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DEC 05, 2003 10:27 AM
RACER_X
Philadelphia, PA
February 2003
DEC 05, 2003 10:33 AM
Reagan's firing of the air traffic controllers was a direct result of them not going back to work after being ordered to do so after months of contract negotiations and their overall walkout from their duties. They pulled a power play and it backfired in their faces.Union busting at it's finest.
FDR did not too much more , than um, implement the policies that Hoover would have done had he been reelected,..now Eleanor Roosevelt on the other hand , i think did much more than her husband.
while your at it with most overrated President, don't forget darling Billy-boy . 
DEC 05, 2003 10:40 AM
Eraser_X said:
Reagan's firing of the air traffic controllers was a direct result of them not going back to work after being ordered to do so after months of contract negotiations and their overall walkout from their duties. They pulled a power play and it backfired in their faces.Union busting at it's finest.
Yeah, "union busting" is one of the millions of reasons I think Reagan sucked as a President. Not to mention it came at the expense of safe air travel, but what's a few mid-air collisions when you're teaching those unionized workers that they don't actually have any right to strike?
FDR did not too much more , than um, implement the policies that Hoover would have done had he been reelected,..now Eleanor Roosevelt on the other hand , i think did much more than her husband.
You mean the policies Hoover never mentioned during his entire term in office? I'd love to see proof that Hoover was planning anything nearly as sweeping as the New Deal, especially since the sum total of his response to the Great Depression was "things will work themselves out".
Oh, and let's not forget that FDR led the country through WW2.
while your at it with most overrated President, don't forget darling Billy-boy .
Clinton is more over-bashed and over-rated these days, but depends on who you ask. But still, he's not nearly as lionized as Reagan.
DEC 05, 2003 11:05 AM
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DEC 05, 2003 02:05 PM
Reagan said:
Behold: The Reagan Dime
[Edited on Dec 03, 2003 by Reagan]
I like that Reagan dime !
DEC 05, 2003 02:09 PM
missbernie said:
OR is this just another ploy for the fed to get us to collect coins...(like all those damn state quarters your grandma asks for at the bank and puts into one of those crappy carboard maps she bought at wal-mart)
[Edited on Dec 05, 2003 by missbernie]
Believe it or not there are lots of people that collect coins because they like it. 
Its like art that is actuallyworth something.
DEC 06, 2003 08:28 AM
First of all it would be against the law for the Treasury to print currency with the image of a living human being on it, so it won't happen until Reagan is gone.
That being said, I'm not sure about putting him on any coin. FDR should stay on the dime. No other president expanded our wonderful government in quite the same way. Without him, our economic scene wouldn't be dominated by those wonderfully intelligent Keynsians, who in their infinite wisdom, secretly believe that we should be working for the good of each other. Without FDR, some say, that glorious moment in our history we call the GREAT Depression, may not have lasted nearly as long as it did. How anyone could want to take that constitution ignoring megalomaniac off of a coin is beyond me.
[Edited on Dec 06, 2003 by Rocktopuss]
DEC 06, 2003 01:39 PM
drew17 said:
they've already got their airport...
Drew,
While I can see your concern, please understand that Ronald Reagan was a great man who single handedly destroyed communism once and for all in 40 days and forty nights while fasting in the desert. He saved America from invasion by the very real threat of Guatemalans and protected the hemisphere from the likes of Castro by invading Grenada, an operation that was approved by the Lord Jesus Christ himself. You can argue opinions all you want but these are just the facts. Ronald Reagan is responsible for gravity, the ability of blood to carry oxygen to cells, and personally installed every streetlamp in your city except for twelve which were previously put in by Richard Nixon. I for one will not sit idly by while you engage in such obvious HATE SPEECH like the quote above. "they've already got their airport?" Why the us vs. them mentality? It's not like you're either with us or against us... we're all americans, and Ronald Reagan was also personally responsibe for that as well.
I am officially renaming your kitchen the Ronald Reagan Memorial Culinary Preparation Center, and will be in touch with you soon to set up the arrangements. I know this may create certain problems for you, but it is only fair. He did, after all, give us the concept of food as well. A little known fact left out of this whole debate is the fact that prior to Reagan's ascension to the governorship of California, people didn't eat. They just went about their lives and only those who accidentally swallowed edible things (He coined the word "edible"the way) survived. He understood that without food the world would not be safe in the fight against Communism, and he did something about it. Which is a lot more than I can say for you y-sayers out there with your politics of hate.
Instead of fifty stars on the American Flag, I think there should be fifty tiny little portraits of Ronald Reagan with caption bubbles containing the first fifty syllables of the Pledge of Allegience.
"Long live the gipper" can pick up the slack.
your friend,
Pol. 
edited because someone can't count syllable very well.
[Edited on Dec 06, 2003 by Politrix]
DEC 07, 2003 01:52 AM
why not Ike?
Ike appeared on the dollar coin of the 1971-1976 period.
Possible new homeless quote "Gimme three Reagan's" mo'fo.
-Sean in LA
DEC 07, 2003 01:56 AM
Rocktopuss said:
First of all it would be against the law for the Treasury to print currency with the image of a living human being on it, so it won't happen until Reagan is gone.
In the civil war era there was a problem of living people turning up on printed money that just began to come into use at the time due to coin shortages.
On stamps you have to be dead for 10 years unless you are a president.
I only agree to the Reagan dismal dime if we get a Bukowski stamp in trade to mark the 10th of his passing.
-Sean in LA
DEC 07, 2003 11:30 AM
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friedbanana105
Antarctica
November 2003
DEC 09, 2003 12:39 AM
DEC 09, 2003 12:53 AM
googuse said:
Roosevelt took this country further forward than any other president.
Reagan took it backwards, destroying much of the good work of those before him. He's not fit to be on toilet paper.
here, here......
DEC 09, 2003 01:05 AM
When they put Ronald Regan on the U.S. Dime is when I move out of the country. Not that I am unpatriotic, its just that Ronald Regan didnt do anything that warrants being "immortalized" in a currency denomination. Thhe "recent" push to have his wrinkled face put on everything from Mount Rushmore to the dime is pretty scary and fucking retarted. The only thing decent that Ronald Regan has done is "Bed Time For Bonzo" , and that one of his daughters was in Playboy 10 years ago
sylvain
I'm lost
October 2003
DEC 05, 2003 08:11 AM