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Anonymous writes "First off, my Messiah is Jesus Christ, not Ronald Reagan, the Bush's or any other politician or human. This is especially true concerning Obama whom you progressives have outright referred to as your messiah and blasphemously portrayed as Jesus Christ. But, this is a matter of religion and faith which I can keep separate from politics though in the case of progressives they are one and the same. Kinda like the muslims.

Here we go with only part of the story and I am accused of providing only those portions with fit my thesis. You progressives are masters at manipulating information and creating it to suit your agenda and then accuse your opponents of doing the very same thing.

1 & 2 Yes, Reagan cut taxes for the wealthy as well as everyone else. What you fail to mention is the fact that the rich paid far more in taxes with those tax cuts than they did with the higher rates. Revenue to the treasury nearly doubles under Reagan. When asked if higher tax rates resulted in less revenue to the treasury Obama said he preferred to punish the wealthy. he did not care that lower rates would result in more money, he was all about punishing the rich.

When Reagan reduced tax rates he got a promise from the democrats to cut spending by some $2 or $3 for every dollar of tax cut. In the end the deceitful, untrustworthy and lying democrats never cut a cent. In fact they not only spent all of the increase that the lower rates brought in but even more. Therefore they hold a significant portion of the blame for any rise in the national debt. The President can do only so much and with democrats controlling the whole Congress they made it so Reagan had to approve those spending increases. With the leftist media at the beck and call of the democrats any attempt to veto a bill would have resulted in the usual ad hominem attacks of killing old people, starving babies and the rest of the progressive litany of attacks.

3 You progressive will never give up on this one. Try as you might you could not pin this on Reagan so give it up and quit wasting our time with your conspiracy theories.

4 Unfortunately we supported Saddam and his murderous bunch in their fight against and even more murderous bunch in Iran. Should we have done it? Hell no! Then we made the further mistake of helping these ungrateful bastards in Afghanistan in their fight against the Russians. We even helped muslims in the Balkans and all we got for our efforts was hate. Now we've freed these same people from their previous tyrants and they still hate us. Obama is funding the muslim brotherhood in another foolish attempt at getting them to like us. At least that is what the Obama administration tells us. There are those who believe that Obama is doing this because he hates Israel. I rather doubt that but Obama's intervention in the Middle East has not won us any friends as his big speech in Cairo years ago promised.

At the very least we are still being played the sucker. These people hate us not for what we've done or haven't done. They hate us because of who we are and they will not be satisfied until they have defeated us and taken control of everything and everybody. That is their stated goal and we should take them seriously concerning it.

Maybe we should just leave these muslim ingrates to their own devices and stay out of all of their business. it would save us a lot of money and maybe the lives of our diplomats. We just lost another diplomat in Afghanistan and we still do not have the whole story of what happened in Benghazi. We have yet to hear from any of the nearly three dozen survivors! Why?

5 I remember hearing about how progressives were blaming the economic difficulties of 1981 on Reagan as if Carter never existed. Face the facts, the country was going through hell under Carter with interest rate in the high teens along with high unemployment and Reagan fixed it. It did not happen overnight so your complaining about 1982, is as unrealistic as the progressives referring to the "Reagan Recession of 1981."

Anyone with any understanding of Economics 101 knows that if Obama had followed Reagan's example after taking office in 2009, that we would have a much lower unemployment rate based upon more people having jobs and not more people giving up as is the case now under Obama. Unbelievably the Obama administration is putting pressure on banks to give out risky loans again. This is what got us into so much trouble and resulted in the debacle of 2008. Apparently progressives never learn, they just repackage the same old crap and expect people to believe it is something entirely new. And this is especially true when they are giving away other people's money.

6 In the twisted progressive mind Reagan is responsible for the AIDS epidemic. Again it is a load of crap to blame this on Reagan. Like it or not the wild, unprotected sex that gays continued to engage in was the greatest source of their problem. Years later, in the 90's they were back at it causing another spike in AIDS infections. Rather than treating this as any other epidemic this one was handled with special rules that frustrated the normal prevention strategies that have worked so well in the past with other infectious diseases. So, you can blame your political correctness for the slow rate at which progress was made in the battle against AIDS.

7 Yes, Reagan gave amnesty to illegal aliens and what good did it do for us? All we've gotten as a result is anywhere form 11-25 million more demanding amnesty with more and more pouring over our unsecured border hoping to be included in Obama's amnesty. Again, we have learned nothing. Giving amnesty to anyone will not solve the problem if we do not address the problems itself and part of that problem is the government's refusal to actually enforce the laws on the books and all administrations are guilty of this.

Nothing should be done unless and until the border is as secure as we can make it. Then deal with those who are here, without amnesty but giving them a chance to be a legitimate part of our country. At no time should any of these law breakers be given preference over and above those who have followed the law. Therefore all illegal aliens go to the end of the line!

8 PATCO violated the law and their contract. They were warned but chose to ignore the warning and they suffered the consequences. Do you have some objection to following the law and your contract? As a progressive you undoubtedly object to following the laws or contracts you do not like. Do not cry for the unions as they have made their own beds and they have to lie in them. Do not forget that Obama violated bankruptcy laws by giving the auto unions more than they were entitled to.

One hundred years ago it was the corporations and the government against the unions and now it is the unions and the government against the corporations. The government should not be taking side in any case but you no doubt agree that the latter is what you prefer. Of course, when the unions have so destroyed the viability of a company you want the government to pick up the pieces.

There are reasons we have bankruptcy laws and they work., Oh, sure, they do not work the way you want them to but they do work. If the auto industries have gone bankrupt the unions would have lost their company destroying contracts, the companies would have had to make drastic cuts and the taxpayer would not have footed the bill to reward the unions for supporting Obama!

It does warm my heart to see that you have taken such an interest in these issues to engage in debate. It is unfortunately that you know so much that is wrong. I trust with more such engagements you'll come to realize that there is far more to history than your progressive mentors will tell you. I look forward to our next debate.
Doc Bill
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