The Disastrous Legacy of Ronald Reagan, in Charts

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   kerrygposted 13 years ago

   So much for St. Reagan...
   
   http://newsjunkiepost.com/2011/02/06/th … in-charts/

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2. 60

   knolyourselfposted 13 years ago

   He had ringing ears so loud he had to have a hearing aid to hear over it. And then we now find out he may have been alzheimered.

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3. 77

   Mighty Momposted 13 years ago

   ... and that doesn't even address Iran Contra....
   
   WHat I don't get is how ANYONE believes Republicans are better with government money than Democrats? Certainly they are experts at money -- making it and stealing it. But not managing it!
   
   This is from the same author.
   The title is "Vote Republican if...."
   (written the day of the midterm elections).
   
   
   The 2010 midterm elections are upon us.  Voting is today and will determine the fate of Congress for the next 2 years.  While many have already made up their minds about who to vote for, those undecided potential voters should be reminded to vote Republican if they believe in the following things.
   
   Vote Republican if you call Obama a socialist, marxist, communist, and/or fascist (91%)
   
   Vote Republican if you believe or are not sure that health care reform is a diabolical government plot to create kill grandma (57%)
   Vote Republican if you think or haven’t made up your mind about whether Obama was born in the USA (72%)
   
   Vote Republican if you oppose the freedom to use marijuana and support the drug war (70%)
   
   Vote Republican if you oppose a path to citizenship for immigrants (50%)
   
   Vote Republican if you support extending the Patriot Act and domestic espionage (80%)
   
   Vote Republican if you oppose the right to chose whether to buy into a public health insurance option (67%)
   
   Vote Republican if you oppose a woman’s right to have an abortion even in the case of rape or incest (70%)
   
   Vote Republican if you oppose making it easier for workers to organize against corporate tyranny (60%)
   
   Vote Republican if you are a creationist (60%)
   
   Vote Republican if you distrust scientists (94%)
   
   Vote Republican if you are not at all concerned about Climate Change (68%)
   
   Vote Republican if you don’t believe in natural evolution (77%)
   
   Vote Republican if you don’t support embryonic stem cell research (62%)
   
   Vote Republican if you are hiding behind the libertarian banner despite being a social conservative who is just too chicken to admit their polices are bad
   
   Vote Republican if you have too short of an attention span to see the thousands of positive acts of change and reform done despite an unprecedented campaign of obstruction
   
   Vote Republican if you don’t believe that Republicans lie at double the rate of others
   
   Vote Republican if you honestly believe that 2 million attended Glenn Beck’s Tea Party rallies in Washington D.C.
   
   Vote Republican if you think that a record shattering number of filibusters is not a reckless path to gridlock
   
   Vote Republican if you like to condemn anyone but conservatives for sexual improprieties
   
   Vote Republican if you think that a deliberate window smashing campaign is a good way to protest
   
   Vote Republican if you want the most ultra-conservative activist Supreme Court in 100 years to become legislate even more from the bench
   
   Vote Republican if you don’t know or care that more private sector jobs were created in 2010 than the net total under Bush/Cheney
   
   Vote Republican if you think Glenn Beck is a respectable human being
   
   Vote Republican if you think it’s OK for conservative christian extremists to threaten the President of the United States of America with violence
   
   Vote Republican if you would rather listen to big oil fueled media spin than just examine a simple chart to prove the existence of man-made global warming
   
   Vote Republican if you don’t care that our planet is in the 6th largest extinction event in the history of the world
   
   Vote Republican if you stand against the majority of small businesses that support unions
   
   Vote Republican if you don’t realize that 95% of Americans received a tax cut as part of the Stimulus Plan
   
   Vote Republican if you think that a handful of CEO’s deserve one third of all the pay in the US
   
   Vote Republican if you like how a CEO makes over 400 times the average salary of a worker at that company (because 20-30x the average rate is far too small)
   
   Vote Republican if you don’t care that 82% of our nation’s debt was created by Republicans
   
   Vote Republican if you don’t want jobs to be created
   
   Vote Republican if you like to ignore the FBI warning that the financial collapse was caused by industry insiders
   
   Vote Republican if you like to bitch about taxes, but don’t mind that red states receive more tax dollars than they contribute
   
   Vote Republican if you like to pretend that Ronald Reagan didn’t triple the national debt
   
   Vote Republican if you think there’s nothing wrong with our current health care system, nothing at all
   
   Vote Republican if you think that nearly 1 million annual arrests for marijuana are a good thing
   
   Vote Republican if you don’t see any problem with the ‘land of the free’ being the world’s top jailer, and that 1 in 32 Americans being behind bars is just not enough.
   
   Vote Republican if you like to hate gays, but don’t realize the animal kingdom is full of it
   
   Vote Republican if you chose to ignore the fact that ACORN was cleared of any wrong doing
   
   Vote Republican if you don’t want to know who is buying the US Elections
   
   Vote Republican if you like having foreign corporations donating heavily to conservative candidates
   
   Vote Republican if you like getting your strings pulled by Wall St. and big banks
   
   Vote Republican if you think President Bush was not lying to start a war in Iraq
   
   Vote Republican if you think we can cut the deficit while increasing military-related spending that already accounts for 54% of the budget
   
   Vote Republican if you think paved roads and fire departments are socialism
   
   Vote Republican if you think Civil Rights are a bad idea
   
   Vote Republican if you wished Social Security was put in the stock market prior to its crash
   
   Vote Republican if you think urging people not to vote is good for democracy
   
   Vote Republicans if your idea of fun is to shoot empty beer cans with an AK 47
   
   Vote Republican if you think climate change is an hoax invented by Al Gore
   
   Vote Republican if you want the crew of the Titanic to run Congress
   
   Vote Republican if you think the US should stay in Afghanistan and Iraq forever
   
   Vote Republican if you want Congress to joyfully sing the tune:  Bomb Bomb Iran
   
   Vote Republican if you think the middle-class should become the poor
   
   Vote Republican if you think Palestinians have no rights to an independent  state
   
   Vote Republican if the only Darwinism you comprehend is social Darwinism

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   lovemychrisposted 13 years ago

   That just said it all.
   I'm so mad I could smash my fist through a wall. But won't.
   
   Probably won't be able to stop myself once those hearings on the Obama administration begin.GOD- the irony!!
   You know--those "urban" cats and their "walking around money"......so unlike the CPAC crowd are used to, With their yachts and private clubs.
   
   We never tell the truth about things in America. We sugar-coat and white-wash everything. Why are we such babies?
   
   Oh, and Reagan showed Cheney "deficits don't matter".
   60% of our current one is tax cuts.>another Reagan Legacy< Used to blackmail the president so gvt. could continue to function.
   
   The keys to the Henhouse was given to the Wolves. Would Ronnie be proud?

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