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Let's tell the truth about Ronald Reagan
Don Seer:
yes thats obvious.. there are major flaws.
someone earning 1000,000 is likely to pay 40% tax, not 10%. they still have a large amount of wealth.
its called tax brackets.
CHEF_RAEKWON:
fuck reagan
Reagan's legacy:
On AIDS:
"When Rock Hudson, a friend and colleague of the Reagan's, was
diagnosed and died in 1985 (one of the 20,740 cases reported that
year), Reagan still did not speak out. When family friend William F.
Buckley, in a March 18, 1986 New York Times article, called for
mandatory testing of HIV and said that HIV+ gay men should have this
information forcibly tattooed on their buttocks (and IV drug users
on their arms), Reagan said nothing. In 1986 (after five years of
complete silence) when Surgeon General C. Everett Koop released a
report calling for AIDS education in schools, Bennett and Bauer did
everything possible to undercut and prevent funding for Koop's
too-little too-late initiative. By the end of 1986, 37,061 AIDS
cases had been reported; 16,301 people had died.
The most memorable Reagan AIDS moment was at the 1986 centenary
rededication of the Statue of Liberty. The Reagan's were there
sitting next to the French Prime Minister and his wife, Francois and
Danielle Mitterrand. Bob Hope was on stage entertaining the all-star
audience. In the middle of a series of one-liners, Hope quipped, "I
just heard that the Statue of Liberty has AIDS, but she doesn't know
if she got it from the mouth of the Hudson or the Staten Island
Fairy." As the television camera panned the audience, the
Mitterrands looked appalled. The Reagans were laughing. By the end
of 1989, 115,786 women and men had been diagnosed with AIDS in the
United States—more then 70,000 of them had died. "
He funded Sadaam Husein and gave him the WMD's we're looking for today.
He funded Afghanistani "freedom fighters" in their fight against the Soviet Union. One of these "freedom fighters" was Osama Bin Laden. These "freedom fighters" eventually won and formed the Taliban.
Oh yeah, and for kicks he laid a wreath at Bittburg cemetary in Germany, at a shrine dedicated to the fucking SS!!!!!
-funded right-wing paramilitary groups who killed priests, nuns, and thousands of civilians in central america
-crushed the labor movement in the U.S.
-he had to be forcibly pushed to renounce Apartheid
ZILLA THA GOODFELLA:
rampant STFU....dats not how it works.
ZILLA THA GOODFELLA:
well....there is a good & bad to every issue....I'ma list some random facts, U be the judge.
Ronald Reagan was tha 1st president to win 49 of the 50 states in an election. That's real impressive right there.
Yea, he gave money to Afghans, but at that time, they were friends. And that's all till they figured out what a monster U.S was and how they will not help no one unless they were getting theirs. It's unfortunate that shit went down like that.
He wasn't THE reason but was a driving force for why Gorbachev decided to tear down the Berlin Wall and make the people free also. I can give U that.
Reagan sponsored the murders in Central/South America. This is historical fact. Don't even try to argue it.
No, he didn't have small town values. He was a good actor.
Reagans contra crew were terrorists.
He took out democratically elected presidents to place in US friendly dictators. Had great strategies that don't really go noticed, slaughtering families for intimidation purposes is terrorism. c'mon, the man did his dirt, he traded weopens with enemies, our hoods were filled wit cocaine as a payment for the weopens. The Reagan era wasn't a pretty time for the streets.
and no he is not 1 of the greats.
THE GREATS:
-George Washington
-Abraham Lincoln
-Franklin Roosevelt
ZILLA THA GOODFELLA:
But it's still R.I.P.....because I have sympathy for the ones that loved him. I done lost too many people not to.
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