Do you think that Reagan would have approved of his party's current efforts to dismantle Medicare?

[Brigid]

LO just made the case that the Reagan "starve the beast" mentality is now so pervasive that Democrats, recognizing this reality only very recently, now find themselves fighting a rear-guard action just to save Medicare. Do you really think that even Reagan would go this far?

[RKP5637]

1. I think Reagan was more human than the sociopathic R's we have today. n/t

[NNN0LHI]

5. Reagan ad on Medicare in 1961

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRdLpem-AAs

[RKP5637]

12. Thanks NNN0LHI !!! I remember that ad now. I think I spoke way too quickly! Thanks!!!

:hi:

[JVS]

2. Yes.

[provis99]

3. actually, yes.

He was just realistic enough to see that he couldn't get it done in his day. Reagan was an evil, evil man.

[nonperson]

4. Yes, I do

Not just Medicare, the current Republican attack on America's middle class and poor is ALL Ronald Reagan come to fruition.

[steve2470]

6. 1962: Reagan Warns that Medicare Will Lead to Socialism, Destruction of American Democracy

http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a1962reaganama#a1962reaganama

[ErikJ]

7. Since Eisenhower Repubs getting more and more RW

So no Reagan would never have tried that. But every year the Repubs go further and further.

[rurallib]

8. My impression of Reagan was that he was not smart and fairly weak-willed

so he could have easily been persuaded. Plus he was already on the record as being anti-medicare.
I mean, it wasn't like it would affect him.

[madrchsod]

17. my dad called him a big dumb "mick' and my dad said....

he sucked up to the rich old ladies in dixon to get ahead.funny thing is his dad and brother found steady work with the ccc/wpa until ron moved them from dixon to california. he became a fdr democrat because his dad finally quite drinking so much because he had a steady job.

[izquierdista]

9. Welllll,

Whatever you say, Mommy!

[ErikJ]

14. Hahahaha

They say that his chief of staff Donald Regan was his puppetmaster.

[JI7]

10. he is a big part of the reason we have such a problem

[FLAprogressive]

11. Yes.

[UTUSN]

13. Who cares what RAYGUN thinks. n/t

[CelticThunder]

15. Of course.

[madrchsod]

16. no.........

[mulsh]

18. YES. I say that after surviving 16 years under his administrations

He and the people who worked for him and those who supported him are vile and heartless. LO nailed it tonight.

[liberal_mama]

19. Reagan destroyed the American Dream, but

today's rethugs are way worse. Paul Ryan should be run out of Washington for even proposing such a plan!

[TheKentuckian]

20. Probably, it was more of being constrained by reality.

Reagan laid much of the ground work for today's nuttiness but in his day such things were politically absurd. Now the plague has begun to work on Democrats.

All bad.

[bigwillq]

21. Yes (nt)

[Zorra]

22. Absolutely. He'd be leading the charge and kicking sick poor people

in the head along the way.