Would You Vote For Bush Again If It Were Allowed (Repeal 22nd Amendment)

Reagan was never close to 75% approval at any point of his presidency. In fact, his presidency was not close to the conservative panacea that many of today's Repubs like to portray either....(largest tax hike since WWII, expanding EITC, appeasing the Soviets, expanding the size of the federal gov't, amnesty for "illegals", bailing out Social Security)

Read so much from all sides that makes me wonder what is the idolism of a man as he.

"But
this was just the beginning. In 1982 Reagan supported a
five-cent-per-gallon gasoline tax and higher taxes on the trucking
industry. Total increase: $5.5 billion a year. In 1983, on the
recommendation of his Spcial Security Commission— chaired by the man he
later made Fed chairman, Alan Green-span—Reagan called for, and
received, Social Security tax increases of $165 billion over seven
years. A year later came Reagan's Deficit Reduction Act to raise $50
billion."

"By
now it should not be surprising that the size of the bureaucracy has
also grown. Today, there are 230,000 more civilian government workers
than in 1980, bringing the total to almost three million. Reagan even
promoted the creation of a new federal Department of Veterans' Affairs
to join the Departments of Education and Energy, which his
administration was supposed to eliminate."

"The
budget for the Department of Education, which candidate Reagan promised
to abolish along with the Department of Energy, has more than doubled
to $22.7 billion, Social Security spending has risen from $179 billion
in 1981 to $269 billion in 1986. The price of farm programs went from
$21.4 billion in 1981 to $51.4 billion in 1987, a 140% increase. And
this doesn't count the recently signed $4 billion "drought-relief"
measure. Medicare spending in 1981 was $43.5 billion; in 1987 it hit
$80 billion. Federal entitlements cost $197.1 billion in 1981—and $477
billion in 1987."

http://www.mises.org/freemarket_detail.aspx?control=488

And then on the other side;

">These
reductions for the lowest-income groups were so large because President
Reagan doubled the personal exemption, increased the standard
deduction, and tripled the earned income tax credit (EITC), which
provides net cash for single-parent families with children at the
lowest income levels. These changes eliminated income tax liability
altogether for over 4 million lower-income families.¹⁶"

"Federal
spending more than doubled, growing from almost $591 billion in 1980 to
$1.25 trillion in 1990. In constant inflation-adjusted dollars, this
was an increase of 35.8 percent.⁶"

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Taxes/BG1414.cfm

Less government, less spending, less gubberment and yet more of the same and the man is an idol?

I am still waiting for my tax cuts, but then again I am unemployed and have not made enough money to qualify for the tax cuts and now fiscally conservative people want to undo the earned income tax credit which Reagan boosted.

I wouldn't.

First off, he pushed the UN into taking over Somalia. (Is there anything the UN doesn't screw up? See Rawanda below for the answer) Then when we had to bail them out he and the generals imposed too many rules of engagement and micromanaged the Rangers right into their own deaths (See Black Hawk Down).

Not to mention they created the policy where we only went after Mohammand Farrah Aidid and not Mohammad Ali Mahdi. Mahdi being backed by a newly formed group named Al Qaeda made up of former Afghani fighters (ironically out of Sudan, wow could today's problems be any more linked?!)

Their response to all of the hostility was to turn a blind eye and not commit any ground troops to any operation for almost half a decade. During that time the World Trade Center was attacked and so was the Khober Towers in Saudi Arabia. The air campaigns in the Slavic states and Middle East did NOTHING to solidify or even aid long term objectives.

Oh yeah and while this all went on he ignored Rawanda genocide.

Inaction against hostilities does not constitute "peace"

Bill was slow in learning lessons on how to conduct a strategic military mission. Hopefully if Hillary becomes president she kept her eyes and ears open enough to not make the same mistake.

MikeyA