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>Last good Republican president
>Little Rock 9
>Made Alaska and Hawaii states
>Balanced the Budget several time
>Top earners paid a 90% income tax rate in order to finance the Interestate Highway system.
>Created NASA
>Diplomacy first policy in the Cold War
Opinions?
>>56859250
>Not mentioning his predictive powers
He warned people about the Military-industrial complex.
Only war breeds good leaders
>>56859324
>warning people instead of trying to prevent it during his presidency
0/10
Were the Republicans the liberal party in the 50s? A lot of those seem like policies that the democrats would enact today.
>>56859374
>Preventing Jewry and special interests
>Possible
I like ike
>>56859446
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmCDaXeDRI4
No wonder he won by a landslide
>>56859395
Sort of, they were more for people in those days then now
>>56859651
So when did that suddenly change? With Nixon?
>>56859345
>>56859690
somewhat with nixon
completely by reagan and so on
He also met aliums
The rich paid 90% thing is a meme. They ended up paying fewer throuh loopholes and tax cuts. Only retard Berntards think that the 90 % thing happened.
>>56859250
Reagan was a great president. Only liberal butthurt retards deny this. He has the highest favorability since Eisenhower. And made economy grow,when the US was stagnating.
>>56859250
Like most Presidents, he is despised by progressive Americans for being a white male.
Most of those posting under the US flag on /int/, are self-hating white progressives.
>>56860002
>>56859250
>Funded by top earners paying 90% income tax.
Complete fucking bullshit. We have the Highway Trust Fund which paid for 90% of the project, money which comes from gas/automobile taxes.
>>56860035
>Great President
>Tripled National Debt
>Provided aid to religious fundamentalists in Afghanistan
>Trickle down economics fucked the middle and lower class
>Robbed the Social Security Trust Fund to pay for his budget shortfalls
>>56860240
Spemding was needed to reactivate the economy,but unlike Obama,it was also lead by deregulation,which made the evonomy boom. Incrwasing the debt is not dangerous,when you are growing faster than the interest rates.
I dont know where this tickle down economics meme comes from,when the middle class was also benefited a lot by Reagan's reform.
The only thing that he did wrong was the war on drugs. Just that.
>>56861044
Yeah totally worth our retirement benefits getting decimated
>>56861078
Hur hur,is better to have a 7 years recession like 2008's or 1929' crashes than to have a healthy economy hur hur.
Hur hur Crippling the USSR beyond believe is not worthy because muh retirement funds hur hur.
Reagan startegy's was genius,and allowed America to be the only superpower on the planet.
Only libtard retards believe that he was a bad president,when he singlehandly,transitioned Americans's economy to a healthy one,and defeated the USSR just by spending money,which forced the USSR to spend all their resources in defense while their economy was dying.
>>56859250
>>Top earners paid a 90% income tax rate
And that's why corporate executives have all kinds of tax-free perks, business expense accounts, use of the company car and chauffeur, free booze (and they guzzled) and the likes, which weren't investigated too closely.
>>56859250
>>Top earners paid a 90% income tax rate
>>56859250
Yeah I like him more than any other recent President. He smelled Stalins plans and made the ruskies bleed before committing troops on the third front which he did only when the germans were in tatters and were pretty much inviting the US to land grab as much of Germany inb4 the Soviets.
At the end a tattered depleted Red Army faced a fresh well equipped US force that was just experienced enough to be effective.
Also pretended to invade Italy for two years and had Patton removed after he was actually making too much progress.
>>56859324
so did smedly butler desu, and that was in the 1930s
>>56859917
This fuck Reagan. Worst post-ww2 pres
>>56861044
>spending was needed to balance the economy
Bullshit, he pushed highly conservative and monetarist economics whilst racking up a shitload of debt to fund the military and swell it well above size it needed to be.
The most fiscally irresponsible president in the US's history
>>56861044
Also comparing the recovery of 2 very different recessions is retarded. Plus the US has recovered far better than most of the world from the 2007-08 crash
>>56859395
>Were the Republicans the liberal party in the 50s? A lot of those seem like policies that the democrats would enact today.
Not really no. Actually a lot of Republicans thought Ike was too liberal. Barry Goldwater called him a dime store New Dealer.
