Some Reagan Wisdom

[Josiah]

"Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it."
-Ronald Reagan


'Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.'
- Ronald Reagan


'The most terrifying words In the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'
-Ronald Reagan


'The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.'
-Ronald Reagan


'I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress..
-Ronald Reagan


'Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other'
- Ronald Reagan


'The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.'
- Ronald Reagan


'It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first'
- Ronald Reagan


'Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it'
- Ronald Reagan


'Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed, there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.'
- Ronald Reagan


'No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.'
- Ronald Reagan


'If we ever forget that we're one nation under GOD, then we will be a nation gone under.'
- Ronald Reagan


"Republicans believe every day is July 4. Democrats believe every day is April 15"
- Ronald Reagan


"Liberals don't solve problems, they subsidize them."
- Ronald Reagan


"Everyone in favor of abortion has already been born."
- Ronald Reagan





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[Lamb]

Would Reagan have liked Trump as President? Or would he be against him I wonder?

 

[psalms 91]

Reagan was moral so I doubt very much he would have cared for Trump

 

[MoreCoffee]

Ronald Regan was not so wise. His time in office saw the disastrous Savings & Loan collapse which plunged USA national and state budgets into serious deficits with a lasting national debt in the hundreds of billions and from which the nation has not recovered yet. And now with Donald Trump at the helm the USA government debt has climbed into the trillions and numerous states are either near bankruptcy or in serious trouble with debt. All those debts will have to be paid some time, maybe not in the next four years or even the next twenty years but eventually the world will stop lending to the USA's government. Eventually the taxes needed to repay the debts will need to be raised from someone.

 

[tango]

Of course, because the deficits weren't already climbing before Trump took office, right?

No dispute that Trump hasn't done much of use with regard to reducing the deficit but it's not as if he started from a position of strength.

At some point debts are going to get very toxic. It's hard to see it not turning very ugly.

 

[Webster]

 

[Michael]

First President I voted for. And the finest in my lifetime.
I truly miss this type of Christian Patriotic man running our nation to the best of his ability.

I remember many of his speeches. A true American hero.

https://youtu.be/be8mdM6z2CA

 

[Jason76]

Well, I don't think money is everything - as in - many are happy being in the upper lower class, or in the middle class - knowing well, a lot of rich people exist. However, though, conservatives like Reagan - in their quest to demolish socialism - might have layed the seeds - now causing illegal immigration. I mean, problems were never solved in Central America, the place where most migrants seem to be coming from.

O.K., the main problem in countries that succumb to socialism - and I mean Communist, not some New Deal American thing - is the fact there is no social mobility and many live in wretched poverty - due to the system, not being effeminate or lazy.

 

[tango]

Well, I don't think money is everything - as in - many are happy being in the upper lower class, or in the middle class - knowing well, a lot of rich people exist. However, though, conservatives like Reagan - in their quest to demolish socialism - might have layed the seeds - now causing illegal immigration. I mean, problems were never solved in Central America, the place where most migrants seem to be coming from.

O.K., the main problem in countries that succumb to socialism - and I mean Communist, not some New Deal American thing - is the fact there is no social mobility and many live in wretched poverty - due to the system, not being effeminate or lazy.

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here. How is something like, say, the total collapse of society in socialist Venezuela anything to do with attempting to avoid letting the US become a socialist nation?

A major problem with many of the more touchy-feely-share-and-share-alike political systems is that they rely on the assumption that people will be happy sharing freely. I don't know very many people who are particularly thrilled at the thought of being forced to share, by government diktat, with people who simply can't be bothered to provide for themselves because someone else will do it for them.

I forget who it was who said the biggest weakness of socialism was the simple question, "why would a man struggle to achieve if there is nothing to be gained?". Why would you take on the stress associated with high-paying jobs if you don't end up getting the benefit of the higher pay? If you're going to be taxed at 90% or more on extra money you generate, why hire more people to generate the extra money? It becomes a one-way bet whereby if you lose then you take the hit but if you win the government takes the benefits.

As Margaret Thatcher said, the trouble with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other peoples' money to hand out.

 

[Michael]

Love this cartoon on what actually happens when politicians attempt to implement Socialism on society.

https://youtu.be/3h8O7V-WxWQ

 

[Jason76]

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here. How is something like, say, the total collapse of society in socialist Venezuela anything to do with attempting to avoid letting the US become a socialist nation?

A major problem with many of the more touchy-feely-share-and-share-alike political systems is that they rely on the assumption that people will be happy sharing freely. I don't know very many people who are particularly thrilled at the thought of being forced to share, by government diktat, with people who simply can't be bothered to provide for themselves because someone else will do it for them.

I forget who it was who said the biggest weakness of socialism was the simple question, "why would a man struggle to achieve if there is nothing to be gained?". Why would you take on the stress associated with high-paying jobs if you don't end up getting the benefit of the higher pay? If you're going to be taxed at 90% or more on extra money you generate, why hire more people to generate the extra money? It becomes a one-way bet whereby if you lose then you take the hit but if you win the government takes the benefits.

As Margaret Thatcher said, the trouble with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other peoples' money to hand out.

Those Latin American nations are feudal in nature. Unless, some genius can figure out a way to solve that - Communism will always have an appeal - even though, Communism is simply "a more humane feudalism".

 

[tango]

Those Latin American nations are feudal in nature. Unless, some genius can figure out a way to solve that - Communism will always have an appeal - even though, Communism is simply "a more humane feudalism".

Given how communism often ends I'm not sure I'd call it more humane anything.