|
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend Bookmark this thread |
This topic is archived. |
Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (1/22-2007 thru 12/14/2010) |
blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 09:15 PM Original message |
Poll question: Really simple poll; I'm just curious: Were you of age at the time to understand the Reagan era? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 09:17 PM Response to Original message |
1. Enough of age to be fucked by Regan |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
WannaJumpMyScooter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 09:32 PM Response to Reply #1 |
14. me too... had a car loan of like 18% |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 02:00 PM Response to Reply #14 |
60. Yes, my first car loan was 16.75% IIRC |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
jtrockville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 10:08 AM Response to Reply #1 |
47. Count me in. Student loan programs were slashed. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 07:28 PM Response to Reply #47 |
73. I could tell you horror stories about how we got screwed by the Russians |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
handmade34 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 09:20 PM Response to Original message |
2. remember the campaign well |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
doc03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 09:20 PM Response to Original message |
3. Spent 3 1/2 years on layoff n/t |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
some guy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 09:20 PM Response to Original message |
4. sort of. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Autumn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 09:20 PM Response to Original message |
5. Reagan years sucked, |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 09:25 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Hear you on the Steel Industry. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Autumn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 09:35 PM Response to Reply #9 |
18. It was nasty, My Dad retired from the mill in 70 |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
thunder rising (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 09:23 PM Response to Original message |
6. The greatest thing about the internet age is what we are doing right here. Keeping informed. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 09:36 PM Response to Reply #6 |
20. Knowing is not enough. It is the doing. With no internet, people unionized |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 10:27 AM Response to Reply #20 |
50. + |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 09:24 PM Response to Original message |
7. he started me on the road to becoming a lefty by shifting college financial aid from grants to more |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
MadMaddie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 09:24 PM Response to Original message |
8. I was in HS |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
rgbecker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 09:27 PM Response to Original message |
10. My memory is of many people living on the streets. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
howaboutme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 09:28 PM Response to Original message |
11. I was old enough, and like a naive fool I liked Reagan |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 09:30 PM Response to Original message |
12. Not really. I was a couple years old in 1980. But I remember.... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
paulflorez (112 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 09:31 PM Response to Original message |
13. My only memory of Reagan was seeing a wrinkly old man talking on TV once. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 09:33 PM Response to Original message |
15. I was 13 when Bush I got elected |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Lindsay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 09:34 PM Response to Original message |
16. I detested Reagan. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
katandmoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 09:35 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. +1 |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 10:01 PM Response to Reply #16 |
26. Indeed he was a slow-acting poison; that's a great description of him. nt |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
tedbear (30 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 10:25 PM Response to Reply #26 |
32. Ronald |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
FSogol (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 10:11 PM Response to Reply #16 |
28. Same here. Reagan was scum. n/t |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
katandmoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 09:35 PM Response to Original message |
17. Proud of the vote I cast for Carter against that senile tool. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Demoiselle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 09:37 PM Response to Original message |
21. More than old enough to be horrified. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 09:38 PM Response to Original message |
22. Plenty enough of an age to feel sick that people fell for his lies and couldn't see |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 09:42 PM Response to Original message |
23. Not nearly politically aware enough to appreciate until... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Anakin Skywalker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 09:42 PM Response to Original message |
24. Youth is outnumbered here on D.U.? Are all the young people over at Creepy Freepy Land? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 09:58 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Young people skip threads about Reagan. He's ancient history. Dust. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
lunasun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 09:50 PM Response to Reply #25 |
78. No younger people please read these threads Current word on the |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
spartan61 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 10:02 PM Response to Original message |
27. It was because of Reagan that I changed from |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
FarLeftRage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 10:13 PM Response to Original message |
29. Yes... 22 at that time. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Gidney N Cloyd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 10:18 PM Response to Original message |
30. In retrospect, no. I was 22, didn't like him, but I can't say I "understood" the way I do now. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 10:18 PM Response to Original message |
31. Spent the better part of eight years laid off and working shit jobs to feed my family |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 10:29 PM Response to Original message |
33. I became a communist for 8 years. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
sad sally (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 11:14 PM Response to Original message |
34. And don't forget who his VP was - HW Bush. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Silver Swan (805 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 11:34 PM Response to Original message |
