What a man!
Ronald Reagan cut social spending, creating the homeless problem by turning hundreds of thousands of mentally ill people out on the streets.
He appointed Antonin Scalia to the Supreme Court.
He cut school funding, trying to classify ketchup as a vegetable.
He traded arms, money, drugs, and hostages between
He claimed that trees cause most pollution.
He lowered taxes in 1981, creating debt so bad he raised taxes each of the next six years and still didn't make up for it. And while he streamlined the complex and exemption-riddled income tax, his changes created the largest-ever shift of tax burden from the wealthy to the middle-class and working poor.
Reagan ignored the health crisis caused by AIDS.
Reagan spent billions on SDI, an "anti-missile shield". Which, incidentally, violated
the ABM treaty.
Reagan more than tripled the national debt.
Surgeon General C. Everett Koop discovered that 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.
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, Ed Meese, 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.
Reagan convinced millions of Americans that the threats they faced were: African-American welfare queens, Central American leftists, a rapidly expanding Evil Empire based in
He almost totally sabotaged the behind the scenes work of Gorbachev. They already had signed agreements when Reagan made his grandstanding speech, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
In his First Inaugural Address in 1981, Reagan declared that "government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem."----and here we are.
1 comment:
This whole thing blows my mind. Poor Ronnie, being castigated, we're told, by Nancy for "outing" his father.
Any sane person knew he was already suffering from Altzheimer's while he was still in office.
The shame was trying to hide it from the world, instead of acknowledging it and dealing with it honestly.
No shame in having a disease, but in duping the public, apparently, in many cases, successfully!
Carolyn Udell
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