More accurately, the Republicans lost and lost elections for years because they were out of touch with the times and kept trying to go back to this outmoded 19th century laisse-faire capitalism. Ike won two terms mostly by agreeing to go along with most Democrat domestic policies or at least not challenge them.
>>56860002
>>56860212
Those high taxes led to a stagnant economy with three recessions.
>>56864966
>Barry Goldwater
Of course he thought that, the nigga was Ted Cruz-tier
"Reagan was everything Goldwater wasn't. Smart, charismatic, and having a real vision for the country."
-- Robert Novak
>>56861078
>Yeah totally worth our retirement benefits getting decimated
Retirement benefits were decimated because there's too many boomers who didn't save enough money.
>>56865120
>Reagan
>Smart
>not an Alzheimer's ridden ideologue who wasn't even that sharp when he was young
I'll allow you vision and charisma though >>56865120
>>56864876
Military spending killed the USSR . It was totally worth it to add some debt,for growth and destroying the soviets
Ike was the first president since Grant to do anything significant to advance civil rights.
>>56864928
Because most of the world did retarded choices? Mainly France,Greece,Italy and Spain?
>>56865188
And I'm also sure most people in the Butthurt Belt rather appreciate that they're no longer occupied by Soviet tanks.
>>56865188
>military spending killed the USSR
>it didn't crumble from within after 70 years of command economy stagflation
I know your schools are pretty shit in Spain but step up lad
>>56864966
>Out moded 19 century model
>Brought more prosperity and stability
>Fed XX century model
>Huge recession , high taxes,lost of purchasing power and the death of the middle class.
This system would have crumbled years ago if it werent for the huge technological progress of the XX century.
>>56859395
Ike was definitely more progressive (arguably out of necessity than want, think Lincoln) on a lot of issues. He was the one that initiated or at least seriously supported desegregation, IIRC it had something to do with his time in the army, even sent in soldiers and federal marshals to guard darkies in the south even while they were in class. If he was alive today I think he'd be closer to the left wing of the Republican party but not a Democrat.
>>56865240
Totalitarian regimes rarely fall without outside pressure.
>>56865271
The point was more that the mid-20th century was the age of big government planned economies and the GOP were simply out of touch with the times. After the 60s, the pendulum started swinging back towards laisse-faire capitalism.
>>56865240
The USSR wanted to have a military on par with the US. This forced them to spend huge amounts of their budget on military,something that hurt a lot the economy.
But I guess that a Brittish that barely knows how to speak his own language can brag about education.
>>56864966
>kept trying to go back to this outmoded 19th century laisse-faire capitalism
because it was proven to work, unlike FDRs, Keynes' and Democrats' quasi-socialist mambo jumbo
Reps proven to be right again
>>56865300
>>56865189
In fact just about every significant piece of civil rights legislation in US history was sponsored by Republicans and opposed by Democrats.
>>56865219
And do you now see your original fallacy of comparing different recessions at different times in different countries that affect their macroeconomies in different ways as a flawed way or gauging whether a governments policy was good or not?
Whether deficit spending is a good idea is a different arguement but it's not one a Reagan who advocated small and responsible government would pay lip service to, even if it is what he did in practice
>>56865333
Then the economic model wasnt outdated.
But we are still leaving in a big goverment era,which culminated on the 2008 crisis,wuth the Fed's and BCE's irresponsible interest rates.
>>56865453
Spain,Greece and Italy did dumb economic deccisions,especially when the recession started and choose to increase regulations and spend on garbage. Reagan increased the debt to finish the USSR once and for all.
>>56865535
Bringing down communism was the biggest gift to world peace one could ask for. Except for the Middle East, the world is a freer, more peaceful and more stable place than it was 40 years ago.
>>56859395
No. He was a centrist who was very good at utilizing the best of both leftist and far right ideas. He was the last level headed presidents that didn't care about partisanship.
>>56865800
Yup. There is no risk of nuclear war anymore,and the most powerful countries have good relations through trade,which reduces the chances of a big ass war. Muslims are an easy problem to solve. We just have to get our shit together.
>>56860035
Introduced crack to finance his secret wars.
