“…peace is the highest aspiration of the American People. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it, now or ever.”

Ronald Reagan in his inaugural address

Reagan's quack economists trashed scholarships and turned welfare recipients into homeless people and refused to do anything about the AIDS epidemic, all so they could fund extravagant tax cuts for a tiny sliver of the ultra rich

adroomi ?

Never Surrender.... right Adroomi

I'll cast my vote for the leader who turns homeless people into welfare recipients!

and Che was a freedom fighter right Tey?

Give it a rest.

tey-

the survey, sponsored by the Federalist Society and The Wall Street Journal, also showed that Reagan ranked overall as eighth among 42 presidents, putting him in the "great" category. A separate survey last year of 58 presidential historians, sponsored by C-SPAN, rated Reagan 11th, the highest of any president in the past three decades.

And don't forget that Cold War thing. Uh, was that a big deal?

Tey, I disagree. He benefited the college student quite a bit and here in the MW most of us voted for him.

Tey,

Here ya' go. A very long read with some very real numbers that support your claims about the Reagan economy, or dispell them. You decide.

http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-261.html 

The silence from tey is deafening.

Mattie B, deafening and standard operating procedure

Greta Garbo?

I liked Reagan...he did a pretty good job.

Better than most in my time of following politics.

He did however do some silly things:

Iran-Contra. Look it up. Basically, it involved violating federal law by trading in war materiel with the Iranians and the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

President Reagan ignored the health crisis caused by AIDS.

SDI. Reagan spent billions on the boondoggle of

an "anti-missile shield". Which, incidentally, violated

the ABM treaty, in addition to wasting a lot of money.

Budget deficits grow from about $20B in the late 70s

to about $150B in the mid 80s. Reagan more than tripled

the national debt.

Reagan told Surgeon General C. Everett Koop to produce

a report detailing the long-term physical and emotional trauma a woman suffered as a result of having an abortion. Koop, an abortion foe, but a good scientist, discovered that, in fact, a woman did not suffer long-term physical or emotional trauma as a result of having an abortion. Reagan suppressed the report.

Reagan provided Saddam Hussein with chemical weapons.

Reagan's tax restructuring (massive cuts in 1981, followed by tax increases in 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, and 1987) transferred tax burden from corporations and the wealthy to the middle class and, especially, the working class poor.

When a Marine barracks was blown up by terrorists in Lebanon, Reagan responded...by pulling American forces out of Lebanon and invading the small Caribbean island of Grenada.

Reagan's attorney general was Ed Meese, who was investigated by three different special prosecutors for involvement in three different scandals. Over 100 Reagan appointees were convicted of crimes committed while in office.

Regardless, he was better than George part one, Clinton, and George part two by far.