How is Reagan a fiscal conservative? He ran up the highest deficit in US history (excluding Bush)?
January 1, 2009
seatbelt SKEPTIC asked:
can you imagine what our country would be like if we had a series of Reagan’s running our country? The US would collapse. Good thing democrats like Clinton win office and balance the budget (not to mention bring peace and prosperity to our country. who cares what they do in their personal life).
can you imagine what our country would be like if we had a series of Reagan’s running our country? The US would collapse. Good thing democrats like Clinton win office and balance the budget (not to mention bring peace and prosperity to our country. who cares what they do in their personal life).
January 2nd, 2009 at 4:31 pm
reagan and bush both believe in socialism for the rich.
January 5th, 2009 at 5:13 am
Reaganomics and Bushonomics:
Privatize profits and socialize losses, that way the rich win and the poor lose either way.
January 7th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
um I’d rather have a conservative than a democratic liberal commie as president
January 9th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
That is of course the central hypocrisy of conservatism. Bush doubled the deficit and did nothing for the middle class, majority. But I guess that doesn’t really matter so much in light of how many stem cells he may have saved from a certain and ignoble death.
January 10th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
True..
Anyway, trickle down fails miserably for the vast majority.
Also, why did **** Cheney say…
” Reagan taught us that deficits don’t matter..”
Don’t matter for who exactly?
I think he means, deficits and inflation don’t matter if you have riches and gold stashed away and insider info.
Repubs will run up the debt and give meaningless tax cuts to the vast majority who have to spend it on increasing gas prices, and in turn these gas-energy companies contribute ever more money to the Repub party.
Dems finally take power back and have to place the tax rate back in order to save the country.
Repubs then come back and say ..”see, they raised your taxes..vote for us…”
January 12th, 2009 at 6:45 am
After he collapsed the Soviet Union, the spending would have been unnecessary.
Dot com bubbles would have helped any administration
January 13th, 2009 at 5:58 am
Not to mention that Clinton signed the CRA which directly caused the downfall of our economy.
Not to mention that he told Janet Reno to threaten banks if they didn’t make loans to people who had no way to pay them back.
Yeah, Clinton did good, youbetya.
January 14th, 2009 at 6:07 am
HERE IS WHAT I BELIEVE HAPPENED. IN CASE YOU DID NOT KNOW THE DEMOCRATS CONTROL CONGRESS DURING REAGAN’S ADMINISTRATION.
REAGAN WANTED MONEY FOR HIS MILITARY BUILDUP. DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS WANTED MONEY FOR THEIR WELFARE PROGRAMS. REAGAN AND THE DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS CAME TO AN UNWRITTEN UNDERSTANDING. REAGAN WOULD GET HIS MONEY FOR THE MILITARY IF HE WOULD APPROVE THE MONEY FOR THE DEMOCRAT’S WELFARE PROGRAMS. THE ONLY WAY TO GET ALL THAT MONEY WAS TO RUN A DEFICIT.
January 15th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
He was not a fiscal conservative.
His economic policy was a joke and we had 10% unemployment under Reagan.
Most overrated president ever.
January 17th, 2009 at 6:58 am
If a Reagan series were running the US, my family would not have thought of moving down here from Canada.
Thank God for Clinton and Obama.
January 19th, 2009 at 9:40 am
Reaganomics: If there is a shortage of money it is because the poor are hoarding it.
January 21st, 2009 at 1:18 am
Thank John Kasich and blame Tip Oneil. Too bad under any president you will be broke.
January 22nd, 2009 at 2:14 pm
it was necessary to defeat russia in the cold war.
REagan Won 49 states inhis re-election bid. I don’t thin that has EVER been done before.
He aslo blew out carter as well.
the economy was really good for most of the 80’s also, and there was no war.
He was a good president.
edit- get a real avatar dipshit. if i looked like that i wouldn’t leave the house.
January 24th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
both Reagan and Bush are neocons.
Both believed that a large government is an inevitable result of providing national security and restoring traditional moral values.
Reagan fooled the entire nation into believing in his small efficient government that would bring more prosperity to Americans through free-trade lies. Now it is only right-wingers who are fooling themselves about the empty promises and lies he and his kind preach.
Call it what you will… “Socialism for the rich”, or “privatize profit socialize loss”, but the fact remains, what it really is, is elitism pushing us down a path toward global fascism.
January 25th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Reagan promised to do three things, increase military spending, cut taxes and balance the budget. In reality the three cannot be done simultaneously. Much more recently, as another answerer has pointed out, Cheney said that Reagan taught us that deficits don’t matter, one of the many things about which he was wrong.