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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: fresc who wrote (39977)	3/29/2005 12:55:50 AM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 173976

Reagan did not get the country rolling. That's a myth. If you check history, he had recessions and left us with a huge debt. His boom days were fueled by debt financing, same as Bush's economy. But Bush's debt is even worse. Bush Sr. and Clinton had to raise taxes to pay off the Regaan debt. Reagan also delivered us the S+L debacle which we still have not paid for. Much of that money was ripped off by Texas thieves, the same type raping us in the energy markets since 2000, big contributors to Bush mostly. The only prez's who gave us great economies were Cklinton and Kennedy. That's a fact. No Repubvlican has been able to sustain a good economy for longer than 2 years. One of the big lies of the rightwing is that Reagan cut taxes and raised revenues. Never happened. Just raised huge debt. That's first grade arithmetic. Just a pure big lie. Another big lie is that Reagan ended the Cold War. Well he helped, but would have failed without Gorby, rock n' roll, the 60's revolution, Carter's humanitarianism, Soviet youths rebeling against the oldsters, the Ruskies losing to Osana and the Afghanis and anti-nuke movement. Only all of these combined ended the Cold War. Reagan was just 20% of it at the most. Talk to any former Soviet and they'll tell you.