Reply #18: I don't know [View All]

[quaker bill]

I used to think Nixon was the worst, then came Reagan and I had to re-assess. Then came GW Bush and I had to reconsider again.

It is quite clear that Reagan established the course for the bus GW Bush drove over the cliff. It is also clear that GW Bush had some notion of where we were going and stepped on the accelerator regardless.

While I do agree that the tax cut, deficits, and transfer of the burden onto the middle class by way of the doubled payroll tax was destructively stupid and intentional, I found Reagan's support of abusive right wing dictators most objectionable, with his massive and pointless military build up coming in a close second.

To Reagan's credit, many of his economic "ideas" had not been tried in a very long time, and it is at least possible that he did not know how badly they would fail in advance. However, in the case of GWB, the data on failure was in, and he did it anyway.

To me, it is still a close match.