SpawnedX

He wasn't the worst President in history, not by far, but his economic policies did add to our current problems, or rather helped create them.

The best term for them is a loose band-aid on a gaping wound.

CRhodes

Do I really have to go to the trouble to cut, list and paste Reagan's accomplishments and compare them to the foibles of any demlib president? The comparisons are obvious to most.

As it relates to the current election-what has Obama done to make him worthy of re-election? That list would be much easier to throw together and post. As a matter of fact:

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CRhodes

[QUOTE=fritz1;3966231]The only way to get a handle on this economy is to get fuel prices down. Guess who runs big oil? The Republicans! /QUOTE]

Which Republicans?

CRhodes

People who talk about "big oil" and "tax breaks for the rich" are merely spouting demlib discussion points which have little or no basis in fact.

That's why propaganda works so well on the weak-minded.

As free-thinking Conservatives, we've learned long ago that it's nearly impossible to convince a demlib of the errors in his thinking; he must learn to research the facts in order to come to the correct conclusions himself.

Otherwise, he just pukes what his party tells him to puke.

fritz1

Your right, he wasnt the worst. The worst in my opinion was Lil Bush, followed by Papa Bush then I would rank Reagan as a close third. The economy might have been great for the wealthy in the Reagan years but for the working class construction worker it was far from great.

Like I said before, come Nov. 6th., well see, wont we. There will be alot of Repulicans crying on here. I cant wait!!!

CRhodes

Why on earth would you look forward to crying a lot?

fritz1

A SAMPLE OF CAMPAIGN PROMISES KEPT BY PRESIDENT OBAMA:
No. 4: Extend child tax credits and marriage-penalty fixes
No. 16: Increase minority access to capital
No. 33: Establish a credit card bill of rights
No. 36: Expand loan programs for small businesses
No. 37: Extend the Bush tax cuts for lower incomes
No. 38: Extend the Bush tax cuts for those making less than $250,000 (couples) or $200,000 (single)
No. 48: Close the “doughnut hole” in Medicare prescription drug plan
No. 51: Require insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions
No. 53: Give tax credits to those who need help to pay health premiums
No. 55: Require large employers to contribute to a national health plan
No. 56: Require children to have health insurance coverage
No. 57: Expand eligibility for Medicaid
No. 58: Expand eligibility for State Children’s Health Insurance Fund (SCHIP)
No. 63: Require health plans to disclose how much of the premium goes to patient care
No. 65: Establish an independent health institute to provide accurate and objective information
No. 69: In non-competitive markets, force insurers to pay out a reasonable share of their premiums for patient care
No. 70: Eliminate the higher subsidies to Medicare Advantage plans
No. 93: Reinstate executive order to hire an additional 100,000 federal employees with disabilities within five years.
No. 105: Increase the Veterans Administration budget to recruit and retain more mental health
No. 109: Fully fund the Veterans Administration
No. 113: Expand the Veterans Administration’s number of “centers of excellence” in specialty care
No. 121: Fully fund the Violence Against Women Act
No. 125: Direct military leaders to end war in Iraq
No. 126: Begin removing combat brigades from Iraq
No. 132: No permanent bases in Iraq
No. 161: End the abuse of supplemental budgets for war
No. 167: Make U.S. military aid to Pakistan conditional on anti-terror efforts
No. 172: Open “America Houses” in Islamic cities around the globe
No. 182: Allocate Homeland Security funding according to risk
No. 195: Seek verifiable reductions in nuclear stockpiles
No. 196: Extend monitoring and verification provisions of the START I Treaty
No. 197: Stand down nuclear forces to be reduced under the Moscow Treaty
No. 215: Create a rapid response fund for emerging democracies
No. 222: Grant Americans unrestricted rights to visit family and send money to Cuba
No. 225: Establish an Energy Partnership for the Americas
No. 229: Expand the Nurse-Family Partnership to all low-income, first-time mothers
No. 239: Release presidential records
No. 241: Require new hires to sign a form affirming their hiring was not due to political affiliation or contributions.
No. 244: Provide affordable, high-quality child care
No. 247: Recruit math and science degree graduates to the teaching profession
No. 259: Reduce subsidies to private student lenders and protect student borrowers
No. 269: Increase funding for national parks and forests
No. 275: Expand Pell grants for low-income students
No. 290: Push for enactment of Matthew Shepard Act, which expands hate crime law to include sexual orientation and other factors
No. 293: Repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy
No. 315: Establish ‘Promise Neighborhoods’ for areas of concentrated poverty
No. 359: Rebuild schools in New Orleans
No. 371: Fund a major expansion of AmeriCorps
No. 411: Work to overturn Ledbetter vs. Goodyear
No. 422: Create new financial regulations
No. 427: Ban lobbyist gifts to executive employees
No. 433: Sign a “universal” health care bill
No. 435: Create new criminal penalties for mortgage fraud
No. 449: Raise fuel economy standards
No. 458: Invest in all types of alternative energy
No. 483: Invest in public transportation
No. 495: Double federal spending for research on clean fuels
No. 500: Increase funding for the Environmental Protection Agency
No. 507: Extend unemployment insurance benefits and temporarily suspend taxes on these benefits
No. 513: Reverse restrictions on stem cell research

Again, please keep in mind that this is only a fraction of the promises he has kept. I don’t think there is another president in recent history who could present such a list.

AquamanPSD

[QUOTE]Your right, he wasnt the worst. The worst in my opinion was Lil Bush, followed by Papa Bush then I would rank Reagan as a close third. The economy might have been great for the wealthy in the Reagan years but for the working class construction worker it was far from great.QUOTE]

here we go again. Blame it on bush. Give it a rest man. Atleast he did SOMETHING! yes it might not have been popular but atleast he picked a plan of action and went with it. This yahoo that is in there now can even come close to that. There is no worse president than the moron thats in there now... and yes we know you're not voting for him... then quick pointing the finger everywhere but at the current problem.

CRhodes

lol You're right for once; no president in recent history could present such a cockamamie, socialist-leaning list.

Did you bother to read each and every item on that list and analyze it? I don't have the time nor do I want to waste this site's bandwidth in explaining the duplicity and chicanery involved in nearly every one of those "promises".

Somebody spends way too much time on HuffPo.

fritz1

Here are some Romney facts for you.

http://www.factcheck.org/more_mitt_missteps.html

On the other hand, here is some interesting FACTS about our current economy.
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/01/...y-under-obama/

It is going to take more than 4 years to bail this country out of the turmoil that the Bush administration left it in. Obama has done a good job for what he was left with, this country was on its way to another major depression when Obama stepped into office. It took Bush 8 years to ruin our economy, no one can fix that kind of mess in just 4 years!