Re: The Sad Legacy of Ronald Reagan

You can add Sowell to the list who don't come close too

On Feb 7, 2:23 pm, MJ <micha...@america.net> wrote:
> Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten
> a vision so deeply satisfying.  -- Thomas Sowell
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> At 02:15 PM 2/7/2011, you wrote:
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> >I'm gonna take my 4 guys over Paul too.  Big time.
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> >I could save ya some time though.  I'll take their word over ANYone's.
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> >On Feb 7, 12:18 pm, MJ <micha...@america.net> wrote:
> > > We now live with fictionalized history that is being
> > reconstructed to fit political needs. ... Without a few insensitive
> > intellectuals... there might be no one left to notice what really
> > happened as opposed to what we are solemnly told we are supposed to
> > think went on. -- Paul GottfriedAt 08:40 AM 2/7/2011, you
> > wrote:Forgive me if I take the word of Alexander Solzhenitzen, Lech Walesa,
> > > Pope John Paul II and Mikhail S. Gorbachev over that of Doug Casey.
> > > On Feb 6, 12:06 am, MJ <micha...@america.net> wrote:
> > > > "What did bring down the USSR? Its demise was inevitable, but
> > the timing was brought on by the collapse of oil and other
> > commodity prices after 1980. Reagan's excellent rhetoric (like,
> > "Mr. Gorbachev, take down this wall!", and calling the USSR an
> > "evil empire") did add some important psychological impetus. It was
> > important for the slaves in the communist world to see somebody,
> > finally, calling a spade a spade. But the USSR would have collapsed
> > anyway. Just as the Chinese would have free-marketized anyway,
> > simply because people can ignore reality for only so long. "
> > > > -- Doug CaseyAt 11:04 PM 2/5/2011, you wrote:"What makes you
> > believe your economic policies are working?"
> > > > "Because they don't call it Reagenomics anymore" - Ronald Reagan
> > > > I tend to agree with your economics point, so I guess ending the
> > > > Soviet strangulation of 1/2 of Europe and 2/3 of Asia will have to
> > > > suffice.
> > > > Happy birthday Dutch.  We are having the Superbowl this year in honor
> > > > of your hundreth.  Big parties at our national airport and CVN-76 too.
> > > > Oh, and that handsome statue in the Rotunda.
> > > > Rough legacy
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