Ronald Reagan explains how to balance a budget: Here is Ronald Reagan explaining to Johnny Carson about balancing the budget. Some of you Reagan h**ers please tell me how he is wrong.

oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)

Here is Ronald Reagan explaining to Johnny Carson about balancing the budget. Some of you Reagan h**ers please tell me how he is wrong. I know that most here realize that he was very right.

http://eaglerising.com/4693/president-reagan-balancing-budget/

TroubleshooterTim Loc: People's Republic of Oregon

Reagan was asked who his favorite President was...his reply Calvin Coolidge.
Since then I have read many of Coolidge's works/notes and it was very apparent to me where these principles came from.

Reagan is proof that a conservative can win the Presidency.

UncleJesse Loc: Hazzard Co, GA

oldroy wrote:

Here is Ronald Reagan explaining to Johnny Carson about balancing the budget. Some of you Reagan h**ers please tell me how he is wrong. I know that most here realize that he was very right.

http://eaglerising.com/4693/president-reagan-balancing-budget/

He was perfect, saying he agreed with some things but not others and used an excellent analogy for the balanced budget question. If the economy problem were high inflation today, we'd all know how to get the economy growing. A lot more complicated today then back in the years of oil price spikes.

oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)

UncleJesse wrote:

He was perfect, saying he agreed with some things but not others and used an excellent analogy for the balanced budget question. If the economy problem were high inflation today, we'd all know how to get the economy growing. A lot more complicated today then back in the years of oil price spikes.

Do you disagree with the simplistic words Reagan used in talking with Carson? I sure don't.

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

oldroy wrote:

Do you disagree with the simplistic words Reagan used in talking with Carson? I sure don't.

Everybody knows how to balance a budget. Doing it is a whole different matter.

jonhatfield Loc: Green Bay, WI

lpnmajor wrote:

Everybody knows how to balance a budget. Doing it is a whole different matter.

The essence of the matter--Reagan and no GOP President since has balanced the budget or even come close. Only balanced budgets since 1980 were with Bill Clinton. I liked Reagan but Reaganomics were the reason I switched from GOP to Dem.

Kevyn

Reagan was a dolt, it was surprising he could piss without getting his feet wet. His gift was that he smiled broadly, talked slowly in simple words and gave yes and no answers to very complicated questions. For wh**ever reason this Gomer Pyle of a president appealed to a public who was tired of thinking and we are paying the price for this embrace of ignorance to this day.

UncleJesse Loc: Hazzard Co, GA

oldroy wrote:

Do you disagree with the simplistic words Reagan used in talking with Carson? I sure don't.

Analogies are not perfect nor was his. It was said on a talk show for popularity purposes. Thats how i see it. He played that similar argument very well in campaigns but never lived it. It was always someone else's fault or he had no choice, they made him do it. But he talked about it all the time because he knew it was popular and to me, that was the political genius. He didn't need a campaign manager or political advisor. He was a natural. Look at the fans he has to this day.

oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)

lpnmajor wrote:

Everybody knows how to balance a budget. Doing it is a whole different matter.

As Reagan told Carson, one has to learn how to say, NO. I think that many who receive freebies from our government won't like it if someone says No to them and look at how many of them there are.

oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)

Kevyn wrote:

Reagan was a dolt, it was surprising he could piss without getting his feet wet. His gift was that he smiled broadly, talked slowly in simple words and gave yes and no answers to very complicated questions. For wh**ever reason this Gomer Pyle of a president appealed to a public who was tired of thinking and we are paying the price for this embrace of ignorance to this day.

Kevyn, there are a number of places you could learn a bit about history other than left leaning sources. I wonder what would happen if you used one or two of them instead of just going left all the time. What do you think? Sorry to hurt your thinker by asking a question like that.

oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)

jonhatfield wrote:

The essence of the matter--Reagan and no GOP President since has balanced the budget or even come close. Only balanced budgets since 1980 were with Bill Clinton. I liked Reagan but Reaganomics were the reason I switched from GOP to Dem.

And you have been listening to lefties since that time and don't understand that Clinton's "balanced" budget came by his final acceptance of what the Republicans pushed off on him. What would happen if you failed to read left leaning sources all the time? I think I know but then maybe you have been stonewalled so much that you can't get out from behind that wall.

catpaw Loc: Bakersfield, California

As I recall, Jimmy Carter was going to institute a "zero-based" budget. Don't spend more than you take in. That didn't work, either. He called inflation the "moral equivilant of war" which reporters lampooned with MEOW.
Ford had his WIN campaign--Whip Inflation Now. That fizzled.
We haven't had a balanced budget since Clinton. He had to stand against his own party.
Alan Greenspan made the toungue in cheek comment that Clinton was the best republican president we ever had.

jonhatfield Loc: Green Bay, WI

oldroy wrote:

Kevyn, there are a number of places you could learn a bit about history other than left leaning sources. I wonder what would happen if you used one or two of them instead of just going left all the time. What do you think? Sorry to hurt your thinker by asking a question like that.

That advice goes two ways. Reagan and his followers talked the talk and never did the walk. Do you? Do you take that reality into account? Take responsibility for what Reaganomics has done to this country.

jonhatfield Loc: Green Bay, WI

oldroy wrote:

And you have been listening to lefties since that time and don't understand that Clinton's "balanced" budget came by his final acceptance of what the Republicans pushed off on him. What would happen if you failed to read left leaning sources all the time? I think I know but then maybe you have been stonewalled so much that you can't get out from behind that wall.

You're the one behind a wall.

oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)

jonhatfield wrote:

That advice goes two ways. Reagan and his followers talked the talk and never did the walk. Do you? Do you take that reality into account? Take responsibility for what Reaganomics has done to this country.

I never liked the sound of trickle down with Reagan and certainly don't care for Obama's trickle up, either.

Reagan had to do what he had to do to try to recover from his predecessor just like Obama says about his inheritance.

Do you really think that Reagan is still involved in our economics? I would say you need to do some "extra-curricular" reading, too. That would be something other than far left sources.