What I remember most about the Reagan Administration?

[Homer12]

First, I'm not dancing on Reagan's Grave, I hope he found peace and his family as well having to watch him suffer all these years of Alzheimer's disease.

Second, we all know that the RW, will go on to politicize Reagan, deify him, and Bush will figuratively and metaphorically wrap Reagan's body around himself like a sick form of animism, while we all watch the scepter being passed from Reagan to GW on TV.

I was growing up in the 1980's, MTV, bad hair, and transformers.

I remember the sick feeling I got when I heard that we invaded Grenada, I remember the nausea I felt when we bombed Lybia.

I remember my father being laid off and out of work for long periods of time because Reagan's tax cuts, and deregulatory policies.

I remember the fights between my parents because of money problems.

I remember Reagan saying that government is the problem, while learning in school that WE the American Citizen's ARE the government.

I remember watching Iran-Contra, watching my the Administration lie to it's people about Bush and Reagan's involvement, thinking WHY is Reagan not taking responsibility as he did in Beirut for the truck bombing.

The only good thing I remember is seeing the Berlin Wall come down and the Iron curtain fell, I give Reagan some credit, but not all, there was a long line of presidents before him that have their hands in it as well.

These are some of the personal things I remember, please add yours.

[Warpy]

1. I remember that in 1979, the only homeless people I ever saw

were a few alcoholic men, and even they generally had rooming house rooms to go to at least part of the time.

By 1982, we were seeing sober men and entire families, and we were being told that they were lazy and they wanted to live on the street and that this was their choice of lifestyle. In Boston. In winter.

This is my main memory of those dreadful years. A lesser memory is seeing face on the TV, telling us outrageous lies, and wondering why nobody else seemed to notice.

[trekbiker]

2. I would'nt dance on his grave...

but I would PISS on it..

I'm sorry, but he was nothing but an actor and an idealogue. A "good natured" right wing tyrant who couldn't give a RATS ASS for the little people. Just ONE BIG ACT. He was already suffering the effects of Alziemers for a good part of his second term. He ripped the environment, quadrupled the national debt and took credit for a collapse of the Soviet Union that would have happened no matter who was in office. Spent billions on re-habbing a fucking WWII battleship..

Screw him and the narrow minded divisiveness he spawned.

[Servo300]

3. "You can run, but you can't hide..."

On the capture of the hijackers who killed Leon Klinghoffer.

[JHB]

4. I remember the Vincennes...

...shooting down an Iranian airliner and thinking the only honorable response would be an immediate apology to the people of Iran. Not to the ayatollah's government, but to the people. A full investigation was in order, and EVERY possibility should be examined, but at the end of the day it was obvious a terrible, terrible tragedy had occured at our hands, and we had no choice but to offer our apologies and condolences.

Of course, Reagan did nothing of the sort, played to the jingo home crowd, and instead implied (without evidence) that the airliner was a suicide plane.

[liveoaktx]

5. I remember Ketchup Being Called a Vegetable for School lunches /nt