FUCK RONALD REAGAN

[gopiscrap]

just listened to a report from Rachel Maddow that said the De. State Senator Deeds' son was held for an emergency mental evaluation but couldn't be placed because of a bed shortage. Wasn't Reagan the fucker who cut the federal funding for mental health by 70% during his term. And todays repigs aren't going to do anything to fund it. we are going to have more and more of these tragic events that could be prevented if we had ou budget priorities correct.

[Tigress DEM]

1. +1000% and the horse he road in on.

[NV Whino]

3. You wouldn't want to fuck his horse

It was an ugly piebald stud who had a habit of mounting geldings.

[Tigress DEM]

46. Not personally, just figuratively. EITHER of them.

Even when Reagan was alive he wasn't all that.

; )

[yeoman6987]

36. REAGAN

I was way too young to participate in the election of 1980 and 1984, but I suspect that many DU'ers voted for Reagan. Surprising but he won by practically the entire country voting for him....TWICE. Don't ask me but some of you in the upper decades are crazy. lol.....TWICE!!!!!

[Blanks]

37. I voted for him in '84...

You had to be there at the time. Reagan played the part of president quite well. There were flags and saluting and the economy had turned around because of all of the deficit defense spending.

Sure, if I had the opportunity to go back and do it again knowing what I know now - I wouldn't do it again. Mondale just wasn't inspiring enough, and it's hard to beat an incumbent.

Of course the real tragedy was in '80 when Carter lost, but the deck was stacked against Carter. There wasn't an Internet to balance the MSM at the time, and the press was very friendly toward the war-mongering president. Interest rates were as high as 18% we'd been fighting inflation for a decade or more and Paul Volkers solution was to jack up the interest rates until there was a much smaller supply of money. Since this policy from the Fed put a halt to inflation - Reagan took the credit for it, and blamed the stagnant economy that caused so many farmers and other small business to go under.

So we had flags and the song 'God Bless the USA' and we were talking tough to the USSR (the godless Russians).

Like I say: you had to be there.

[Enthusiast]

40. I voted against him twice.

His actions cost me my job.

[yeoman6987]

43. So Sorry to hear that

I don't blame DU'ers who voted for Reagan. However, I am sooooo sorry that you lost your job. I am sure that was not pleasant and unfortunately even having this thread has brought back those memories. I kinda wish we could have just forgot this thread for your sake. UGH!!! I feel really horrible right now.

[Wounded Bear]

50. I voted against him twice...so did I...

Though I did all right in the 80's career-wise.

He was a bad actor playing a role. Much like Schwarzenegger, who I voted against in that Republican coup for the California governorship.

The last Repub I voted for was Nixon, and I was very young at the time and bit disconnected. Probably drunk, too.

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

53. Not I.............

..............I have been voting since 1972, as a new 18 year old, and not for a Republiklan!

[NutmegYankee]

2. Absolutely!

20 children would still be alive here in Conn. if we had state funded insane asylums.

[kelliekat44]

30. Not only cut funds, threw many out in the street or into shelters or private warehouses. nt

[liberal N proud]

4. Another modern problem rooted in a Reagan era policy

Like nearly every problem this nation has today can be blamed on Reagan.

[liberal_at_heart]

6. +1

[Lizzie Poppet]

16. This.

Most harmful president in US history. We can complain about W, about Nixon (and I do!), but Reagan-era policies began a 30-year downward spiral that hasn't bottomed out yet.

[maddiemom]

20. Totally agree! That said, I've been reevaluating Nixon, although I despised him at the time.

He was a flaming liberal compared to what the Republicans have become.

[immoderate]

35. After Nixon I said, "We'll never have anyone that bad again!

After Reagan I said, "We'll never have anyone that bad again!"

After Bush, I said, "WTF can happen next?"

--imm

[Blanks]

39. He signed the EPA and OSHA into law...

It's one of the reasons why I strongly believe that it's more important for the democrats to control congress than the White House.

The president just signs things into law. If the legislature is merely voting to repeal a law all the time they aren't moving us forward.

Part if the reason Reagan did so much damage was because the republicans started controlling congress off and on after that period of time.

In the period between the Great Depression and the beginning of the Reagan administration - congress had been controlled almost exclusively by democrats. Something like 46 years out of 50 years.

[Scootaloo]

25. If politics were a lawnmower, then Nixon primed the pump and Reagan yanked the cord

...And Bush is the fresh dogshit you didn't see in that clump of crabgrass.

[Enthusiast]

41. Well done......................nt

[Hippo_Tron]

45. Bahahaha so funny and sad because it's so true...

[gopiscrap]

47. exactly i've been saying this for 25 years

[gopiscrap]

51. totally agree with you

[tblue]

31. Never liked him. Always saw him as phony.

Chuckling during serious discussions. Awful.

