Republicans Drumming Up Support To Put Reagan's Face On $50 Bill
Good gravy...they've got an airport, a highway, the largest federal building in Washington DC and a freeway and that's still not enough honor for those Gipper-worshiping acolytes:
(S)ome of the late president's admirers are launching a new effort to add another honor: printing his likeness on a $50 bill in place of Ulysses S. Grant's.
In polls of presidential scholars, Reagan consistently outranks Grant, said Rep. Patrick T. McHenry (R-N.C.), who introduced legislation to make the change.
But at least one Democrat who serves on the House Financial Services Committee, where the proposal has been sent, isn't ready to jettison Grant for "someone whose policies are still controversial."
"Our currency ought to be something that unites us," said Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks).
They never stop finding ways to keep throwing Reagan up as some weird conservative messiah (never mind that they sneer at Obama for being messianic). In fact, there is a peak near me called Mt. Diablo. A man--who professed to object to the obvious satanic overtones of the name--has been trying to get the county to rename it Mt. Reagan. Thankfully, the county has so far been unpersuaded.
I've never really gotten the rosy-eyed nostalgia for Reagan. I came of age during Reagan's presidency, and I don't remember things being all that great for most Americans. I do remember being concerned about the cognitive powers of the president when he played dumb for reporters during the Iran Contra scandal, a fear that was--in retrospect--not entirely unfounded. I remember thousands of developmentally disabled individuals dumped on the streets of California, when Governor Reagan turned the mental hospitals over to the Correctional Department, leaving families at a loss as to how to care for them, and the number of homeless in California shot up. I remember watching friends get sick and die of a new and mysterious disease that Reagan wouldn't even acknowledge by name. I know there's a lot of mysticism surrounding "It's Morning In America" meme, but does that really make all these numbnuts forget the massive deficit spending they clutch their pearls over now? Do they forget Iran-Contra when waxing rhapsodic over the end of the Cold War?
Sorry, Grant has his detractors, but I'd much rather keep him on the $50 than give Reagan this particular honor.
The Nation has more on the truth of Reagan's legacy. If you're a Facebook denizen, you may want to join the group "JUST SAY NO" TO RONALD REAGAN ON A $50 BILL OR ANY CURRENCY - EVER!
The $50 dollar bill needs Ulysses S. Grant now more than ever. If for no other reason, the new would-be Confederates who just want their government white -- uh, that is, back --need a daily reminder just who won the Civil War.
Reagan-Bush was Convicted by the International Court of Justice for acts of Terrorism against Nicaragua. When the Case was filed Reagan removed our support for the Court; Just like George W Bush did to cover his tail in the International Criminal Court. After the Ruling Reagan's appointed Attorney General claimed the ICJ had no jurisdiction and we have never paid one dime of the $40 Billion judgment in reparations to Nicharagua.
Of Course George H W Bush was elected President and his appointed Attorney General followed Reagan's!
Donaldd
and a thief, and a war criminal, just one more liar oy a republi'con'
Put his face on the T-Bill.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
We need to issue a bill in the denomination of "Deficit". Reagan would fit on that particular currency.
That is a GREAT website. The picture of each President, and the size of the picture reflects THEIR administration's contribution to the deficit. It truly would be telling. A great High School project.
he helped run the dollar into uncharted waters
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S. Thompson
this bullshit reagan narrative they all want us to swallow is fucking enraging.
And I wonder how those families of the Marines who were killed in their barracks in Beiruit by terrorists supported By the same Iranian government Reagan did buisness with, feel about King ronnies deification.
They fawn over Reagan the way Gays do over Liza Minelli. They want to name airports after Reagan so when they're flying in for a landing they can call someone and say, "I'm cumming into Reagan." - Bill Maher
If McHenry's reason for putting Reagan on there instead of Grant is their relative place in the polls of historians about which presidents were the best, then he should really snub both of them for the president who isn't on any of our paper money -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, who usually rounds out the top three with Lincoln and Washington.
Or if the dime is considered to be enough for FDR, Teddy Roosevelt, Harry Truman, JFK, Eisenhower and Wilson are all usually rated above Reagan too.
Remember last year that they tried to replace FDR on the dime with Reagan.
