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by kedar on March 30th, 2009
Ronald Reagan was a bad president, who promulgated bad policies and appointed bad people -- under Reagan, we sent the deficit skyrocketing, growing faster in real dollars than under any other president, including the current one. We cut social spending to the bone, creating the homeless problem by turning hundreds of thousands of mentally ill people out on the streets. We appointed Antonin Scalia to the Supreme Court. We cut school funding, trying to classify ketchup as a vegetable. We banned the Beach Boys as attracting the wrong sort of crowd. We traded arms, money, drugs, and hostages between Iran and the Nicaraguan rebels. More appointed officials were indicted and convicted of crimes than under any other president. We gave chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein. We claimed that trees cause most pollution.
He catastrophically 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.
by Nathan Explosion on April 1st, 2009
Reagan's economic policies are why we are in this mess in the first place!! Supply side economics will never work...
by way2ruf24 on February 3rd, 2008
Bad, or at least for so called conservatives. If anyone of this idiot republicans really thought about Regans presidentcy they would'nt be envoking his name so much. Lets take the cut and run war issue, Reagan cut and ran in lebanon one of the conservatives biggest problems with the dimacrates right now. Immagration, another so called core republican issue. Well, lets see, what would reagan do? Oh I know! Reagan along with his so called conservative friends voted for Amnesty for illegal immagrants which aloud 3,000,000 illegal immagrants enter this country. He also left the oval office with over a 500 billion dollar deficit, not to mention the CRACK COCAIN disaster. If this is who the replublicans have chose as their mentor then lets pray they aren't elected president.
by dr asif bly on March 3rd, 2009
indian accept him a good president.5
by Demoliberal on November 3rd, 2008
Reagan was a good president in my point-of-view, one of the best, people are saying. Then again, you either hate him or love him, I guess...
by Weird Science on January 31st, 2008
I don't like many Politics, but I believe he was good...it didn't seem to have to many hidden agenda's.
by chuck on January 19th, 2008
ronald reagan was the right president at the right time the united states needed him. for one, jimmy carter was a good man, but he was weak at foreign policy. in iran the shaw of iran was exiled and a new muslim extremist came out of exile from france and took power his name was the ayatollah khomeini. under khomeini the US embassy was over thrown and 52 americans were taken. with a failed rescue 8 american service men were killed. this action pretty much sealed jimmy carters defeat. in a land slide vitory ronald reagan became president. within minutes of being sworn in as president. the hostages in iran were released. making ronald reagan a hero by the nation. this hard line was to follow reagan right through to the arms dealing. and was brought to light by the iran contra hearings, which oliver north under oath said that there was no hostages for arms. and ronald reagan was to say he had no idea about the arms for hostages, and doing so the american public let him finish his days in office with a very questionable foreign policy record. ronald reagan was the right man at the right time, but he kinda over stayed his welcome. and yes he did more good than he did bad. and he served calafornia good and his people better.
by Big B on March 4th, 2009
For dreaming up the concept of "trickle-down Reaganomics" alone, I think he was a bad president...
by Jess on January 19th, 2008
Both. I think he did good by reducing taxes. However, if you reduce taxes, you have to reduce spending, which didn't happen, resulting in a greater deficit. And there is the Iran-Contra. Its hard to say he was a great president when he gives weapons to terrorists. There are examples of good and bad decisions.
by andblack on July 7th, 2009
do that exist anymore if we had good presidents they were killed before their term finished. and reagan lived despite the efford so i'm gonna say he was all right. i like the way he handled russia with the star war thing.
by anddeb on March 4th, 2009
ok president, some good and some bad, but the point is he cared about the people.
by Corgingus on March 3rd, 2009
Reagan was the man. Other hostiles when in hiding when he became president. Notice how fast the Iranian terrorist released the hostages when they found out 6 shooter Reagan was in the White House.
by CaptainHarley adores his life penguin on March 3rd, 2009
One of the most effective Chief Executives of all time. His ability to get people on his side was legendary, and he chose excellent people to surround himself with.
by Eileen on March 4th, 2009
Nancy was an excellent president she knew how to spend the tax payers money well! lol
by The Wraith of God is Coming on March 4th, 2009
Well If Clinton was Good Reagan was great he had one scandal (1), anyway our standing went up in the world people were really hating the USA after Jimmy Carter so brought America back from the brink.
by world of hell on March 3rd, 2009
bad because he has funny hair!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by Tyrone_H on June 19th, 2011
THINGS THEY FORGOT ABOUT ON FORMER PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN 100 BIRTHDAY
Washington D.C., November 24, 2006 - On November 25, 1986, the biggest political and constitutional scandal since Watergate exploded in Washington when President Ronald Reagan told a packed White House news conference that funds derived from covert arms deals with the Islamic Republic of Iran had been diverted to buy weapons for the U.S.-backed Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
In the weeks leading up to this shocking admission, news reports had exposed the U.S. role in both the Iran deals and the secret support for the Contras, but Reagan's announcement, in which he named two subordinates -- National Security Advisor John M. Poindexter and NSC staffer Oliver L. North -- as the responsible parties, was the first to link the two operations.
