Nickolai

https://historyinpieces.com/research/us-unemployment-rates-president
Un employment during Reagans 8 years averaged 7.5 %

The argument that the near-doubling of revenues during Reagan's two terms proves the value of tax cuts is an old argument. It's also extremely flawed. At 99.6 percent, revenues did nearly double during the 80s. However, they had likewise doubled during EVERY SINGLE DECADE SINCE THE GREAT DEPRESSION! They went up 502.4% during the 40's, 134.5% during the 50's, 108.5% during the 60's, and 168.2% during the 70's. At 96.2 percent, they nearly doubled in the 90s as well. Hence, claiming that the Reagan tax cuts caused the doubling of revenues is like a rooster claiming credit for the dawn.

Nickolai

The chance that prayers will be answered has a bout as much chance as rubbing your favorite horse shoe and making a wish--about 50-50

Nickolai

https://www.npr.org/2016/04/03/472745523/fact-check-the-white-houses-private-sector-job-streak
Try this link

Nickolai

You should stop counting on your hero He wont make a second term Michael Cohen says he as crap on Trump to hurt him. He is ready to turn states evidence. Trump is being sued for violation of the emoluments clause of the Constitution. By a former female contestant on the Apprentice reality show for defamation, by Stormy Daniels. For conspiracy in the June 9th mtg. in Trump Tower with five Russians including a female lawyer with close connections to the Kremlin. And there is three more females in the wings he paid off to keep their mouths shut. The guy has more problems than you can shake a stick at

SilentGeneration Loc: Michigan

The CBO is predicting huge deficit increases due to Mr. Trump's tax cuts. Those increasing deficits will trigger larger sequestration budget cuts. Our senior population will continue to grow as the boomers reach retirement age. They won't benefit from Mr. Trump's tax reductions but they will be affected by sequestration cuts to Medicare. They are also being told they won't get the full benefit of the money they've been paying into Social Security. How does this make economic sense?

pafret Loc: Northeast

I am glad that you used the term Military because Democrats love increasing the DOD budget. That way all of their war monger friends get their share of the American pie and mine as well. With the crappy treatment our veterans get it is a wonder that an all volunteer Military can be sustained.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Eigjt years in office with nothing to show for, certainly not like Trump after year and half and now bo (you guys) claims these are from his dismal showing while in office eight years prior... Yea sure they are his doing.... lolololl

Keep tauting it you may find someone else to buy it... We are not...

Nickolai

https://www.thebalance.com/us-economic-outlook-3305669
Eight years in office and the longest period of sustained job growth is something to show for it and pulling the nation back from the abys it was staring into in the fall of 2008 should count for something. This year Trump can take credit for it's all his now. All the signs point to a cresting an apex to the recovery that actually began in June 2009. So the economy is in the 9th year of recovery that's pretty long in tooth

Chocura750

There was a recession in Reagan's first two years and the inflation rate was in the teens. Paul Voulker as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank raised the interest rate to 20% to stop it. As would happen when taxes are cut but spending is not, the deficit increases. Remember Vodoo economics. Read David Stockman's book "The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed". He was Reagan's finance chief. Deficits increased so much that Reagan sponsored tax increases twice. The share of the economic growth for the middle class stagnated as it has since then.
Next thing they'll be telling you that Reagan won the Cold war.

dongreen76

How do "YOU PEOPLE" think.what could go wrong is already what' IS`wrong,You don't understand what an Elitist is or his/her basic temperament.Generally an Elitist comes about through Affluencey.Thats the Royalist, the snob,and being of a nature they would have a tendency to be discriminatory,they above anyone else would create the great disparity of the goods services depending on who they think is worthy of such goods and services and who is not.Who and what is the Republican party composed of and known to represent -thats right boys & girls - the rich man ,[the Affluent] and that means,businesses,the owners,and their CEO'S,and just plain ole corporate America cross the board.