40% of every dollar already has Reagan's mark on it... it's called the National Debt, and a stack of $50's to the moon & back won't pay that off.
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
"Mugsy's Rap Sheet": Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it.
That would be Mark Souder of Fort Wayne, Indiana.
"When profit comes up against morality, it's rare that profit loses."~Shirley Chisholm
ronnie reagan was barely out of office when the push started to get his ugly mug carved into Mr. Rushmore. I'm really surprised that whenever the Regressive Party shows his picture that they don't have a halo photoshopped behind his head.
I'd prefer a noose.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Someone should counter-nominate FDR just to piss the arch-conservatives off (since he's controversial to them but not much of anyone else).
Teddy would be a good choice, too; a Progressive Republican who gave us national parks and meat inspections (so yeah, controversial to arch-conservatives again). His portrait on one side and a view of Mesa Verde or such on the reverse would be a nice design.
their way? The Pres has bent over for most of what Repugs wanted. Obama is truely Bi, ummm partisan. Best Republican President ever!
Reagan should have his picture on all the anti-retro-viral drugs used to combat AIDS.
The SOB.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Put Martin Luther King on the 50. King never held elective office? Neither did Benjamin Franklin, the man on the hundred. King for the 50! I DARE you to vote against it.
i am so sick of when people give grudging respect to mlk, they will say something like "oh, he was a great leader for his people", like "his people" aren't real americans, what a load, a lot of african-american peoples forebearers were here longer than others.
how about mlk was a great american, period.
and we were damn lucky that he was around to do what he did, or we could have had a lot more trouble, the man gave his life for his country, anybody who doesn't get that, well, i don't know what to say to them.
hell yeah, it is past time that we give the honor due to this great american.
If you live in NH or AZ then you can safely vote against MLK! The last two states to grudgingly vote for MLK Day.
Either that or Frederick Douglass (although sadly, the majority of Americans probably don't know who that is). Sacajawea and Susan B. Anthony both appear on dollar coins, and neither of them ever held elective office either. If a woman like Susan B. Anthony is important enough to have her image on the currency, why not King?
Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.
It's probably the first time most Americans would ever have heard of him. However, Frederick Douglass and MLK are both good choices.
BTW, I remember being in the 4th or 5th grade and having my history teacher assign us a book on Federick Douglass. I guess it's different growing up in the northeast.
I wonder why.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
the $30 bill
And put Gen. Sherman on it. Just to keep everyone in check, if you know what I mean?
the packaging of ROPE (hemp preferably) with the mandated motto, WE HANG TRAITORS.
Already have a star in Hollywood?
That should be enough.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Not hardly. There is no religious cult yet named for ronnie reagan. There's no national park named after ronnie reagan. There's no state, county, city, town or village named after ronnie reagan. There's no monument on the National Mall named after ronnie reagan. Evidently, the ungrateful people of this country don't know how to pay proper homage to the greatest leader in the history of the U.S. of A. Hell, he was the greatest leader of the entire world, in all of recorded history, anywhere or any time. I DEMAND that a law be passed immediately that requires everything in the future be called a "reagan". It is the only fitting tribute to one who was ordained to be the Greatest American of All Time!
I hope you're kidding; otherwise we need to get your meds checked.
If not, well ...
BID
Hell yeah, I'm kidding. I despise that no-good SOB with a passion. I'm one of the victims of his hypocritical "anti-double dipping" laws. I have payed, and continue to pay into Social Security, but, I'm only allowed to draw 55% of it, because I retired from a federal Civil Service job. I was employed by private industry before that, and am employed by private industry now. That bastard drew 4 pensions; Actor's Equity, California Governor, U.S. President AND Social Security.
for the -50 dollar bill.
full of those.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
reagan was just one more lying republi'con' criminal
...the five dollar food stamp...he put many people on them.
really good idea, iran-contra ring a bell?
of course ronnie didn't know what his minions were up to when they ignored the boland amendment, kind of like old hank when he said,
"Who will rid
me of this
meddlesome
priest?"
reminds me of "vietnam derangement syndrome", where some people cannot come to terms with that particular issue.
reagan basically tripled the national debt, committed felonies while in office, and destroyed the cred of government, great legacy.
he did however give us the meme that "government is the problem".
all this is about is giving the right mental absolution for some really odious garbage.
