Kend ~ Reagan got people to spend more money alright. He got people to spend other peoples money and max out their credit. Debt isn't prosperity; and, a very poor example of responsibility. As far as where money belongs I think it belongs in the hands of everyone. After all, everyone needs it to survive don't they? Why give one group exclusive rights over everyone else. Poverty is unnecessary and doesn't help our society as a whole or the world in general.

As far as why the other Presidents since Reagan didn't correct the problem? You are right! They did nothing! Remember President Clinton balanced the budget; but, he didn't pay off the loan. There is a big difference. When Bill Clinton was President it was still possible to pay the interest and nibble away at the loan a bit. If we could have kept that up for the next 75 years or so we might have been just fine. Yet President Clinton himself made that impossible with the Free Trade Agreement. Intentionally, Clinton sabotaged our revenue base to make breaking even on the loan in the future impossible.

To further sabotage the economy, President George W. Bush gave massive tax cuts to the only group in the country still generating revenue. This left us forcing to borrow money just to pay the interest on the Reagan loan. Furthermore, he increased that debt by plunging the country into unnecessary foreign wars. President Obama, on the other hand put that madness on steroids without any attempts to increase revenue. Why did all these Presidents intentionally take a big problem and let it turn into a catastrophy?

Now Kend, when you look at the big picture it becomes very confusing as to why these leaders would have done so little to save the country and so much to destroy it. That is if you look at it with healthy honest logic. That does not answer the question. To answer that question my friend I will suggest you read post # 4 in this very blog, by Phil_in_CA. In it there is a reference to a document called the Powell Memo:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_F._Powell,_Jr.

Complete Transcript:

http://law.wlu.edu/deptimages/Powell%20Archives/PowellMemorandumTypescript.pdf

Here, Associate Justice of The Supreme Court, Lewis F. Powell, Jr lays out the agenda that has led to the destruction of our economy and way of life. If you want to see the reason in the madness, read this short memorandum and weep. This directive has influenced all major groups of wealthy elites and every Presidential Administration in this country since written in August 1971; with, perhaps the single exception of Jimmy Carter. It was President Ronald Wilson (666) Reagan that put the philosophy on steroids and made it official policy.

Quote Kend:DAnne, Reagan was elected to get USA out of a terrible recession and that is exactly what he did. Reagan put policies in place that convinced Americans to spend their hard earned money and it worked. What policies did Reagan put in place that are so damaging? Why hasn't anyone changed the in thirty years? Remember I am Canadian maybe I am missing something.

Kend ~ Bless your little heart! To say you are "missing something" is the understatement of the year. A terrible recession got Reagan elected? Are you making up your own history? Two things got Reagan elected and they were both manufactured by the family and connections of George H. W. Bush. You remember, the vice Presidential running mate of Ronald Reagan and the ex-head of the CIA.

Iran had seized a number of American Hostages (52 to be exact for 444 days--November 4, 1979 to January 20, 1981) and President Carter was not able to negotiate their freedom. The first story on the nightly news for over a year prior to the election was "Day X, The American Hostage Crisis In Iran." The media played up the story really good along with the "Gas Shortage Crisis." Both stories made President Jimmy Carter look like an useless incompetent leader. He wasn't able to make any progress on either 'crisis.' The reason as we all learned later was because Bush struck a deal with Iran to hold the hostages till the election was over. (You see the Bush family has a history of manipulating terrorists to serve it's own political purposes.) An act of treason the Reagan administration was never investigated for. In addition, the Bush family used their OPEC connections to orchestrated the phony fuel crisis which lead to sky rocketing fuel costs and gas sanctioning. A little historical tidbit that pissed everyone off. Ironically, after the election and ever since, gas sanctioning has never occurred again. Imagine that! What a coincidence! The economy was booming despite any minor recession and had nothing to do with the Reagan election!

