The Man Who Sold The World - Ronald Reagan Pt. 2

[GoLeft TV]

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About a month ago, historians ranked Ronald Reagan as the 10th best president in US history. Apparently these folks have forgotten just how much damage "The Gipper" actually did to America. When you look at his track record, you can trace almost every aspect of today's economic disaster back to Reagan's policies of deregulation, tax breaks, and complete lack of oversight for industry. In spite of this, Republicans today are still crying for the good ol' days of Reaganomics. Ring of Fire's Mike Papantonio discusses the truth about The Gipper's presidency with William Kleinknecht, author of the new book "The Man Who Sold the World: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main Street America."

[florida08]

1. good video

and dead on. I lived through the Reagan years of Iran Contra..the double digit interest rates when we had to give up a house we were having built because the payments had soared beyond what we could handle. And the S&L crisis. Odd how when a republican is in office we always have economic problems.

[PDJane]

2. Ronald Reagan should have been impeached.

I'm old enough to have lived through those years too, and I remember watching the Iran-Contra hearings and watching Ollie North lie to congress. I also watched him admit it. I waited for the impeachment that never came.

I am now of the opinion that pretty much every president since the inception of the CIA has been a war criminal. Harsh? I don't think so. Even Jimmy Carter, at the behest of Zbigniew Brzezinski, funded the group that became the Taliban. Interestingly enough, the interview with La Nouvelle Observateur had that section of the piece in which he admits that action removed from the English version of the magazine sent to the US.

[florida08]

3. no argument here

The CIA is a subversive element of the right wing used to advance business by force so shareholdes can lay hold of resources for profit. But yes all presidents have used them in some fashion. Before their existence was the OSS(Office of Strategic Services) and before them was Smedley Butler.."War is a Racket" + "The Plot to seize the Whitehouse"

[The Wizard]

4. I know Bill Kleinknecht

He's a good guy and used to cover the Essex County Court House for the Newark Star-Ledger. He and two thirds of the news room were bought out (released) with the promise that management wouldn't challenge their unemployment claims. Management lied; buy Bill's book.
Reagan was an unwitting dupe for the Bush crime family. After he was shot by a Bush crime family acquaintance he was a shell of the guy who was elected. Poppy Bush ran everything. We all know the Bush cartel's fascist tendencies like Prescott laundering Nazi money.

[Doc Martin]

5. More Research To Support Your Claims... Obama = Handling Aftermath of Reagan Revolution

Research comparison of US business leaders with those from 17 other countries...


"This comparison – based on the perceptions of well-informed subordinates – pictures US business leaders as more than elsewhere fascinated by bigness, greedy, short-term oriented and out for power. They were seen as less interested in the longer term future, taking less responsibility for their employees, less innovative and caring less for the continuity of their businesses....

"Before 1980 these traits in the US national culture tended to be balanced by checks and balances in society, but they were enhanced in the US business world since the presidency of Ronald Reagan (1981–1989) who eliminated existing controls on business, lowered business taxes, and opened the gates for a race on getting bigger and wealthier in ways that had been closed before."

Geert Hofstede, preeminent scholar in the domain of the interaction of national cultures with organizational cultures. Claims seeds of current economic crisis were planted by Reagan.


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