"...all this is about is giving the right mental absolution for TREASON.
a2
I think St. Ronnie should be on the $3.00 bill, as in, as phony as.
You could always resurrect the two-dollar bill that's almost never seen and offer to stick Ronnie's face on that as a 'litmus test'. If Reagan - whatever his legacy - is genuinely popular enough to make the bill viable, then what the hell, that's public opinion for you. But if it still continues to tank, you can turn around and say it was a crappy idea in the first place, and hopefully the idea will be buried for ever.
so we can put Reagan on the $50.
yep that should do the trick.
'Talk to the hand'
here.
Reagan's picture should go on the Rial (the official currency of Iran)! They are, after all, THE RADICAL ISLAMIC NATION that he brokered a deal with to release the hostages, sold high-tech anti-tank missiles STOLEN FROM OUR MILITARY'S STOCKPILES (that didn't weaken national defense, did it?) and laundered the money and illegally funded the contras.
Iran was (and is) on our official enemies list. Trading so much as a pack of gum with them is considered TRADING WITH THE ENEMY! His mug belongs on their bills, right next to crazy bearded ayatollahs.
WHEN ARE THE REPUBLICANS GOING TO QUIT IDOLIZING THIS GUY? Are they so bereft of anyone with gravitas and charm that they have to keep digging up their dead hero?
How did Raygun beat out Howdy Doody? Certainly Howdy had more fiscal discipline!
Raygun allowed the corporate puppeteers to put their hand up his ass farther than Howdy allowed.
is on a roll of Charmin.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
who, to paraphrase her, said that since Reagan caused the $50 bill to be worth $20, his picture ought to be on the $3 bill.
but you will have to contact Milton-Bradley and see if they will allow it to be used on their newest version of Monopoly.
Radix Omnium Malorum Avaritia
Should be a 50-year waiting period for faces on currency.
Any of Mount Reagan Diablo or Mount Diablo Reagan or for symmetry either Ragan Mount Diablo or Diablo Mount Reagan? If it's either of the first 2, we can add commas after the first word, to make our feelings known, cheaply and effectively.
Although I've never been fond of Reagan (being knowledgeable in history), I'm very fond of good punctuation and commas in particular.
Thanks in part to Reagan, fewer people have fifty dollar bills than they once did.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
But the few that do have so many more of them.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
Is this to honor him for murdering thousands of innocent poor people in Central America or casting tens of thousands of Americans into the streets to starve? Or both?
What you say about Reagan is oh so true, Bret. Reagan made those deals in Central America, where we had no business, and also Reagan gave us the "morning in America", which was basically twilight for many thousands, if not millions, of the working class and disenfranchised.
One more thing about the arrogant Mr. Reagan - there should be full disclosure of those FBI files from the forties and fifties,particularly those passages pertaining to whether or not Reagan was either a card-carrying Communist or a possible Communist sympathizer.
Something to think about, friends.
Print a $100,000 bill. It can be referred to as the "Ronnie". That way, only republicans will have to look at it.
saved is a "Ronnie" headed to a CEO.
appropriate place for a picture of Reagan would be on Treasury Bonds, the debt instruments he set new records for issuing.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
except Raygoon's Fifty and make everything a flat $50.
Big Mac, $50, Toyota $50, B2 bomber, $50, new home, $50. Reagonomics.
Noose for Cheney - Free.
Carter for the $50 bill...
and collect all the soon to be obsolete currency with Grant's picture on it. Send it to "ricky's fund for cognitively conservative currency" care of this station.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
create a need for a new $50 bill please send all your soon to be useless Grant bills to ron,
has ties to Nigerian princes and will sell your name to spammers. Please send your Grant $50's to the only person who reenacts Grant nightly with bottled beverage consumption. If you have sent your Grant $50's to ron already, send me gold you wouldn't waste on Glenn Beck.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Blame someone else for the fact you can't get your ill gotten gains out of the country. Ignore Ricky and send all soon to be useless $50 bills to ron.
of Ronald Reagan, Ron. ron cannot dance.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
for an exchange. I wil give $.50 bill for every $50 bill with Grant's picture on it.
sneaky use of a decimal point Ron. BTW you asked about MsJoanne and I posted a reply this morning.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
Thanks.
