What is this from? With Reagan as the god of the neo-cons we almost never hear anybody say stuff like this anymore.

The greatest President since Hoover.

After the disastrous, failed Presidency of liberal Jimmeh Carter, no one could do worse.

Reagan inherited Carter's mess and restored the economy simply by letting more Americans keep what they earn, a lesson still lost on liberals over 20 years later. Every income bracket from highest to lowest saw an increase in wealth during the 80s. Yes, there was a lot of 'borrowing from the future' going on, mostly because a newly Democrat-controlled Congress was spending $2 for every $1 dollar in tax revenue.

Reagan returned pride to the American people. Carter's weakness was the Soviet's delight as they invaded country after country during the 1970s. Reagan knew how to beat savages who respect only strength: by being stronger. By doing so he sent a murderous, evil empire to the much-vaunted ash heap of history.

Upvote! Let as many sifters as possible watch this relic of the liberal-in-denial media's old school "reporting" (replete with sad keyboard music) back when libs had almost all the media power and therefore no interest in anything "fair and balanced", the very charge they level at FOX today. This sift also conveniently ends just before Reagan proved all doubters and critics wrong.

Reagan and what followed it was just us jumping from one extreme to another. We seem to be a nation of extremes, the middle ground doesn't interest us much.

Yeah, the dems had gone too far when Reagan came into power as Abscam and others of the sort demonstrated well enough. Both parties jumped on lots of bad ideas too, drug war was pretty bipartisan and in the end so was deregulation and consolidation. Those and other legacies of the Reagan era are still costing us dearly today.

Problem is that regulations are just rules for business just as laws are rules for people. Some are unneeded and some even damaging but some were there to protect us from predators and those we should have left alone. In the name of deregulation we made all regulation the enemy including those which were put in place to protect us from predators and we're seeing the results of that in a host of ways today. The idealism without an eye for the results hurt us in other ways as well.

I won't trash Reagan here but he's no hero as some would say either, just another guy who took us from one extreme to another when what we really need to do is to lose the idealism on both sides and check some results now and then. Adjust for reality, not for politics or personal gain.

Our era is littered with presidents who are "insensitive", with the growth of population the human condition gets worse. Soon most of us wont even bat an eye if some one dies right in front of us of a heart attack.

For instance, i was a first responder to an accident. There were about 60 people who could have helped out. The only people who did were a construction worker, a victim and me. One guy was trying to help but he was freaking out. On my way across the road I almost got hit by another idiot in a extended cab f150. He blew on his horn and told me to go **** myself. To which I said there is an accident here, he was completely oblivious to the three crashed cars.

Testament to the human condition, there are some of us that would help some one in need, and then some of us who would take pictures.

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>> ^dgandhi:
What is this from?


It's from The American Experience (1999). I can tell David Ogden Stiers's voice anywhere.

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