Indexed the tax tables.
Lifted price controls on domestic oil.
Seriously ripped off the Iranians on spare airplane parts that they used against Saddam Hussein.
Blocked the communist takeover of three Central American countries.
Ended Carter-inflation.
Oversaw the creation of 16 million jobs.
Double-digit growth rates.
Put Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court
Won the Cold war.
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Never in my wildest dreams did I ever imagine there would hear a member of this forum trashing Ronald Reagan.
There was a poster on TOS during the 2016 presidential campaign that used to say that to Trumpers, everybody else has to be wrong in order for Trump to be right. One of his cult members, Laura Loomer, tried this tactic when it came to Calvin Coolidge and that fell flat
Im closer to Goldwater than Reagan and there were things that Ronald Reagan deserved criticism for. The debt did go up during his tenure. But it was still well below hundred percent of GDP when he left office and due to the collapses of the Soviet Union, the result for us is we got what was called a “peace dividend” as a result. Trump entered office with a debt to gdp ratio of over 100%, went up higher when he left office, and what do we have the show for it besides Democrat/leftwing dominance? In the case of Reagan, there was a right of center shift when he left office. His vice president won an election after in a landslide. There were articles at the time where writers lamented the possibility that we may never see a Democrat in the White House again.
When Reagan entered office, the economy was crap. When he left office, the economy was booming. When Trump entered office, he inherited a growing economy. Its growth was sluggish, but it was growing nonetheless. His last year in office the economy was marked by shutdowns and unemployment got as high as around 13 to 14%. In fact, he left office with the worst jobs record than Herbert Hoover.
Although, Jimmy Carter to his credit, did originally appoint Paul Vokler(sp) to the Federal Reserve, Reagan kept him on and even gave the OK for Vokler to put the country in a recession in order to reign in inflation in the early 1980’s. It was very unpopular at the time and it was a big risk to Reagan’s presidency . But it worked. Reagan ended up being a shoe in by 1984. Trump, on the other hand, had a hand in bringing on the inflation we’re experiencing today. His supporters laugh at that claim, but I have yet to see them give an explanation of how printing trillions of dollars worth of unbacked currency and releasing it into the economy has no negative effects.
Reagan did sign onto an amnesty for illegal immigrants, which was a huge mistake. He believed he would get more border security in exchange, but he made the mistake in trusting Democrats. You don’t reward people who violate our border laws under any circumstances. Because when Reagan did that, people came over the border in droves
And the arms for hostages deal was a really stupid idea
Sending Marines into Lebanon as peacekeepers in 1983, were many of them died from a suicide bomber, was a major mistake on his part. Reagan admitted that. Reagan admitted sometime during the 1990s that he entered office with the lack of true understanding of Middle East politics.
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