Ronald Reagan

Page 2 of 3 [ 40 posts ] Go to page Previous 1, 2, 3 Next

Previous topic | Next topic

mcg
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 26 Jan 2010
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Posts: 538
Location: Sacramento

30 Mar 2011, 1:54 am

pandabear wrote:

ruveyn wrote:

There was the stagflation, a result of Lyndon Johnson's policies.

ruveyn

That is something I've been wondering about. Why did we have stagflation in the 1970s, but nothing quite so similar now? I keep thinking that hyper-inflation should be just around the corner, but it never comes.

If you calculate the CPI the same way they did in the 70s, inflation is much higher now.

Kraichgauer
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 12 Apr 2010
Gender: Male
Posts: 49,751
Location: Spokane area, Washington state.

30 Mar 2011, 3:02 am

georgewbush wrote:

Reagan was a great president, revived the nation from its era of malaise and ended the Cold War.

The cold war ended because the Soviets and their allies had poured too much money into military spending, while allowing their infrastructure to rot away. They lost the cold war quite simply because they outspent us.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Dox47
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 28 Jan 2008
Gender: Male
Posts: 13,670
Location: Seattle-ish

30 Mar 2011, 3:58 am

Master_Pedant wrote:

Actually, Wrong Planet cyclically flows up with racist, neo-fascist, far-right trolls come ever election season - so it kind of balances out the universe. As evidence, please see http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt140597.html

The poll in that thread seems to indicate that most people thought PPR leaned left. There are a handful of very loud conservative voices in here and the occasional bigot does tend to drop in from time to time, but these people have never reached anything even close to a plurality.

_________________
Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer.

- Rick Sanchez

Master_Pedant
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 14 Mar 2009
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Posts: 4,903

30 Mar 2011, 10:30 am

Dox47 wrote:

Master_Pedant wrote:

The poll, itself, doesn't ask participants to state their own political views. Rather, it asks for their perception of what the slant is.

_________________
http://www.voterocky.org/

skafather84
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 20 Mar 2006
Age: 41
Gender: Male
Posts: 9,848
Location: New Orleans, LA

30 Mar 2011, 10:34 am

Today, 30 years ago, the collective unconscious of the world gathered together and took control of one psychotic individual and tried to rescue everyone from the coming horrific times that would be ushered in by the dark ones. Reagan was shot but being the heartless scum he is, the chest wound didn't hit anything important.

_________________
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. ~Heinrich Heine, Almansor, 1823

?I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.? - Hunter S. Thompson

Master_Pedant
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 14 Mar 2009
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Posts: 4,903

30 Mar 2011, 10:41 am

skafather84 wrote:

That's sorta crossing a line, albeit Reagan's dead so no idiot will actually act on that statement, but still.

_________________
http://www.voterocky.org/

skafather84
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 20 Mar 2006
Age: 41
Gender: Male
Posts: 9,848
Location: New Orleans, LA

30 Mar 2011, 10:44 am

Master_Pedant wrote:

skafather84 wrote:

That's sorta crossing a line, albeit Reagan's dead so no idiot will actually act on that statement, but still.

He was an evil man or an enabler of evil men through his vast ignorance. Either way he should have died much, much earlier and I won't respect him in the least. Most morons already worship him as a hero rather than the villain that he and his administration were.

Master_Pedant
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 14 Mar 2009
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Posts: 4,903

30 Mar 2011, 10:50 am

markko wrote:

Reagan was the President. Regan was the Chief of Staff. There's a difference, guys.

In this photo, the guy on the left is Regan. The guy on the right is Reagan.

It's pretty well known in certain circles that Regan called many of the shots and wrote many of the Actor Who Played President's lines.

_________________
http://www.voterocky.org/

xenon13
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 13 Dec 2008
Age: 50
Gender: Male
Posts: 3,638

30 Mar 2011, 12:27 pm

The economic growth rate per year under Carter was greater than that under Reagan. That's something most people don't know.

skafather84
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 20 Mar 2006
Age: 41
Gender: Male
Posts: 9,848
Location: New Orleans, LA

30 Mar 2011, 12:33 pm

xenon13 wrote:

The economic growth rate per year under Carter was greater than that under Reagan. That's something most people don't know.

The tax rate was also significantly higher and had less holes in it.

Though, not nearly as high as it was during the growth years of the 50s and 60s. Nixon really started the downward tax trend and that's continued to this day to the point of screwing the next generation in favor of the bloated baby boomer generation (who were the direct beneficiaries of the growth years).

Dox47
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 28 Jan 2008
Gender: Male
Posts: 13,670
Location: Seattle-ish

30 Mar 2011, 12:58 pm

Master_Pedant wrote:

Dox47 wrote:

Master_Pedant wrote:

The poll, itself, doesn't ask participants to state their own political views. Rather, it asks for their perception of what the slant is.

_________________
Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer.

- Rick Sanchez

Inuyasha
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 12 Jan 2009
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Posts: 9,745

30 Mar 2011, 1:00 pm

xenon13 wrote:

The economic growth rate per year under Carter was greater than that under Reagan. That's something most people don't know.

Growth of what? Government?!?!

ruveyn
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 21 Sep 2008
Age: 90
Gender: Male
Posts: 31,502
Location: New Jersey

30 Mar 2011, 7:51 pm

Inuyasha wrote:

xenon13 wrote:

The economic growth rate per year under Carter was greater than that under Reagan. That's something most people don't know.

Growth of what? Government?!?!

Also the growth of the Misery Index. The Rediscount Rate + Rate of Inflation + Rate of Unemployment.

21 percent under Jimmuh.

ruveyn

skafather84
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 20 Mar 2006
Age: 41
Gender: Male
Posts: 9,848
Location: New Orleans, LA

30 Mar 2011, 7:55 pm

ruveyn wrote:

Inuyasha wrote:

xenon13 wrote:

The economic growth rate per year under Carter was greater than that under Reagan. That's something most people don't know.

Growth of what? Government?!?!

Also the growth of the Misery Index. The Rediscount Rate + Rate of Inflation + Rate of Unemployment.

21 percent under Jimmuh.

ruveyn

He had to work with LBJ, Nixon, and Ford before coming to office. It would have been a catastrophe no matter who had been in office. Same with Obama's term. Bush left things in such shambles that no one could have made it significantly better in under a decade.

ruveyn
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 21 Sep 2008
Age: 90
Gender: Male
Posts: 31,502
Location: New Jersey

30 Mar 2011, 7:56 pm

skafather84 wrote:

Jimmuh plowed the road for RWR who was a Stealth New Dealer. Think about it.

ruveyn

skafather84
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 20 Mar 2006
Age: 41
Gender: Male
Posts: 9,848
Location: New Orleans, LA

30 Mar 2011, 7:58 pm

ruveyn wrote:

skafather84 wrote:

Jimmuh plowed the road for RWR who was a Stealth New Dealer. Think about it.

ruveyn

Ronald - 6 letters
Wilson - 6 letters
Reagan - 6 letters

Surprised all those crazy Christian fundies worship him so much considering you can do a real easy numerological associate with "teh debbil!"

Page 2 of 3 [ 40 posts ] Go to page Previous 1, 2, 3 Next

Jump to:

Ronald Reagan Post Reply New Topic

Ronald Reagan