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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-29-05 10:41 AM
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GREENSPAN Calls Gerald FORD and RAYGUN "a 4" on Scale of 10
Edited on Tue Mar-29-05 10:42 AM by UTUSN
Finally, somebody speaks some truth. But------WARNING--------there's an "Ewwwww" factor, with these two geezers ranking TAFT, NIXON, FORD, and RAYGUN-------using a scale usually reserved for SEX.


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Alan Greenspan expresses low opinions of Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan in GQ magazine in an ex change with Milton Friedman. "Well, on a Bo Derek scale, Bob Taft was a nine and a half, Nixon was a nine, and Reagan's a seven," Friedman muses. But Greenspan interrupts, "No, no, Milton. Reagan's not a seven. He's a four! If you gave Gerry Ford a series of data, no matter what the series was, he could not develop a concept. And Reagan is the same."

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ananda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-29-05 10:43 AM
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1. So Bush must be..
.. a negative exponential number.

Sue
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-29-05 10:44 AM
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2. Hahahah------You Topped It n/t
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-29-05 10:50 AM
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3. Oh, our little Ayn Rand disciple is certainly proud of himself, isn't he?
Edited on Tue Mar-29-05 10:51 AM by swag
Proud Alan Greenspan can develop concepts, but Gerald Ford could not. My, what an amazing man that Alan Greenspan is. A regular flippin' John Galt, that Alan Greenspan. What a hero of capitalism!

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jmcon007 Donating Member (782 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-29-05 10:53 AM
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4. Tip O'Neill on Reagan......
Most know that then Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill and Reagan got along well personally....couple of Irish guys, but I'll never forget a quote by O'Neill saying that Reagan couldn't carry on an intelligent conversation about the economy and, from a President, this was disgraceful. (No...this was Reaganomics)
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-29-05 11:19 AM
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5. Obviously standards have even dropped from the
very low ones set by Reagan.
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