I don't know about the rest of you, but i'm ALL for the proposed "Reagan Dime".

What better way to memorialize the trickle-down economics of his presidency?

Bring back the winged mercury!

What a piece of coin!
sorry...just a tease...no pictures

Tally-Ho!

We used to have beautiful coins with Classical motifs: the Mercury dime, Liberty in various poses. Our coins were much more interesting before we stuck presidents on them.

--b.

Fuck that piece of shit-  he won;t know or care if we venerate him , so why not just move on?   Presidents who are really great ought to be on coins- not clueless pawns of their friends and families!

I almost puke when I think the guy has an airport named after him!

I voted for him twice and feel totally used by the whole thing!

While we are at it how about Warren G. Harding?  Same kind of presidency- criminal kleptocrats!

Sully

Personally, I'm disgusted by the "holiest of holy" attitude toward Ronald Reagan. He was a President and a human, that's all. His economic policies were things I utterly disagreed with, but I have to admit that for the people who liked those ideas, he did a good job of bringing many of them about. He was a charismatic leader, in the sense that many Americans saw him on TV and felt proud about themselves and good about their government for the first time in a long while. But to treat his legacy as though it deserves more than what was accomplished by Nixon, or Carter, or Clinton, is preposterous. The same "don't slight the great man" thing came up about the NBC mini-series (migod, we tell jokes about Kennedy's extra-marital affairs, and he was shot while in office; but the TV can't SUGGEST that Ronnie FLIRTED once in a while!!??), and over the idea of a memorial while he was still alive. It is part and parcel of a general tactic applied quite often by the American right wing -- that if you disagree with them, you aren't "pure" enough (in some form or other) so they needn't address your SPECIFIC OBJECTIONS with SPECIFIC REBUTTALS, but merely use the ad-hominem to either laud their side or castigate yours.

I'd smash my Ronnie Pennies on a train track and use them for one-cent pieces, which is just about what he made ten cents worth during his administration.

Oh, and he had Alzheimer's well into his FIRST term, it's pretty much agreed by medical professionals who have access to Washington press corps anecdotes. We LIKE this about a leader?

"Heads:" Bill
"Tails:" Hillary
http://www.disinfotainmenttoday.com/darenet/hillary.jpg

He lead the March of Dimes in their successful battle to rid the whole damn world of Polio, a crippler and killer of children.

FDR may have been a boarderline communist (champagne socialist anyway) but he was an effective leader.

Fuck you.

If you are straight then why do you want to Fuck Sully.

Oh, you'll fuck Sully but I bet you're against marrying him.

A republican hypocrite - what a shock !!!!!

I'm still wondering why anyone tried to assassinate him - I thought only figures worthwhile are assassinated.

One thing is for sure.  I know believe that he doesn't recall Iran-Contra.

Anyways, what's Nancy going to do with the new dimes ... decorate the house ?

yeah, Economics that worked.... oh wait .... nevermind


You guys don't need reasons to hate.   Just targets to hate.

If you read this after the (eom) . . . Ha Ha, made you look!

HPG

Nah...heads would be head's Bill.....Tails bill getting a bbbj from Monica...

Sham

Nancy is totally against putting Ronnie on the dime.

I don't remember exactly what she said, but essentially she said it was not right to take a great leader like Roosevelt off the dime just to replace him with Ronald Reagan. I heard this early this morning on the radio when I couldn't sleep. Funny thing is that I fell asleep not long after I heard this.

To me, that DC airport is still known as Washington National Airport....

So next time you're buying a ticket from say New York (LGA)to(DCA) and the agent says "Reagan National Airport", be sure to politely correct him or her & say it's Washington National still....

While I don't agree with all of Reagan's policies, I believe
he did much more good than bad during his terms in office.
Does anyone here remember what a disaster the Carter presidency
was?

Anyway, if you are looking for the two people who destroyed
this country look no further than FDR and LBJ. If you want three
people, than throw in Mrs. FDR. We have them to thank for
welfare, foodstamps, head start, hot lunch, affirmative action,
busing, and all the other wonderful left wing programs that have
eaten away at the core of what always made this country great --
the American work ethic.

Faults can be found on both the left and right wings of political
thought, but I will always slant more to the right, because the
damage the left has done with the "entitlements" programs like
those I listed above will be very difficult or even impossible
to fix. Sure there are things about the Republicans that
frustrate me, like the support of "WTO/Free Trade" and the "family values" stance that often leads to Escort services being harrassed by LE, but at least Republicans don't let people like Willie Horton out of prison.

We are headed the way of Rome in the 5th century and we can thank FDR and LBJ for it.

... that apparently the impetus for the movement, and the reason for much of its support, is simply that CBS was mean to Ron in its TV movie.  What an absurd reason to support changing the face of a coin.

From an online story:

"Triggering the dispute is a TV movie that depicts a doddering Reagan dominated by his wife, Nancy. The movie is being aired by Showtime after CBS canceled its plans to show it last month in response to pressure by Reagan supporters.

''It's what precipitated me introducing the bill at that time and why it was a lot easier to get a lot of support,'' said Rep. Mark Souder, R-Ind."

Twenty years ago, in 1981, new President Ronald Reagan prodded Congress to pass a huge tax cut, mostly for the wealthy. One of his aides slipped and said the plan's small cut for lower brackets was a "Trojan horse" to lure Congress members into supporting it. Reagan promised that the reduction would jump-start America's economy through the "supply-side" principle: i.e., the investor class would have more money to spend on factory and business expansions, creating jobs and causing money to " trickle down" to the working class.

Reagan said his cut would unleash "the dynamics of the free market," spurring growth, producing more federal revenue and balancing the U.S. budget by 1983. Since tax reductions are immensely popular, Congress jumped on the bandwagon, even though then-Vice President George Bush previously had called supply-side "voodoo economics." A feeding frenzy occurred, with cliques of Congress members giving special write-offs to their favorite industries.

The result was the biggest tax cut in U.S. history: $1.8 trillion over the next nine years. But since Reagan also demanded an expensive military buildup, the federal government soon was heading for bankruptcy. Therefore, the biggest tax increase in U.S. history, $98 billion, had to be passed to try to curb the deficits. But it wasn't enough. Deficits soared, and the national debt quadrupled.