[thecavemaster]

Do it then - put the money where your mouth is. Show that Reagan's policies made the economy that he inherited from Barack 0bama I (a/k/a Jimmy Carter) worse. The economy did suffer a recession early in Reagan's first term but in less than 8 years, our economy went from dismal to great and Reagan did not need an $800 trillion+ stimulus.

Your answer to every criticism of 0bama is to bash a conservative poster or Bush, or Reagan. 0bama's record on the economy is indefensible - so I understand why you do not really ever try to defend it. Your theory seems to be that the best defense is to be offensive...

When managing a crisis of the magnitude Obama inherited, it's tough. Without Obama's interventions, how low would we have gone? how many more would have lost everything? how defunct would our economic system have become? As for Reagan, come on, are you that deaf to the voices of legitimate dissent. Reagan grew the rich, shrunk or maintained the middle, and increased the poor. It wasn't a "rising tide" economic policy... some soared, others drifted, bunches took on water, and a lot sunk. You know that, in my opinion. However, Reagan did exude a pride and love for America, and communicated it, and gained the trust of the people, and thereby buoyed the spirits (figuratively and literally) of the country, and thus the economy.