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About time I heard what I been screaming now for most of 30 years. The worst thing that ever happened to America. The first thing he did as Governor of California was to take prescription glasses from children. The first thing he did as president was bust a union and hire scabs. And worst of all he began the HATE YOUR GOVERNMENT crap that has just about destroyed the middle class in America. Lipstick on a pig!
First is hating the government (America). Here are just a few of Ronald Reagan’s quotes
- Government is not the solution, government is the problem.
- The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.
- Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
- Man is not free unless government is limited.
- The 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.
- One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.
- People do not make wars; governments do.
- Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
- The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
- Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
- Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
- Government is like a baby. An alimentary canual with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
- Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
- Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
Next are a few mindless zingers that make George W.Bush seem an intellectual:
- We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.
- What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
- My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation
- which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
- Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation
- A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
- You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we’re in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we’ve got to do something about the unemployed.
And not to forget how without ever going to church he sold himself and the GOP to the Religious Right:
- Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
- We are never defeated unless we give up on God.
- Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
- Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
- If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.