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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-03 12:54 PM
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Reagan The Worst - Proof
I found this on my hard drive. Pass it on. - Wayne

REAGAN THE WORST--PROOF

cwswinney@netzero.net--burngton nc

--------------------------RONALD REAGAN RECORDS AS FIRST---------------------------
(1900-1989)

1. First to turn America into a DEBTOR nation

2. First to increase DEBT faster than growth of national income in eight years

3. First to increase DEBT faster than growth of gdp over eight years

4. First to double the deficit in just eigh t years

5. First to “almost”: triple the national DEBT in just eight years

6. First to increase SPENDING by 80%--over 8 years.

7. First to SPEND more in eight years than was spent in prior 50 years.

8. First to have “real” INTEREST RATES of 8% after averaging 1% over 35 years.

9. First to keep PRIME INTEREST RATES at 20%.

10. First to over value the dollar to the yen at rate of 262 yen to 1 dollar.

11. First to have served as Governor and increase STATE SPENDING by 112%

12. First to have HOME LOAN INTEREST RATES as high as 16%

13. First to CUT TAXES by 60% for his rich pals

14. First to allow the SAVINGS AND LOAN INDUSTRY to be raided after signing a deregulatory bill and proclaiming “I think we have hit the jackpot”. Come and get it the vaults are unguarded.

15. First to deal with TERRORISTS

16. First to send an AUTOGRAPHED BIBLE to a man he called “The Satan of Terrorists”.

17. First to have an ADMIRAL plead the Fifth Amendment.

18. First to have a stealing, lying, gutless wife abusing MARINE LT. COLONEL plead the Fifth Amendment.

19. First to have a “sitting” CABINET MEMBER INDICTED

20. First to have an ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE INDICTED.

21. First to have an ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE SENT TO PRISON.

22. First to have over 100 MEMBERS OF AN ADMINISTRATION CHARGED WITH CRIMES.

23. First to have more members of his administration charged with crimes than CUMULATIVE TOTAL OF ALL OTHER PRESIDENTS in the twentieth century

24. First to set a record for the LARGEST ONE DAY PERCENTAGE DECLINE in the DOW in history. 10-19-87

25. First to have over $10,000,000 INCREASE IN WEALTH from serving for 8 years as president.

26. First to testify ”under oath” 130 times that ”I DON’T REMEMBER”.

27. First to have an Admiral with a photographic memory testify 128 times “ I DON’T REMEMBER”.

28. First to undergo BRAIN SURGERY a few months after leaving office. No pain no gain.

29. First to, repeatedly, FALSIFY HIS WIFE’S AGE. As tho anyone cared.

30. First to promote his religious faith and never have an ACTIVE CHURCH MEMBERSHIP.

31. First to never use the term JESUS CHRIST in speeches.

32. First to seek GUIDANCE FROM THE STARS not from God

33. First to have had a SHOTGUN WEDDING.

34. First to have worked as a SHILL in Las Vegas.

35. First to call a Stealing, Lying, Psychotic, wife abusing Marine a “LIAR.”

36. First to have been OPENLY ALIENATED from his children.

37. First To have served with ALZHIMERS

38. First to have UNEMPLOYMENT AT 10.8% since great depression.

39. First to attack a small unprotected nation with 88,000 inhabitants and 10,000 bb guns then PROCLAIM -“America stands tall again”— “we have whipped the Vietnam Syndrome”-we have defeated communism”. Gosh! What if we had whipped Cyprus?.

40. #1-in FARM FORECLOSURES

41. #1-In BANK FAILURES

42. #1-In SAVINGS AND LOAN FAILURES

43. #1-In Percent increase in PERSONAL BANKRUPTCIES

44. #1-In recorded MISSTATEMENTS

45. #1-In never having a single press conference in which he did not make at least one or more INCORRECT STATEMENTS.

46. #1-In needing a staff person standby during press conferences to tell the press “WHAT HE REALLY MEANT”.

47. #1-In having SERVICEMEN KILLED during peacetime.

48. #1-In largest DROP IN POPULARITY in one week.

49. #1-In being first to HONOR NAZI STORM TROOPERS by calling them ”Innocent Victims”

50. #1-In being first to be labeled “BRAIN DEAD AFFABLE DUNCE’ by this writer.

