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In response to "There's a bit of a difference. The economy, in large part, will go up or down regardless of who is in office." by Stephen

Not really. It was going to fall no matter who was in office.

Posted by the liioulu with moe and less (aka liioulu) Jun 3 '09, 16:33

It just happened on Reagan's watch.

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The lengths that people go to to deny Reagan credit where it's due is amusing... -- nm - Stephen Jun 3, 16:38 21
- More like the lengths people go to to give credit where none is due. - the liioulu with moe and less Jun 3, 16:43 15
  - Wow, you could not be more wrong if you said Aliens from Mars were responsible for it. Oh well. Think what you want. -- nm - Redmond Jun 3, 16:46 14
    - Then what is your counter argument? Since you provided none. - the liioulu with moe and less Jun 3, 16:50 13
      - We armed Afghan's and made that war so expensive in human loss and financial loss it crippled any chances to further expand. - Redmond Jun 3, 16:54 8
        
        Thus forcing them to downsize to try and get their economy stable again. -- nm - Redmond Jun 3, 16:55 7
        
        The peope in those countries get some credit, yes, but without Reagan's vision and leadership they'd still be living under communist rule today. -- nm - Stephen Jun 3, 17:00 6
        
        Excuse me? He wasn't the leader of those countries or their revolutions. -- nm - the liioulu with moe and less Jun 3, 17:02 2
        
        Without the US those people would have been SLAUGHTERED!!! DEAD DEAD DEAD! -- nm - Redmond Jun 3, 17:03 1
        
        And that's a rational argument how? - the liioulu with moe and less Jun 3, 17:07
        
        I am sure Carter's boycott of the Olympics made it all happen. That was a gutsy move there. Give credit where credit is due. -- nm - Redmond Jun 3, 17:01 2
        
        I'm not giving Carter credit either. I think we had FA to do with it. -- nm - the liioulu with moe and less Jun 3, 17:03 1
        
        I just like cracking on Carter even if I have to reach to do it. It's fun. -- nm - Redmond Jun 3, 17:03
      - And what's your argument for him not having anything to do with it? - Stephen Jun 3, 16:52 3
        
        Lech Walesa, Vaclav Havel, the basic ineptitude of the USSR in many of its sattlelites. - the liioulu with moe and less Jun 3, 16:58 2
        
        The collapse of the iron curtain didn't happen in a vacuum you know. - Stephen Jun 3, 17:12
        
        So much had to happen before they even got to that point. You are talking about checkmate, but how did it get there? -- nm - Redmond Jun 3, 16:59
- JFK had nothing to do with us going to the moon. We would have went there anyway. FDR had nothing to do with winning WW2, we would have won anyway. -- nm - Redmond Jun 3, 16:40 4
  - Maybe he didn't. In that case that was a US program. And we were spurred on as much by the USSR's space program as anything else. - the liioulu with moe and less Jun 3, 16:54 3
    - Sigh. -- nm - Redmond Jun 3, 16:58 2
      - Hey, you brought it up. - the liioulu with moe and less Jun 3, 17:00 1
        
        Sigh. -- nm - Redmond Jun 3, 17:02

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Not really. It was going to fall no matter who was in office.

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