why was everyone inlove with ronald reagan?

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17 Jun 2010, 2:01 am

It's because he was one of the few people who had the balls to engage the Soviet Union, and signal the end of the Cold War (even though a lot of it occurred under Bush Sr.'s watch).


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17 Jun 2010, 4:19 am

I don't. He brought cocaine into the country.I lived in Edmonton during a bloody gang war. Edmonton a quiet farming city, of under 500,000 people became "Detroit" from Robocop. I remember lots of rowdy bikers, child pedophilia , inebriated and spun aboriginals in the York hotel area beside Chinatown. The climax I think being in the late 90s, when one thug creeper up to another with a assault rifle. But oddly it was not comparable with with say a drive by, or say the shooout sceen on "city of God" movie.

I remember the Vietnamese diaspora i (it is notable that Convicted Murder Charles Ng's Sister, lived there, and Charlie Ng escaped to try and find refuge with her in the 80s. She would have none of it, and was caught in Calgary). In the area of the Pacific Rim mall (behind Grand MacEwan, the school wasn't there at the time), was particularly rough.


A classmate's elder brother was beaten to death and placed in his bed. (I would read latter on in the 2000s, that two additional people would die in the neighborhood through violence). See what was happening was that Edmonton was growing, economically so the bikers (my neighbors were bikers, but they were actually very nice) from Beverly Crest. Anyways Crack it being the 80s, didn't help the situation.

As a volunteer with the homeless in Calgary, I can say volunteering with stoned Calgarians, and very drunk Calgarians was very painful to see them REALLY out of it. Like ha ha ha Bum Fights, Bling Bling crack pipe Rufus smashing his head into millk crates, ha ha ha. NOT. You haven't lived until you see a broken aborginal man's soul look into yours, and you're a volunteer and Austic and can't look away= OUCH! One drunk woman threw her mash potatoe bowl of burning mash at me, because she had a parnoid fit that we were poisoning her. (The Seed moved out into the industrial park AWAY from the drug dealers's evil plying trade, and now they are very healthy alive and the Seed is applying new stricter rules).

During the early 2000s, especially teenagers (usually to escape traumas they'd flock here to Alberta). The Mustard Seed where I volunteer, was actually founded by a former crack head who found christ. He managed to turn his dream, or rather the relucant hero, (again low self esteem from drugs like crack (that Nancy Regan said "No" to) who was tasked with forming rudimentary shelters and sancuaries for the homeless. (I think they got an old house first, then it evolved into a old WWII storage building, then it evolved into other grand programs. Such as a low rent high rise (we've gotten 3/4 of the resources, a mountain retreat that serves as a place where homeless can WORK, operate a gas station (for vacationing off roaders, and this acts as the administration for 3 Provincial and federal parks! (not bad for a "crack head"). Mr Nixon is driven. As a result of his actions the homelessness and poverty graph is slowly going down. Although it would be impossible to get it to Zero, a downward spiral is most welcome in this case. The Mustard Seed works to rehabilitate mentally ill homeless, drug addicted homeless.

Mr Nixon was awarded the order of Canada, for kicking his habit, raising 4 healthy kids, (who are alive and healthy and who've gone to school). Now the Nixon clan a huge family works on this mission to bring hope to other crack heads, which Regan's policies encouraged.

No Regan deserves to sink to the lowest of the lowest of the lowests pits of hades. Commie or no commie defeated. He has destroyed many people's lives. It's very heart breaking to see an older guest here who had youth and chances, wasted because Regan wants Mr Gorbachev to "Tear down this wall". The youths who's lives were lost in the 80s, the natives who suffered genocide only to suffer the blight of addiction of cheap crack. What of the young girls on the streets to inspire the first of a kind Protection of Children involved in Prositution act here in CANADA. (and don't tell me I don't know this one. I WROTE A PAPER on this in social work, and brought in a recovering young teen, to tell her saga of a childhood and innocent stolen because Regan doesn't like walls! she described "cocaine psychosis"). Don't tell me I'm making this up, (I invite you to look this up on "last link to the left: Deadmonton". Or look up sexual assult Hermitage park). I read this in the papers.

