-the hypocrisy of Iran-Contra and the backing of bloody civil wars in Central America

drugs & weapons trade

-the fact that he never submitted a balanced budget to Congress, and the resulting running up of the National Debt (the first sign of "starving the beast"?)

drugs & weapons trade

-the shameful lack of leadership on the AIDS front (how many deaths can be tied to his lack of funding)?

drugs…&…weapons…trade

-the deregulation of the Savings and Loan industry and the resulting losses in the hundreds of billions of dollars at taxpayer's expense

drugs

- the loss of 241 Marines in the Beirut barracks bombing (guess that was "cut and run" before it was known as such)

…drugs

-the slashing of the social safety net and the resulting increase in poverty and homelessness for our most vulnerable citizens

……..drugs & weapons trade….

Please look beyond your own needs when assessing the Reagan legacy.

"If there has to be a bloodbath then let's get it over with."
--Ronald Reagan (Governor of California), quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle, May 15, 1969.  (Reagan reveals how he intends to deal with student protesters at the University of California, Berkeley.)

"Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal."
--Ronald Reagan, quoted in Time, May 17, 1976

"And what happened to me was that I met and fell in love with a woman who was a contract CIA agent, a career agent. Now, I come from a CIA family and they had tried to recruit me, so this was not unexpected to me, but I began to see that she was protecting drug shipments and that the Agency was actively involved in dealing drugs......we teach now with From The Wilderness is that it wasn't just CIA dealing some drugs to fund covert operations. It is that drug money is an inherent part of the American economy. It has always been so, as it was with the British in the 1600s when they introduced opium into China to fund the triangular trade with the British East India Company.  ...... The CIA has dealt drugs for all 50 years of its existence--50 plus years, even before it was the CIA. And the point is that with 250 billion dollars a year in illegal drug money moved, laundered through the American economy, that money benefits Wall Street. That's the point of having the prohibitive drug trade, which the CIA effectively manages for the benefit of Wall Street."---Mike Ruppert (Wall Street, CIA and the Global Drug Trade)

[but then…so be it…right?  oh-hap-hap-happy day  chuckle/heavy sigh]