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1. A quote from the NWO who supported the Brady Bill

2. Wow. Nothing new under the sun…

3. 1) 407,300 US military personnel lost their lives in WWII. Ronald Reagan’s military service consisted of making propaganda movies in Hollywood and keeping up the morale of the actresses.

   2) Reagan ran on a campaign of a Constitutional Amendment to require balancing the Federal budget — then personally approved $3 Trillion in federal debt (almost $5 trillion in today’s terms). Federal debt was 37% of GDP when Reagan entered office — it was roughly 55% when he left and around 65% when his VP Bush was defeated.

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Federal_Debt_as_Percent_of_GDP_by_President.png

   Reagan increased the federal debt by 180% — far higher than even Obama’s 70%. Most importantly, he started the tradition of massive deficit spending .

   3) For part of his term Reagan spent 7% of US GDP on the military budget — a bunch of it going to the Aerospace division of his former employer, General Electric. He saw no inconsistency with our allies — Germany and Japan — spending less than 1% of GDP on military defense even though they were right next door to the Evil Empire. All this to defeat a Soviet Union’s whose economy was on the verge of collapse anyway.

   4) Meanwhile, millions of defense engineers and military personnel — the people who won the Cold War and had devoted their lives to defending this nation against nuclear attack — were discarded like used toilet paper after the Soviet Union folded.
   Without Reagan letting out a peep of protest.

   5) And his VP George H Bush let us know two weeks AFTER the 1988 election that the “Free Market” consisted of $400 billion plus of our taxes going to bailout the savings and loan banks — including a number of them in Texas and $1 billion to bailout the Silverado Bank of his son Neil Bush.

   6) And it was Reagan himself who laid the basis for a global tyranny — globalization. In which a few billionaires rule the world while American wages are flat for decades.

   1. The Great Deception to Christians! Beware little Flock! None of them are your friend!

   2. Now I apologize if this ruffles even more feathers, but I can’t let such disparagement go unanswered. All in all, your comments sound to me a lot like sour grapes. Because of that vitrol, I feel compelled to respond.

      Reagan did not, in fact, start a tradition of massive deficiet spending. That was FDR, buying in to Keynsian economics as a way out of the Depression.

      Now to opinion. To me, RR was the greatest President of my life. He was masterful in making Americans proud again after all the crap the previous Presidents had left as refuse on Capitol hill. He attempted to clean the tarnish from our reputation, left by the bailout from Vietnam. He wanted the western world to know we could be counted on. So what if he didn’t expect Germany and Japan to ante up more? He was of the WW2 generation, and damn sure didnt want a new version of Nazi Germany or Imperialist Japan. Have you forgotten that WE (collectively, as the Allies) saddled both countries with restrictive constitutions preventing exactly that from happening? Yes, he fed the miltary industrial complex, but he didnt birth that beast. Again, FDR’s. In defense, he felt had a cold war to win and by using our economic strength and leveraging the faith of those in Eastern Europe he and the Pope did. And for the greater part of twenty years afterwards Russia was toothless. For goodness sakes they had to sell part of their fleet to Pepsi! Expecting there not to be a downside from that victory would be pie in the sky dreaming. Every war concluded leads to a recession. Prior to quanatative easing that was basic economics- of course now basic economics doesnt exist on a governmental level.
      As a President he was certainly head and shoulders above Kennedy, Johnson and his Great Society, NIxon, Ford, and the peanut farmer of shame, Carter. Though Ike was before my time, barely, he is the only one that comes close. None of the ones since have been fit to stand in his shadow. And yes, I am including Trump, who seems to be more interested in his tweets and his business empire (ever wonder why the Kurds were abandoned? Look at his business interests in Turkey) and is certainly conspicuously absent regarding the 2A, which he swore, twice, to protect.
      So yes, I am and always will be a staunch fan of old Ronnie. He wasn’t perfect by any means, but he’s the best I’ve seen and the only one I feel like was truly my President.

      1. I never get upset with someone for merely disagreeing with me. While I may not be always convinced, I enjoy hearing other points of view as a check on my own reasoning/knowledge.

4. Unless we can return this gobbermint to the values and enumerated powers listed in Our Constitution, no matter who is in charge, it’s gonna hurt. And when all is said and done, whether it’s multi-national corporations or goobermint, we are going to lose liberties……

5. All presidents say good things. All presidents do bad things. Reagan was still right in what he says here. So we quote the good, decry the bad, and hope that the good is what makes the greatest impression.

   Lincoln was a god-awful president, yet he is still revered, to the point of worship. Teddy Roosevelt was also god-awful president, yet he is still revered. FDR was a catastrophe as a president, yet he is still revered by both political parties. JFK was actually a pretty good president, and doesn’t get enough credit for what he tried to do, the reason he had to be assassinated. Jimmy Carter was a good man and a bad president. Reagan made a boatload of mistakes, yet he was far better than either alternative. So, when they are right we should acknowledge as much, but point out loudly when they are wrong.

6. I learned a lot from this discussion. I thank each of you for your contribution.

   In the end, I confess, I agree with Avalanche Lily.

   “The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.”—Jack Anderson

   Carry on

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