http://www.bartcop.com/reagans-records.htmRonald Reagan's Records
1. First to turn America into a DEBTOR nation
2. First to increase DEBT faster than growth of national income in
eight years
3. First to increase DEBT faster than growth of gdp over eight
years
4. First to double the deficit in just eight years
5. First to "almost": triple the national DEBT in just eight years
6. First to increase SPENDING by 80%--over 8 years.
7. First to SPEND more in eight years than was spent in prior 50
years.
8. First to have "real" INTEREST RATES of 8% after averaging 1%
over 35 years.
9. First to keep PRIME INTEREST RATES at 20%.
10.First to over value the dollar to the yen at rate of 262 yen to 1
dollar.
11.First to have served as Governor and increase STATE SPENDING by
112%
12.First to have HOME LOAN INTEREST RATES as high as 16%
13. First to CUT TAXES by 60% for his rich pals
14. First to allow the SAVINGS AND LOAN INDUSTRY to be raided after
signing a deregulatory bill
and proclaiming "I think we have hit the jackpot". Come and
get it the vaults are unguarded.
15. First to deal with TERRORISTS
16. First to send an AUTOGRAPHED BIBLE to a man he called "The Satan
of Terrorists".
17. First to have an ADMIRAL plead the Fifth Amendment.
18. First to have a stealing, lying, gutless wife abusing MARINE LT.
COLONEL plead the Fifth Amendment.
19. First to have a "sitting" CABINET MEMBER INDICTED
20. First to have an ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE INDICTED.
21. First to have an ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE SENT TO PRISON.
22. First to have over 100 MEMBERS OF AN ADMINISTRATION CHARGED WITH
CRIMES..
23. First to have more members of his administration charged with
crimes than CUMULATIVE TOTAL
OF ALL OTHER PRESIDENTS in the twentieth century
24. First to set a record for the LARGEST ONE DAY PERCENTAGE DECLINE
in the DOW in history. 10-19-87
25. First to have over $10,000,000 INCREASE IN WEALTH from serving
for 8 years as president.
26. First to testify "under oath" 130 times that "I DON'T REMEMBER" .
27. First to have an Admiral with a photographic memory testify 128
times " I DON'T REMEMBER".
28. First to undergo BRAIN SURGERY a few months after leaving office.
No pain no gain.
29. First to, repeatedly, FALSIFY HIS WIFE'S AGE. As though anyone
cared.
30. First to promote his religious faith and never have an ACTIVE
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP.
31. First to never use the term JESUS CHRIST in speeches.
32. First to seek GUIDANCE FROM THE STARS not from God
33. First to have had a SHOTGUN WEDDING.
34. First to have worked as a SHILL in Las Vegas.
35. First to call a Stealing, Lying, Psychotic, wife abusing Marine
a "LIAR.
36. First to have been OPENLY ALIENATED from his children.
37. First To have served with ALZHEIMER'S
38. First to have UNEMPLOYMENT AT 10.8% since great depression.
39. First to attack a small unprotected nation with 88,000
inhabitants and 10,000 bb guns then proclaim
-"America stands tall again"— "we have whipped the Vietnam
Syndrome"-we have defeated communism".
Gosh! What if we had whipped Cyprus?.
40. #1-in FARM FORECLOSURES
41. #1-In BANK FAILURES
42. #1-In SAVINGS AND LOAN FAILURES
43. #1-In Percent increase in PERSONAL BANKRUPTCIES
44. #1-In recorded MISSTATEMENTS
45. #1-In never having a single press conference in which he did not
make at least one or more INCORRECT STATEMENTS.
46. #1-In needing a staff person standby during press conferences to
tell the press "WHAT HE REALLY MEANT".
47. #1-In having SERVICEMEN KILLED during peacetime.
48. #1-In largest DROP IN POPULARITY in one week.
49. #1-In being first to HONOR NAZI STORM TROOPERS by calling them"
Innocent Victims"
50. #1-In being first to be labeled "BRAIN DEAD AFFABLE DUNCE' by
this writer.
51. First to lie-over and over-to reporters "I DO NOT DYE MY HAIR my
barber uses a special shampoo"
52. First to have a wife who "forced" him to WEAR THREE SUITS in one
day
53. First to boast "Not bad for a DUMB GUY who worked only 20 hours
per week".
54. First to have his wife sit nearby and WHISPER ANSWERS to
questions
55. First to FALL ASLEEP while the Pope spoke
56. First to invite the Pope to visit the White House and "BRING THE
WIFE AND KIDS"
57. First to have his press secretary remove him from the microphone
because he could not answer questions.
Then, as the reporter yelled out "answer my question" he
replied "MY HANDLERS WON'T LET ME SPEAK".
Quick get the white coat.
58. First 20th Century president to have historians RATE HIM BELOW
every president of the 20th except for Richard Nixon. 1994 Poll.
59. First to give us a First Lady with a past reputation for giving
the BEST BJ in Hollywood.
60. First to suggest his eldest son undergo PSYCHIATRIC examination
61. First to have been voted in British polls (twice) as the "MOST
FEARED LEADER IN THE WORLD" sic em Rambo.
62. First to serve as Governor on a "conservative" platform and
INCREASE SPENDING BY 112%.
63. First Governor TO INCREASE personal income taxes by 60%, tax
increase on cigarettes by 200%, state tax collections by 152%.
64. First to have a Special Assistant say on national TV "sometimes
you had to HIT HIM ON THE HEAD with a 2 x 4 to get his attention"
65. First to have his official biographer state on national
TV `After he was shot in 1981 he GOT SLOWER AND SLOWER EACH YEAR.
His speech got slower. He deliberated more and he hesitated more
when he spoke. He lost his physical quickness and would not make
decisions on the spot. It was a very, very slow and steady mental
and physical decline".
66. First to have a POPULARITY RATING OF ONLY 35% after his first
two years in office.
67. First president to have been DIVORCED
68. First president to have the Geriatrics Department of a major
university study his behavior and conclude that
AFTER THREE YEARS IN OFFICE HE HAD ALZHEIMER'S.