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To: bentway who wrote (239868)	12/14/2013 9:09:12 AM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542060

<<<< It's a fact you can't seem to accept in your Reagan-worship. >>>>> There you go again. Who said that? I don't worship Reagan, gawd how some of you twist things and twist your thinking into a personal hate issue. It's the same thing as many on the right do which again convinces me that the ideologues on the left are little different than the ideologues on the right. Here is what I said in simplified terms; 1) Reagan stayed too long and should have left after his first term (or been voted out). 2) During the Reagan first term SS was fixed - including ways to pay for it - taxes! 3) Inflation was at a runaway pace at the beginning of Reagans term 4) Reagan was instrumental in bringing down inflation (and yes Volker was a big part of that) 5) that the debt was not the same in Reagans first term because he - LIKE OBAMA - was dealing with a broken economy. The fix was in stopping runaway inflation which resulted - Like Obama - in a hard recession. Recessions bring on debt. Everyone agrees with that for gawds sake. Was he a saint? Absolutely not. Am I a fan of Reagan, absolutely not. But I just do not buy into the weirdness of those rewriting history. Reagan was exactly what America needed for a few years - NOT more Carter!!!!!!