tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post1902700506739528804..comments2024-03-25T16:03:36.810-07:00Comments on The Existentialist Cowboy: Time To Stick a Fork in Reagan's AssAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-79065458103790768232009-02-19T08:31:00.000-08:002009-02-19T08:31:00.000-08:00Sharon said... The Reagan deficits were not a sid...Sharon said...<BR/><BR/><EM> The Reagan deficits were not a side effect of his economic policy--they WERE the policy. Spend the government into insolvency so that private enterprise can step in.</EM><BR/><BR/>And, by private enterprise, the Reagan-heads MEANT the elite 10 percent which owned some 90 percent of the nation's wealth. Since Reagan and because of his policies and those of of the Sr and the Jr Bush, that 10 percent has now shrunk to a mere 1 percent who own at least 90 percent of the nation's wealth. <BR/><BR/>The only 'enterprise' benefiting from Reaganheadnomics was the MIC --the purveyors of America's LAST viable products: death and destruction. <BR/><BR/><EM>Anyone who complains about spending for the military is unpatriotic, therefore shovel as much money into the military as possible. </EM><BR/><BR/>But, of course, the nation is now bankrupt and the real traitors just might get away with unless Obama has balls and a conscience. The jury is still out. I have long advocated: war crimes trials for every decision maker in the Bush administration. Many of them, most prominently Bush himself, should be charged with capital crimes.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-87587962572635598542009-02-19T07:12:00.000-08:002009-02-19T07:12:00.000-08:00The Reagan deficits were not a side effect of his ...The Reagan deficits were not a side effect of his economic policy--they WERE the policy. Spend the government into insolvency so that private enterprise can step in. Anyone who complains about spending for the military is unpatriotic, therefore shovel as much money into the military as possible. "Star Wars" and George's Iraq Adventure are all part of the same plan. Grover "Drown the Government" Norquist is being pretty quiet these days. He must be having orgasms over what's happening in California and Florida and Arizona.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-57710664204476809692009-02-17T18:12:00.000-08:002009-02-17T18:12:00.000-08:00The Crime That Is Reagan happened right in front o...The Crime That Is Reagan happened right in front of us all, like a slow-motion home invasion.No effective weapons--not reason, not the truth, not the law, not anger, not outrage, not even wicked humor--could be found that dented the seamless Raygun spacecraft crewed by the second coming of American fascism. <BR/><BR/>And wildly popular it was, too. At least on television. The reality-based community? Sorry, suckers. I paid for this microphone. <BR/><BR/> King and the Kennedys...Any heroes since then? Oh, yeah, that shit-fer-brains actor asshole, yeah...<BR/><BR/> Weaned on conforming, and more than a little scared of standing up or out, Americans need to have the naming of the beast out where it's safe to talk about, and see others walking it forward into acceptable communal reaction.<BR/><BR/> Obama sees this and scrambles to defuse--or redirect, on my less cynical days-- the growing roil that marks these days of chaos. The rioting in the streets ain't gonna look like anything so much as the it will the antibusing riots in Boston in the early Seventies. We're all gonna be Southies, now. Question of the day? Who plays the niggahs?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14907642869054378167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-77901218295337951592009-02-17T17:18:00.000-08:002009-02-17T17:18:00.000-08:00WOW I loved this post. It said things I have whisp...WOW I loved this post. It said things I have whispered for years. <BR/>I will no longer whisper.<BR/>buray98buray98https://www.blogger.com/profile/14387563808564495241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-55693722728981147322009-02-17T17:12:00.000-08:002009-02-17T17:12:00.000-08:00Thanks to all, I love being here at The Cowboy whe...Thanks to all, I love being here at The Cowboy where the folks who frequent the place are among some of the most intelligent out there.<BR/><BR/>Yessir, the cancer that is Reagan and the destruction of American values that were allowed to occur during that particular administration need to be hauled out and exposed as the lies that they always have been.<BR/><BR/>Hell, if not for the big lie of Ronald Reagan the U.S. may have been able to reflect and adjust to our myriad of sins that were laid bare by Vietnam, Watergate and the corruption of every institution that was supposed to stand for something.<BR/><BR/>Ronald Reagan was a product of the ruling oligarchy, the vested interests and the thugs who were able to subvert the intelligence apparatus and military to become their own dirty little criminal syndicate in dealing drugs to fund black ops, using vicious Nazi tactics in taking down a number of democratically elected governments that didn't capitulate to looter capitalism and imperialism and decided to fight back.<BR/><BR/>Thus rose a parallel government (which was already in existence) that stood for nothing other than the domination of the despised little people who dared to expect that they could buy a piece of the American Dream or whatever it was referred to in those countries that were gutted by Daddy Bush and Ollie North's drug dealing, fascist thugs...<BR/><BR/>The mythology of Reagan must be torn down...just like the Berlin Wall, or that statue of Saddam as it is a symbol of tyranny and mass ignorance, lies and oppression.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for reading and thanks to Len for having me.