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What You Talkin’ About? asked:


After all, he

- increased taxes on working people twice (one was the largest tax increase in history)

- increased the size of the federal government (one of the few in modern history to actually increase the number of per capita federal employees)

- tripled the national debt

- started an endless War on Drugs (only a Republican would think of declaring war on ourselves) that is a bigger failure and longer failure that the Iraq War.

All the above is true. If you deny it you are a liar.

And finally, he did not end the cold war or stop the Soviet Union. Praising Reagan while ignoring those like Gorbechiev, Lech Walesa, and Vaclav Havel (people who actually DID something) is flat out delusional. But I guess that is right up the alley of conservatives.
Once again…it is all true. Why don’t you research it yourself…and I am not talking about wacko right wing webistes or talk radio.
Your right Fed Up….but I can’t devote my life to listing all the things Reagan did that conservatives love to ignore….yes there was the secret deals with terrorists, an illegal war in South America, cutting and running from Lebannon after a terrorist attack on the Marines….. I mean, who has time to list everything???

Elana asked:


He was simply perpetuating the “mutually assured destruction”
technologies of previous presidencies going back to Truman.
Communism fell apart due to running out of money (much of
which was going to its military) and dissidents (such as Lech
Walesa) from within. How does Reagan get the credit?
FYI, Starwars had nothing to do with this
as *NONE* of it had been implemented by
the time the last of the communist countries
that have fallen fell.

It comes down to military spending.

What ELSE did he do other then the
usual investing in military technology?