In addition, Two concerned Vancouver police documented the POOREST postal code in Canada, East Hastings Street, the throne on the side of the Vancouver Games! It is theroized that the homeless eventually migrate to this neighrbood, for the temperate climate of Vancouver. (ie. Owen Wilson's fantasy to move to exotic British Columbia). One of the scenes I remember was lots of heroine shooting. The cops actually filmed this. I forgot what it's called.

Or the novel "Half Breed" by Maria Cambell a Metis Canadian woman, who lived the street life. To evolve to become a film maker, writes of the alien world of a city from the reserve. To make matters worse in the 80s Edmonton was a city with prosperity and jobs. (Oil boom), Winnipeg where I'm born, where my dad had a gun to his face as a bar tender only trying to study at the UM. I'm pretty sure the bandit was a crackhead.

I actually am glad I had Aspergers and was a wall flower for my childhood, so I wasn't even considered for gang. Theo Parks... a classmate I knew, happy student, became a gangsta. They even had I minimal security facility near by. My pops would say "if you're a bad boy that's where I'd go". Or perhaps I'd get my butt even more kicked. who knows. I was that little weird "tard" kid that even the scout master gave up on.Didn't swear back to teachers, just didn't exist.

The neighborhood eventually grew out of it's growing pains temper tantrum (yeah right. again check out the last link to the left website for details).

Bless you Regan. Bless you for a childhood in Deadmonton, the city of Cocaine addicted Zombies just like the 80s zombie and slasher movies, except for Mr Weeks, Mr Parks, and hundreds of other victims of the reign of Mad King Ralph (Kline), and Ronnie Raygun. There was no Robocop shooting up a crack lab, crushing the vials of white powder with his hydraulics feet. (The I work for Dick Jones scene) no robocop to save us. Maybe a bomb disposal robot at the Edmonton Police, when we visited it as cubs scouts. (where again I was the fat clumsy Asian kid from "Up". (Russel, except Russel is cool. I was a clumsy idiot).



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17 Jun 2010, 4:25 am

Awesomelyglorious wrote:
richardbenson wrote:
was it his perfect doo?

100% all about sex. Reagan is the sex God of the Republican party. They might deny it, but if you press them enough on the issue, every Republican will admit that he finds Reagan sexy, and possibly even fantasizes about him. I think it is just part of being Republican.

Very true, and they all are male btw.


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17 Jun 2010, 5:19 am

Because people are stupid and think that less taxes automatically means more money in their pockets. Then once they have to pay for everything on their own and can't afford it, they come running back to their government. This is one of the many reasons why France and Germany think we're a stupid country.

Ronald Reagan might have been a nice guy if I met him so I don't hate HIM. But he is my least favorite president.



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17 Jun 2010, 5:24 am

Tim_Tex wrote:
It's because he was one of the few people who had the balls to engage the Soviet Union, and signal the end of the Cold War (even though a lot of it occurred under Bush Sr.'s watch).


Not to say anything jerkish or to personally attack you, The Soviet Union failed because Stalin was a terrible leader and spent all their money on warfare. Plus they were terrible at international trade which caused their economy to stagnate. Trotskyism might have saved it because he was much more keen on making communism more flexible in trading. Reagan had nothing to do with it, The Soviets dug their own grave.



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17 Jun 2010, 10:02 am

Tim_Tex wrote:
It's because he was one of the few people who had the balls to engage the Soviet Union, and signal the end of the Cold War (even though a lot of it occurred under Bush Sr.'s watch).


They fell from investing too much money in wars in Indo-Asia/Middle East. It's the same thing the USA is now doing and a big part of why our government and economy is collapsing. All our focus and money ends up on the wars and the various activities that go with it (like torture, rendition, the indefinite jailing of people without a hearing...gee...sounds a lot like any other fascist government in history). It's why we got involved in the middle east to begin with: because it meant that we could fight a proxy war with the Soviet Union with minimal direct involvement of our military and troops. The only spot where we broke that was Vietnam and we definitely payed for that (and it showed the dangers of involving in a direct, endless war...a lesson that's been lost to the jingoistic conservatives who've already re-written history). And that was much more than just Reagan involving himself in it and was a policy that had been forming for a couple decades previous.


