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But I'm feeling MUCH better now
Jan 2001
time: 00:17
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Man, Yin REALLY hates uncle Ronnie, doesn't he? 
Actually commenting on the subject, there was good and bad in Reagan, but I can tell you what I remember.
People actually started having pride in the USA again.
Crazy comments about "winable" nuclear wars. 
The Soviets being buried in an arms race.
The biggest stock crash since 29 (in 1987)
People actually working again.
Back room deals for hostages and arms in brush wars....
I think your getting my drift, not all was bad, not all was good.
One of the things I remember most vividly was the "no nukes" campaign, especialy when the USA wanted to place IRBM in Germany.
The music was much better, that's for damn sure.
Bush Sr just left me cold, he always seemed to be up to something.
I also love all the praise for Buba. DYK he's a Reagan Democrat?!!? 
The Republicans aern't the villan here, as Yin tries so hard to convince us, nor are the Democrats.
Bad planning got the US into it's current fix, it started at the end of the Clinton years and overflowed into Dubya's presidency.
I also say a lot of you are far to hard on him, his decisions haven't been that bad, I doubt Gore could have done better.
Plus he looks like a chimp, always a selling point. 
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yin26
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This space reserved for Darkstar.
Apr 1999
time: 14:17
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I remember Carter, of course. My parents used to cringe everytime that "damn peanut farmer" came on T.V. I remember the energy crisis and people selling cola to those waiting in gas lines (I waited in a few myself ... we'd push the car forward instead of leaving the engine running). I also remember the hostage crisis and how the show Nightline was born ... and how we'd all collectively look in shock at each other as the show that started each night "Day X of the hostage crisis" became "Day XXX" etc. That whole thing was bad, bad news.
Funny thing, though, my parents now greatly respect Carter's initiatives for the poor and look back on him as somebody who was perhaps too generous and intelligent to be in Washington where greed and slick stupidity are the required weapons of the trade.
At any rate, America was ripe for a turn-around.
My point isn't so much that Reagan in and of himself is evil or some such craziness but that the average Reagan-lover goes too far in calling him a hero. He wasn't by any means. If you bought into this whole "America First" garbage then that merely means you are easily manipulated. And if you think that spending money recklessly is the solution to a slow economy, then all I can say is that you might want to read any of the number of studies on 'supply-side' economics.
America was desperate for a hero, I give you that. And if Reagan is the best we could do, we're in sad shape. Bush Sr. merely rode a wave that he had no business being on. Clinton, while a political genius, pissed me off by lying to our faces and thinking we are complete idiots.
Bush Jr. is nothing more than our brief social experiment in asking: "Can a monkey really run a country?"
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