Was Reagan a good President or is he just a Conservative meme?

Was Reagan a good President or is he just a Conservative meme?

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he was fucking a white male

you decide

i like him for destroying the commies, but for real: his economic policy was the beginning of the end for america.
domestically a looser, a big guy in foreign politics

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DemoRats were so BTFO they've been shilling against him for decades. He was the best one since Lincoln.

Selling weapons to the Iranians after we already sold weapons to the Iraqis continues to hurt US foreign relations however the damage he did to public sector unions was actually good for the country overall.

Literally how? By ending ridiculously high taxes? Most economic problems car from Clinton """free"""" trade deals.

wow
really opened my eyes
i am now a #cruzmissile

Nah, that was the smartest move. The weakend eachother so much they still aren't a threat to this day.

>amerikikes actually beliving this teleprompter reading puppet actor held any actual power

They wouldn't have tried to kill him if he was truly powerless. frog.

america did well with taxing the rich, look at the 50s, 60s and 70s. i understand that you cant do that anymore and i am not a berntard, but you cant deny that he made the rich guys richer and the poors guys poorer. i agree that presidents after him didnt do well either, but he setted the trend.

In the long term we lost credibility with the rest of the world.

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That would have happened regardless. No one can stop the effects of international trade and automation without making the people poorer overall. I don't really care if I get 5% more purchasing power overall while some other guy gets 500%, I'm still happy as long as the 500% wasn't given to him by the government.

>Giving a fuck
Image is all those millions of mudslimes were still around.

Tax receipts still went up after unfortunatley. It's sad that Yurops can't understand the concept of small government.

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Revenue ~5% GDP

I WANT TO GO BACK

>This thread again

>t. Libtards
Can you even comprehend the eternal BTFO of the 1984 election? demoRats have been so buttmad they've spent years convincing you shills he was evil.

50s, 60s, and 70s were affected by Europe being destroyed in WWII.

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By any objective metric, he was a good President. He was exceptionally personally popular, he conquered stagflation (which is what he was elected to conquer) and he had enormous success in the domain of foreign policy.

carlin wasn't a liberal
check out his videos

Reagan was a California politician.

He had to say shit like that to get elected due to the fact that California is full of faggots

trump admitted the cuts led to a recession

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>I get my political information for a comedian who is payed to pander to me

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ameritard

There's a limit to what the top marginal rate can be without causing capital flight and there are limits to the amount of wealth redistribution the Federal government can do without compromising other essential government functions or incurring unsustainable debt.

trickle down from the party that doesn't do social engineering
dumbing down america
treason iran contra
grenada renewed america's love of foreign wars

Kill yourself.

you can tell too

he gave amnesty to illegals

good goys.

Reagan played an outsized role in ending the Cold War & the fall of the Soviet Union. His presidency was huge.

>Balancing the budget
>By taking money from the market
Degenerate.

""""Conservative"""" meme, all jew liberals are shit.

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Nice argument

Not sure. could be due to speed of cuts but in the long run they were necessary. Our economy would have been stagnant.

and it ended in the 70s with stagflation (which simply couldn't happen in keynesian models at the time), same thing that happened in britain earlier

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MUH CAPITALISM

"We have never interfered in the internal government of a country and have no intention of doing so, never have had any thought of that kind."
Ronald Reagan, 1982

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this
>how do you want your decline in everything senpai?

For you

He could have been.

Most of the things he's credited for would have happened anyway in all likelihood, e.g. the fall of the USSR (which actually wasn't even all that great).

He had a great personality though.

He trolled the fuck out of the working class when he fired all the striking air traffic controllers.

>"In 1980, the last year of free-spending Jimmy Carter the federal government spent $591 billion. In 1986, the last recorded year of the Reagan administration, the federal government spent $990 billion, an increase of 68%. Whatever this is, it is emphatically not reducing government expenditures."

>"Jimmy Carter habitually ran deficits of $40-50 billion and, by the end, up to $74 billion; but by 1984, when Reagan had promised to achieve a balanced budget, the deficit had settled down comfortably to about $200 billion, a level that seems to be permanent, despite desperate attempts to cook the figures in one-shot reductions."

>" In the first place, the most conspicuous examples of deregulation; the ending of oil and gasoline price controls and rationing, the deregulation of trucks and airlines, were all launched by the Carter administration, and completed just in time for the Reagan administration to claim the credit. Meanwhile, there were other promised deregulations that never took place; for example, abolition of natural gas controls and of the Department of Energy.

>"Overall, in fact, there has probably been not deregulation, but an increase in regulation. Thus, Christopher De Muth, head of the American Enterprise Institute and a former top official of Reagan's Office of Management and the Budget, concludes that "the President has not mounted a broad offensive against regulation. There hasn't been much total change since 1981. There has been more balanced administration of regulatory agencies than we had become used to in the 1970s, but many regulatory rules have been strengthened."

Reagan was a traitor to the free market.

Nice meme, definitely shouldn't incentivize wealth creation. Those evil rich goys amiright? Defnitley would be better to make everyone poorer to have a smaller income gap.

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He was pretty shit at his job

supply side economics fucked up the economy bad, in a way that the US still hasn't recovered from (stagnant wages, lack of business diversification/monopolies, curtailed economic growth). Foreign policy wise he didn't anything apart from invade and fuck up random South American countries, leaving hellfire in his wake and dodging blame where he could (Iran-Contra chief among these escapades)

He can't even take responsibility for the fall of the USSR, as they only collapsed underneath the weight of their own military infrastructure, a long term condition that the Reagan administration had little to do with. He just read a speech his staffer wrote him at the Berlin Wall, at a time when it was clear what was to become of the soviet state.

