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A list of Reagan's achievements


First day in office:

Signs a law to reduce government control and assistance on student loans (now it amounts over ONE TRILLION)

Sings a law suspending the authority of commissioner of FDA from taking any actions (this allowed products like ASPARTAME and MSGs and so much more, reaching the market ultimately making Nutra Sweet and other companies very rich and a lot of people with brain cancers, diabetes, multiple sclerosis etc...)

Removes the SOLAR PANELS in the WHITE HOUSE that were placed there by Jimmy Carter

"Escalated the war on drugs" (in reality it was an escalation of CIA involvement in drugs and dirty money and support for dictatorship in Latin America)

The Reagan administration also backed anti-communist leaders accused of severe human rights violations, such as Efraín Ríos Montt of Guatemala and Hissène Habré of Chad.[210][211][212]

Iran Contra Affair

Created "trickle-down economics"— (The idea behind this is that when the rich will have so much that they cannot carry, some of it would eventually fall to you and me and we can fight over it)

REAGAN is viewed as an antitax hero despite RAISING TAXES 11 (ELEVEN) TIMES over the course of his presidency, all in the name of fiscal responsibility.[166] According to Paul Krugman, "Over all, the 1982 tax increase undid about a third of the 1981 cut; as a share of GDP, the increase was substantially larger than Mr. Clinton's 1993 tax increase."[167] According to historian and domestic policy adviser Bruce Bartlett, Reagan's tax increases over the course of his presidency took back half of the 1981 tax cut.[168]

Escalation of Arms race after Afghanistan and eventually winning the war

Ensured the Arabs that America's interests would continue to be in oil (this is the direct cause of America's infiltration by rich Arabs who brought their money, way of life and their bomb belts)

Further following his opposition to government intervention, Reagan cut the budgets of non-military[169] programs[170] including Medicaid, food stamps, federal education programs[169] and the EPA.[171] While he protected entitlement programs, such as Social Security and Medicare,[172] his administration attempted to purge many people with disabilities from the Social Security disability rolls.[173] Wikipedia

The administration's stance toward the Savings and Loan industry contributed to the savings and loan crisis.[174] It is also suggested, by a minority of Reaganomics critics, that the policies partially influenced the stock market crash of 1987,[175] but there is no consensus regarding a single source for the crash.[176] In order to cover newly spawned federal budget deficits, the United States borrowed heavily both domestically and abroad, raising the national debt from $997 billion to $2.85 trillion.[177] Reagan described the new debt as the "greatest disappointment" of his presidency.[152] (ISN'T THAT WHAT THEY ALL SAY)

The Reagan administration largely ignored the AIDS crisis, which began to unfold in the United States in 1981, the same year Reagan took office. AIDS research was chronically underfunded during Reagan's administration, and requests for more funding by doctors at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) were routinely denied. By the end of the first 12 months of the epidemic, when more than 1,000 people had died of AIDS in the US, the CDC had spent less than $1 million on AIDS research. In contrast, funding had been made amply available to the CDC in their efforts to stop Legionnaires' disease after an outbreak in 1976; the CDC had spent $9 million in fighting Legionnaires' disease, though the outbreak had caused fewer than 50 deaths.[238][239]
By the time President Reagan had given his first speech on the epidemic, some six years into his presidency, 36,058 Americans had been diagnosed with AIDS and 20,849 had died of it.[240] By the end of 1989, the year Reagan left office, 115,786 people had been diagnosed with AIDS in the United States, and more than 70,000 of them had died of it. It has been suggested that far fewer would have died, both then and in the decades that followed, if the Reagan Administration had applied the same determination in combating AIDS as Gerald Ford's Administration had applied to fighting Legionnaires' disease.[241]

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I almost forgot: In 1984 there was a movie made called GHOSTBUSTERS
In the movie all the "good" characters vote to throw the representative of the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) out of the building and OUT OF THEIR LIVES ALTOGETHER because it was not helping with the "ghost problem" they were having! I guarantee you a political hand or head insisted this action AGAINST THE ENVIRONMENT take place in this comedy. But do not fear!!! IN THE FUTURE YOU CAN ALWAYS CALL ON THE GHOSTBUSTERS

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