2006-07-24 18:09:00 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
First there's the deficit that he quadrupled.
Second, he gave us an immigration policy that is still in place. Although it only allowed amnesty to 3 million.
Third, he cut and ran in Lebanon, to invade an easier country.
Fourth, 20% of his defense spending was for a nuclear arms build up that gave us no practical benefits. (Although his worshipers will claim this made the Russians blink.)
Fifth, he did end the price wage spiral, or at least the wage portion. Wages for skilled crafts crashed in the 1980s and never recovered.
He did at least give us a 600 ship navy, the strategic space intuitive and a renewed interest in astrology and the occult.
2006-07-24 18:38:28 · answer #1 · answered by Woody 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Take everything from the Democratic Party platform. Believe/pretend it's the correct way of doing things. Reagan did things very Republicanly. For the sake of this argument, the Republican way would be the wrong way of doing things. So Reagan did things wrong (according to this process of elimination) and shouldn't be celebrated for doing so.
Also, rumors that Alzheimer's was already beginning to take over by the start of his second term which could lead to the idea that he really wasn't acting as president for some part of his administation.
And contrary to all of this: The Greatest American campaign by the Discovery Channel. America voted (just like on Idol) as Reagan for the greatest.
2006-07-25 04:19:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To any extent you can imagine.
Reagan was a sock puppet, not a president.
2006-07-25 04:06:08 · answer #3 · answered by St. Hell 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if anything he is under rated. even those who are of different political parties respect his legacy and all he achieved and did.
2006-07-25 01:23:10 · answer #4 · answered by laureny23 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not overated as faar as I've known.
A top president.
2006-07-25 01:14:50 · answer #5 · answered by robert p 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what rating system is this you are going by?
2006-07-25 01:12:40 · answer #6 · answered by Adam P 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