I grew up with Kennedy, LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan ( who was a POS) Bush, Clinton, and Bush Jr..

Is there any doubt that Bush Jr is the greatest P.O.S to run this county in the last 15 decades ??? Also want you to know that Reagan was just the same.... maybe worse..

$4.49/gallon for regular gas down the street from me, what do you think?

No. No doubts or arguments there.

+1

+1...with no reservations.

Even some of the dipshits of the past managed to do something good, and I think it's debatable whether or not Dubya has done anything good whatsoever.

Fish on...

Todd

He and Cheney have sure done well for themselfs and thier friends with thier oil stocks. The last 8 years have been a joke and it aint a very funny one either.-TBJ

I liked Ronnie. Why do you think the Iranians turned over the hostages the day he took office?

If we could have a democratic person in office who would do more than lob a few ineffective cruise missles at the bad guys once in a while, I might vote for one.

That said, GW is a putz.

GHW Bush was, and is, a man's man.

I cannot believe you would lump Reagan into that group. Just the fact he helped end the cold war has put him down in history as one of the greatest presidents of all time.

Because the RNC paid them to.

They were being released no matter what. The RNC paid them to wait until after the election. In essence they were held hostage longer because of Reagan.

Thought ya oughta know.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_surprise_conspiracy

Reagan was also a senile half-wit who couldn't make a decision to save his life. His handlers (Casey, Atwater, Regan, Bush & the gang) his wife, and an astrologist from Hollywood did all that for him.

Remember what happened to the price of airline tickets when Ronaldo de-regulated the airline industry?

F'n Republicans.

I also remember when he turned out the Mental Hospitals onto the streets, took away school lunches from children, and implemented Trickle-down Reaganomics.


"A major contributor to the budget deficit was the impact of the tax cuts during the first five years of Reagan’s presidency. He gave $750 billion in tax relief to individuals and corporations. Thirty-five percent of all the individual tax relief went to the top five percent income earners of the country. The average person making $15,000 a year ended up paying $100 more in federal taxes than before the first Reagan cuts went into effect; however, those with $200,000 in annual earnings received an additional $20,000 in tax relief.

While creating significant revenue reductions, Reagan also increased military spending by $123 billion in his first budget, and aggregate military total of $2.3 trillion in military spending for his first five years in office.

Reagan campaigned against the federal bureaucracy, vowing to reduce the size of the federal government. However, after Reagan's two terms, spending by the federal government was one-quarter higher, factoring out inflation, than when he got there; the federal civilian workforce had increased from 2.8 million to 3 million; and federal spending, as a share of Gross Domestic Product, had decreased by one percentage point to 21.2 percent."

He created 16 million jobs, unemployment dropped and inflation decreased.Deficit did get out of hand....

"RR knew the average married military member was living quite a bit below the poverty level."

...along with millions of new poor people after his eight years were up, not to mention the tens of thousands of metally ill people he dumped out into the streets.

Fish on...

Todd

I still like him.

Yeah, so do a lot of people.

Not a problem that G-Dubya has.

Fish on...

Todd

You are correct on that one.

ANYBODY can buy an oil stock.

look up Rockefeller- standard oil a true pos Now called EXXON

look up Al Gore- Occidental petroleum.

none of these guys want the price of oil up, it eventually means more drilling in places they dont want to drill.
They are already rich. Yet some people like it, if you will take the bus more often.

Gold is up, you dont care, but someone got rich on gold, wheat, natural gas, fertilizer, steel, etc.
You dont have to buy an oil stock or the USO oil index to get rich.


i have to admit Cramer might be right about oil.

China and India demand is up and is growing fast
The saudis had to turn up the pumps to get the same amount of oil from the previous year (running low)
They like the price.....
oil is more expensive to drill for in new deep water wells like Brazil

Never thought I'd miss Nixon!

No real effort was made to determine if the Reagan team negotiated with Iran for the delay or immediate release of the hostages before he was elected. The reason for that is that if it had been looked into and proven, it would have constituted TREASON! It is treason to represent yourself as the government when you hold no such authority - that's just the start of the problems with that whole mess.

And curiously, they found nothing - wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more. It must have been an urban legend that the Reagan team negotiated behind the scenes

PS I voted for Reagan in '84

If you would have put Ronnie on the stand and asked him about it back then, I'd wager he'd have "not recalled" that any more than the other time he didn't recall negotiating with Iran.

Fish on...

Todd