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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReagan was pretty corrupt
but with the rightwing propaganda and the media in lockstep most American think he was a great president
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Mr. Supply Sider.
Mr. "Let's bomb Russia"
Mr. Economic Destroyer.
Mr. Tons of Scandal.
Mr. "Unemployment Insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders".
But hey, let's name airports and buildings after him!!
gabeana
(3,166 posts)airport we have a whole generation of young people that think this man is someone to admire
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts). . . wrap a head around THAT.
Seriously. The union-busting action that defined corporate America's paradigm from the early 1980s on, and he gets an AIRPORT named after him. That's either unbelievable or a Carolina-sized pile of bullSHIT. I vote the latter.
"When the president said no...American business leaders were given a lesson in managerial leadership that they could not and did not ignore. Many private sector executives have told me that they were able to cut the fat from their organizations and adopt more competitive work practices because of what the government did in those days. I would not be surprised if these unseen effects of this private sector shakeout under the inspiration of the president were as profound in influencing the recovery that occurred as the formal economic and fiscal programs."
In a review of Joseph McCartin's 2011 book, Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, The Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America in Review 31, Richard Sharpe stated that Reagan was "laying down a marker" for his presidency: "The strikers were often working class men and women who had achieved suburban middle class lives as air traffic controllers without having gone to college. Many were veterans of the US armed forces where they had learned their skills; their union had backed Reagan in his election campaign. Nevertheless, Reagan refused to back down. Several strikers were jailed; the union was fined and eventually made bankrupt. Only about 800 got their jobs back when Clinton lifted the ban on rehiring those who had struck. Many of the strikers were forced into poverty as a result of being blacklisted for [U.S. government] employment."
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)But I find it hard to have sympathy for a union that endorsed Saint Ronnie over Carter.
emulatorloo
(44,182 posts)niyad
(113,552 posts)it makes me sick to hear him praised anywhere.
MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)edhopper
(33,615 posts)"By the end of his term, 138 Reagan administration officials had been convicted, had been indicted, or had been the subject of official investigations for official misconduct and/or criminal violations. In terms of number of officials involved, the record of his administration was the worst ever."
Very, very corrupt.
Submariner
(12,509 posts)in Lebanon before he cut his losses and scooted out of Beruit. Raygun was a chickenshit too.
Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)That "they" just need as Prez, a guy who can hold a pen and sign his name.
I have always believed Ronnie Raygun to be the first of those actually elected, with the chimpy boosh being next.
I mean who better, for that mindset, to act as President than a grade B/C actor who could follow script and take direction?
Although that doesn't explain monkey boy. I believe, in his case, that he was dimwitted and intellectually incurious enough, combined with an eagerness to do whatever he was told and just take the money. Boy george was able to hold the pen and sign what he was told to sign.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)I found him absolutely revolting