Remembering Reagan

**KAPPA** · 04-08-2011, 04:12 PM

Originally Posted by BoonMee

Largo Town Center (on the Right) to Franconia-Springfield (on the Left).

Largo has some interesting bring your own bottle nude strip clubs with Univ MD staff, and Franconia is where USSC Justice Thomas lives.

**KAPPA** · 04-08-2011, 04:18 PM

Originally Posted by attaboy

Besides, how does one plagerize somehing as simple as saying Bill Maher is a misogynist?

So what? He's got a lot of company.

Not all political liberals can be models of exemplary behavior. At least their entire agenda isn't predicated on killing people to make money.

**Boon Mee** · 07-08-2011, 06:18 AM

Have we seen this gem as yet? Apologies if it's been posted before but it is worth a repeat anyhow:

**Hampsha** · 07-08-2011, 07:34 AM

The shocking part of this clip is when the CEO of Meryll Lynch tells Reagan to 'Speed it up' when he is talking to a crowd. That says a hell of a lot about Reagan and what the corporations really think of the US government.

**KAPPA** · 07-08-2011, 08:22 AM

We can thank Reagan for ignoring the AIDS crisis for several years.

And for telling state university women, ( like me) they weren't entitled to the same amount funding for sports as men. ( Overturning Title 19 was his first action as president. )

Was he the Pres selling drugs to arm contras? Or was that Bush I ?

**Hampsha** · 10-08-2011, 08:20 PM

Was he the Pres selling drugs to arm contras?

Reagan's cronies sold weapons to Iran to help release the hostages that Iran had but with the sale the cash was diverted towards helping the Contras based in Honduras who would cross the border into Nicaragua to fight against the Nic government. It was a very rightwing nutter scheme.

Man in charge of the scheme. He might be posting under the name 'Boonme' on this forum.

**barbaro** · 11-08-2011, 03:22 AM

Originally Posted by Hampsha

Man in charge of the scheme. He might be posting under the name 'Boonme' on this forum.

Well, there level of sophistacation seems to be the same.

**sabang** · 11-08-2011, 09:40 AM

Ah yes, remembering Reagan. Arch enemy of the Nicaraguan Sandinista's.

Guess who is the President of Nicaragua now?

All that barbarity, illegal drug trading, and lying to the American people was for nothing.

**attaboy** · 14-08-2011, 12:50 AM

Ortega can go back to banging underage girls at the Nicaraguan taxpayer's expense. As well as the donations from bored and boring pinko US liberals who think financing commie revolutionaries is a thrill, a safe thrill, enjoyed from a distance, in the safety of their NYC co-op.

**Pound Hound** · 14-08-2011, 07:59 AM

I still think its funny that Reagan would not be considered a conservative today.... and would never be elected by these modern conservatives...

**Hampsha** · 14-08-2011, 09:36 AM

Not sure about your comment Attaboy. But I can suggest that you see this documentary about Reagan and all them Washington Republicans. Download the torrent. It's on youtube but not so clear.

**Boon Mee** · 27-08-2011, 08:57 AM

Originally Posted by attaboy

Makes you feel good doesn't it?

What a beautiful couple. I'm tempted to use it as an avatar. He'd be proud to know that the people of TD are thinking of him on his 100th.

Absolutely! And what we could do now with his policies vs. the commie currently in Big White, eh?

Obamanonics vs. Reaganomics

One program for recovery worked, and the other hasn't

"The Reagan philosophy was to incentivize production—i.e., the "supply side" of the economy—by lowering restraints on business expansion and investment. This was done by slashing marginal income tax rates, eliminating regulatory high hurdles, and reining in inflation with a tighter monetary policy."

"Robert Reich, now at the University of California, Berkeley, explained that "The recession of 1981-82 was so severe that the bounce back has been vigorous." Paul Krugman wrote in 2004 that the Reagan boom was really nothing special because: "You see, rapid growth is normal when an economy is bouncing back from a deep slump."