You need to reduce your font size.
My offer has been posted below for hours, font reduction is only avaialble to Canadians after a terribly long wait in line,
and this digresses from the important need to remind REAL progressives how bad a POTUS shit Ronnie Reagan was, which they really need to know..
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
You need to reduce the text size for this page and only pay attention to my posts.
I have an eye problem. I'll see what I can do.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
They can put Ronnie's face on the $50 in exchange for pulling 'In God We Trust' from all US currency... deal?
except maybe on the sole of my shoe.
I have to write my headline here as partial snark for this comment:
"I remember thousands of developmentally disabled individuals dumped on the streets of California, when Governor Reagan turned the mental hospitals over to the Correctional Department, leaving families at a loss as to how to care for them, and the number of homeless in California shot up."
Mental hospitals are for the mentally ill. The developmentally disabled are the people some commenters in these threads like to compare to politicians and others they dislike by calling them retards. Retardation is generally an inherited or congenital condition that is not, like mental illness, treatable.
I agree with your post minus this one bit of confusion, and thank you for the opportunity the error afforded me to continue my crusade against using derogatory terminology applied to people who have a condition they did not cause and cannot control to other people you dislike.
Once again, for those who use the word retarded or retard as an epithet, doing so is akin to using the "N" word as an epithet for someone who is not black. It is acting Reaganesque, which I define as being hurtful while demonstrating your stupididty.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
The streets of San Francisco were a circus when Ronnie shut down Sonoma State Hospital and Napa State.
Crime went up 1000's of times. Stabbings, rapes.
But it saved Ronnie's base billions and they hired millions of illegals (maids, chauffeurs, gardeners, box boys)to show ther repug anti-american faith.
No one uses that term to describe the developmentally disabled although it was once a non-pejorative psychological term for exactly the people you describe. I expect a generation from now the phrase "developmentally disabled" will have evolved similar pejorative connotations. I wonder what we'll use then?
Hasa Diga Eebowai
as well as the mentally ill.
I know the difference. My brother in law had a severely autistic sister who was institutionalized in one of California's facilities for the developmentally disabled before Reagan shut it down.
She came to live with her family--with whom she had never lived for the 22 years of her life--and they were not equipped to give her the care she needed and received before Reagan shut down the hospitals. It created havoc and hell on that family for decades--and I suspect causing at least one case of alcoholism within that family.
The American government has tried 3 times to introduce a $1 coin into circulation in the past 30 years. So far, these attempts have failed to replace the paper dollar.
A paper dollar bill costs between 4 and 6 cents to produce regardless of denomination. A dollar coin costs between 8 and 12 cents to produce. But a circulating coin last longer than 30 years while paper money wears out after 12 months in circulation.
Sacagawea rightfully should remain on the 'heads' of the current dollar coin. Give Reagan the 'tails' side, he was an ass anyway.
To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public. - Noam Chomsky
Actually Fionn MacCumhail, I prefer they put Marilyn Monroe on the dollar coin.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Reagan = Actor = Figurehead
a picture of Nancy Reagan's astrologer?
in some permutation in every serial number!
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Let Reagan share the $50 with the people who Reagan made Americans into:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/04/1...
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
I voted for reagan twice. It wasn't until about half way through the bush1 dictator ship that I realized what a fool I had been.
The man was a total failure for the country. Because we had reagan, because he was the one we put faith in, because we let him and the republican lie and get away with it that we find ourselves in the position we are in today. You tell me whaty is good about having two or I guess three wars going on at the same time. More debt then we have ever seen in all of history. Millions of people dying for oil profits, people being tortured for the fun of it. Corporate control of our government and the news. We are worse off right now then the people of the old USSR. We are economic slaves. We are being held hostage by the corporations and our government who have band together to rob, cheat, and steal from us. It is time we banned together and take out the government and the wallstreet, the insurance companies.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness and it is killing America!
you have seen the light and are saved! Hallelujah!!
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
You forget that these are probably the same people that think Oliver North is some kind of great American hero (I know that, unfortunately, my father seems to).
