It is important to point out what past presidents did wrong so that future presidents can do better.
No president is perfect, and neither was Reagan. Since my top issue is immigration, I want no republican president to ever issue general and blanket amnesty to illegal immigrants. It is a horrible thing to do. Besides costing tax payers Billions, it ENCOURAGES MORE ILLEGALS to flood in. Reagan did not understand this, and I will keep pointing out his error every chance I get.
On the whole, I repeat, Reagan was better than the Bushes, and far better than Clinton & Obama. Only democrat president I admire is JFK because of he was the first president in my lifetime to cut taxes substantially. His speech on tax cuts is a gem.
Entropy12, I’m sorry to see you bring a third-grader’s level of comprehension to this issue. You do nobody on our side a service with your twisted logic on this.
Yes, you twist the facts to make them look as bad as possible to justify your actions. What you are doing though, is presenting half-truths. There were mitigating factors involved with each of the things you addressed.
You overlook those, and counter-balancing interests to do what Leftists do. Hey, they justify their actions too.
Just one example of your twisted logic, you actually trashed Reagan for not building a wall. This is one of your facts that you presented.
In Reagan’s day, nobody talked about building a wall. The flow of illegals from 1955 to 1986, was minuscule. The issue wasn’t the issue it is today. Even 3.5 million versus the 30 million or so we have today, is a good reason why. And back then, the public perception, and Reagan’s too, was that we had 1 million illegals in country. It wasn’t until years after Reagan’s term ended, that the full number of applicants was released.
What you left out was this. In 31 years ending in 1986, since Eisenhower’s actions, 32,250 foreign nationals per year on average crossed our border and stayed. We have multiples of that per month now. And that is why a wall is being talked about. Of course it has been since around 2,000.
Now I will state, that 32,250 figure is predicated on the false 1 million person count. If you multiply that by 3.5, you wind up with a flow rate of 112,905 per year, still a very small number compared to today’s flow.
Once again, I am going to keep point this out to you. We do not know if the flow subsequent to Reagan’s actions was related to those actions, or the refusal of all future presidents to enforce our laws. You continually harping on Reagan’s blame without mentioning the lack of enforcement, amounts to misinformation. You’re lying by omission. And not on just one issue either.
You may mean well, but you are doing the Leftist’s work here. You are smearing Reagan unfairly.
Yes, you state that on the whole Reagan was better than the Bushes. The comparison is a looney tune one. It’s laughable to mention them in the same sentence.
Neither of the Bushes stood higher than Reagan’s boot tops.