[seveneyes]

5. He's dead Jim.

[Tikki]

17. reagan was a king sized asshole...

that is the truth,,,


Tikki

[Protalker]

7. 25000 Americans were dead before he addressed it

Perhaps this was the road map the right still follow.The NRA points to mental health to stop the rampant killings. The records of mental health are not open to public. Also, Jack the Ripper with knife wouldn't be hospitalized as docs are paid by number hospitalized the less the higher their pay.

[Lint Head]

8. Regan is a murderer by association.

I just love the way Ray Gun's helicopter landed on the White House lawn and he waved and smiled just after 250 marines were blown to pieces in Lebanon. Reminded me of GWB's My Pet Goat school book reading during 9/11.

[chknltl]

9. Sorry not into necrophilia....

but I could cheerfully pee on his grave and call it trickle down revenge. Yes he is the asshole who decided that our government should not be there for those of us in need. I guess in his mind our government did not belong to us nor should it be there to support us.

[mindwalker_i]

22. I was going to say, that would be especially nasty

It would definitely wound my inner child, grievously.

[NuclearDem]

10. Only the tip of the evil with that son of a bitch.

This, trickle down, union busting, and the cowardly lack of leadership during the initial AIDS that killed more Americans than Osama bin Laden could have ever dreamed of.

Fuck that guy.

[Ace Acme]

29. Let's not forget the death squads in Central America. nt

[Enthusiast]

42. Let's not forget how they were funded, illegally through Iran-Contra.

A clear act of treason.

[valerief]

11. That's what all the for-profit prisons are for now. nt

[ancianita]

12. Yep, fuck him and all the dupes who carry his hateful, evil thinking forward. He obliterated

the idea that government is of, by and for The People. We've been fighting his sellout lackeys ever since. So 1,000 times fuck that suited chimp Reagan.

[MyNameGoesHere]

13. And the horse he road in on. EOM

[Spitfire of ATJ]

14. Reagan figured he was nutz AND loose,...so...

It started a tradition of Republican voters.

[certainot]

15. FYI the biggest threat to reagan (and his handlers) was a little girl named samantha smith

she was the anti reagan, and a big PR threat to their trillion dollar star wars and all things nuke.

[russspeakeasy]

18. He should be dug up and beaten.

[ellennelle]

19. not to pick nits

but he's from VA, not DE; in fact, he was the guy who almost beat guv 'vaginal probe' mcdonnell, who's managed to add to that rather negative image guv 'vitamin bucks'.

but hey, who's counting?

[libdem4life]

34. Read aides told him that to win, he'd have to "go negative" and he refused to go there.

The numbers weren't there or something.

[Rex]

21. Yeah no shit. He really fucked things up.

Hard for some people to understand that he was a historic failure, but hey so was Bush I and II. Nixon was a disgrace. Agnew was nothing more than a crook like Cheney.

[Nye Bevan]

23. Might I suggest that some of the blame should be shared by the presidents who succeeded him,

during the last 25 years, given that they did not restore said funding for mental health?

[Skittles]

24. I agree with this assessment

[RoccoR5955]

26. +1e1000 and then some

We only got Reagan, because John Wayne was dead.
He not only cut funding for mental health, but he busted unions, sold arms to terrorists, funded terrorists in Central America, and called AIDS a gay cancer.
I hope that he is frying in hell, the bastard!

[Mnpaul]

27. My favorite Reagan site

Ronald Reagan - The Bonzo Years
http://www.quickchange.com/reagan/index.html

Enough facts to drive any Con nuts.

[MrMickeysMom]

28. couldn't agree more eom

[mountain grammy]

32. I feel we must also give a shout out to the majority of American

voters who swept RR into office, not once but twice. Labor unions endorsed Reagan.
Reagan had a strong mandate to do the things he did. And when the great blessing of term limits finally ended Reagan's reign, America elected Reagan lite, HW Bush!

I've felt like a round peg in a square hole in my own country for a long time.

[ReRe]

33. K&R

Please. Do. Not. Get. Me. Started. On. Ronald. Reagan.

I could go on and on, but dumping the mentally ill in the street and spitting on Rasalynn Carter's excellent work as First Lady has to be toward the top of the list.

Yip, he's the one that really started "austerity" in this country, with all of his "downsizing." It's been axe and smash ever since. And now, we realize that they have "redistributed" all the wealth upward, all the while accusing the 99% of "class warfare." That act (accusing another for what one is in fact doing) is a classic textbook description of a psychopath. Bad news is, there is very little they can do for a psychopath/sociopath.

And now they are running the effing world.

[madokie]

38. I'll rec any thread that has Fuck Reagan in the subject line

i really do dislike the man and did from the get go. Knowing full well we were in for some serious policy changes with his stealing of the presidency. well I don't think he stole it but the goons who came in with him sure did.

[TheKentuckian]

44. Obligatory K&R

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

48. Yes he was.

Plus he told us ketchup was a vegetable and if we'd seen one redwood, we've seen them all..................

[gopiscrap]

49. when ronnie said that about ketchup, it was projecting on his part.

[shenmue]

52. Reagan's funding cuts sent thousands of patients out into the streets

And voila, the homeless crisis skyrocketed. I will never forgive him for that.