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Ronald Reagan: Betrayer of Main Street America - 2/3/2010 2:13:13 PM

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We all make mistakes and being a conservative growing up was one of them for me. It is unfortunate that I participated in the demise of the North American economy supporting conservatives and NAFTA.

Ronald Reagan: Betrayer of Main Street America

This book is a scathing, and well deserved, indictment of that "empty suit" Ronald Reagan, and his ultra-grasping political creed, "Reaganism," which directly led to the "Financial Meltdown of 2008." The disastrous economic legacy of "hyper capitalism," that this "free market" zealot sold the country, (1981-89), along with his mean-spirited "gutting of the public sector," is fully documented by the author William Kleinknecht. Reagan is that same pious faker, who believed in "flying saucers" and let an astrologer set "his presidential schedule," and "repeatedly misrepresented the past as a laissez-faire utopia." The tome is entitled: "The Man Who Sold the World: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main Street America." It´s appropriate that the author had experience as a "crime reporter." What he has written about, in a real sense, are enormous wrongs against the people--against the public good--that threaten the very existence of the Republic.

Kleinknecht doesn´t pull any punches. He´s furious over the fact that many still buy into the "myth of Reagan." He insists that Reagan was "the least patriotic president in American history," and that his economic policies helped to "wipe out the high-paying jobs that were the real backbone of the country," leaving so many "psychically adrift." By promoting "self interest and profit," Reagan caused a "final rout of traditional human values...Trickle-down economics had proven to be a fallacy." Kleinknecht examined the instruments of Reaganism: such as: "mergers, deregulation, tax cuts for the wealthy, privatization [and] globalization." He concluded that these devices also helped "to weaken the family and eradicate small-town life and the sense of community," like in the town where Reagan was born in 1911--Dixon, Illinois.

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RE: Ronald Reagan: Betrayer of Main Street America - 2/3/2010 5:01:09 PM

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How old were you Brain when Reagan got elected president, 9 or 10 ? Is this when you were a conservative ?

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RE: Ronald Reagan: Betrayer of Main Street America - 2/3/2010 5:23:49 PM

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Kleinknecht may have forgotten the demolition of the US science research enterprise, so that universities have been unable to fill slots with US born students and have had to accept foreign born students with inadequate communication skills, further watering down science education in this country. I know this one first hand....Since the rise of the US economy was based on science and technology- you can guess where we're headed now....

As far as I'm concerned- Bush II just carried out Reagan's policies- he was too stupid to dream anything that destructive up on his own. Bush may have done more damage, but somehow, I still despise Reagan and feel little toward Bush II. Reagan was evil- Bush was just a dope.

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RE: Ronald Reagan: Betrayer of Main Street America - 2/3/2010 5:25:42 PM

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How old were you Brain when Reagan got elected president, 9 or 10 ? Is this when you were a conservative ?

Nine or ten is about the right age for being a conservative.

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RE: Ronald Reagan: Betrayer of Main Street America - 2/3/2010 5:32:51 PM

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How old were you Brain when Reagan got elected president, 9 or 10 ? Is this when you were a conservative ?

LOL!!!

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RE: Ronald Reagan: Betrayer of Main Street America - 2/3/2010 6:13:06 PM

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Brain, it was cockboy Clinton who signed NAFTA into law.

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RE: Ronald Reagan: Betrayer of Main Street America - 2/3/2010 7:19:33 PM

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In my early 20s, 25 I think, and very naive.

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RE: Ronald Reagan: Betrayer of Main Street America - 2/3/2010 7:37:56 PM

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I remember Reagan and Mulroney hanging out together those days. Clinton wasn’t perfect that’s for sure. They said free trade would be good I didn’t know much those days and still don’t.

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RE: Ronald Reagan: Betrayer of Main Street America - 2/3/2010 8:18:55 PM

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In my early 20s, 25 I think, and very naive.

Well according to your profile you are 37 and Reagan was in office from 81 to 89, so you might want to recalculate something.

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RE: Ronald Reagan: Betrayer of Main Street America - 2/3/2010 10:23:33 PM

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How old were you Brain when Reagan got elected president, 9 or 10 ? Is this when you were a conservative ?

Nine or ten is about the right age for being a conservative.

I disagree, real conservatism has not been tried in this country. What Reagan did was to parlay his b grade movie career into politics then the whitehouse where he gave cover for repubs to become nation-building, foreign-entangling (Iran-Contra) big govt., deficit spenders...and still call themselves conservatives.

He started the US by invoking a self-centered incentive to life, down the road from being a lender-producing country to a consumption credit-burdened society.

Bush I was the takeover by the NWO guys and it seems his son very much played ball. Clinton was a surprise and had to be marginalized...and was.

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RE: Ronald Reagan: Betrayer of Main Street America - 2/4/2010 8:06:18 AM

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Brain, Reagan's birthplace is Tampico, IL. He grew up in Dixon.

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