I was born in 1980 and only remember bits and pieces about those years directly. I have read up on them and while I think Reagan would be slightly dumbfounded by the modern conservative, he wasn't much better really.
Before I die, I have expect them to want to rename Washington D.C. to Reaganopolis.
with $10 worth of coke stuck in snot on the edge. The "new math" (5X10=$50) is also in keeping with the stupidity of the 'Merkins who'll use it.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
So the GOP want to plaster this LOSER on a $50?!
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?...
People don't realize all the bad things the republicans have done to the poor and the middle class. I think it was daddy bush that said if the American people understood everything the bush family has done for America, they would run them out of town on a rail!
I think that may be the only truth ever spoken by a republican!
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness and it is killing America!
spoken by a Bush.
I88. It used to be known as "The road to nowhere", which is a fitting name for a Ronnie tribute.
I'd rather have a bridge.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
A hundred years from now when we look back on the unfortunate period between the swaggering cowboy and the "ne'er do well" man-child, they will have cemented their legacy as bookends of the dismanting of the greatest democracy in human history. Their wholesale deregulation and parcelling off of our economy to the highest bidder will be remembered as the greatest criminal act ever committed in plain sight. It will be a fitting testament to our pathologically short memories and seemingly infinite capacity for denial and self-delusion. God Bless America!
Film industry and GE. Both have enormous PR and advertising machinery. Both want to brainwash us into believing that only their candidates and elected officials are worthy of adulation. Film industry already has a portion of this nation brainwashed into believing that their acting professionals are, indeed, a Greek pantheon of gods and goddesses. Anyone not worshiping at that altar or the Christian altar is going to catch Hell on earth. If GE can't get a president, they'll settle for a veep or First Lady. GE's nuclear power plants and military engineering projects are protected by these "theologically ordained and immortal" pols.
Pass the barf bag, please.
They should put him on the thousand dollar bill. More appropriate and then I would never have to look at him. Kill two birds with one stone.
Don't forget the Aircraft carrier. Reagan was a scumbag his South American polies destroyed Central America. Rot in Hell Douchebag.
We should issue $50 IOUs with Reagan's face on them, which would be far more appropriate for his fiscal legacy.
Anyone who wants to "honor" his profligacy can purchase one at face value from the Treasury, but it won't be legal tender...that way, his admirers could do their part to erase the debt that they were so enthusiastic about creating in the first place.
P.S. Don't forget about the aircraft carrier that bears his name...(Oops, I was beaten to the punch on that.)
Isn't it the same guy who thought that ketchup was a vegetable ?
Do you really need to be a stupid dumbass to be president of the United States ?
You have to be a dumbass!
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness and it is killing America!
Please send royalties for this fine copyrighted idea to ricky
at "congnitively conservative currencies" c.o. this station.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
... also said that trees cause pollution.
I detest the old codger.
BID
dam trees do leaf all dem dam leves on the grown evry fall. Ain't thet litering?
Snark before I get smacked.
Maybe we do a commemorative Iran Contra coin instead
Walmart wants to be in the banking biz.
Put Reagan on a new $50 bill. During the introductory period, Reagan fifties (printed in China) will be offered in a 2 for 1 deal at Walmart. Two Reagan fifties for each Grant fifty. Reagan fifties can be used to pay off any credit card debt at the customer service desk at the Walmart Bank on the spot.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
by the time the ink dried, they were only worth $50.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
The hard-working, plain-spoken, keenly focused Grant helped saved the Union. His memoirs, written while he was dying of throat cancer, saved his family from destitution.
The amiable dunce, through his idiotic "government is the problem" paradigm, helped destroy the Union. Reaganomics, Iran-contra ... his administration was malignant and full of crooks.
The doddering old fool has been honored enough. Keep Ulysses on the fifty.
BID
Surely you jest!!
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
How about, NO. Ronnie wasn't that great a president. I fail to see why he should be granted such a status. I'm so tired of the Ronnie worship. I guess it must come from the fact that the GOP is currently so devoid of leadership.
please send them to Ricky's Congnitvely Conservative Currency c.o.
this station.
