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Originally Posted by Dylan My vote goes to Eisenhower, even though he was a Republican. He did a lot to expand welfare and critical infrastructure during the 50's, and he pulled us out of the Korean War.
I would have voted for FDR, but that whole internment camps for Japanese people thing is a little hard to ignore. | The expansion of welfare is precisely why I did not vote for Eisenhower. He was a great general, and a great man, but I'd only describe him as a decent president. Regan was the best president this country has ever had, at least in modern times. |
I think he is one of the worst presidents we have ever had. There are so many fucked up things about the Reagan Administration, I'm going to have to put this in list form. Maybe I'll try to reduce it to the top ten, or something.
1. Ignoring AIDS. Seriously, that was just plain awful.
2. Trickle down economics: the only economic plan to favor the rich which actually sounds like pissing on the less fortunate.
3. The Iran-Contra Scandal. I don't think I even need to say more about that.
4. Wasting money on Star Wars, which every mainstream, respectable physisyst in America said wouldn't work.
5. he got rid of a federal program that gave employment and training to over 300,000 people in poverty, 'trimmed' medicaid rolls, cut a lot of children off of welfare, while cutting taxes for rich people.
6. His Agriculture Department wanted to count ketchup as a vegetable when providing school lunches for poor children. For a lot of disadvantaged children, their federally provided school meal is the only hot, complete meal they get.
7. He eliminated 300,000 people from Social Security disability payments.
8. He suggested that most homeless people are homeless by choice. Because obviously, a lot of people enjoy sleeping outside in the winter, and not bathing. Obviously.
9. Reagan was the father of a gigantic deficit.
10. Reagan stepped up tensions against the Soviet Union when the USSR was already in decline, from lack of well... basically everything. The USSR would have collapsed whether Reagan was president or not.
11. He supported blacklisting, and was an informant during the freaky McCarthy era.
12. Bombing Libya was a quagmire, and really didn't improve the Middle East's impression of America. It's only one tiny part of a number of things which have come back to bite us in the ass. Also see Iran-Contra.
I'm going to stop here, because I already have ten, and two for good luck. I could easily go on though.