His words conflicted with his deeds on many issues
By Andrea Mitchell
Correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 5:37 p.m. ET June 08, 2004
In his speech at the 1980 Republican convention, candidate Ronald Reagan announced, “Indeed, it is time our government should go on a diet.”
From the very beginning he was a man of contradictions: a deficit cutter who, over eight years, almost tripled the size of the federal budget.
In the 1988 State of the Union address he emphasized the size of a report, “1,153 pages report, weighing 14 pounds.”
He engineered the biggest tax cut in history in his first year in office, and then raised taxes every year after.
He promised to eliminate the Education Department, and then let it flourish.
Even Reagan’s first budget director, David Stockman, warned that the Reagan revolution was going off course. Stockman said, “Lunch with the president was more in the nature of a visit to the woodshed after supper.”
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5166503/What I learned from Reagan; It's okay to cheat to win!
My 2 experiences with Reagan;
1. Say him come to DeAnza sport field in 1984? I am a hobby photographer. I personally saw and took pictures of people being push away and not allowed inside the field gate by Santa Clara County Sheriffs. These people had missiles painted on their t-shirts, small cardboard signs... I saw people try to enter by themselves. There was not shouting or disorderly conduct. Vaguely I believe there was a 15 year lawsuit running about this illegal act. (In conclusion, the people were NOT any threat and were not shouting or causing a disruption and were trying to enter public property. I have pics stored at my Dads house, if he didn't toss them while I was overseas.)
2. Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, through the entire plant, all behind closed doors, restricted areas not open to the public, put up pro Reagan signs, with his picture and slogans. They weren't official election posters but they were Vote for Reagan signs.
3. LMSC made a pro Reagan video which every employee had to watch with their project group. With government contracts you always have to have a charge number to use as you do tasks so that the correct contract is billed. But there are allowances for going to the bathroom, a drink, make a personal phone call... but it must be less than 15 minutes. If less than 15 than you don't have to change charge numbers (you continue billing to your current task/contract.) So LMSC made this pro Reagan, Vote for Reagan video that every employee HAD to watch. But the video was made to be 14 minutes and 30 seconds so that the United States of America tax payers paid their millions of dollars for the employees to watch the video. I am sure this was illegal. Not only against some kind of election laws but I'm 100% sure this was a type of Government accounting/billing FRAUD. Surely punishable by prison time and not just a fine. I can depose this happened at the Sunnyvale plant and I'll bet it happened at all the Lockheed plants so there are about 100,000 witnesses. It's just the Whore Media who never reported it to you.
A. I was arround LMSC long enough to know that 40% to 50% of the employees were Democrats in political idealology. They all believe in a strong America but within reason not to bankrupt the nation and/or killing innocent people in foreign countries. All the people I knew believed in fair and honest political election systems. What LMSC Corporate leaders did was well past 'Fair and Balanced'. It was immoral and illegal.
In my opinion, Reagan brought America real government/corporate corruption. Reagan brought America Elitism Corporate stealing from the Middle and Lower sectors of American society
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