If not, please explain with facts, not fiction.
2007-07-31 16:26:35 · 8 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Yeah, Reagan legitimized incompetence. When members of his administration were convicted of the crime of selling weapons to Iran and diverting it to the Contras against the express will of Congress he claimed he didn't know it was going on. He was the commander-in-chief! Managers have always been held accountable for their subordinate's actions. Reagan swore to uphold the Constitution of the United States. Iran-Contra was a direct violation of the Constitution. The Iranian hostages were released the day Reagan took office. If Reagan had anything to do with that, cons have no reason to talk about Pelosi. In fact if Reagan had been secretly negotiating with Iran as a private citizen and Presidential candidate, he is a disgrace and a criminal. A major reason the USSR fell was because Reagan supported the Taliban in their war in Afghanistan. Reagan also started Saddam Hussein on his weapons of mass destruction program. Domestically he decimated care for the mentally ill and put a lot of sick people on the street to fend for themselves. Reaganomics was considered "voodoo economics" and never really worked. Reagan was a smooth actor, who was liked by a lot of people.
2007-07-31 18:06:22 · answer #1 · answered by wyldfyr 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I didn't read the posts you are refering to but if Ken C's answer is any indication, I see what you mean.
"Made the Soviets twitch first and they collapsed"
This is very laughable. The Soviets were "twitching" so they collapsed? What does that even mean? The Soviets were spending themselves into bankruptcy on defense long before Reagan. It has been shown that they never increased their defense spending in response to Reagan's increases in the USA. The Soviets collapsed because it was a grossly flawed system based on force and oppression and such systems always collapse.
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The first was laughable but this is treasonable. I find it amazing that people laud Reagan for negotiating with Iran BEFORE he was president. And think about this - He must have negotiated to keep them hostage until he became president so Carter wouldn't get credit. Why didn't he bring them home sooner?
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Carter inherited some pretty high rates that went up under Nixon and Ford. Fed policies, independent of the office of the President, brought them down. Unemployment came down with interest rates as companies could afford to expand.
Ad for giving Reagan credit for Social Security and Medicare - that is great. Of course, having a neo-con praise Reagan for helping out two of the biggest "socialist" programs in the world is truly precious!
2007-08-01 09:23:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What's your deal against Reagan dude.
First off Reagan made this strong again. This country was coming off disastrous Presidents. Nixon's scandal, Ford, and Jimmy Carter.
Under Carters 4 years the inflation in this country was the highest it ever was.
Energy crisis, Failed Middle East Policy, and the Iran hostage situation that last 454 days.
Reagan got the hostages out, showed strengh to the Russians who feared him but also respected him, was instrumental in ending the cold war, the economy was great, won reelecting in the greatest landslide in U.S. presidential election history, and more IMPORTANTLY RE-BUILT OUR MILITARY!!!!! into what it is today, with funding for all our advances that puts us way above the rest. Also Reagan was strong on terrorism ASK MoMar Kadafhi in Lybia about the time Reagan sent fighters to his house. Sure did Reagan have his faults? Yes nobody's perfect, but facts are facts dude Reagan hands down the best president we have had over the past 50 years, not to mention he never took off his sport coat in the Oval office but Clinton disrespected the office by getting a hummer from a girl I wouldn't have touched in high school.
2007-07-31 23:53:33 · answer #3 · answered by dez604 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Reagan was just an actor playing the role of a president. Eight years of deficit spending remember his promise to balance the budget. Selling arms for hostages, his dream of Star Wars, tax cuts for rich and the man who claimed ketchup as vegetable.
2007-08-01 08:05:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The legacy of the neo-cons is the legacy of Reagan. Reagan was the first president to represent their agenda.
A principal supporter and architect of George W. Bush 's agenda and trusted advisor was James A. Baker 3rd, Reagan's Treasury Secretary form 1983-85. He was also Secretary of State under George H.W. Bush from 1989-92.
Until the Bush adminstration began to unravel, a frequent neo-con TV talking head was James G. Watt, Reagan's Secretary of the Interior from1981-83. Watt has been an important neo-con advisor on matters of environmental and political policy.
Under Reagan Donald Rumsfeld served as Special Envoy to the Middle East from November 1983–May 1984. After his tenure in the Reagan administration Rumsfeld was a founder and active member of the Project for the New American Century, a conservative think tank dedicated to overthrowing Saddam Hussein with military force. On January 29, 1998, he signed a PNAC letter calling for President Bill Clinton to implement "regime change" in Iraq.
Many Reagan's under-secretary's went on to neo-con think tanks like the Heritage Foundation. Those on their board today include Becky Norton Dunlap, US Interior Department Deputy Under Secretary 1987-89, Richard V. Allen, Reagan's National Security Advisor and L. Paul Bremer Reagan's US Coordinator for Counterterrorism 1986-89 and George W. Bush's disgraced Coalition Provisional Authority Director of Reconstruction of Iraq ,11-May-2003 to 28-Jun-2004.
Charles Kolb Assistant General Counsel, Office of Management and Budget 1983-1986; Deputy General Counsel for Regulations and Legislation, U.S. Department of Education 1986-1988; and Deputy Under Secretary for Planning, Budget and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Education 1988-1990, is today a director at the ultra neo-con think tank the American Enterprise Institute.
There are more but in instince of brevity I'll stop here........
While some of Regan's advisors, among them Lynn Nofziger, and Bruce Bartlett have criticized Bush's carrying out of the neo-con agenda.
There's no mistaking it........the neo con's got their start and have their roots in the Reagan administration.
And many Reagan advisors and cabinet members are still well involved in the neo-con movement.
Believe it or not Reagan -was- the first front man for neo-con agenda. He was just better at than "W".
2007-08-01 00:19:24 · answer #5 · answered by opinionator 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Well, as a guy who was there, I don't have to re-write anything.
Made the Soviets twitch first and they collapsed.
Got our Hostages home from Iran after 444 days.
Interest rates were 18% when he came in.
Even Clinton said in 1996. "We owe a debt of Gratitude to Ronald Reagan. His work with Social Security and Medicare, made it possible for Retired Americans to live above the poverty level for the first time in modern history". Check out Clintons website if you don't believe me.
Unemployment went from double digits to around 5%.
But again, Chi, I was there, so I don't have to re-write a thing...
2007-07-31 23:41:57 · answer #6 · answered by Ken C 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, you've basically made statements with no links for proof, and expect us to take it as gospel truth and overlook the opinions of the people that actually lived through Reaganomics.
2007-07-31 23:39:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yep. Any 10th grader could refute them.
2007-07-31 23:32:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