once again you prove to not understand what you are reading. Where did I give Republicans a pass. I did not vote for Bush 1 and I only voted for bush 2 once because I knew what traitor al gore would be. Reagan took down communism... he was not giving the U.S. away to bankers. He lowered taxes and raised revenues. It was the spending side that was the problem. But that whole time dems were the ones running congress - except for a few years. most of the conspiracy types are libertarians and republicans -- I was speaking to the liberal idiots that have bee putting them down for years. I you had half a brain you would know that bankers uses both parties. Look at soros, look at buffet pronouncements, look at how obama just appointed a room full of gs and citi guys. No doubt both Bush were traitors to tax payers - but you can't give the democrats a pass - they are worse. What do you progressives are hoping - small government?
As much as you wish to re-write history. Here are the facts: Soviet Communism fell under it's own weight and the cost of waging war in Afghanistan. Reagan had nothing to do with the fall of communism. Gorbachev's Glasnost is what started their implosion. Reagan was definitely giving away everything to the bankers and the large corporations. He started the bailout programs with the SnL bailouts and scandals. Whether Reagan raised revenues is highly debatable given he ran a net deficit to fund his hollow economic growth. Democrats haven't been running much for the better part of 3 decades. http://uspolitics.about.com/od/usgovernment/l/bl_party_division_2.htm What a bunch of bullshit for you to state otherwise. Clinton managed to create a economic boom even when the republicans shut down congress. Democrats, even with a majority in congress can't accomplish simple things like approving the low level presidential appointments. And we're to believe they're cause of the current collapse? keep on voting on the basis of abortion and guns. It's people like you who are the problem. Not the politicians.
On ignore for this putz. Reading his posts causes one to want to give up reading. ET should require an IQ over 40 before letting anyone using his IP address to post
The fact that Reagan's star wars cause their generals to admit they could not keep up - or the fact the Pope nearly bankrupted the Church funding the Polish vote were not the causes - it was the Afghans without our funding that did it all by themselves. You are a rabid socialist aren't you? It was Clinton not the contract with America and Gingrich and republicans who forced fiscal reponsiblity into the system == huh" Dick Morris was wrong when he says he talked Clinton into becoming more conservative and triangulating?
Most of your so-called "facts' don't jive with reality. The USSR was imploding way before reagan got into the picture. As for your "facts". Reagans star wars program and other incompetent policies is why we're on the brink of financial collapse Reagans CIA created the AQ who the CIA appears to have trained too well. Gingrich's contract with america was a farce. http://www.fff.org/freedom/0896a.asp Reagan did not destroy the USSR. Reagan and his goons destroyed America. Everyone knows republicans and their neocon masters are a cancerous blight leeching the life out of America. The abomination is going to be rooted out for good. Keep on calling everyone socialist while your types are busy collecting welfare and medicare. Like I state often. Debating a neocon monkey is like debating a retarded rock. Amusing little monkeys. here is the list of the contract ON America * require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply to Congress; * select a major, independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of Congress for waste, fraud or abuse; * cut the number of House committees, and cut committee staff by one-third; * limit the terms of all U.S. Congressmen and U.S. Senators; * ban the casting of proxy votes in committee; * require committee meetings to be open to the public; * require a three-fifths majority vote to pass a tax increase; * and implement a zero base-line budgeting process for the annual Federal Budget. Now tell us, which one of the above legislation did the republican monkeys pass and is in effect now. Lying thieving no-good scum. A description that accurately sums up the blighted republican party and it's flat-earther illiterate voter base.
The problem is many people like fkbsuhites exist, they and the independent were responsible for electing Obama. He really believes that the right is responsible for all the problems in the world. Of course they are partly to blame but no way in hell do they compare to the well meaning liberals of now and eras gone by. The unfunded liabilities we face are because of dems not the gop, this must be remembered and be beat to death. Obama is now trying to bring in the biggest of all social programs in the history of mankind. This can not be paid for, its that simple. Put marginal rates at 70% it doesn't matter, the funniest thing is that some halfway intelligent liberals know this and just don't care.
The USSR was spending a huge amount of its GDP on defense. When Carter and the dems were weakening our military the USSR thought they could hang with us. When Reagan said Star Wars and more spending - they had to give way to glasnost. There was no way they were going to march into poland to stop that uprising - stop the wall form falling and outspend us on defense. Regan and the Pope broke them down. If Dems were in power there might still be a USSR. Peace through Strength. I could rip your other failed ideas as well but I suspect you are too wet behind the ears to learn really understand that most of the democrats leaders and staff are rabid socialists and commies. I know, I once worked for the democratic policy committee. In fact I was in the House viewing gallery when Star Wars was passed. I remember hearing the democratic staff being all pissed off -- pulling lies out of their asses. Just like when Biden got on T.V. and saying he was getting boxes of letters against bork and he gave a big number like it was running 7 to 1 against bork. - when I knew some of the girls counting the vote and it was very much in favor of bork. This does not mean that republicans do not have to many big government snakes. They do. But the party is not corrupted by rabid socialist and communist staffers like the dems.
How Old are you?? Cause this is not true.. Russia military government had a huge prosperity in the 70's due the high inflation in commodities. Reagan help to destroy the soviet with strong dollar, lowering the inflation and creating a huge spending war vs the soviet tha eventually put them on the floor. BTW the public deficit under Roosevelt/ Truman was over 100% our GDP..
You couldn't rip a wet paper-bag full of reagans barf All you've been repeating is the starry eyed neocon nonsense the the conservative media has been repeating ad infinitum. The cold hard facts are reagan started the hellish republican policy of the bankrupting the middle class with non-stop wars and excessive deficit spending while favoring his large corporate donors. The process accelerated with Bush 2 and that is why we're on the brink of collective bankruptcy. Reagan and Bush both implemented massive military expenditure and increased govt. bureaucracy with borrowed money while decreasing govt. revenue. Both implemented amnesty programs for illegals to help their campaign donors with cheap labor, both bailed out failed real-estate speculators ( reagan had the SnL bailouts, bush has TARP). History is already judging these two as the biggest failures in American presidential history. If you want to educate yourself on reality of why communism failed try reading something outside the neocon propaganda your types seem to live for. The Perestroika Deception : Memoranda to the Central Intelligence Agency
I was in D.C. in College taking classes from the people who wrote those memorandums and briefs for congress. I had a professor who assessed the soviet economy and predicted what would happen because the old guard was getting old. ( Although he also said there was a small change it would go very badly if the generals did not give up control. ) No garbage loonly left rewrite of history can change the facts. I saw them happen as predicted by those with the intel. But if you wish to proffer some speculation - I will listen.