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GaryWModerate thoughtfully gathered a litany of Raygun's most egregious screw-ups. ..
Please read them and consider the judgment of the drones and fools who honor him:
1) Illegally dealt with the Iranians to have them hold the American hostages until after the elections, so as to ensure success in the elections. Sent George Bush and Mitchell to Paris to negotiate the deal that also opened exchanges of arms through Israeli shipping in exchange for cash that could be left unaccounted, and thus transferred to the Nicaraguan war. This act of treason holds a death penalty, but went underreported in spite of witness by two Iranian ex-Presidents, an Israeli ex-President, and the nation's own GAO.
2) Sent arms to both Iraq and Iran, including chemical weapons, making those two countries the two biggest US arms trading partners at precisely the time when it was illegal to trade with either due to both US and UN laws.
3) Used drug trafficers to transport illegal arms to Nicaragua, allowing a massive and immediate increase in cocain traffic into Arizona and California.
4) Illegally used the CIA to mine harbors and ferry Contra troops in Nicragua.
5) Lied about all of this activity before Congress, and had his Secretary of Defense lie as well.
6) Made George Bush his drug czar and terrorist czar, upon which Bush oversaw the entire operation of trading arms to terrorists and allowing drug cartels free airspace in exchange for illegally smuggling arms to terrorists in Nicaragua.
7) Oversaw the biggest example of state sponsored terrorism in US history, by supporting ex-Samoza National Guard thugs in Nicaragua who were totally unsupported by their own people, and thus who systematically murdered tens of thousands of border farmers.
8) Removed the Jimmy Carter mandate that all US support was based upon valid human rights records, allowing for right wing nationalist thugs to run free in Haiti, San Salvador, Hondorus and Nicaragua.
9) Took the world to a dangerous brink of nuclear war, and then used that as an excuse for claiming sole credit for the USSR breaking up, when in fact it was an economic issue in the USSR that forced the breakup.
10) Put nuclear missile into Europe, violating the very prevision that was the settlement to the Cuban missile crisis.
11) Instigated trickle-down economics. Within the first year of the policy, we were in a depression caused by the policy. The 27% cut was slewed two to one in favor of those making over $200,000 per year, in percentages, and far more in real dollars. By the end of the second year, increases in state and local taxes more than made up for the cut for the middle class. Then Reagan increased the Social Security tax, doubling effective tax on the middle income, and widening the disparity.
12) Wages throughout Reagan/Bush remained negative in real dollars for the next 12 years, the longest and worst growth performance in middle class wages in US history. Average national growth was the lowest since the early 30s. Trickle down is proven to be the worst economic idea is US history when the squeeze on savings and the drain on investment capital force another recession in 1990.
13) Lied about the HUD scandal that was a mega-billion dollar handout to Republican contributors. Said, 58 times, before the Senate in the HUD scandal, "I don't remember," including in reference to the name of his own Secretary of Defense.
14) Appointed some of the worst strict constructionists to the Supreme Court, leading us to the move whereby guys like W are appointed President, and men found innocent of murder in subsequent investigations are allowed to die on death row due to no appeal process.
15) Oversaw the law that removed an FCC restriction upon fairness on the airwaves, ensuring that big business money would make the AM stations into 24 hour per day propaganda operatives and allowing the slow erosion of news on TV to what it is today.
16) Broke labor unions by striking first at the Air Traffic Controllers, leading to massive safety shortfalls in the air industry, and more importantly, a slow erosion of US worker wages and benefits.
17) Reduced clean water and air standards. Reduced labor safety standards.
18) Increased the defense budget to 240% previous levels, bankrupting the national treasury in the face of trickle-down.
19) Deregulated Banking and Credit Bureaus, leading to the 800 billion dollar bailout of the early 90s when the results of that deregulation forced the middle class to pay off rich folk for cheating us.
20) Declared ketchup to be a vegetable, and claimed trees caused air pollution...
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