[TheDoctorNoh]

Paul Krugman and the rest of his NY Times ilk are the biggest scums of the world. He is an unbalanced, hateful dyed-in-the-wool liberal who can't even spell the word "objective". I don't even know why I'm wasting the energy to hammer out this invective against this idiot. He doesn't even deserve the time or attention.

Happy belated b'day President Reagan. Your revolution was genuine and its positive impact are still relevant in today's global economy.

[barneyrubble]

This is what happens when a flecked mouth partisan is dressed up and disguised as a journalists

[cripplecreek]

Unfortunately there are plenty on the right who happily misrepresent Reagan's record in an attempt to make bad economic policies more palatable.

As Michael Reagan rightfully states, his father was a free trader but he did not confuse it with giving the store away. He recognized that runaway free trade endangered American industry and he took steps to protect it.

Take the case of Harley-Davidson. My father protected this American manufacturer of motorcycles against lower-priced Japanese imports. When he acted in behalf of an American company, Kawasaki and Honda reacted by moving their plants to the U.S. and created American jobs for American workers.

His policy was so successful that although he gave five years of protective tariffs to Harley-Davison, they didn’t even need that long a time before they could turn their company around. Given a level playing field they proved their superiority as an American manufacturer.

Ronald Reagan did the same thing with semiconductors, and the auto and steel industries. He also forced the Japanese and others to open up their markets to American products so that trade would be fair. When that didn’t happen he would impose tariffs on those products coming into the U.S., thus protecting American manufacturers.

Sure, he was a free trader who wanted too open up trade, but he always sought first to protect the sovereignty of the United States and its manufacturing base. He did not confuse free trade with giving the store away.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2007/10/10/where%e2%80%99s_the_fire

[dashing doofus]

Krugman’s hatred of Reagan, Bush, and all things Republican turns him into a hack editorial writer.