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Originally Posted by GatorB
The funny thing is that we were in a recession when Reagan took office and remained in it for nearly 2 1/2 years. Yet Obama doens't solve everything is 6 weeks so he sucks. Reagan is somehow some economic genius. Last time un-employment was this high was in 1983 more than 2 years after Reagan took office. Yet Carter still got blamed. Funny how that shit works.
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Reagan didn't do shit, he took out a ton of short term high interest loans to prop up the economy during his term of office and effectively torpedoed Bush 1's presidency. Reagan wasn't particularly effective at ANYTHING, committed treason while in office with Iran-Contra, and wasn't popular at all at the end of his term. This whole Reagan-worshipping is the result of a PR campaign started by Grover Norquist and some others to rehab his reputation post-presidency, and since 'conservatives' believe anything they're told by their leaders, it has worked extremely well.