Of Reagan's policies we know that this is what he set out to do:

"Only by reducing the growth of government," said Ronald Reagan, "can we increase the growth of the economy." Reagan's 1981 Program for Economic Recovery had four major policy objectives: (1) reduce the growth of government spending, (2) reduce the marginal tax rates on income from both labor and capital, (3) reduce regulation, and (4) reduce inflation by controlling the growth of the money supply.

... and he accomplished the exact opposite with a booming deficit, and the financial crisis of 2008 which Reagan laid deregulation polices laid the foundation for, not to mention the inflating currency which minimum wage has barely kept up up leaving most of the country in poverty wages. Bush did the same thing with the same results... and now the GOP are once again pushing the same policies whose results we have documented over almost 20 years of GOP administrations proving them to be bad polices. But the GOP owns so much of the media that they are winning elections almost solely on lies and fear based marketing.

Article: Supply Side Economics: Do Tax Rate Cuts Increase Growth and Revenues and Reduce Budget Deficits ? Or Is It Voodoo Economics All Over Again?

Did Reagan's policies destroy the middle class? That one is an easy yes...

How Reaganomics Destroyed The Middle Class...And Maybe America 

Notice in the following images how badly everyone but the rich have been doing since Reagan's polices. It's amazing that Republicans, being mostly poor & middle class folk, have been voting against their interests and for the interests of a very few rich people for the past 40 years. A population voting against their own interests for such a long time surely can't be a healthy phenomenon?

The National Debt went up under: Reagan 186%, Bush W. 77%... (what the following statistic show is that only the rich benefited from Reagan's policies)

Secret Government - The Constitution In Crisis (FULL): 

This is the full length 90 min. version of Bill Moyer's 1987 scathing critique of the criminal subterfuge carried out by the Executive Branch of the United States Government to carry out operations which are clearly contrary to the wishes and values of the American people. *** WITH SOUND! Only a small piece (about 1 1/2 minute) is without sound, for a copyrighted bit of music. Full sound resumes at 3:20 ***

The ability to exercise this power with impunity is facilitated by the National Security Act of 1947. The thrust of the exposé is the Iran-Contra arms and drug-running operations which flooded the streets of our nation with crack cocaine. The significance of the documentary is probably greater today in 2007 than it was when it was made. We now have a situation in which these same forces have committed the most egregious terrorist attack on US soil and have declared a fraudulent so-called "War on Terror". The ruling regime in the US who have conducted the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, are now banging the war drum against Iran.

Questions to ask yourself about GOP policies going to to the Reagan era:

Was Reagans executive order creating the NSA actually to protect the GOP from another Watergate?

Are Reagans Death Squads of S. America & the instability they caused part of the reason we are having such a large immigration influx?

Related Posts on my Culture & Society blog:

Nixon's Legacy: Fox News's Nixonian Strategies In Hiding The Truth About Everything (From Executive "Privilege" To The War In Iraq)

The GOP's/FoxNews's Primary Goal Is To Do Anything To Win Elections INCLUDING Destroying The Economy If Necessary!

GOP's Economic Theories - Disproven Under George Bush - Continue To Be The Basis For Their Policies PROVING GOP Are An Ideological Party & Not A Reasonable One

GOP Exposed SXection

• Case Study: John McCain's Random Demonizations & Flip Flops
• Huckabee & The GOP Keep Pushing Outdated Biblical Law For Gays & Women, Despite It's Low Approval Ratings, Because They Are Commanded To Do So
• The GOP & It's Lying Media Wing (Fox News) EXPOSED
• An Introduction To The GOP's War On Women
• The GOP's War On Women Part 2 (GOP Women Help!)
• Once Again Congress Is Successful In Protecting It's Shady Insider Trading Deals
• Breaking Down Society & Social Structures Leads To Anarchy AND Violence
• Congress IS Intentionally Passing Bad Laws To Cause Chaos & Death for Profit
• Case for Indicting The GOP for Treason for The "Paul Ryan Plan" (*As Per The US Constitution)

Background;

Article 1  Section 8

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian Tribes;

To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

The Daily Show - The unpopularity of Congress leaves both Democratic and Republican candidates retreating from their parties' stances in the hopes of successful midterm election bids. (7:46):

AT 4:30: Republicans have sent the last 6 years breaking up Government and now they can run on the anger generated by breaking our Government. 

