10 Things Conservatives Don’t Want You To Know About Ronald Reagan
11. Reagan didn't ride into soviet Russia on a white stallion, draped in the American flag to single handily defeat the communists with American exceptionalism beams.
And a few more:
Reagan was the one who started taxing unemployment benefits. Reagan was the one who pushed up the Social Security retirement age from 65. Reagan was the one who closed the income tax deduction for credit card interest, forcing higher taxes on the middle class in particular. Reagan was a union buster. He was a homophobe who could have gotten a handle on the exploding AIDS crisis if he had acted early. He declared ketchup to be a vegetable so California wouldn't have to add a vegetable to its school lunches. And speaking of vegetables, he was senile long before he left office. Other than that he was just a bad actor.
And let's not forget that the Deified Reagan also had Saddam Hussein on the payroll during his presidency as long as he was killing Iranians.
Condensed version: Reagan was a "tax raising, amnesty giving, cut-and-running, negotiating with terrorist" kind of guy.
But in a jolt to reality, as bad as Reagan was he would say these fuckers running the Republican party today are out of their fucking minds.
Disclaimer:This post obviously has not been vetted by the Ministry of Truth
February 7, 2011
Tear Down This Myth
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There were many good articles this time around that helped de-mythologize Reagan, though of course they were ignored or, at best, pastuerized and edited beyond recognition and fed to the sheeple. One of the best that I found was this one* that laid it on the line as far as Reagan's enabling of torturers. (Interesting note in the 'comments' section by one of Reagan's former staffers, Barbara Honniger, recounting a cabinet meeting where Reagan literally admitted to Stockman & everyone present that the purpose of the 'supply side economics' was to create large deficits in order to cripple the government.) What an asshole...
* http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/020611.html
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