These two nearly made me vomit.

"For decades, we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children's future for the temporary convenience of the present. To continue this long trend is to guarantee tremendous social, cultural, political, and economic upheavals.
You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we are not bound by that same limitation?"
—Inaugural address, Jan. 20, 1981


"An almost unbroken 50 years of deficit spending has finally brought us to a time of reckoning. We have come to a turning point, a moment for hard decisions. I have asked the Cabinet and my staff a question, and now I put the same question to all of you: If not us, who? And if not now, when? It must be done by all of us going forward with a program aimed at reaching a balanced budget. We can then begin reducing the national debt."
—Second inaugural address, Jan. 21, 1985

Reagan is the single worst deficit spender in world history (followed closely by GWB). The unmitigated gall of this scumbag to speak out against it is enough to make me puke.

i forget, which date on the calendar did the world cease to exist because of reagan's deficit spending?

Radar appears to be making Buddism up as he goes along. I don't know of ANY Buddhist sect that believes this. The Tibetans have entities which they call "hell-beings," but these creatures were demons all along. Just setting the record straight for everyone else since Radar doesn't read my posts.;)

After my initial post in this thread, i kind of got behind. I have skimmed it briefly, and would just like to clarify something:

RIP stands for Rest In Peace.

it would seem as though some of us were under the impression that this was a thread intended to rip ( ie criticize ) Ronald Reagan.

as I said, I was politically unaware of his doings, but i don't see the value in defaming the dead. Even if he was your mortal enemy......what good does bashing him do? If you disliked him so much, you should have said so when he was alive. It's too late now. knock it off.

well put, LJ.

so you respect radar as a human being, then?

-just wanted to make sure you knew i could still be a dick :)

Wow! I use big multiexcessive consonant words? Really? Do they make any sense? Just curious.;)

Oh, that. Well, it looked good at the time, what can I say?:D

Good point. I spent a lot of the eighties thinking that someone was going to set off the "big one". I remember my best friend, her brother and I went on local television to speak against nuclear war. It was very emotional. :(

*peeks at the website provided* Christ, what a reminder. And then we saw "The Day After" in Social Studies class...scary. :eek:

Reagan: He didn't cause the world to cease to exist.