Posted on 10/02/2009 1:12:54 PM PDT by presidio9
Wouldn’t Congress have to cut the size of government? Isn’t it illegal for a Prez not to spend appropriated monies?
Libertarian Party throws Reagan under the bus
The Libertarian Party’s chairman said that the Republican Party’s hero “was not serious about cutting the size of government.”
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For the life of me... I swear I don’t understand how so many FReepers can defend the Liberaltarian Party.
Sheesh!
His tax cuts tripled the revenue to the federal govt. So the increase inspending is a misleading without reference to monies to the fed.
Hopefully never. Take heart in the fact that "seriousness" and subscribing to liberatarian political philosophy are on opposite ends of the spectrum.
Reagan operated without control of Congress. Makes a big difference. Also consider the struggle Obama is having enacting his far left agenda even with both Houses of Congress firmly under the control of his party, and with full support of the legacy media...
The LP is a bunch of anti-semites, racists, and loners. And those are the good ones. Avoid them like the Obamist plague that they are.
Cheers!
Didn’t Bush form the DHS?
Not all of us. I just want the federal government to keep their damn hands off of my rights, my pocketbook, and my family, and go back to doing what they’re supposed to, based on their Constitutional powers.
Yes, Homeland Security was done after 9/11/2001
Its the nature of the internet. Everyone feels like his opinion is valid. A lot of people here don't get this one: There is the political "right," and then there are Libertarians, Republicans, and Conservatives. Three very distinct groups, with many things in common. All are on the political right, but have different viewpoints. Libertarians are too flaky to grasp that one. Then, we have a webpage started by a one-time Conservative for Conservatives. Since libertarians already failed to make the distinction once, here they are. The webpage was intended to be for Conservatives as opposed to Republicans, but libertarians never leared their place either. It doesn't help that our founder is on record being pretty sympathetic to libertarians in the past. He never retracted that stuff, and libertarians are only to happy to bring it up whenever they are told to go find their own website.
Earth to Libertarians...please learn how our government operates before making anymore statements. Your friend, Debs
The Libertarian Party, like other parties, is only there to be a spoiler. They have a serious movement to discredit the Republicans even though they have more in common with than the Democrats. The reason. I don’t know.
Being Libertarian or Declined to State or Independent is just “feel good” measures with no substance.
Interesting argument. I would say that Reagan did good and bad things economically w government growth.
The good news: He won the cold war and gave us a peace divident under Clinton
The bad news: His legacy promoted the myth that everyone’s tax cut pays for itself, that government doesnt cost anything (Bush Sr got the blame) and no one must pay. This myth allowed GWB to destroy the republican party and capitalism without even a peace dividend to pay the debt. Bush used printed money, Reagan borrowed.
“His tax cuts tripled the revenue to the federal govt.”
The Libertarianistas are being intellectually dishonest here (most people say cuts when in fact everybody knows that it means slowing the rate of growth of government spending)...The tax cuts as you said were half the equation.
The other half was impeded by Dem majorities in Congress who refused to cut spending. So the Dems and media refuse to cut spending, blame the budget deficit on Reagan for 6 of the 8 years. That mantra was all they had on Reagan.
Now of course, Lord Obama runs up an annual deficit of 1.8 Trillion compared to Reagan’s 150-225 billion and Bush’s 450 billion...and now the Leftists love deficits.
At 4:20
“I just want the federal government to keep their damn hands off of my rights, my pocketbook, and my family, and go back to doing what they’re supposed to, based on their Constitutional powers.”
Every budget Reagan sent up to congress was (quote) “Dead on arrival” by Tip O’Neil,etal.
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