Thread: POLL: Any redeeming quality for downbound train?

Originally Posted by OSECS

I'll give you 2.5 (drugs and foreign policy) out of 4, but the Reagan admin. was responsible for the prosperity of the 80's. It wasn't luck, however luck always plays a part in the alchemy that is economics.

The dot.com boom of the 90's saved Clintons ass from impeachment (deserved or not). Talk about luck.

with the mess carter left, reagan could have based policy on the stream-of-conscious ramblings of stuckathuntermtn and still probably been successful, although he did even better. right man at the right time, but right time was the overarching factor. that is impeccable timing. this cult of reagan is greatly misguided

Originally Posted by ilikecandy

with the mess carter left, reagan could have based policy on the stream-of-conscious ramblings of stuckathuntermtn and still probably been successful, although he did even better. right man at the right time, but right time was the overarching factor. that is impeccable timing. this cult of reagan is greatly misguided

Yeah, pretty true on much of your post, and Reagan has been deified a bit too much, but I'll still take him over many others of late.


I was (still am sorta) an admirer of Mr. Carter (even though I thought him a poor president) till the last few years of his smack America in the face diplomacy.

omg, it's like a elephant sucking on his own trunk.
What prosperity in the 80s? The gross over-estimation and creation of wealth at the top of the pyramid, much of which just came crashing down? That prosperity?

Originally Posted by stuckathuntermtn

omg, it's like a elephant sucking on his own trunk.
What prosperity in the 80s? The gross over-estimation and creation of wealth at the top of the pyramid, much of which just came crashing down? That prosperity?

If you lived thru the 70's you'd understand. When you reach puberty we'll talk again.

I'm kinda bummed this thread isn't about me anymore.

Originally Posted by OSECS

If you lived thru the 70's you'd understand. When you reach puberty we'll talk again.

Daddy, why am I starting to get hair down by my peepee?

Getting back on topic: DBT made a funneh in the other thread.