maginno wrote:EasternMagic wrote:like i said most everyone I talk to democrats and republicans, agree that Reagan did a stand out job.
well with the exception of extreme die hard liberal democrats. You just have to go back to Reagan's funeral and the TREMENDOUS outpouring for him to see that most of the nation to this day reveres the man. UCF is wet behind the ears and doesn't realize that the prosperity of the 80s was the engine behind the economy for the last two decades. The idea that Reagan is responsible for sub prime loans even before those loans were made is a rationale only the uneducated or dishonest can make. I choose the latter in this thread because it has been pointed out and ignored in that infamous election thread that McCain was the only one to have sponsored a bill that would have corrected it but was opposed by BOTH democrats and Republicans.
The repsonsibility for present crisis falls equally on BOTH parties. yes Republicans believed in deregulation but it is beyond rationale realitic minds to deny that sub prime loans were championed by Democrats as a way of promoting home ownership for those who couldn't achieve home ownership.
Ya i remember watching his funeral on the television it was rather touching. But ya i agree with everything youve said in this post