Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Re: The Sad Legacy of Ronald Reagan

Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten
a vision so deeply satisfying. -- Thomas Sowell


At 02:15 PM 2/7/2011, you wrote:
>I'm gonna take my 4 guys over Paul too. Big time.
>
>I could save ya some time though. I'll take their word over ANYone's.
>
>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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