This seems to be the GOP Republicans primary strategy (after fear mongering towards colored folk), i.e. to sell their country and fellow countrymen/women by accepting bribes in a variety of forms to destroy the American Constitution & the American Economy by not fulfilling their Constitutional Obligations as per Article 1 Section 8 and counting, rightly it seems, that the American People are just too dumb to figure out who really is to blame. Occasionally one is caught accidentally but there has been no all encompassing investigation with lie detectors to figure out who is lying.

The above image is from here... "The Senate Banking Committee quizzes JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on the efficacy of Dodd-Frank and measures he would take to prevent future catastrophic bank losses"... 

OIL -SEX SCANDAL: Notice in the comedy segment below, a big scandal coincides with a report about oil drilling issues by the department where the scandal originates, i.e. Interior Department's 'minerals management service',still ...the GOP is not fazed in the slightest (it never is, no matter what crimes it commits... it is, afterall, the war party!) 

Some news reports of extreme corruption in the Department of the Interior;

Sex For Oil Scandal At Interior Department (CBS/ AP) Government officials handling billions of dollars in oil royalties engaged in illicit sex with employees of energy companies they were dealing with and received numerous gifts from them, federal investigators said Wednesday. The allegations of bad behavior involve 13 government employees in Denver and Washington, reports CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson. Those accused are workers who sell U.S. mineral rights to oil companies. Such sales are one of the government's biggest sources of revenue besides taxes. But the Inspector General for the Interior Department says they rigged contracts, and engaged in illegal moonlighting, drugs, sex and gift-taking from oil company representatives, according to three reports released Wednesday. The reports revealed startling allegations including that an employee attended a so-called "treasure hunt" in the desert with all expenses paid by an oil producer, and that a former supervisor - who bought cocaine from a colleague then boosted her performance award - had sex with subordinates, and steered government contracts to an outside business where he also worked, Attkisson reports.

Days Before Scandal, Interior Got Ethics Award Oh, the irony. Just before the Department of Interior's inspector general released reports that laid bare the oil-and-sex scandal in the department's oil royalties office this week, Interior won an annual award from the federal Office of Government Ethics, The Post's Mary Pat Flaherty and Derek Kravitz report. The inspector general said Wednesday that federal officials in the Mineral Management Service's royalty-in-kind program allegedly were plied with alcohol and expensive gifts from industry representatives, and in some cases had sex and did drugs with them. The Denver-area office takes in roughly $4 billion each year in oil and natural gas reserves from companies drilling on federal and Indian land and offshore.

Billions Missing From U.S. Indian Trust Fund  In his testimony before Congress, John Echohawk, director of Native American Rights Fund, called it "yet another serious and continuing breach in a long history of dishonorable treatment of Indian tribes and individual Indians by the United States government." Arizona Senator John McCain, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, bluntly called it "theft from Indian people." These men were describing the single largest and longest-lasting financial scandal in history involving the federal government of the United States. With no other recourse left at their disposal, NARF, along with other attorneys, filed a class action lawsuit in federal district court on June 10 on behalf of more than 300,000 American Indians. The suit charges Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt, Assistant Interior Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs Ada Deer and Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin with illegal conduct in regard to the management of Indian money held in trust accounts and managed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. If the lawsuit's claims are correct, and there's an overwhelming body of evidence that suggests they are, then the federal government has lost, misappropriated or, in some cases, stolen billions of dollars from some of its poorest citizens.

Previous posts on this general topic;

Once Again Congress Is Successful In Protecting It's Shady Insider Trading Deals

Washington D.C., TARP & Homeowners Nonsense Explained In 3 Videos & 1 Image

The Financial Crisis Explained In 3 Videos (Only one is over 7 minutes)

4 Videos Under 7 Minutes Illustrating Congress In Full 

The Case for Indicting the Murdochs for Treason (*as per The US Constitution) 

Case for Indicting The GOP for Treason for The "Paul Ryan Plan" (*As Per The US Constitution)

Breaking Down Society & Social Structures Leads To Anarchy AND Violence 

Q. Why Are Dems Attacking Obama? Ans. Because of "the base"... and the base believes what it is told through the Anti-Obama Echo Chamber the GOP have "implanted" throughout the media.


Basically, rather than face the GOP on truth the Dems have chosen not not to...

In other words, we have two distinct categories the politics of our two parties can be lumped into...


"THE DEMOCRATS ARE COWARDS"

Example;

On Topic - Political Parties - The Democratic Party: Stephen knows that when someone misbehaves, it's natural to assume that person is a Democrat. 