"Mr. Krugman was, for once, at least partly right. How could Reagan not look good after four years of Jimmy Carter's economic malpractice?
Fast-forward to today. Mr. Obama is running deficits of $1.3 trillion, or 8%-9% of GDP. If the Reagan deficits powered the '80s expansion, the Obama deficits—twice as large—should have the U.S. sprinting at Olympic speed.
The left has now embraced a new theory to explain why the Obama spending hasn't worked. The answer is contained in the book "This Time Is Different," by economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff. Published in 2009, the book examines centuries of recessions and depressions world-wide. The authors conclude that it takes nations much longer—six years or more—to recover from financial crises and the popping of asset bubbles than from typical recessions.
In any case, what Reagan inherited was arguably a more severe financial crisis than what was dropped in Mr. Obama's lap. You don't believe it? From 1967 to 1982 stocks lost two-thirds of their value relative to inflation, according to a new report from Laffer Associates. That mass liquidation of wealth was a first-rate financial calamity. And tell me that 20% mortgage interest rates, as we saw in the 1970s, aren't indicative of a monetary-policy meltdown."

"There is something that is genuinely different this time. It isn't the nature of the crisis Mr. Obama inherited, but the nature of his policy prescriptions. Reagan applied tax cuts and other policies that, yes, took the deficit to unchartered peacetime highs."

"But that borrowing financed a remarkable and prolonged economic expansion and a victory against the Evil Empire in the Cold War. What exactly have Mr. Obama's deficits gotten us?"

SFA is where Obama's policies have gotten us...

Stephen Moore: Obamanonics vs. Reaganomics - WSJ.com

**attaboy** · 28-08-2011, 05:35 AM

I need to spread some rep around.

**Boon Mee** · 09-11-2011, 02:00 PM

A great nation doesn’t rot away to the point of electing Barack Hussein Obama overnight. Reagan tried to warn us decades ago:

Amidst the turmoil of the 111th Congress, which included such egregious legislation as Cap-and-Trade and ObamaCare, the Republican Study Committee created this video to illustrate how Washington has strayed from the ideas that made our nation great. Freedom and prosperity do not spring from government's power to tax, borrow, and spend. Instead we must get Washington out of the way and allow private enterprise to thrive.

No wonder moonbats still hate Reagan enough to attack statues of him.

**Hampsha** · 12-11-2011, 07:05 AM

Boonme, did Reagan support social security? Why should the younger people pay for the older people which is exactly what is happening. You paid for your parents and now the younger people need to pay for you. The first people into the program got the best deal- kind of like a ponzie scheme. How could Reagan support this? Why isn't his party speaking out against this program? Did he speak out against it or was he in fact pro-socialist in some areas?

**Boon Mee** · 12-11-2011, 07:23 AM

Originally Posted by Hampsha

Why isn't his party speaking out against this program? Did he speak out against it or was he in fact pro-socialist in some areas?

Can't say one way or another Ronnie's stance on SS but do know the Republican Party has come out in favor of self-directed 401(k) type plans to take the place of SS.

**Hampsha** · 12-11-2011, 07:35 AM

That still isn't free fro0m socialization if the government requires people to participate. You can open a 401k now

**Boon Mee** · 12-11-2011, 07:38 AM

Originally Posted by Hampsha

That still isn't free fro0m socialization if the government requires people to participate. You can open a 401k now

That's right - what's your point?

Roosevelt set up this SS Ponzi Scheme before my time...

**Boon Mee** · 12-11-2011, 09:04 AM

The collage/montage was produced by sceneologist Ruben Avila, commissioned by Pastor Israel Soto to commemorate the sacrifice made by our brave Men and Women and celebrate Veteran's Day.

The artist utilized video clips and music that were assembled in order to communicate the message of accepting the call to risk it all for Freedom. Avila states; "I wanted to make the viewer recall the dark side of war and the real peril experienced by its participants. The decision to focus the footage on the Korean War was because it tends to be the forgotten war, yet in retrospect proved to be the start of the war we still fight for today on the battlefield of idealism."

The decision to use the music of STRYPER further iconizes the imagery in a sense that war and conflict are both ancient and modern manifestation of man.
Excerpts from President Ronald Reagan's famous speech "These are the boys of Point du Hoc" further add to the sentiment of what it is to be a soldier. The speech is used because of the universality and themology that all soldiers cleave first onto the belief in God, and then their weapons while on the battlefiled. The key rhetorical phrase of the speech, "Yet you risked everything here, why, why did you do it?" Semper Fi.