Nickolai

Exactly Trickle down economics is what Herbert Hoover tried and it didn't work it never does it is a sham--an excuse to cut taxes to people who don't need a tax cut. But they have to wrap the fish in something that will hide the smell

Super Dave Loc: Realville, USA

Amazing how the vast majority of the American people and the vast majority of American businesses that lived thought Reagan were fooled into thinking their businesses were booming and their paychecks were increasing.

Imagine how many more would have been fooled if 100% of the networks weren't pro-Democrat.

Nickolai

yes that is what conservatives have yearned for year after year to kick the stool out from under old people. Roll grama out of her nursing home on to the side walk and let her rot in the sun so I can keep my money for a cruise

Nickolai

During the 1980's the big Republican real estate developers conspired to destroy the residential unions and were successful, In 1984 I was forced to with draw from the SF bay area wide labor agreement and operate no union I had been paying my Employees $20 per hr plus $7.5 per into a jointly managed trust fund for two weeks vacation pay, a week at Christmas time ,a comprehensive health ins. plan, and a pension plan. Today 34 years later the carpenters and drywall finishers I employed earn an average of $26,50 per hr with no benefits. That's the kind of progress Reagan brought down on the average formerly middle class worker who is no longer middle class. When he was governor of Calif. Cesar Chavez co founder of the farm workers union called for a grape boycott. Reagan went on TV and gobbled down a great gob of grapes demonstrating his arrogance, ignorance, and disdain for the plight of the farm workers. I was a Republican in those days and it was hard to hang on

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

You, Sir, say it true!!! I donate time, not near enough, and the stories I hear and read in files is about enough to make you want to take it all to the newspapers to get out before the people!! It seems the only time anything is done to correct issues before the VA is when it escalates to points of sheer disgust by the people!!!

Leaning military spending has to be done but I don’t want one dime taken away from our soldiers or vets!! Nor will I ever agree that whatever an injured vet needs to sustain him in medical care should be reduced...

Take the fraud perpetrated by the damn overseers out of the equation and half the problem is gone...

The Veterans Administration is dysfunctional and weak in organization with not near enough skilled people to do as should be done!!! Clerks fudged thousands of veterans’ appointments to make the system look more efficient. One out of three suicide prevention lines goes over into voice mail.... WTH??? The problems are easy to see, but year after year, administration after administration, nothing is done but a change of top brass thinking that resolved it !!! Well it does not!!!

The system sucks and the treatment of our vets gets worse not better!!

The reason why is no great mystery to anyone with experience in Washington....It is not a problem specific to the VA, but rather to the federal bureaucracy as a whole though the failures of other agencies are not as conspicuous as those of the VA....In a word, the critical problem is management, or rather the lack thereof!!! In the private sector, when people prove incompetent or unreliable, they are dismissed...People who do well, who demonstrate competence and initiative, are promoted to higher levels of responsibility. Those are the basic components of efficiency, productivity and accountability... Not so much with the “government employee” that waits their time out to retire... See it plenty of times in there to help while staff stood around talking about anything other than their jobs..A corridor filled with waiting vets no less.. No one in a hurry other our Vets waiting for urgent care needs...

Look at the authority involved which is blocked by Congressional committees micromanaging the agencies for political purposes, and federal employee unions that adamantly oppose any level of reasonable accountability.....

The Democrats decline to clean up the bureaucracy because the federal employee unions are a core constituency of the party, (surprised??) and the Republicans refuse to take it on because they do not actually want an efficient government bureaucracy. There is truth in both assertions...

Truth in both reasons its our Vets who once again find the “challenge of their life” to recieve the care they should get automatically, screw the damn government elite that never served to begin with!!!!!! Damn hypocritical idiots the whole lot of them!! Want to fix it, fire the incompetent, raise the pay of those who do perform above snd beyond and get the damn military heads out of running hospitals!!!! They know wars, not how to deal with medical anything!!! The level of incompetency astounds me and sickens me that such is knowingly allowed and it is!!!!!!