Community | June 01, 2009 | 5 comments

The prime villains behind the mess we’re in are Ronald Reagan and his circle of advisers

source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/opinion/01krugman.html?_r=2&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

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"This bill is the most important legislation for financial institutions in the last 50 years. It provides a long-term solution for troubled thrift institutions. ... All in all, I think we hit the jackpot." So declared Ronald Reagan in 1982, as he signed the Garn-St. Germain Depository Institutions Act.
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5 comments // The prime villains behind the mess we’re in are Ronald Reagan and his circle of advisers

  • Ragan
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      Ragan  

    • Ronald Reagan ran the country according to Nancy's astrologist recomendation and Bush of course had halucinations and talked to God in the mirror. So I guess we can blame the Astrologist and the Mirror that Bush used. Both lied.

    • 2 years ago
  • Paratus
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      Paratus  

    • The prime villains in this current mess are the ones currently running the government. Reaganism will work, if it is followed. Don't expect this gangster government to come up with a better program in their pursuit of government control.

    • 2 years ago
  • Vierotchka
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      Vierotchka  
    • Paratus:

      What absolute nonsense. The ones currently running the government inherited the mess, they didn't create it. As for Reaganism, it is a total disaster. Reagan is the second worst president in American history after George W. Bush. Reagan was the "greed is good" president.

    • 2 years ago
  • Vierotchka
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      Vierotchka  

    • "The prime villains behind the mess we’re in are Ronald Reagan and his circle of advisers"

      Hit. Nail. Head., although Nixon is just as guilty.

    • 2 years ago
  • Ragan
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      Ragan  

    • Isnt it amazing how Washington always comes out smelling like roses. For one thing the mainstream media is Washington owned and also the best Public Relations Corporation in the nation. Also the fake figures of the polling people are statistical figures and Statistics are the greatest lies in the nation. Polling figures are taken from as few as a thousand from 350,000,000. That is not a sampling, that is fraud to sell a politicians character and popularity on so few. Its possible that Bush's popularity may in fact been down below 20% and the pollsters raised the figures. ugh And at the present rate Obama may not be as hot as portrayed. In time the truth will out. Its also fantastic how Washington creates political hero's and monuments to honor their own. Again its media public relations. Ronald Reagan did nothing to be considered great. When the terrorists blew up the marine barracks and killed the marines, I didn't hear that Reagan did anything to retaliate. When he told Gorbachev to tear down that wall, The Russian system was already falling apart, Reagan had nothing to do with it. How Reagan became president through the Iran Contra affair and still was given a the rating as a great President when in fact he became president just like Bush, through Devious and under false pretenses (namely the Iran Contra) and he lied like hell about it. The White house and capitol are beautiful landmarks in America but like Humans the inside workings of the body can be still be sick.

    • 2 years ago
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