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Bill USA Donating Member (628 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-11 04:53 PM
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10 Things Conservatives Don’t Want You To Know About Ronald Reagan
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http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/02/05/142288/reagan-centennial/

1. Reagan was a serial tax raiser.
2. Reagan nearly tripled the federal budget deficit.
3. Unemployment soared after Reagan’s 1981 tax cuts.
4. Reagan grew the size of the federal government tremendously.
5. Reagan did little to fight a woman’s right to choose.
6. Reagan was a “bellicose peacenik.”
7. Reagan gave amnesty to 3 million undocumented immigrants.
8. Reagan illegally funneled weapons to Iran.
9. Reagan vetoed a comprehensive anti-Apartheid act.
10. Reagan helped create the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden.

..see link for full elaboration on each of these points.
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