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By ok on 02-12-09
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The lower the grade, the better the legislator. Republicans have made such a mess of things.
By the party of failed ideas on 02-12-09
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if tax cuts for the rich and the republicans illegal war was such a great economic strategy(which your Jesus wouldn’t necessarily agree with) - why isn’t the economy booming?  Give it up righties… your ideas are a deadend into depression and bankruptcy! 

Obama won with as much as a majority as reagan did - and - hopefully he can undo the damage that bad actor did -

HERE ARE a few myths about your hero the reagan -

MYTH#1 he lowered taxes - ACTUALLY he raised taxes more than any other president….he only lowered them for the rich…he doubled the fica tax AND raised it from 30,000 to 90,000 - that was the LARGEST TAX INCREASE in the history of AMERICA.

myth#2 - he defeated communism - sorry the BERLIN WALL fell under bush 1 - and anyone w/ any knowledge knows the USSR was bankrupt since the middle 60’s and it was only a matter of time before it crumbled…....he actually extende the reigh of the communists by ramping up the cold war/nuclear arms race….

myth #3 he was a tough guy…Reagan was the definition of cut and run - Lebanon anyone?

myth #4 - he was a fiscal hawk and a small gov guy - he actually reigned over the largest increase in the debt in the history of the gov (300%)- in fact he raised the debt more than the rest of the president combined - from george washington to carter - and he was the 1st president to use social security funds in the general budget - using funds that would have kept social security solvent(sorry for the hard word republicans - it means profitable)  thru the retirement of the baby boomers…

myth #5:  there are so many of them I’ll have to get back to you….


to be continued -
mtdon