permafrost wrote:
Damage the country....All Presidents are good and bad, but damage the country.. Sort of a high request....Do ethics count? Nixon/Agnew, a true criminal in the office of VP... Nixon lowered the standard to the level of south side hoods by burglary/theft of Watergate. Reagen, changed the US from the worlds largest creditor nation to the world largest debtor nation. Raised taxes on the working class 11 times, lowered the tax rate of the highest income to the lowest level in history..Iran/contra gun running..Put an end to mental health care and hospitals... Bush Sr., island hoping little wars of distraction. Set firmly the Reb practice of any little war for business but refuse to care for the Vets who did the dieing and the bleeding....Bush Jr., Incredible tax cuts for the rich, 2 wars on a credit card..Cronyism brought to new levels with no bid war contracts and backing/investment methods for the rich...Only a smidgin of thing we could bring up, but enough for now....I am sure you could add much detail to any of these events as you do seem pretty well informed..l.
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I will grant you most of what you say, bad ethics though can be found in both Clinton and Obama too. As for Reagan and the debt, Reagan worked out a deal with the democrats of congress for $3 of debt reduction for every $1 of tax revenue raised. The democrats stabbed him in the back and left this out when the debt limit was raised. As for the mentally ill. This was started by the progressives in California. They felt it was cruel for these people to be locked up in these institutions, Reagan signed a bill which allowed these folks to be treated in smaller community settings. The Supreme Court weighed in and stated it was cruel punishment for these people to be in these institutions. Reagan did not destroy our mental health system as then President Carter modeled the national system after Reagan's California system. Please look it up.