Event/Policy do you believe defined Ronald Reagan's presidency? POLL

[dArKeR]

What event or policy do you believe defined Ronald Reagan's presidency?

End of Cold War
1608 votes  
(50 %)


Reaganomics
886 votes  
(27 %)


Iran-Contra affair
636 votes  
(20 %)


Hinkley assassination attempt
102 votes  
(3 %)


Total Votes: 3232


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[DBoon]

1. Missing option:

The appearance of large number of homeless people on America's streets.

[Coyul]

2. No, I think Reaganomics covers that pretty well...

...don't forget the percentage of homeless who were mentally impaired and thrown out of hospitals and hostels.
It was a very sad time...

RIP Ronny

[Political_Junkie]

3. It sure was.

I remember well a woman who used to come to the door of the restaurant where I was working the night shift. She couldn't come in because she had no shoes, so we directed her to the nearest shelter and they gave her shoes, but she still lived on the streets and slept two doors down from our shop. She came in on a regular basis for awhile to get coffee and warm up a bit, then one day she was banned from the restaurant when she threw a fit during the bosses shift. She asked another customer for a smoke and when the owner told her she couldn't do that, she started throwing furniture. The woman needed help, but instead she got thrown out.
I couldn't let her in, even when the boss wasn't there, so I used to bring her coffee and when the cook made an error in an order and the food was going to be thrown out, I'd bring it to her.
One night she disappeared from the doorway, I never did learn what happened to her. But she is what I remember of Reaganomics.

[dArKeR]

4. Update - Total Votes: 4914

End of Cold War
2370 votes  
(48 %)


Reaganomics
1335 votes  
(27 %)


Iran-Contra affair
1065 votes  
(22 %)


Hinkley assassination attempt
144 votes  
(3 %)


Total Votes: 4914

[dArKeR]

5. Update: Total Votes: 8434

End of Cold War
3799 votes  
(45 %)


Reaganomics
2167 votes  
(26 %)


Iran-Contra affair
2227 votes  
(26 %)


Hinkley assassination attempt
241 votes  
(3 %)


Total Votes: 8434

[T Bone]

6. Busting the Air Traffic Controllers Union

Very Early. It set the tone for his entire administration. He was NO FRIEND of working people. That was proof. His federal tax cuts caused state taxes and fees to go up all over the country. He changed the formulas for computing social security benefits for all the retirees after his administration. Guess what - changing those formulas, they were CUTS in future benefits.

Jane Wyamn was right !

[mopinko]

12. as well as other things that undermined wages

to control inflation. it was no accident that this was the time that we were flooded with cheap goods from china at the same time there were railing against communism.

[dArKeR]

7. Update - Total Votes: 20278

End of Cold War
8576 votes  
(42 %)


Reaganomics
4957 votes  
(24 %)


Iran-Contra affair
6169 votes  
(30 %)


Hinkley assassination attempt
576 votes  
(3 %)

[wadestock]

8. IT'S YOUR MONEY....YOU EARNED IT

[wadestock]

9. "IT'S YOUR MONEY....YOU EARNED IT"

That one line is it.

Said with the apparent wisdom and zeal that reminded you of a father to son talk.

Bringing "Karl Marx's" definition of self-destructive, runaway capitalism to America.

Separating it from the rest of the civilized world, now enamored in greed and decadence.

RIP Ron....you almost singlehandedly destroyed the country that I love.

Santa Claus is dead.

[evil_orange_cat]

10. Reaganomics... he gets way too much credit for the Cold War.

IMHO... the Soviet Union was rampant with corruption and was crumbling under the weight of their massive, unsustainable military budgets. You know what? I suspect that the massive debt accumulated through the Reagan and now Bush* years might lead to a crisis within our government and economy.

[wadestock]

13. Have talked personally to many who lived in the Soviet Union

Not one of them gave Reagan credit.

The Soviets never got over WWII and became obsessed making sure they would never be invaded again.

The threat of communism taking over the world ended very quickly following WWII and with freedom and free enterprise becoming entrenched in Europe.

But eventually they matured out of their military industrial complex.

We haven't been able to pull that one off yet....
And still haven't embraced the correct mix of social programs with capitalism as the EU and Canada has....

Preoccupied with our world ambitions and corporate greed, we will soon be economically eclipsed by China.

Reagan is responsible for blinding a large percentage of the population with mistruths that to a large extent are making this all possible....

[Servo300]

11. "Mr. Gorbachev,

Tear down this wall!"

[Ernesto]

14. How about

Allowing 250 US Marines to be murdered by a terrorist bomb and then not retailiating. This only fueled the terrorist's belief that their strategy works.... This and other little historical gems helped coin the phrase "teflon president". The charges were many, but none seemed to stick.

[hatrack]

15. What a BULLSHIT poll!

"End of the Cold War" - Let's see, Reagan leaves office in January, 1989, Berlin Wall comes down in November, 1989.