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I told you. I believe he should have held firm. Not increased FICA taxes and shown the Soc Sec system for what it is....A ponzi scheme from which the Fed Gov't gains power and a constituency (while stealing tremendous wealth from each and every family). He should have talked up private accounts over and over, he was popular, the problem was at a much more manageable level....yet he took the easy route and pushed what he KNEW was going to be a tremendous problem down the road.

But here is what shows you hold GWB to one standard (a higher one) and RR to a much lower one.

You point out how RR gave amnesty to all illegals in 86 (one time event) and GWB should have LEARNED from this mistake. That he didn't shows him to be a sellout, blah, blah, blah.

Yet within this very same discussion you and I have been having you openly acknowledge (as an excuse for RR) that the failed notion of raising FICA taxes (some 40 times PRIOR to RR) never solved a d*mn thing....other then to further burden the next generations into the wealth stealing scheme of Soc Sec.

So where RR had 40 opportunities to learn from....Ahh, no, he just made a mistake continuing to do the same. Yet, where GWB only had one mistake to learn from, to use a a reference....HE SHOULD HAVE LEARNED! D*mnit! That RR had over 40 chances to learn...Hogwash, he was a true conservative so he is given a free pass (even though he held a larger majority in the Senate for more years than did GWB).

Pure nonsense. He would never have been reelected in 1984. Mondale made the mistake of saying he would raise taxes. Imagine if RR said he was going to privatize SS and in the meantime he was not going to approve the 1983 bill to keep it solvent. LOL. You can't be that politically dumb. There was/is a reason why SS is considered the third rail of American politics. RR also didn't have the benefit of such programs as IRAs and other tax exempt private pension plans.

You are hopeless. Even RR couldn't solve the problem of SS because it is going to have to be bipartisan solution. The issue will be demagogued.

I used the example of the prescription drug plan to demonstrate Bush's failure to reform the entitlement programs. This was the greatest increase in social welfare programs since the introduction of Medicare. Bush is responsible for it. It was not an old program like SS, but a new initiative. Big difference.