wonderful era under Reagan

[maynard]

Since the Reagan era was so wonderful, I vaguely remember a few bad items.

1. Double digit interest rates
2. high unemployment
3. trickle down economics
4. high rates of inflation


Can anyone help me out with a few other "wonderful moments" of this era?

[NoNothing]

1. Challenger blew up

[RainDog]

2. tossing the mentally ill into the streets with cuts in budgets

homeless people sleeping in the parks in Santa Monica

Watts' attempts to invade protected park areas for big biz.

Iran-Contra.

hanging with the taliban in Afghanistan... Dana Roaringbacker's lovely photo of him with the terrorists Reagan supported wholeheartedly.

catsup is a vegetable.

[Brother Buzz]

9. Ketchup boys made sure Catsup was excluded

Companies marketing Catsup had to change their product name to Ketchup in order to continue selling to school lunch programs. Crap law was scrapped, but the damage was done - Catsup is no more.

In the 1980s, there was some issue over how to classify 'Ketchup' under the federal food program, and the feds, those ever-clever fellows, declared that Ketchup would appear on school lunch menus as a vegetable. This created a lot of angst over at the old Del Monte Catsup works because, suddenly, their Catsup, due to its spelling, was out of the loop and excluded from the government's approved list. Not very long after that, Del Monte changed the name of its product from 'Catsup' to 'Ketchup.'

[FreakinDJ]

3. Not finished paying off S&L Bailout until 2012

Oopps...

[bridgit]

4. Ketchup and taxing waitress' tips

[Randypiper]

6. And taxing unemployment benefits

[Initech]

5. A near-illegal war with Nicaragua; Iran-Contra

[upi402]

7. Trading arms for hostages - negotiating with terrorists

War on unions and workers
Took us from the biggest lender nation, to the biggest debtor nation

[Greyhound]

8. Why post this twice?

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