What a great guy
>>56859250
Eisenhower>>>Shit>>>Reagan.
>>56860240
>Trickle down economics fucked the middle and lower class
The middle class significantly expanded under Reagan and poverty levels decreased. This is in comparison to the Carter years when workforce participation was at the lowest level since the Depression.
>>56865878
Still mad that he proved leftist ideas totally wrong and made look stupid? Reagan,Thatcher, Franco,Pinochet and Lee Kuan Yew showed how stupid liberal ideas are and make lefties de facto retards for supporting a dumb ideology.
Reagan was cunning and saved US economy from collapsing. The same goes for Thatcher.
>>56859250
The list looks decent.
>>56865928
Ruskie still mad that Reagan outsmarted them and made their shitty evil empire crumble.
Priceless.
>>56865800
Communism would die anyway. It was only a matter of time
But with wrong people in the leadership, it could have turned violent
>>56865866
Compare to Europe in the 70s when half the continent was under the Soviet boot, the IRA, Red Brigades, and Baader-Meinhof Gang were running amuck, and Spain/Portugal/Greece were dictatorships (well ok two of those transitioned to democracy during that decade).
Latin America was full of dictatorships in the 70s, Africa was as well in addition to civil wars and coups all day every day, and over half of Asia was one vast gulag.
>>56865998
Here's you're (you)
The economic boom that started in 1983 went on right up to 2008.
>>56866047
Reagan isn't shit like libtards like to pretend he is. But he isn't some god sent perfect president like conservatives like to claim he is either.
His policies were very effective in their prime but they were harmful in the long run. He still wasn't awful though. 7/10 president, Eisenhower was better.
I feel like a lot of European right wingers tend to associate him with conservative perfection.
>>56866250
Nah. Kim Yuang Lee is comservative perfection. Reagan is a solid 8.5 and Thatcher is a solid 9. They modernized the economy and ended unefficient models,and finished the cold war.
The Bushes and Clinton destroyed his legacy .
If anyone is interested,this a great book that shows how stupid liberalism is and how true conservatisn is the upper ideology. And is a pretty interesting book,of how a place with a 400$ PIB per capita,ended up having one of the highest PIB per capita with literally no resources.
>>56864726
Ike also wisely ignored calls to charge into Berlin since they estimated at least 100,000 casualties taking the city which in any case was already slated for Russian control.
>>56860240
>Provided aid to religious fundamentalists in Afghanistan
To be fair, we just did that in revenge for Moscow arming the Vietcong.
>>56866047
Reagan is a fucking braggart who had nothing to do with it.
Unfortunately, fully planned economy just does not work.
>>56866511
Still this butthurt.
He BTFO of snow niggers and made your country the shirhole that is today. You could not handle his intellect
>>56866511
>>56866644
Kind of but it has perhaps more to do with Gorbachev being amazingly, stupefyingly incompetent.
>>56865878
>Introduced crack
nice meme libtard cunt
>>56859250
>Top earners paid a 90% income tax rate in order to finance the Interestate Highway system
Except they tax evaded like mad. Nobody's going to pay 90% tax.
>>56866322
>>56866396
>Based Yew
He is the highest tier of conservatism, but I wouldn't' call Reagan an 8.5. I'd give him a 7.5 at highest. A day to day example of a negative Reagan policy that the typical American has experience with would be his defundment of mental health to fund military expenditures. When he did this he let hundreds of thousands of mentally ill people out on the streets. These people constitute about half of the US homeless population. They increase, crime, violence and drug use and the worst thing is that many of them are simply mentally disabled (typically people with schizophrenia & strong bipolar disorder) and could be corrected with health care. As they're unstable when unmedicated they can't really pay for this stuff privately which is very expensive here. This is an example of his poor future planning. His military and economic ideology was largely correct but flawed in many ways. He was too much of an optimist. He could have funded this spending through allowance of domestic oil drilling coupled with a light tax to fund mental health.
>>56866805
Reagan didnt have the control that Yew had over Singapure. Yew would have delt with some problems way more pragmatically. Reagan was pretty good,and he transitioned the economy to a more healthy one. He did some mistakes,but overall,he left the country in a way better position,with a thriving middle class ,and fewer property. And slayed US biggest foe