"THE GOP ARE BULLIES"

Example;

It must be tough for Republicans to love America so much but hate almost three-quarters of the people living in it. (08:54) 

AT 4:30: Republicans have sent the last 6 years breaking up Government and now they can run on the anger generated by breaking our Government. This ploy is not more evident than with Mitch McConnel...

In other words, oppose Democrats at all costs even destroying the economy is necessary...

Armadebtdon 2011 - Men of a Certain Rage - Republicans abdicate the "doing s**t" part of debt ceiling responsibility to Obama, but retain the "complaining about the guy doing s**t" part for themselves. (3:29):

1. "I would advocate that we pass legislation giving the president the authority to REQUEST of us an increase in the debt ceiling that would take us past the end of his term" - "that [legislation] would be subject to disapproval. That resolution of disapproval, if passed, would then go to the president, he could sign it or he could veto it." - McConnell - Theme: Passing legislation to 'disapprove it later.

2. "The reason default is no better idea today than when Newt Gengrich tried it in 1995, is it destroys your brand [i.e. America's credit rating] and would give the president the opportunity to blame Republicans for bad economy" - Defaulting was seriously tried by Newt in 1995.

3. "Look, he owns the economy. He's been in office almost 3 years now and we refuse to let him entice us into co-ownership of a bad economy" McConnel - The co-ownership is referring to the United states economy. 

Important Republican Party Position: McConnel admits that making sure Obama is a one term President is his primary political goal. This means that the worse the economy is the better chances are that Obama will be a one term president.

From:

The GOP's/FoxNews's Primary Goal Is To Do Anything To Win Elections INCLUDING Destroying The Economy If Necessary!

Mitch McConnel tries to distance a popular State affiliate of ObamaCare - i.e. ALL STATE HEALTH WEBSITES EXIST BECAUSE OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT AKA OBAMACARE - from the very policy that it is there to help promote! ACTUALLY saying he will remove ObamaCare so all they will have is a website. Now, that's mean!

Tributes To Past Meanness...

1. Here's a tribute to a few Republican senators who find comfort and advantage in invoking the heroes of 9/11 but refuse to give them health care.

2. Republicans Block 9/11 Health Care Bill: Republican senators refuse to vote on the 9/11 health care bill until wealthy Americans receive an engraved notification that their taxes won't go up.

3. The Daily Show: National Legislators' Unearned Vacation - Despite a growing list of unresolved crises, Congress spends the final hours before summer recess deciding to sue President Barack Obama. (5:53):

Bills NOT passed by the do-nothing Congress:

Border Bill (To protect our borders against people entering from 'terrorist connected countries')

A highway funding bill (Our infrastructure is crumbling)

Emergency Unemployement Insurance 

Student Loan Relief

Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Summary; Congress is not following Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution i.e. they are not doing their job in outright defiance of their role outline in the Constitution!


What did Congress do this year?

Answer:

They are suing the President over his "Selective implementation of the affordable care act"! Something which is blatant hypocrisy as Bush did the same thing.

Video For Ron Paulians: PIERS MORGAN TONIGHT: Ron Paul - Healthcare (March 26, 2012)

Notes: 1 - 1:30 This individual mandate thing has been around for 30 years - longer than most Ron Paul followers have been alive! (i.e. this is a slow process NOT something for kids to be arguing about... you don't know what your comfortable lives would be like without an individual mandate. Maybe like Somalia!), 2 - 4:30 America is a little different we don't have socialized medicine we have corporate medicine (i.e. Ron Paulians should note that you can't truthfully call Obama a "crony-socialist" you CAN call him a "crony capitalist" - But, of course, Mitt is much much much worse!), 3 - 5:55 If the people are accepting it THEN ITS FINE, talking about the individual mandate is only appropriate for a republican primary. , 4 - 6:35 Bush set up a prescription plan and the Republicans didn't say jack!

Keep in mind that the Individual Mandate has been around for a long time (it's to help equalize things as per the Bill Of Rights). Even in Ron Paul's Presidential Plan there was no attempt to START with cutting anything connected to the Individual Mandate because of the 'problem of dependency' i.e. The individual mandate is what all social programs to help people are based on... removing it is like pulling out the entire foundation of medicare or social security on which many people depend to survive - GOP policies are aimed at LITERALLY killing American Citizens (the poor ones - a sort of survival of the fittest which Bill O Reilly calls "life is not fair"). 

Arguing against the Individual Mandate would be even more hypocrisy... which is why a conservative judge endorsed it...