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To: Oblivious who wrote (18701)4/25/2011 10:56:32 PM
From: bentway3 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 119360
 
We'll just have to agree to disagree on that one. Jimmuh was the one presidential election I sat out, but he had the idea of getting us off our oil addiction way back then. He just wasn't enough of a leader to get anyone to follow. ..and SUCH a buzz-kill! Most of the bad economy he inherited from Nixon's total lack of any attention or care given to it during Watergate, which Ford just passed along.

I think Reagan, particularly Reaganomics, which Bush reprised, is what has brought us to the terrible fiscal condition we are in today. He did some really good things, but I don't see him as a great president, at the FDR - Lincoln level.


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He cashed in on the 40 year plan to contain the Soviet Union until it's inevitable collapse, which fortunately happened on his watch. All good (R)'s give him credit, but anyone paying attention should give him only the cred as a participant in the plan.



To: Oblivious who wrote (18701)4/25/2011 11:40:48 PM
From: Les H3 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 119360
 
Very favorable for Reagan at the start of his term. 19% Fed Funds rate in January 1981. Oil glut. Two OPEC countries at war. Soviets bogged down in Afghanistan. The Soviet Empire is about to go bankrupt from the military, the cost of keeping together the Warsaw Pact, and the crash in the price of oil.