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Excellent explanation of why Reagan's "good" economy was a mirage. Reagan tripled the debt, ushering in the current era of big spending and taxing the unborn. The Von Mises Institute ranks Reagan very low - here's a paragraph that gives you a hint of the flavor: http://mises.org/freemarket_detail.a...

Some stats about the US government: U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000 Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000 New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000 National debt: $14,271,000,000,000 Recent budget cuts: $ 38,500,000,000 Now, remove 8 zeroes and pretend it’s a household budget: Annual family income: $21,700 Mon...

Reagan's spending habits propped up a fake economy. Living on borrowed money is merely the ILLUSION of a "good" economy - not a genuinely good economy. You are defending the results of a big borrowing, big spending nanny government as a "good" economy. A genuinely good economy does not hinge on trip...

Your verbosity betrays your lack of evidence. I didn't say inflation under Reagan gets a bye. All I said was it was lower than GDP growth. Reagan's spending habits are not relevant to your OP. If you want to have that discussion we can do so, but you can't claim Carter's presidency produced a be...

We have another issue in contention, as well. You know how that colored fella in the whitehouse is having himself a "jobless recovery?" And you know how that sucks for a lot of folks, on account of they consider having a job a sort of "economic" measure - as in, not having a job puts a strain on the...

Utterly irrelevant. I see how you are when I get you on the run. Carter's economy would not have to grow, if Reagans shrunk more. So right there, without any further arguments of context, is an example of how full of **** you are when you say that the inflation issue NECESSARILY ends the debate. ...

For ****'s sake dude, I'm not arguing that Carter was bad, that Reagan was good, deficits, gold standards, or energy prices. You said Carter grew the economy much better than Reagan. My response was every year of Carter's presidency, inflation outpaced GDP growth. Changes in prices are part of GD...

**** and poppycock, son. Proving Carter sucks - which you AIN'T - would not even put a tiny DENT in my thesis, if I proved Reagan sucked worse. You've defeated my argument for one element of the economy, but as you know from a shameful career of desperately defending incompetent republicans, context...

Carter was handed a roaring economy and drove it into the ground: 1977 4.6% $2,086.0 1978 5.6% $2,356.6 1979 3.2% $2,632.1 1980 -0.2% $2,862.5...

I just want to kind of isolate this part of your post and look at it as a stand alone.Making excuses why my OP is wrong. The part of me that gets along in society knows I should not be proud of that accusation. But how many times does a guy get a chance to make excuses why his OP is wrong? I feel j...