Tag: Ronald Reagan

Are you better off than you were four years ago?  Well, are you, really?

Are you better off than you were four years ago? Well, are you, really?

1980 was the first year I was able to vote in a presidential election and, with chest puffed out, off I went to the polls to vote for Jimmy Carter on November 4, 1980. It began a long, sad slide for me personally as the country was electing Republicans at a record pace, and I seemingly was voting for people […]

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Ronald Reagan Socialized Medicine in the United States

Ronald Reagan Socialized Medicine in the United States

And he raised taxes nine times… You want smaller government. You think things were better before drinking water was regulated, before a private business was forced to serve all people, before Social Security, Medicare and the Older Americans Act cut poverty among senior citizens in half. You think everything that’s gone wrong is because of big government liberals. But it’s […]

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President Obama appropriately chooses NOT to be the anti-Reagan

In 1981, Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO), the national union representing air traffic controllers, went on strike. After talks collapsed, President Ronald Reagan permanently fired 11,000 of the union members. The President of the United States of America intervened in a labor dispute in a heavy-handed move that, in many ways, defined Reagan’s legacy and shaped the Republican Party […]

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Ted Nugent: This is what happens when an idiot-clown gets the megaphone

Ted Nugent: This is what happens when an idiot-clown gets the megaphone

If you’re looking for a little comic relief on your glide path to Friday, bop over and read Ted Nugent’s latest drivel at the Washington Times, “Mourning in America”. Honestly, who gave this guy a megaphone? What he knows about politics and history wouldn’t fill a thimble. President Obama has been trying to saddle up next to former President Ronald […]

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