Tag Archives: reagan

Is Bush the Anti Christ?

During the 80′s when Saddam was Reagan, Daddy Bush,Cheney and Rumsfeld’s “Good Friend” they supported him in his War with Iran by providing Money, Weapons, Helicopters, Chemical and Biolgical weapons, etc. at the same time they secretly sold Weapons, Aircraft Parts, Munitions, etc. to Iran to help in their War against Iraq.

Now Bush43, Cheney and Rumsfeld are shipping Bombs, Missles, Bunker Busters, Ammunition, etc to Israel to aid them in their War on Lebanon, and at the same time they are providing food, water medical supplies to the Lebonese People who are suffering and dieing from the same Weapons we are providing Israel.

And while the Bush regime tells Turkey that they have the right to defend themselves against attacks from the Iraqi Kurds, which happen more and more frequently, that they, Turkey, cannot respond unilaterly and invade Kurdish controlled Iraq while at the same time supporting Israels unilateral invasion of Lebanon for attacks from Hezbilah.

Bush is also giving Pakistan F-16′s but telling them not to build more Nuclear Weapons using the new Nuclear Power Plant we helped build, but, again, at the same time Bush is proposing that the U.S. aid India, Pakistan’s enemy, in increasing their Nuclear arsenalby giving India U.S. Nuclear Technology and equipment.

Doesn’t all this make it seem that Bush wants more and bigger Wars? Maybe he really is the Anti-Christ

What did Clinton do to make the 1990s economy so strong?

He expanded free trade, reformed welfare, deregulated the financial services sector, didn’t undo any of Reagan’s deregulation of transportation and continued deregulating energy. He created huge corporate tax loopholes – mostly through regs, thus he went over and above what Congress did in this respect. Yes he raised the top marginal personal income tax rate in 1993 and I’d rather he hadn’t, but that represented a very small change to the tax rates Reagan had put in place in the 1980s.

Yes he gave speeches to unions and other parts of the Democrat party base that blasted “corporate greed” and outsourcing but his POLICIES didn’t reflect that rhetoric – which is why Reich left DOL!

The big picture is that in terms of economic policies actually implemented, Clinton was basically Reagan II. Even if he HADN’T done these things, simply deciding not to UNDO 98% of Reagan’s policies was itself helpful to the economy.

I just wish today’s Democrats favored the same policies…
And BTW the WSJ had an excellent article explaining that 99% of the deficit reduction was due to Rubin’s refinancing higher rate long term debt with lower rate short term debt – - genius, yes, but totally unrelated to the tax hike.