Happy Veterans Day, y'all!

**barbaro** · 12-11-2011, 02:54 PM

Originally Posted by Hampsha

Boonme, did Reagan support social security?

iircc,

Reagan had a window or chance to cut SS. It was before the 1984 election and he was told he could do it.

He did not. We think he didn't do it because it would have made him unpopular.

Reagan talked about small government - but he did not practice it. Government grew under Reagan's Presidency.

Why should the younger people pay for the older people which is exactly what is happening. You paid for your parents and now the younger people need to pay for you. The first people into the program got the best deal- kind of like a ponzie scheme. How could Reagan support this? Why isn't his party speaking out against this program? Did he speak out against it or was he in fact pro-socialist in some areas?

Social Security (see my thread I started) is a mess, and it's paying out more than it's brining in - now. 27 years ahead of schedule.

Medicare is actually worse.

**Boon Mee** · 22-11-2011, 07:30 AM

Lech Walesa Unveils Reagan Statue in Warsaw: “Without Reagan There Would Be No Poland”

"Lech Walesa told a crowd in Warsaw today that there would not be a free Poland without Ronald Reagan. Walesa made his remarks during the unveiling of a statue in Warsaw of the late American president on Monday."

The former Solidarity leader said that “as a participant in these events,” it was “inconceivable” that such changes would have come about without the last American president during the post-1945 cold-war era.

Walesa added that thirty years ago, it seemed that the fall of the communist system would not be possible without a nuclear war.

The bronze statue of Reagan has been installed not far from the American Embassy, on Ujazdowskie Avenue, one of the capital’s most picturesque thoroughfares.

A statement from President Barack Obama was read out to the guests attending the ceremony, which said that: “The location of this monument is a fitting reminder of the close ties between the American and Polish people, and a tribute to the strong support the United States gave Poland during its long struggle to free itself from communist rule”.

The three-metre high monument, designed by sculptor Wlaydyslaw Dudek, depicts Reagen nicknamed ‘the Gipper’ making his famed 1987 speech at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate.

During the Berlin address Reagan called on his Russian counterpart, President Gorbachev, to “tear down this wall"

Walesa unveils one more for the 'Gipper' - Thenews.pl :: News from Poland

If only the communist element in America would appreciate the best President since Lincoln?

**Hampsha** · 25-11-2011, 05:46 PM

What a tribute. If he really did win the cold war, why does it seem like it's still going on?

**barbaro** · 26-11-2011, 02:44 AM

There's a Reagan statue in the Republic of Georgia in the captial, Tbilisi.

Will post the photo later.

**barbaro** · 26-11-2011, 10:19 PM

Didn't google the Tblisi, Georgia statue of Reagan yet (sorry).

My post here is in response to Reagan's "It's Morning in America" add.

It's a famous political advertisement.

(Mondale never had a chance against Reagan, and Reagan beat him in one of the biggest landslides in history.)

But the Morning in America advertisement was prescient on two points:

1. Interest rates were at an all-time low and,

2. X amount (a high number) of Americans bought a house (took out a mortgage) that year.

What has changed? Nothing.

Historical low interest rates (cheap money) and taking out 30-year mortgages.

Is this the sign of a "good" economy.....

**Boon Mee** · 03-05-2012, 06:49 AM

Heh...yesterday's May Day celebrations were a dud. Here's Ronald Maximus with so poignent words:

Ronald Reagan . . . was confronted by a bunch of screaming hippies back in his days as governor of California. They swarmed his car yelling at him for cutting education funding or some such. One fellow — who I like to imagine looked like Shaggy from Scooby Doo — held up a sign to Reagan’s car window saying “We are the future!”
Reagan quickly grabbed a pen from his suit pocket and wrote something down on piece of paper and thrust it to his side of the window so the kid could read it. It said: “I’m selling my bonds!”

Amazon.com: The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas (9781595230867): Jonah Goldberg: Books

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