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17 Jun 2010, 10:16 am

countzarroff wrote:
Not to say anything jerkish or to personally attack you, The Soviet Union failed because Stalin was a terrible leader and spent all their money on warfare. Plus they were terrible at international trade which caused their economy to stagnate. Trotskyism might have saved it because he was much more keen on making communism more flexible in trading. Reagan had nothing to do with it, The Soviets dug their own grave.

I agree it was not Reagan's doing to cause the USSR to collapse, but I think they would have fallen regardless of who led. Full socialism (not welfare, and regulated capitalism, but the real deal) likely cannot succeed due to various problems of flexibility, information processing, and incentives.



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17 Jun 2010, 12:24 pm

Two words: REAGAN SMASH

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17 Jun 2010, 2:13 pm

While Reagan may not have been single-handedly responsible for the collapse of the Soviet Union, he did accelerate the process by increasing military spending and rhetoric, and perhaps more importantly, personally scaring the crap out of their leadership. Releasing the video from the nose camera of the missile that he sent into Ghadafi's tent, for example, gave major heartburn to quite a few members of the Politburo and made them terrified of crossing him, since there was no telling what he might do. I happen to agree with his anti tax and government service trimming positions as well, so while I may not worship the man I generally have a positive opinion of his presidency.


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17 Jun 2010, 9:21 pm

A lot of people see him as the "party president." Cut taxes, spend like wild, and don't worry about tomorrow.



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18 Jun 2010, 1:05 am

Dox47 wrote:
While Reagan may not have been single-handedly responsible for the collapse of the Soviet Union, he did accelerate the process by increasing military spending and rhetoric, and perhaps more importantly, personally scaring the crap out of their leadership. Releasing the video from the nose camera of the missile that he sent into Ghadafi's tent, for example, gave major heartburn to quite a few members of the Politburo and made them terrified of crossing him, since there was no telling what he might do. I happen to agree with his anti tax and government service trimming positions as well, so while I may not worship the man I generally have a positive opinion of his presidency.


How the heck can you cut government services while bloating the military budget? The military is one of the biggest sectors of the government.

He was also quite a protectionist: http://mises.org/freemarket_detail.aspx?control=489

His policies of tax cuts for the rich, S&L bailouts, one-sided deregulations, and military bloating began the upward redistribution of wealth that created the very conditions that have ensured America's (and, to a lesser extent, North America's in general) economy is based on bubbles.

His policies were a much greater long-term threat to capitalism than anything that came out of the Politburo.



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18 Jun 2010, 3:32 am

As a libertarian, I view military spending as one of the few legitimate purposes of a federal government, so I have no problem supporting a strong military while trimming entitlement programs. I never said I worshiped Reagan or viewed him as faultless, I'm against all forms of protectionism and disagreed with him on various other points, but as said I'm generally favorably disposed towards him and his presidency.


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18 Jun 2010, 7:41 am

Master_Pedant wrote:

His policies of tax cuts for the rich, S&L bailouts, one-sided deregulations, and military bloating began the upward redistribution of wealth that created the very conditions that have ensured America's (and, to a lesser extent, North America's in general) economy is based on bubbles.


Much of that happened during the late and unlamented administration of LBJ. LBJ thought he could have both The Great Society and a war in Viet Nam. Guns and Butter. It does not work. It can not work. The wreck of the U.S. economy was started in earnest under LBJ who monatized the deficit. He turned I.O.U.s into money and the rest is history.

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18 Jun 2010, 9:49 am

I think that it was his brilliant acting career that created so many endearing fans

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18 Jun 2010, 3:26 pm

He had some of the lowest approval ratings in the history of U.S. presidents. So he has a cult and the media liked him, but that doesn't make him very popular.



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18 Jun 2010, 4:25 pm

But, he did have one of the most lopsided re-election victories ever.