You are picking straw arguments out of context and trying to make yourself look enlightened and intelligent above where you really are. First, Reagan did not ballon the deficit or debt to GDP ratio. It happened while he was President, but as a result of things he was AGAINST and the things he WAS FOR actually prevented it from being worse. Anyone not smart enough to realize that is just on a different plane than I choose to inhabit intellectually.
The argument that I would support ballooning debt is beneath contempt and therefore you deserve whatever pepper I send your way. That is assinine, and we know what kind of people make assinine points. Again, you are actling like a little Occupy Wall Street liberal with your straw argument.
Moroever, and I will type real slow on this one because I know this one is a streeeeeettttttcccchhhhh for the liliputian mind, any loss of freedom is bad, but a slower loss of freedom is LESS BAD than a faster loss of freedom.
For those of more pedestrian IQ’s, lather, rinse, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat. It will sink in immediately.
President Reagan decided to strike compromises with Democrats on several issues in the 80's so that he could continue his overall agenda of restoring America's greatness and defeating the Evil Empire. He was quite successful which is an historic and logical (sic) fact. ['Tear down this wall' ring any bells?] Remember the economy left to him by that anti-Semitic socialist feller from GA? He had quite a mess on his hands to fix.
You can read more about it here: As Reagan biographer Craig Shirley points out, "Reagan was willing to raise the debt ceiling to get the money for his defense buildup which helped win the Cold War." That was a slightly higher priority than funding green energy projects and high-speed rail.
Hysterical, not to mention hypocritical to the nth degree, for modern-day Democrats to use President Reagan in such a smarmy fashion.
Come to think of it, you post like one of these "modern-day Democrats". Sniff.