35. My spouse was unemployed for a total of nearly three years |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Withywindle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 11:44 PM Response to Original message |
36. I turned 11 in 1980. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Kat45 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 11:47 PM Response to Original message |
37. I had been terrified of him being elected. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Harry Monroe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 11:49 PM Response to Original message |
38. 18 years old in 1980 |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
rasputin1952 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 11:51 PM Response to Original message |
39. I remeber the Reagan years better than Reagan ever did... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Liquorice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-10 11:57 PM Response to Original message |
40. I was almost 10 when Reagan was elected. He and Bush Sr ruined my teenage years! nt |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
dimbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 12:00 AM Response to Original message |
41. If you had any kind of conscience at all, you couldn't understand the Reagan years. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
last_texas_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 12:05 AM Response to Original message |
42. I was born in '83, so, not really... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Douglas Carpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 12:11 AM Response to Original message |
43. yes and the same night I watched Frank Church, Birch Bayh and George McGovern go down in landslide |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 04:33 PM Response to Reply #43 |
70. Such good, good people! Those were days when we liberals stood proud. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 12:25 AM Response to Original message |
44. In 1980 I voted for the first time since Nixon had stolen the election of 1972 |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 09:06 AM Response to Original message |
45. K for the coffee crew. nt |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Maine-ah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 09:10 AM Response to Original message |
46. I was six years old when Reagan was elected. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
tabbycat31 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 10:23 AM Response to Original message |
48. I was born in 1980 |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
RZM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 10:27 AM Response to Original message |
49. I was a toddler when he was elected |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
mopinko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 11:13 AM Response to Original message |
51. i almost lost my job for protesting raygun cuts in eeoc |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
SteveG (833 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 01:00 PM Response to Original message |
52. Old enough to have voted against him twice |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Arkansas Granny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 01:06 PM Response to Original message |
53. Oh, yes! I understood "catsup is a vegetable" Reagan quite well. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 04:39 PM Response to Reply #53 |
72. "I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple." |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 09:27 PM Response to Reply #72 |
77. Gawd, I'd nearly put him out of my mind. I started this thread, so I guess |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Jackpine Radical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 01:09 PM Response to Original message |
54. Hell, I'm old enough to remember Ike's first campaign. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 01:46 PM Response to Original message |
55. I remember him as Governor and by the time he was President |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 01:52 PM Response to Original message |
56. Yup. Indeed, I came of age during them. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 01:54 PM Response to Original message |
57. reagan was the absolutely last straw |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 01:56 PM Response to Original message |
58. I was of age and living in California when the dunce was elected governor. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 01:59 PM Response to Original message |
59. I got laid off of three "permanent, full-time" jobs during those years |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 02:04 PM Response to Original message |
61. Mostly but there was a lot that didn't register at the time. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 02:17 PM Response to Original message |
62. I'm old enough to have lobbied against that FUCK |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
cherish44 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 02:44 PM Response to Original message |
63. I was 13 when he got into office, 21 when he left |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
PufPuf23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
64. Reagan was Governor part of the time I was at Cal |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
earth mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 03:07 PM Response to Original message |
65. Union Busting, Welfare Queen, Service Economy.... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 04:25 PM Response to Original message |
66. k |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Codeine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 04:28 PM Response to Original message |
67. We're STILL living the Reagan years. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 04:30 PM Response to Reply #67 |
68. Indeed. I think the young'uns don't understand where all the wretchedness |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
GoCubsGo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 04:33 PM Response to Original message |
69. I graduated college in 1983. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 04:38 PM Response to Original message |
71. I hated him with the heat of a thousand suns on his inauguration date |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 07:32 PM Response to Original message |
74. I remember Reagan, and my Dad yelling at the TV whenever he was on it. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 09:25 PM Response to Reply #74 |
76. Are you my long lost sister? My Sunday School teaching dad |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
AndrewP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 07:33 PM Response to Original message |
75. I was 8 when he was elected, but I remember him well. What a prick. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Cerridwen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 09:52 PM Response to Original message |
79. I fought reagan/bush and bush. eom |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) | Wed Apr 24th 2024, 05:58 AM Response to Original message |
Advertisements [?] |
Top |
Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (1/22-2007 thru 12/14/2010) |
Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators
Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.
Home | Discussion Forums | Journals | Store | Donate
About DU | Contact Us | Privacy Policy
Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.
© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC