Ronald Reagan’s term wasn’t optimistic for the vast majority of the American people.

Didn’t RR beat Mondull in a landslide in 1984?? RR won 49 outta 50 states?? You would think that a “vast majority” of Americans would have voted RR out of office if the above statement was even remotely true. Seems to me that the American people were very optimistic, that is why Ronald Reagan won the presidency a 2nd time in a landslide no less. – Lorica

EVERY quintile had real income improvement between 1982 and 1989 (the effective years of Reagan’s policies). That means the bottom fifth, the second from the bottom, the third from the bottom, etc all had real improvement in their standard of living.

If you break it down by race even. African Americans had very significant gains during those years as a population. Not minor. It’s ok to “feel” how you “feel” but it’s really not ok to distort the record. It’s called lying.

The reason why every group had real and large improvements is because of the tax cut policies which allowed the private sector to once again flourish. JFK, Reagan and Bush proved with their policies the theory has good results. When the private sector flourishes (are you against that?) jobs are created and the unemployment rate goes down and revenues into the government increase dramatically.

From 1981-1989 the revenues into the government (because of economic growth) almost doubled from 550 BILLION dollars to 990 Billion dollars. At the same time there was less dependency on the government because every group of the population had real improvement to their standard of living.

These are not debatable. These are in statistics in black in white and easy to look up. It would only be negligence on your part to continue with the same tired rhetoric.

Laziness and negligence is not a failure on anyone elses part but yours.

Sorry for the tone but you need a little tough love rhetoric here. I know the deal. We’ve seen it at this site too many times. The liberal Democrat will get mad and continue the negligence….. Will you?

Ronald Reagan’s term wasn’t optimistic for the vast majority of the American people. Wake up. He did the same thing as the Bushwhacker: Took care of his rich friends. Tax cuts for the rich. Trickle down theory. Sound familiar? Didn’t trickle then and it isn’t trickling now either.

As for Barack Obama, I’m a liberal Democrat and I’m not the least bit interested in supporting him at this juncture. He’ll have to set his admiration sites a lot higher than Ronald Reagan before I’ll do that.

That said, Fat Tone is right. It’s shrewd. Since everyone knows Reagan was optimistic, successful, and right, you’re supposed to conclude the same thing about Obama.

I’d love to see someone ask him, “Senator, since you’re praising Reagan, do you plan on cutting taxes, increasing military strength, and forcefully rolling back islamofascism using all means necessary?”

Very shrewd on Obama’s part.

It does have the left riled.