For each useless Grant $50 we will send you a piece of the Berlin Wall Ronnie Reagan tore down by hand at his Santa Barbara Ranch during his two term vacation.*
Act today and we will send you a missile autographed by Col. Ollie North.*
* Shipping and handling not included. Brick and missile shipped seperately.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
This is the president who taught Americans they should hate and distrust their government. I think that what we've learned about Reagan recently is that he's actually done a lot of damage to this country. It's taken 30 years for the impact of his ideology to really hit home-huge deficits, lowering taxes on the wealthy, and deregulation-all of these have finally brought us to our knees because they've been taken to the extreme, and there's no where else to go with it except back the other way.
Spicegal, I can also recall that during Reagan's time in office, the Fairness Doctrine was removed, thus allowing for the disenfranchisement of the less fortunate from the media, particularly talk radio.
I just hope it is not too late to wake this country out of its slumber.
Isn't the $50 one of the preferred bills for snorting coke? Didn't the War on Drugs, the one that flooded the drug market with Crack, come about because of Reagan?
Let's honor him for that achievement!
a mentally-disabled person standing on the street corner begging for money, I think of Ronald Reagan. When he was governor of California he closed all state run mental hospitals and put the unfortunate patients out on the streets. Put his picture on a $50 bill? His face belongs on a 50¢ roll of toilet paper.
Good grief! It never ends with these right wing freaks and their obsession with Reagan. What did he actually achieve? He borrowed more money than all presidents before him combined. He also tripled the deficit. Oh yes, that's right. He fired the air traffic controllers, ignored the AIDS crisis. He sold weapons to Iran to fund a drug war in Central America. Ronnie's side in the conflict tossed nuns from helicopters. Morning in America indeed.
That's just what the American people really don't need -- yet another reminder about how the Republican Party has destroyed the US Dollar, the American economy, and World confidence in the USA. Old-school conservatives like Barry Goldwater would be rolling in their graves to see the current state of GOP fiscal conservatism.
RM Nixon -------- took the USA completely off the Gold Standard (which also permitted the Average Joe to own gold again). Sure makes it easier to pay for that ill-conceived war in SE Asia though.
Ronald Reagan ---- dreamed up the Voodoo Economic Theory that using government deficit spending to fund tax cuts for the rich would magically spur economic growth, and that shrinking all the rest of the Federal government in favor of bloating the Defense Department would somehow improve GDP.
George W. Bush --- stumbled into proof beyond any doubt that Voodoo Economic Theory, now the primary mantra of the Republican Party, not only doesn't work but that is toxic to basic economic principles. Also inadvertently changed the GOP mascot from the elephant to Dorothy's Straw Man - if only it had a brain !
On second thought, Reagan's portrait on the $50 US Dollar bill might be apropos, but only if dressed appropriately -- in a court jester's cap and clown's face-paint, along with a "Monopoly Money" label along both short edges. Otherwise, not really.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John F. Kennedy
can put his name on?
Put Ronald Reagan on the penny - the coin that costs more than it's worth.
;)
Study the symptoms not the virus...
He gave birth to the "greed is good" generation and anything he did was good for millionaires.
or Jane Wyman?
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
From what I've read, the CONservatives came to hate St. Ronnie near the end of his two terms because he had been ignoring their "good" advice on how to defeat the Russians (more nukes). After the Berlin wall came down and the final fall of the Soviet Union, the idiots managed to convince themselves that it was due to St. Ronnie following their advice that single-handedly won the Cold War (it's that war on reality thing again).
These people are delusional and they live in a world of make-believe, it is easier for them to try and distort reality for their own greedy political purpose than to have to face reality on its terms.
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
combined with Afganistan, it nearly broke their country. Their people were starving and living on potatoes and bread, when they could get them. We on the other hand were left with the military/industrial complex Ike warned us of. Yet not one member of the MSM equates not having the resources to provide health care for all with the ridonkulous amount of money we spend every year on "defense".
I just finished reading the Nation article posted above, it pointed out what I was attempting to say; basically that every now and then when St. Ronnie was confronted with the disaster created by his policies, he had a reality-check moment and dropped the CONservative ideology in order to attempt to correct his mistakes. That is a cardinal sin to the neoCONs, you need to "stay the course" no matter what happens.