51. First to lie-over and over-to reporters “I DO NOT DYE MY HAIR my barber uses a special shampoo”

52. First to have a wife who ”forced” him to WEAR THREE SUITS in one day

53. First to boast “Not bad for a DUMB GUY who worked only 20 hours per week”.

54. First to have his wife sit nearby and WHISPER ANSWERS to questions

55. First to FALL ASLEEP while the Pope spoke

56. First to invite the Pope to visit the White House and “BRING THE WIFE AND KIDS”

57. First to have his press secretary remove him from the microphone because he could not answer questions. Then, as the reporter yelled out “answer my question” he replied “MY HANDLERS WON’T LET ME SPEAK”. Quick get the white coat.

58. First 20th Century president to have historians RATE HIM BELOW every president of the 20th except for Richard Nixon. 1994 Poll.

59. First to give us a First Lady with a past reputation for giving the BEST BJ in Hollywood.

60. First to suggest his eldest son undergo PSYCHIATRIC examination

61. First to have been voted in British polls (twice) as the ”MOST FEARED LEADER IN THE WORLD” sic em Rambo.

62. First to serve as Governor on a ”conservative” platform and INCREASE SPENDING BY 112%.

63. First Governor TO INCREASE personal income taxes by 60%, tax increase on cigarettes by 200%, state tax collections by 152%.

64. First to have a Special Assistant say on national TV “sometimes you had to HIT HIM ON THE HEAD with a 2 x 4 to get his attention”

65. First to have his official biographer state on national TV ‘After he was shot in 1981 he GOT SLOWER AND SLOWER EACH YEAR. His speech got slower. He deliberated more and he hesitated more when he spoke. He lost his physical quickness and would not make decisions on the spot. It was a very, very slow and steady mental and physical decline”.

66. First to have a POPULARITY RATING OF ONLY 35% after his first two years in office.

67. First president to have been DIVORCED

68. First president to have the Geriatrics Department of a major university study his behavior and conclude that AFTER THREE YEARS IN OFFICE HE HAD ALZHIMERS.

-------------------------------- THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE---------------------------------------
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-03 12:56 PM
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1. Let's hear it for John Kerry who investigated and exposed Reagan-Bush
crimes...BCCI, IranContra and CIA drugrunning.

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papau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-03 12:57 PM
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2. Basic idea is great - but some econ disasters overstated.
Under Reagan Nat'l debt grew from 1.0B to 2.7 B, the under Bush41 to 4.0B
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-03 02:39 PM
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9. That is Trillion with a T
Not billion...
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nannygoat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-03 01:05 PM
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3. That evil DUer swinney is amazing!
Edited on Wed Dec-10-03 01:06 PM by nannygoat
I almost called c-span the other day when the question was "Should Raygun replace FDR on the dime?" I was going to say, "Hell, no, that repuke and his VP should have been tried for treason." What is it with repukes and their heros? They are mostly a bunch of lying, cheating, stealing, traitorous SOBs...
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DarkPhenyx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-03 01:16 PM
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4. I learned something about Reagan today.
It dosen't matter.

Iran/Contra? I don't care about that?

Weapons to Saddam Hussain? Don't care about that.

Ronald was the greatest president we have ever had and it dosen't matter waht he did while he was in power. I learned this while holding a conversation with one of my cow-irkers. He is a die hard Reagan lover, and hates Carter adn Clinton. None of the good things Jim and Bill have done amount to anything, and anyhting Ron did bad don't either.

How can we have been so wrong all this time?
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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-03 01:31 PM
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5. I know what you mean...
Edited on Wed Dec-10-03 01:35 PM by Radicalliberal
I can truly state that I've never met a kind, educated well-read person
who bought into the whole Reagan thing. At work, every person who fawns over his ass is either a prick, dumb-as-a-box-of-rocks, uneducated
or all three combined.
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DifferentStrokes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-03 02:00 PM
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6. I thought Nixon's AG John Mitchell
was the first cabinet official to be indicted in office. Maybe I have him confused with Agnew's plea bargain.

I believe Harding's Sec'y of the Interior was no longer in office when he was tried and convicted.

Have to check. Little things like that bother me.

Thanks for a great list!
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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-03 02:37 PM
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8. You're Welcome
:kick:
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ACK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-03 02:08 PM
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7. Raygun underlines need for taking back Congress
If the Dems had not been in power in the Congress he would have been much worse than even shrub.
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rasputin1952 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-03 02:46 PM
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10. bush makes Reagan look like a decent guy...
Reagan is the 2nd worst president......NOTHING can beat thbis SOB in there now! Bush I is a close third, Coolidge, Harding and Nixon pretty well round out the really poor creatures that were in the WH in the 20/21 century.

:evilgrin:
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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-03 02:52 PM
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11. Note They Were All Republcans
And the most effective presidents of the 20th Century? Wilson, FDR, Kennedy, Johnson, and Clinton - all Democrats.

:kick:
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