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The New York Times reports that Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States 'had some successes' during his eight years with his economic policies, such as getting rid of a federal program that gave employment and training to over 300,000 people in poverty; he was able cut food stamps so that more people could go to bed hungry; he succeeded in cutting many children off of welfare (to make up for that extra Pentagon money); and by 'trimming' the Medicaid roles he was able to swell the ranks of people with no health insurance. His Agriculture Department wanted to count ketchup as a vegetable when providing school lunches for poor children -- Another 'success' was eliminating 300,000 people from Social Security disability payments. Tax cuts for the rich, suffering and degradation for the poor. Reagan began the bankrupting of America and the creation of a super wealthy CEO class, one where their great grandchildren will never have to work, an aristocracy of trustifarians. Reagan made the Strong economy of the United States weak, and George Walker Bush made the weak economy of the United States non-existant.
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You mean other than getting elected twice and not leaving with 29% approval ratings? Well, Reagan sold heavy weapons to the Iranian and lied about it, then diverted the profits of this criminal trade to an illegal war in Nicaragua and lied unceasingly about that, too. That's quite an accomplishment!
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50 men and women were being held hostage in the former United States embassy that was raided and destroyed by terrorists. the terrorists held these people hostage for 444 days. the president before reagan (carter) sent troops in to get them, but the troops were killed. carter didnt do much to get those people out. on the morning that reagan found out he was going to be sworn in, he called the iranian government and said "i am going to be sworn in in 1 hour, if those hostages aren't on a plane by this afternoon, theres not going to be any more Turon." The 50 hostages were on a plane back to the USA within an hour of his swearing in.
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