along and put that title to rest and also presided over the greatest economic turn around in history..

[Zynx]

27. The easiest thing is he made huge strides to get our fiscal house in order.

[EOTE]

28. I just can't remember one right now...

Oh wait, I can think of one...
6 million jobs created in the first 2 years of his presidency.
Oh yeah, then there's the lowest combination of unemployment and inflation in 25 years.
Then there's the 600 billion dollar deficit reduction.
The Brady Bill and a massive reduction of bureaucracy. Those are a few, but a book could be written. Not that he didn't do some shitty stuff as well, but he was infinitely better than Reagan.

[LostinVA]

35. Scat -- shoo

[mondo joe]

36. Maybe dumb people say that about Clinton too.

You should consider expanding your circle of acquaintances to people who remember and/or are honest about Clinton's achievements.

[GreenTea]

21. Reagan didn't end the cold war....COMPLETE BULLSHIT.....

(ALL Republicans say), that it was simply Reagan who single-handedly brought down the USSR...(Because Reagan has no other legacy for the republican sheep to hang on to).

Reagan (like Bush) did absolutely nothing to help anybody, except the rich and the corporations...absolutely nothing!! Nobody can name anything Reagan or Bush did for the workers, vets, the poor, minorities, women, or the sick, nothing!

It's insulting, to every other American president before Reagan, (and after)...Truman, Ike, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Ford & Carter (and Bush Sr., as well)...ALL, increased military spending, (each year during their respective terms)...Carter for instance, increased military spending no less than 5% in each of his four years...as well as all the others ALSO increased MILITARY spending...

The Soviet Union could not keep pace with our military spending and Gorbachev knew it would be suicidal for his country to continue trying to keep up the madness & pace, with the US...
Reagan was long gone, out of office, when the Soviet Union actually threw in the towel in 1991, during Bush Sr. presidency. http://www.cia.gov/csi/books/19335/art-1.html

Reagan, started this fascist corporate take over of America and so many voted for this republican liar and blindly & carelessly went along with the greed and selfishness...the facts the way they really are!

[EOTE]

22. Come on guys, can't think of anything?

Think of all those poor defenseless HIV virii that wouldn't be alive today if it weren't for Reagan. Would somebody please think of the virii?!

[JHB]

23. He reduced taxes so that we could modernize our industry and de-rust...

...the Rust Belt.

Well, that was the sales pitch, anyway.

[JHB]

25. He'd stop negotiating when the other side was just being intransigent...

...in order to see what more they could get.


Now THAT was a Reagan thing I'd like to see more of from Deocratic pols.

[KamaAina]

30. "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

* - that was something he said, not something he did,

** - Boosh is preparing to basically rebuild that wall along our own southern border! :grr:

[Yuugal]

32. He died

Sorry, thats the only good thing that fucker ever did.

[benld74]

33. He DID NOT end the COLD WAR

[Zywiec]

34. The dollar was at record highs during his term

I was living in Germany. On 03/06/1985 the dollar hit a record of 3.42 Deutsch Marks!

We were living like kings then. Now who can afford Europe with the dollar's record low?

[Kazak]

37. Three words:

Ketchup, ketchup, ketchup!

[bigendian]

38. Here's one.

Overnight, my company car (which was a fix for my lousy wage) became taxable income faster than you could say, "revenue enhancement".

[bobbolink]

39. Most people say "He got rid of welfare cadillacs".

And that includes a large number of Democrats, too. :(

[LaPera]

40. If anyone did(and the terminology sucks)it was Bill Clinton's bad "Welfare Reform" bill he signed.

In 1996.

[bobbolink]

41. Thank you for understanding that. I get so sick of the Clinton worship here!

What makes it even worse--Clinton cared so little about the poor people he tossed out, they weren't even tracked, so nobody even knows how many died because of his cynical political use of welfare people.

THEN he has the gall to say that he should have made that his FIRST act.. getting rid of welfare.

What a sweetheart, that Clinton....

:nuke:

[B Calm]

42. He started the war against labor and the cheap labor conservative movement!

[devilgrrl]

43. He introduced Crack Cocaine to America

and his mates in the private prison industry made a killing!