Good Riddance Ronnie
Ronald Reagan was an evil man. I'm glad he's dead. Harsh, sure. But I don't have warm, fuzzy feelings about Reagan's time in office. I always thought his 'morning in America' blather was just hooie. Here was someone launching a full-out war on virtually everything I think makes America great, and claiming he was making things better. Fantastic, all of those poor people getting their social services cut, the insane being thrown out on the street, woo hoo! At least they can be psyched about what a great country they live in. Meanwhile we're waging war to support the military dictatorship in El Salvador, and to take down the democratically elected, but leftist, government in Nicaragua. We're funneling arms (illegally) to Iran, while openly supplying them to Iraq.
And then there was the blatant hypocrisy, this bastard had the self-righteousness to preach to us about not doing drugs, while he's gulping Halcion like it's candy. No wonder he thought everything was so chipper, he was coked to the gills. Lovely. And then there's his darling wife. While her husband is dismantling the social safety net she's telling people that conquering drug addiction is a simple matter of will power. Well fuck you, Nancy. You try living in poverty and finding the will power to say no to something, anything, that will take you away from the radical surgery your government is doing on your income, your community, and quite possibly your family back in the old country.
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