The Reagan agenda was to boost revenue for the wealthy. His plan was to max out the countries credit, reduce wages by destroying labor unions, and burden future generations with the bill. In short, he rifled the Treasury. He was a reverse Robin Hood who stole from the poor to give to the wealthy. There was nothing benevolent about his economic policy. It was, and is, and still will be a national disaster of biblical proportions. The true damage that this policy will eventually have on the country still remains to be seen because no President since Reagan has reversed it and begun to pay for the damage of it. When that finally happens the blame will probably be incurred by the President who initiates the reparation policy. Since it is unlikely that a President would willfully invite that much hostility it is far more likely that our creditors will either call in the loan or cut off the credit. That will either lead to a war, a civil war, a revolutionary war, or the greatest Depression the world has ever seen. Whatever the outcome it will not be pleasant. All the fault and blame will forever fall at the feet of the man who made it all possible--President Ronald Wilson (666) Reagan. History will no doubt remember him as one of the worst leaders the world has ever known. His name will go down in infamy along with Emperor Nero. He will become a model in school books on negative leadership practices, and the leading textbook example of the effects of runaway capitalism and the greatest enemy of the world economy and common people. I wouldn't even be surprised if his name becomes synonymous with efforts doomed to catastrophic failure the same way that Benedict Arnold is synonymous with treason. "Better not Reagan that credit card or you'll regret it!"

Quote Kend:As far as the CEO thinking you are talking about. There job is to make as much money as they can for there share holders. These are private companies it is none of our business what they do. Yes it is profit before poeple that is twashatwashat

Kend ~ Thanks Kend! I almost forgot about Reagan's disastrous policy of deregulation of Industry. Another trend who's full damage is yet unknown. Let us hope that this hasn't directly led to the total destruction of our environment. Time will tell. Certainly it will lead to millions or more deaths, illnesses, and birth defects. How far will that damage go till reasonable regulations are restored? With Reagan's industrial flight companies have been able to poison some of the most beautiful areas of the third world. I've had the unfortunate opportunity to witness much of that travesty with my own eyes. Another 'glowing' memory from the Reagan legacy. I'm sure our children will think of him fondly when they look for vacation spots that they can go to that are still safe.

The Green policy of Germany is just smoke and mirrors? Are you kidding us? Despite what stages of progress Germany is undergoing you are quite mistaken by trying to undermine their progress with any business they are still doing with the fossil fuel industry. Widespread change doesn't happen overnight; but, what has occurred in Germany is fantastic and an example to the world. Personally, I can't wait to install solar panels on the roof and get my family off the grid. Quite frankly Kend, there is nothing you can say that is going to change my mind. But, thanks for trying!

Very well put DANNEMARC.
...Also KEND, you don't seem to understand that when it comes to a government that is owned and opperated by Corporations rather than We the People...It is dangerou$ly ea$y to write and in$tall policie$$$, but it is not easy to reform them, for obviou$ rea$on$, one being that more often than not it just leads to a bigger mess and more wacky policies that still only bennifits the Corporations, and the few who serve them, without any consideration for what the country and its people want and need as a whole.
IT'S TIME TO TAKE OUT THE TRASH...REVOLUTION IS EASIER THAN REFORM!

I would also like to point out to you KEND, and your junky addiction to BIG OIL; Germany (along with several other industrial nations) is leading the way in modern Green Energy through policies that are ment to bennefit EVERYONE. After less than three decades Germany's plan to eliminate reliance to nuclear energy by 2050 was moved up to nuclear free by 2025. Now that's impressive, and shows just what a country can accomplish when it writes policies that work towards bennefiting the country as a whole, and not just corporations.

One other thing KEND...That no one "owns" slaves anymore does not mean slavery is nonexcitant! Don't believe me???Just ask those who are forced to work for poverty level wages and without any bennefits. Just ask those who work for the L.A. shipping port, (the largest port in N.America, second largest in the world), about the threats they are facing from the Wal Mart Corporation who wants to move the Port to S. Baja Mexico. Why!?!?Less regulations, no unions, lower wages...All equals more money for the few who are wheeling and dealing at the expense of the masses. In other words Profit before people. That you consider this to be "Just doing buisness" and not as a form of slavery, really proves that your general perspective of the world we live in is clouded by Corporate Propaganda, and you are in deep. You're kind of like a Wal Mart CEO, or most CEO's, just as long as you get yours life is good.

cheers!

