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• 1. swamprat  |  October 11th, 2008 at 10:41 am

  Good one!! Now I have coffee coming out of my nose.

• 2. DingDong  |  October 11th, 2008 at 11:56 am

  Pat: Did you vote for Reagan? I doubt it. I have studied Reagan he would deplore the big government ideas of Obama.

• 3. Pat Cunningham  |  October 11th, 2008 at 2:22 pm

  DingDong: You haven’t studied Reagan very well. The federal government got much bigger under Reagan, not smaller.He even added a new federal department. And he switched from the dreaded system of tax-and-spend to one of borrow-and-spend, thereby achieving the biggest deficits in history, up to that time, and passing along the cost of government to future generations. It took a Democrat to return to budget surpluses.

• 4. snuss  |  October 11th, 2008 at 4:28 pm

  Although Obama’s agenda is comparable to that of “Jimmy” Carter, the person to whom then-Governor Reagan was actually referring .

• 5. Craig Knauss  |  October 11th, 2008 at 9:42 pm

  Dingdong, here are a few Reagan facts. Feel free to verify them.

  Reagan campaigned against Carter’s “excessive” $42B budget and then doubled it his first year. It ultimately reached $360B.
  Reagan promised to reduce federal spending and then increassed it by 10% his first year in office. It increased each year he was in office.
  Reagan promised to go with more competitive bid contracts, and then let out literally thousands of no-bid contracts. One year 440 firms had no-bid contracts with DoD that exceeded $10M for the year.
  In only four years Reagan doubled the national debt from our countries first 200 years.
  Every year Reagan complained about Congress busting the budget, even though the GAO proved the budget wasn’t exceeded once.

• 6. Craig Knauss  |  October 11th, 2008 at 10:01 pm

  Correction: It should have said, “Reagan campaigned against Carter’s “excessive” $42B budget deficit….”

  Carter inherited a $60B deficit from the Nixon administration and had reduced it to $42B when he left office.

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