
Does Nancy Reagan need to make an appearance and speech at the Republican National Convention to boost the republican party with the memory of President Reagan ?
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2012/07/02 02:24:02
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FAWKES' NOOSE ~ ΔTX 2012/07/02 03:19:22No





















. . .I've got it now! Whatever conservatives do, it's prolly best they reinvent themselves and release the Vulcan death grip they have on the coattails of 'heroes' passed.
FWIW, though, Reagan was right about one thing: government (and addiction to government) IS the problem. Too bad Reagan himself didn't listen to his own rants. He's the founding father of the police state we have today.
After election to the office of POTUS Reagan sent some Cabinet Secretaries to California to forewarn of the plans known as "Reaganomics" and "conservative agenda". The driving motive was conviction that "experts" from Wall Street's brokerages and the (soon to be) "deregulated" banks could best manage the wealth of the nation to "finance the economies of the world's emerging nations" and "trickle down" the great profits so as to make all Americans proud and rich, a virtually guaranteed early retirement for everyone. Particularly, they warned, the top management of Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Union Bank, and Security Pacific, should accept the "buy out offers" and find new jobs with the stock brokerages, for "things were going to move" to New York and the...
After election to the office of POTUS Reagan sent some Cabinet Secretaries to California to forewarn of the plans known as "Reaganomics" and "conservative agenda". The driving motive was conviction that "experts" from Wall Street's brokerages and the (soon to be) "deregulated" banks could best manage the wealth of the nation to "finance the economies of the world's emerging nations" and "trickle down" the great profits so as to make all Americans proud and rich, a virtually guaranteed early retirement for everyone. Particularly, they warned, the top management of Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Union Bank, and Security Pacific, should accept the "buy out offers" and find new jobs with the stock brokerages, for "things were going to move" to New York and the east coast where the real powers would be centered and coordinated from offices in the basement of the White House.
The plans were very successful, having been crafted in Los Angeles by "consultants" years before Reagan was selected as the "spokesman" for the agenda. In less than thirty years they moved more than $27Trillion of wealth from America's middle class citizens into the hands and coffers of Wall Street's Reagan Banks and brokers, where it was used to move American industry and jobs to China and other "emerging nations". Very bright, very successful, very enriched, those who paid the "consultants" and hired the actor.
Lemme just summarize by saying my feelings about Reagan were mixed. On the one hand, whatever he did by way of the economy worked! The eighties saw one of the biggest economic booms in the nation's history. I loathed him, though, on account of his having demolished Carter's halfway houses for the mentally ill--with the net effect of dumping half a million people on the streets. (I've pretty much loathed conservative-flavored statists ever since!) I also wasn't too keen about the way he handled the PATCO strike--whose members weren't griping about pay as much as they were about the unsafe/outmoded technology of the day.
One thing about Ronnie-bob, though. He elicited POWERFUL emotions. There was no fence sitting with that one! And don't EVEN get me started about the Mujaheddin a la Charlie Wilson's war!