I imagine that there are some cons who would be all to happy to rename America as a whole after Reagan, beyond that, I'm certain that in a couple of years they will elevate George W. Bush to the level of patron saint as he is way more ideologically pure than even St. Ronnie was. Are you guys prepared for Bush worship that surpasses Reagan worship :P
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
vodka. You can't drink missile defense systems that don't work.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
The spectacular fall in oil prices transformed the Soviet Union into a wealthy state in the late 70's and early 80's, then, poof!
Reagan? Not so much.
The Post gazette had a nice piece on the legacy:
http://www.postgazette.com/pg/10066/1040592-1...
Cheers,
How republicans see Reagan, and more importantly, how they see those who don’t.
(warning: adult language + nudity, and not the good kind)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krb2OdQksMc
A week or so ago about Reagan. This guy still worships him.
We got to Iran Contra and all he could come up with was that he was ill. My reply was" Then he shouldn't have been in office".
You should have seen the look on his face. He knew I was right. But he couldn't say a word.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
That was FDR's excuse at Yalta. At least half a continent wasn't enslaved for half a century because of Ronnie.
But he didn't.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
who RR worked tirelessly to destroy.
didn't he. Where would they be without morning?
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Nothing FDR could have said or done would have prevented that. The public demand and the soldier's insistence on coming home after Germany was defeated led to such a rapid dissolution of US forces that only the possession of nuclear weapons by the US prevented Stalin from taking all of Europe.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
conservative talking myth. So, who, Mr. Smarty Pants, lost China? And how come we keep taking money from lost locations?
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
and missed the snark. My bad.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
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“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
insufficient caffeination either. I just screwed up.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
"In God We Trust did not become the official U.S. national motto until after the passage of an Act of Congress in 1956."
"It is codified as federal law in the United States Code at 36 U.S.C. § 302"
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United States Constitution: Amendment 1 - Freedom of Religion, Press,
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
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"...Declare church and state forever separate and distinct, but each free within their proper spheres; and that all church property shall bear its own proportion of taxation."
Study the symptoms not the virus...
but amend the legislation to require it to come with an attached
$0 bill with George W. Bush on it with the motto "Reagan's Legacy."
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
This should be a simple official form of protocol regarding such matters going forward. If there's anyone in the executive branch of government that was living during the time of a Presidential administration, that President's face should not go on our currency.
Most historians consider him one of our greatest Presidents, yet his image has never appeared on our currency as far as I know. There's no question that he had his share of faults -- but despite the fact that he was born into wealth, there's reason to argue that he paid far more attention to the concerns of everyday Americans than Reagan ever did (which is probably exactly why most modern Republicans don't like him even though he was a Republican).
Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.
I often say that the two best presidents in the twentieth century were both named Roosevelt.
I've knoticed that there are some cons out there who try and claim Theodore as one of them (solely because he is a Republican, they dont recognize how their party has changed), aside from a nasty streak of imperialism (which was rampant back then anyways) T.R was a progressive of the best kind, it was this that inspired his young cousin Franklin to try and be like his famous relative (T.R wanted to be like Lincoln, F.D.R wanted to be like T.R). I believe it was the polio that forced Franklin to really embrace a more progressive outlook but his inspiration was still Theodore.
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
American presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt strongly disapproved of the idea of evoking God within the context of a "cheap" political motto. In a letter to William Boldly on November 11, 1907, President Roosevelt wrote: "My own feeling in the matter is due to my very firm conviction that to put such a motto on coins, or to use it in any kindred manner, not only does no good but does positive harm, and is in effect irreverence, which comes dangerously close to sacrilege...
Study the symptoms not the virus...
That's part of the reason why Becky was ranting against him recently as well. Beck is lucky that T.R is dead, he would kick Becky's ass for slandering him in such a way.
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
..check him out:
http://cmhmd.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-nationi...
Gotta love it!
genocide of Filipinos?
Around here; they call it Ronald McDonald Airport.
If most people were cognizant of the damage Reagan did to this country there would be a uproar.
if you've seen one or all of 'em. Morning. In America.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
I think Reagan should be on a 3 dollar bill. He was as phoney.
Toilet paper maybe.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCUO7F2xjzw
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
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