His mental illness only exacerbated his ineffectiveness, it is a matter of record that Reagan was suffering from significant dementia in the last year or so of his tenure. The fact that he didn't have the sense to resign for the safety of the country is mind boggling

of course bongwater belives this

plus, after reagan put his policies into place, it led to the largest period in known economic history of the us without a banking crisis or financial crash, till the clinton government in 2000.

and then they tell you that market deregulation is what created the crisis. :)

Public sector unions are welfare programs for people who don't need welfare. They should be illegal.

>le stagnant wages meme
You realize that doesn't account for HEALTHCARE COVERAGE and isn't adjusted for inflation correctly, right?

For the economy to do well, capital has to be in circulation. The middle and working classes are, by far, the greatest circulators of capital. Yes, some will trickle down from the rich, but if the rich own too big a percentage of wealth, most of it will not move.

The American Dream works because people are trying to make it. Actually making it, actually winning, works counter to the effectiveness of the concept.

Just remember what great things he did, rather than what he was saying. So what are the things he done great?

>supply side economics

Stop.

Calvin Coolidge was the best Republican president in US history desu senpai

Nope, Reagan was shit.

He granted amnesty to illegal immigrants, which is a huge betrayal of the American people.

He also, while governor of California, helped to popularize no-fault divorce, we're seeing the consequences of that currently.

Well what a shame. I don't really care what people do with their own money. I just want the gouv to stop taxing so much.

Reagan headed up a movement that had gained electoral traction after many years of political struggle. He didn't create this movement, however, in the same way that FDR created the New Deal coalition. The 'conservative movement' needed a leader and they found Reagan. He was an outstanding communicator that served his movement well.

That being said...he was relatively popular during his time in office, but that popularity didn't last after he left office. In the mid-90's the public had a more favorable view of the presidency of Jimmy Carter, a one-term alleged failure, than the two terms of Reagan. Conservatives began a massive media campaign to resuscitate the public image of Reagan and it largely worked. He's seen as a hero to conservatives in a way that he wasn't in his own time or the decade after he left office.

So yes, he is a literal meme President.

Please rationally explain how a 90% tax helps growth.

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and porbably cis scum as well :D:D

Regan was a shitty maymay

he was ok

Slightly better than Gorba either way

son, Reaganomics is what made supply side a thing, Reagan led the charge and made the term known countrywide in his election campaign.

This isn't opinion, its history. Read a book

>implying i need to read book
Just explain to me like to a dumb nigger redneck why Regan is better than every other republican? I mean you should know.

>supply side economics creates "lack of business diversification/monopolies"
>Anti supply side economics promotes protectionism, such as protectionism from Uber which monopolies domestic taxi companies
Sure.

This is actually true. Paul Volker deserves more credit for the prosperity of the 80's and Carter's defeat than anything that Reagan did.

You are talking like a socialist, there is still upwards momentum in this society no matter what people tell you.

A 90% progressive tax on the highest income bracket discourages production and encourages to hold onto the money and wait until the next year to start producing again. If your company can only barely make it across the 90% bracket then why the hell would they even bother spending money to invest in pushing across it if the government is just going to take everything.

Reagan tax cuts were not regressive either, I don't know where liberals make a false equivalency that corporate tax cuts mean they will pay higher income tax. If companies have a bigger incentive to push their profits without being taxed to hell then they have to hire more labor. More labor means more middle class people with a nice paycheck to go buy stuff with.

tripled the debt
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Reagan was a Californian politician. Which should speak for itself.
He's the father of modern gun control
He's the reason why our debt is so high
He's the reason why our inner cities are so rife with crime
He's the reason why we continue to have conflicts in the middle east
We still feel the negative effects of his economic policies to day.
His presidency was rife with scandals

He irreversibly fucked our country

Imagine if Bill Clinton, who had a great economic policy during the 90s teamed up with Reagan who was big in foreign policy.

The ultimate Presidency.

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>Lincoln
>good

>Thomas Sowell

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trump seem like a very confused republican
the gov has been cutting taxes for 30-40 years to create jobs, and it hasn't worked

>the gov has been cutting taxes for 30-40 years to create jobs, and it hasn't worked

And while they do this, they import millions upon millions of shitskins that can't support themselves and depress the economy because they all end up on welfare.

Lower taxes + increase non hispanic white percentage of population = prosperity.

He was a good politician. I think he was key to the atmosphere of the 80s - like Thatcher, without them, regardless of their flaws, the 80s wouldn't have been the 80s.

I think in terms of Republican party internal politics the Rockefeller Republicans were better than appealing to the religious right so I have reservations.

Nixon was probably the best recent president.

free trade american corporations privatized the mexican economy and socialized the cost it would have

Listen to what Thomas Sowell has to say about taxes.
He's fucking right.

I did, and no he isn't
what he's saying is so vague

kennedy closing tax loopholes did more then anything else

he doesn't mention what kind of condition the economy was in
did the tax cuts really help or would have the economy done well anyway?

where's all the jobs?

Sowell is likw ron paul

simple answers for simple minds

and ours

>full interview
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Watch if don't have anything to do.

Don't fuck with Thomas.

lol, no

walmart in canada, they can put everyone else outta business. and all the profits go the alabama

and thats every big corp

"""""""""trickle down economics""""""""""

back then the population was 90% white

people didn't feel like dey was payin for shaniqua's 6 kids, they didn't mind high taxes because it was benefitting their volk.

now its a different story