You might also want to note:

Federal Debt in 1980: $ 908 B
Federal Debt in 1989: $2,857 B

So not a doubling of the debt … but a tripling!

“Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.”

You mean like in Iran where religion is vibrant and rule of law under God is acknowledged? Seriously we live in a Democracy not a Theocracy so this comment from you is ridiculous.

Secondly since we’re speaking in English perhaps you want to use acronyms in English. CCCP is pronounced “SSSR” in Russian and is the Russian acronym for the Soviet Union.

“Reagan didn’t put us in multi trillion debt and wouldn’t.”

Reagan increased the national debt considerably during his tenure as President. It went from $700 billion to $3 trillion from 1980 to 1989.

“No one says don’t reduce nukes – they say don’t bend over for the Soviets.”

How did Obama’s START treaty signed earlier this month bend over for the Russians (there are no Soviets anymore)?

I’d continue to comment on your thread of alphabet soup quotes which sound more like slogans than serious nuanced policy positions but I’d rather look at other people’s perspectives and comment on them.

Zeezil:

“Reagan’s policies resulted in the largest peacetime economic boom in American history while creating nearly 35 million more jobs. Federal revenues doubled from just over $517 billion in 1980 to more than $1 trillion in 1990 after the Reagan tax cuts. President Reagan was able to bring down inflation rates from 10.4% in 1981 to 3.7% in 1987. Reagan brought the unemployment rate down from 9.7% in 1982 to 5.49% in 1988. The American economy also grew by almost one-third due to Reagan’s economic plan.”

Lets take this piece by piece.

Reagan cut taxes in 1981 and increased taxes ever year afterwards from 1982 to 1987.
18 million jobs were created during Reagan’s administration so 35 million is an amazing estimation.
Inflation dropped to 4.4% in 1988, Reagan’s last year in office.
You realize that 1982 was over a year after Reagan had been in office and is remarkably close to the current unemployment rate of 9.7 currently being experienced. By 1988 unemployment had dropped to 5.3% but over his 8 years unemployment averaged 7.5%.

Federal Income Tax revenues in 1980: $308.7B
Federal Income Tax revenues in 1989: $549.0B (so not a doubling of federal income tax revenues over 9 years but close)

“he American economy also grew by almost one-third due to Reagan’s economic plan.”

Can you specify the years you are referring to?

Too many liberals refuse to give Reagan credit for his environmental accomplishments. Too many conservatives would rather not talk about them.

Reagan signed more than three dozen wilderness bills, protecting more than 10 million acres of public land for future generations.

Reagan signed legislation strengthening drinking water protections and hazardous waste cleanup.

Reagan signed legislation establishing national parks and monuments.

Reagan’s EPA got the lead out of gasoline.

Most significantly, Reagan pushed for a strong treaty to phase out chemicals that deplete the upper atmosphere’s protective ozone layer. After the Senate had ratified the Montreal Protocol, Reagan called the treaty a “monumental achievement.” Interestingly, the Montreal Protocol has reduced the equivalent of five years worth of global greenhouse gas emissions, since the chemicals that the treaty phased out also trap heat.

It’s one thing for activists and pundits to chant slogans and demand that elected officials adhere to litmus tests. It’s another thing to govern a diverse country where interests and political philosophies clash while putting conservative principles into practice. Reagan demonstrated his uncanny gift for the latter – establishing an enduring legacy and setting a powerful example from which his admirers and detractors could learn a great deal.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!

A nation without [secure] borders is not a nation

The doctor begins to lose freedom. . . . First you decide that the doctor can have so many patients. They are equally divided among the various doctors by the government. But then doctors aren’t equally divided geographically. So a doctor decides he wants to practice in one town and the government has to say to him, you can’t live in that town. They already have enough doctors. You have to go someplace else. And from here it’s only a short step to dictating where he will go. . . . All of us can see what happens once you establish the precedent that the government can determine a man’s working place and his working methods, determine his employment. From here it’s a short step to all the rest of socialism, to determining his pay. And pretty soon your son won’t decide, when he’s in school, where he will go or what he will do for a living. He will wait for the government to tell him where he will go to work and what he will do.

There is a legitimate need in an orderly society for some government to maintain freedom or we will have tyranny by individuals. The strongest man on the block will run the neighborhood. We have government to ensure that we don’t each one of us have to carry a club to defend ourselves. But again, I stand on my statement that I think that libertarianism and conservatism are traveling the same path.

Lord Acton said power corrupts. Surely then, if this is true, the more power we give the government the more corrupt it will become. And if we give it the power to confiscate our arms we also give up the ultimate means to combat that corrupt power. In doing so we can only assure that we will eventually be totally subject to it. When dictators come to power, the first thing they do is take away the people’s weapons. It makes it so much easier for the secret police to operate, it makes it so much easier to force the will of the ruler upon the ruled.

Alexander Hamilton said, “A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” Let’s set the record straight. There is no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there is only one guaranteed way you can have peace — and you can have it in the next second — surrender.

Abraham Lincoln freed the black man. In many ways, Dr. King freed the white man. How did he accomplish this tremendous feat? Where others — white and black — preached hatred, he taught the principles of love and nonviolence. We can be so thankful that Dr. King raised his mighty eloquence for love and hope rather than for hostility and bitterness. He took the tension he found in our nation, a tension of injustice, and channeled it for the good of America and all her people.

Make no mistake, abortion-on-demand is not a right granted by the Constitution. No serious scholar, including one disposed to agree with the Court’s result, has argued that the framers of the Constitution intended to create such a right.

AND FINALLY:

A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

I do not believe I have proposed anything that is contrary to what has been considered Republican principle. It is at the same time the very basis of conservatism. It is time to reassert that principle and raise it to full view. And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way.

Yin you and Frum and you’re toadies are all POSERS.

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