reaganomics...the rich got richer and the poor got poorer...he may have done things which some think were great, but he is also the man who wanted to make ketchup a vegetable in school lunches...he cut out after-school programs that helped keep kids off the streets...helping to create idle minds and hands...it was on his watch that drugs became so rampant in inner cities as well as the explosion of gangs
his speeches were old movie lines and cliches...it is possible that when he said 'i dont remember' during the iran-contra hearings, he really didn't remember due to alzheimers
he was the tommy lasorda of presidency...not an x's and o's guy, but really good at the gung ho, rah rah stuff...i do give him credit for giving the country a shot of what it needed after vietnam, and the failure to rescue the hostages that nite in iran; pride in our country...
his interest in the military is probably what put us back on the map so to speak
i have my opinions on him, some good, quite a few not so good...however, death is something that touches all of us and to see nancy laying her head on his coffin the other day and saying 'i just dont believe it' absolutely brought tears to my eyes...its hurts to lose loved ones to death.
eventhough i have my opinions i do have respect for the man and his family..i was ~12-13 yrs old when he was shot...i remember think so what...but when watching the coverage later that nite over and over i became very afraid for4 him and for our country...i realized then that i could not hate him eventhough i tried...it was later that i learned and understood that u should respect the leaders of your country or land whether u agree with them or not...somewhere, that is even written in the bible, though i could not tell you exactly where
r.i.p mr reagan
