Failure of the Reagan Era

[EXman]

Has anyone else noticed that the Reagan Era is cause of the current major messes the US is in?

The Reagan Era dogma is the federal government and particularly its regulatory responsibilities are the cause of all problems in the US. But if you filter out all the noise it comes down to the fact that if the financial markets and off shore oil drilling had been properly regulated the US would not be in the ecological and financial messes it is currently in.

In another thread, people have been ecstatic with the vision of Mr Rand Paul getting the "country back". But what do Mr Paul and the Reagan Era offer? What are their solutions to the current financial and economic messes the US will be paying for generations?
Cut taxes?
Reduce regulation of the business sectors?

What do you think?

I think you give too much credit to Rand Paul.

I voted for him to shake things up, simplify, and call a spade a spade. He is a doctor and not a lawyer or a career politician. No he is not a brainiac. He is off on some things for certain. I think he says some pretty dumb stuff but I think he is down with listening to the Tea party and I'm ok with that. I am Freaking Tired of having the Unions represented with out the little guy. Trey Grayson is a better candidate and I like him better but that is not what I think needs to happen. Mitch McConnell got behind Grayson, I hate McConnell I didn't want Grayson to be McConnell's yesman.

And please say reduce regulation was the problem over the last Bush years. While that is a small part of it we couldn't or didn't want to enforce the regulations we did have. Execution was a joke. Similar to our immigration laws which were also lamed. Having more federal laws does not make lack of enforcement of old federal laws any better most of the time.

Paul is no Reagan but he is no Mitch McConnell either. And he is definately not some goober put up by you lefties like Al Franken.

 

[Siddhartha]

Okay, one more time I wrote REAGAN ERA not Ronald Reagan. The US has been the Reagan Era since 1984.

 

[heyheybooboo]

LOL

'Reagan' Conservatives: "Our supply-side economic policies have ruined the United States for a generation, created the greatest crisis since the Great Depression, and our only solution is to call for more tax cuts and less regulation, and blame the black guy"





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[Perknose]

Paul is no Reagan but he is no Mitch McConnell either. And he is definately not some goober put up by you lefties like Al Franken.

Quite reasonable post until you got to the above, where your stupid, blinding, partisan hate come right on through.

Al Franken turns out to be hella' intelligent and informed, and has stepped right in and already made a name for himself as one of the smarter and more reasoned members of the congressional committees he's on.

You'd know this if you weren't blinded by your partisanship.

And . . . Al Franken has made fewer stupid, clueless mistakes in his public statements in his entire time in Congress than Paul made just this week!

I was running with you through the rest of your post -- Paul, flawed though he is, does represent a refreshing difference -- but reflexively calling Al Franken a goober simply exposes you, bud, sorry.

 

[sMiLeYz]

To people who say Franken, I raise you Michele Bachmann. Franken isn't funny like Bachmann is crazy.

 

[Acanthus]

 

[sMiLeYz]

I always thought Reagan was a president for his time, I thought he always meant well and was incredibly uniting influence as a leader of the free world could be. My parents loved Reagan. My family are old school Republicans, but it's funny and sad that the Republicans have moved so far right and that the Democrats have now essentially become Republicans.

What I think the issue is, is that Reagan's policies and vision for America turned out to be incredibly short-sighted. The fact is he believed in the American people, and the American people turned out to be... not all that smart. People as whole are dumb in general. Texas school board, creationism, Glenn Beck, believing Iraq and Al Qaeda are the same, I could go on.

Regulation is necessary because alot of people are just fucking dumb. Coal mine disaster, BP oil spill, and even smart people like top execs of investment firms almost took out our economy.