Comments on: Let’s bury Reaganomics with its founder http://www.edocharrette.com/lets-bury-reaganomics-with-its-founder/ Happy is the husband of a good wife his days will be doubled Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:31:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joe http://www.edocharrette.com/lets-bury-reaganomics-with-its-founder/comment-page-1/#comment-17616 Joe Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:18:50 +0000 http://www.edocharrette.com/lets-bury-reaganomics-with-its-founder/#comment-17616 Ha ha ha.... bury Reaganomics. Good joke. Perhaps you LIKED the Jimmy Carter economy of 1976-1980? Double-digit inflation, double digit unemployment, and general sense of gloom in the public which was famously referred to by Carter as "malaise." Remember malaise? I felt it. I was a Democrat in 1980. I put up signs enthusiastically for Carter in '76 but I sat out the election in '80. Like many Democrats, we couldn't believe how bad things were, and we had no hope of turning things around. Then came President Ronald Wilson Reagan on the scene. Despite your hateful comments, he will be remembered by generations of Democrats and Republicans alike as a great man, a great President, a great American. Reagan, despite having a liberal tax and spend Congress for all eight years of his term, managed to get tax cuts for businesses and citizens all across the board. What happened next was an economic boom that lasted well into the Clinton Presidency, even after Bush 41 put in tax increases. As for spending money on Defense... it finally won the Cold War. USSR went bankrupt. Reagan's historic statement at the Berlin Wall "Mr. Gorbechev, tear down this wall!" and calling the USSR an Evil Empire, was criticized as being hawkish by the liberal press.. but these events also worked to hasten the downfall of the USSR. I still remember the drills in school. We'd hear the alarm (three bells) and head for cover. No longer did children have to fear a Soviet nuclear attack. The USSR was dead! What price can you put on the death of the USSR? What price can you assess on the freedom of the Polish, the Czech's, and the other peoples enslaved by the Soviets who are now free democratic republics? Even though this tasteless whine of yours was posted four years ago, let there be a serious response. This Democrat is now a Republican thanks to Ronald Wilson Reagan. I wish God could give us more leaders like him. Rest in Peace, President Reagan. We still love you. Ha ha ha…. bury Reaganomics. Good joke. Perhaps you LIKED the Jimmy Carter economy of 1976-1980? Double-digit inflation, double digit unemployment, and general sense of gloom in the public which was famously referred to by Carter as “malaise.” Remember malaise? I felt it. I was a Democrat in 1980.

I put up signs enthusiastically for Carter in ’76 but I sat out the election in ’80. Like many Democrats, we couldn’t believe how bad things were, and we had no hope of turning things around.

Then came President Ronald Wilson Reagan on the scene. Despite your hateful comments, he will be remembered by generations of Democrats and Republicans alike as a great man, a great President, a great American.

Reagan, despite having a liberal tax and spend Congress for all eight years of his term, managed to get tax cuts for businesses and citizens all across the board. What happened next was an economic boom that lasted well into the Clinton Presidency, even after Bush 41 put in tax increases.

As for spending money on Defense… it finally won the Cold War. USSR went bankrupt. Reagan’s historic statement at the Berlin Wall “Mr. Gorbechev, tear down this wall!” and calling the USSR an Evil Empire, was criticized as being hawkish by the liberal press.. but these events also worked to hasten the downfall of the USSR. I still remember the drills in school. We’d hear the alarm (three bells) and head for cover. No longer did children have to fear a Soviet nuclear attack. The USSR was dead!

What price can you put on the death of the USSR? What price can you assess on the freedom of the Polish, the Czech’s, and the other peoples enslaved by the Soviets who are now free democratic republics?

Even though this tasteless whine of yours was posted four years ago, let there be a serious response. This Democrat is now a Republican thanks to Ronald Wilson Reagan. I wish God could give us more leaders like him.

Rest in Peace, President Reagan. We still love you.

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