The scandal was almost the undoing of the Teflon President. Of all the revelations that emerged, the most galling for the American public was the president's abandonment of the long-standing policy against dealing with terrorists, which Reagan repeatedly denied doing in spite of overwhelming evidence that made it appear he was simply lying to cover up the story.
Despite the damage to his image, the president arguably got off easy, escaping the ultimate political sanction of impeachment. Reagan should had been impeach and charge with treason. Oliver North should be in prison.
During the late 1980s and the early 1990s the CIA was the biggest drug kingpin in the United States. Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Oliver North were involved in getting arms to the Nicaraguan Contras and they did it through the sell of cocaine to black neighborhoods. The question that many African Americans asked at the time was where could a street hustler get so much cocaine? It turns out that his main source was Danilo Blandon, a drug dealer who had ties with the Contras, the CIA and the Reagan and Bush administrations. Blandon and agents involved with the Contras have since testified that the CIA knew that the Contras were being supported by drug money. The CIA flew drugs into the United States and that those drugs were delivered to Freeway Ricky Ross on consignment by Danilo Blandon.
by sarapeacerules on December 2nd, 2010
Reagan was a great President! He cares about people and was known as "the great communicator". He won the Cold War and was beloved by millions of people. No he is not stupid. He is very smart and lead our Nation into a great direction! Quote,"by the people,for the people." He was always against BIG government. (another quote) Government is not the answer to the problem government IS the problem. He lowered taxes which helped our economy with jobs. Because if you tax and tax people then the money that they earned slips away because of TAXES! DUHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by yingyangyoda on March 4th, 2009
The person who will answer that will look on wikipedia for the answer because he's young and stupid... please stay on the line and we will be back shortly. Your call is very important to us...(Holding Music).. ;)
by tmpbay on November 15th, 2010
reagan was an incredible leader he was so good because he got the unemployment number from double digits to single digits, he lowered inflation (thanks carter) and gave AMERICANS jobs no the illegal mexicans that all the democrats want, he was calm, he knew what he was doing, the only things people say hes bad for is because the country was messed up already? i guess that makes sense, not really, and then people say that the crisis we are in now is becasue of him, not that would be because of the idiot liberals raising taxes to give aliens jobs and niggers welfare, whos gonna pay for that? oh ya the hard working men and women, who have to live from check to check just to make sure they can eat, where as blacks get welfare money for the amount of kids they have, guess what, reagan, ya he didnt want that.
by Lemonyellow Di Vintage on June 19th, 2011
I think all we can definitively judge about the man is his hair and performance in Cattle Queen of Montana.
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Ronald Reagan really is a fucking douche.
To those of you who hold this view, I must respectfully say fuck you. I secretly wept on the stairs the night Ronald Reagan was elected President, because I understood that stupid and mean people really did get their way in the world, even when you grew up. He was a bad actor, an informer during the blacklisting years in Hollywood, and finally a front man for a coalition of Texas oilmen, fundamentalist dingbats, and right-wing psychotics out of Dr. Strangelove. He brought greed, callousness, bigotry, and chauvanism back into style at home and supported torturers and death squads abroad. His legacy includes the embezzlement of almost all the country's wealth by 1% of its citizens, the scapegoating of the poor and black, schizophrenics turned out on the streets, the AIDS epidemic, the War on Drugs, acid rain, Iran-Contra, and over two hundred dead United States Marines. He believed in Armageddon and astrology and didn't know the difference between reality and things that happened in movies. He was the triumph of image over truth. He was a fool, a liar, and a traitor to his country. He made me ashamed to be an American. And if there were any justice in this world, his head would be placed atop a bamboo stake somewhere in public for birds to pick at, his Presidential Library would contain nothing but boys' adventure books and bad cowboy movies, and the only things named after him would be shopping malls and Potter's Fields. Let him rot, let his name never be spoken again, and let the earth where he is buried be seeded with salt.
by John McCain on December 26th, 2010
Well. There you go again. Shortsightedness and tunnel vision without any ability to see the whole picture. He inherited a presidency that was woefully horrible in identifying what was wrong economically in this country. The peanut farmer was graceful enough and it was what this country needed after Vietnam, Watergate, racial tensions, eco
nomy, foreign affairs,middle east turmoil etc.it was reagan who used our economic might to bring down the soviet union, played poker with them knowing full well there would be no star wars but the soviets didn't know that. Clinton was president when the walls cametumbling down as a result of reagans foreign policy. Because of reagans economic policies, we had the longest economic recovery in the history of the U.S. Sure he and his administration made some blunders, but the world became a safer place because of him. you do gooders(a reagan saying) still cannot grapple with the truth about reagan. And that is ok. You want instant economic recovery and the way the democrats spend everythingit required patience and pain and a re-emohasis on family values and the order of things the way they are supposed to be. I for one know that he is a better president dead than anyone of the ones that came after he left office. God bless what that man did for this country and the world.
by Bill_G7251 on January 23rd, 2011