<BR/><BR/>EEEd Enchohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05115026421446447438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-76936159310482254622009-02-17T09:37:00.000-08:002009-02-17T09:37:00.000-08:00Chop wood, carry water, eat the rich.Chop wood, carry water, eat the rich.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-27700008466784969042009-02-17T08:18:00.000-08:002009-02-17T08:18:00.000-08:00Anonymous said... Reagan, as my governor, attempt...Anonymous said...<BR/><BR/><EM> Reagan, as my governor, attempted quite successfully to dismantle the best free community college system in the US </EM><BR/><BR/>I am happy to see people from California revealing the truth about Reagan. In Texas, Jim Hightower and the late Molly Ivins must be credited with having gotten the word out about Bush. And I've tried to do my small part here on the 'Cowboy'. With any luck, the truth about the entire GOP will be known and beyond the ability of GOP spin doctors to paper over. <BR/><BR/><EM>I still recall the "Nightline" segment on the Bush Iran-Contra scheme back in the early 90's, ... </EM><BR/><BR/>Lawrence Walsh might have gone further but, given the times, what he managed to put down on paper in his final Iran/Contra report is nothing less than an accusation of HIGH TREASON against Reagan. <BR/><BR/>That explains why the GOP is eager not only to keep Reagan alive, but equally eager to discount the very existence of conspiracies. If conspiracies did not exist, Ronald Reagan himself need not have worried about the opinion of Iran/Contra Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh who believed Reagan guilty of conspiring to arm an avowed enemy of the US while funneling money to a right-wing terrorist organization.<BR/><BR/>Nor did Ronald Reagan distinguish himself in foreign affairs. Reagan blew a chance to reach an accord with Mikhail Gorbachev who had put complete nuclear disarmament on the table at Rekjavik. This might have led to a world wide nuclear disamament. Gorbabchev was a true leader. Ronnie Rayguns was a cowardly demagogue. <BR/><BR/>Reagan ushered in the present era characterized as it is by obscene disparities of income, effects associated with a continuing, measurable deteriorations of education, news coverage, and various qualities of life.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-71958538401512869522009-02-17T07:39:00.000-08:002009-02-17T07:39:00.000-08:00To continue in this vein:Reagan, as my governor, a...To continue in this vein:<BR/><BR/>Reagan, as my governor, attempted quite successfully to dismantle the best free community college system in the US (The program of intentional dumbing down), tripled my state income taxes (like he did my FICA when in D.C.), and did everything possible to stifle Free Speech of Vietnam War protesters.<BR/><BR/>Under Carter, in 1979 and 1980, the alternative energy program he had implemented started paying off, and the US actually imported LESS petroleum those years, and of course, Reagan immediately put a halt to it.<BR/><BR/>I still recall the "Nightline" segment on the Bush Iran-Contra scheme back in the early 90's, that had this curious statement: "The security wing of the Republican party had agents watching the airport at Dulles for Carter officials leaving to negotiate with the Ayatollah."<BR/><BR/>The security WHAT???? At Dulles, eh...one of the 9/11/01 airports, eh? Exactly WHO comprised this "security wing", anyway, and what would they have done if Carter HAD sent officials to negotiate? How far is Langley from Dulles, anyway?<BR/><BR/>We've been living in an illusion since November, 1963, and the only way to get back to that point is, I fear, a violent and ugly, but necessary path.<BR/><BR/>Don't fret it too much: Bullies run when confronted, and receive little sympathy from their victims........<BR/><BR/>Now, what to do with the ignorance embedded the last 25 years?<BR/><BR/>THAT'S the really hard one to confront.<BR/><BR/>farangAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-49801619472451097282009-02-17T06:02:00.000-08:002009-02-17T06:02:00.000-08:00Ed, I am going to go ahead and be the first to com...Ed, I am going to go ahead and be the first to comment re this excellent 'Reagan' article. <BR/><BR/>I wholly support setting the record straight about Reagan. <BR/><BR/>Reagan could not carry Carter's water. Carter --as I recall the stats --was number TWO among all US Presidents in two KEY economic areas: 1) GDP growth; 2) JOB growth. <BR/><BR/>Reagan --by contrast --pulls up the rear among the worst in EVERY economic category. Additionally, it was Reagan policies that hollowed out and, in fact, destroyed key and crucial American industries, primarily steel and auto manufacturing. In the process, Reagan DESTROYED the American labor movement. The beneficiaries: Japan, Asia, China! America workers would just have to get in line. <BR/><BR/>Secondly, it was Reagan who pulled up the rear in job creation. <BR/><BR/>It was Reagan who presided over a two year 'depression' --the worst, deepest and longest since Herbert Hoover's Great Depression. <BR/><BR/>It was Reagan who promised to reduce the size of government. Instead, he DOUBLED the size of the BUREAUCRACY and TRIPLED the national deficit. <BR/><BR/>It was under Reagan that began a long term and pernicious harmful trend: the rich are getting exponentially rich and EVERYONE ELSE, including the middle class, is getting much, much poorer. That trend was REVERSED briefly in Clinton's second term. <BR/><BR/>Guess what: thanks to GOP idiocy married to GOP criminality, the trend is back and even worse. But it was Reagan who showed Bush Jr how it was done. <BR/><BR/>It was REAGAN who began the long slow and painful process of FUCKING UP THE COUNTRY FOR GOOD!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.com