I've quite support to take task of NSA that our every moment automatic snapping by NSA. I think it is supreme project and helpful to provide well security. Thanks to ACLU for release the hidden news! Dalton perry

For the NSA, cracking codes is usually not even needed, they use that as a last resort. It is so much easier to read your plain text messages, on your computer, even before you encrypt it.

Here is a quote from the author, Steve Blank, of this article, "Your Computer May Already Be Hacked--NSA Inside?" as displayed on Cryptome.org...Steve Blank is a former military electronics expert, serial entrepreneur, and currently Professor of Entrepreneurship at Stanford:

Quote article:The NSA has a history of figuring out how to get to messages before or after they are encrypted. Whether it was by putting keyloggers on keyboards and recording the keystrokes or detecting the images of the characters as they were being drawn on a CRT.

Today every desktop and laptop computer has another way for the NSA to get inside.

Intel Inside

How does anyone know whether or not the microcode updates to our microprocessors contains NSA spyware? Those updates are encrypted and unless you are able to decrypt and then read and understand the code, you just cannot know if this is being done. We just cannot tell whether or not a "backdoor" has been put on all of our computers. Such microprocessor code would not be detectable by rootkit detection techniques.

Another way the NSA could compromise our computers wouldn't even need to use Intel microprocessor updates. All they would have to do is to inject malware that would compromise our encryption keys or make our "pseudo-random" generators really, really pseudo making it very easy for the NSA to decrypt our encrypted messages.

http://steveblank.com/2013/07/15/your-computer-may-already-be-hacked-nsa...

Note: some of the responses to Steve's article have some very good ideas as ways to defeat being spied on by the NSA or anyone else.

akunard ~ Thanks for that tidbit on Nancy Pelosi. Unfortunately, she already lost my vote when she addressed her constituency and overruled their insistence that Edward Snowden be pardoned. That was the last nail in her coffin. She and Diane Feinstein are out of office as far as I am concerned. I'm still voting for Barbara Boxer though. Any surprises there?

This just goes to show that any public servant should be free and clear of any personal business ventures that may compromise their position. Such a venting process should occur before candidates qualify to run for office and annually when in office as well.

I think the GOP is disgraciful stealing from the working class, living for free off hard working people; there's no dignity in this, to deem themselves proud, and say we made it on our own. These people don't know the meaning of a hard days work, and the Tea Party are far more extreme; it's time to raise taxes: To prior the Reagan years on the top 2% and corporations doing business in the USA at 39% of their profit. Our Free Trade Aggreemente is nothing more than FOODS STAMPS for transnational corporations "Outsourcing US Jobs" where labor is dirt cheap.

It time to invest in our children; education should be our number prior, wipe-out illiteratcy, science, mathemathics, world history, civics, and our political procees as well as knowing how our financial institutions work. We need to build new schools, remodel our old ones, build new roads a highways, repairing our old ones. We need a high speed rail system that travels at 250 miles per hour from coast to coast stopping only at the ten largest cities. We need more new homes, maintain our landscape to prevent natural disassters from happening, and we must remodel comdemned properties, or knock them down. We must restore the safety-net, lift the cap on social security, and provide medicare for all our citizens.

Kend ~ Your logic never ceases to amaze me. Do you ever think about anything before you say it? Reagan is not responsible for anything that happened after his presidency? That's like saying Washington left no impact on the country after he left office. To this day we call our capital, "DC." The Louisiana Purchase bought by Thomas Jefferson was sold back to the Indians immediately after he left office. The slaves freed by Lincoln were re enslaved immediately after Lincoln was assassinated. The Panama Canal collapsed when Theodore Roosevelt left office. The National Highway system was buried under dirt then Dwight Eisenhower left office. The Civil Rights Act was repealed immediately after LBJ left office. The Patriot Act was repealed immediately after GWB left office.

You yourself point out the history of Germany. Yet did you not just say that Germany just recently finished paying off restitution to all the countries they blew up when Hitler was Chancellor? 70 years after the man's death and he still is having a huge impact on that country, right? It was Hitlers fault, right? Kend, do you want to tell me again exactly why Reagan can leave office without any guilt or responsibility for anything he did and that his actions could have no impact on the country after his term? Everyone on this blog--with the exception of those like yourself--are well aware of the laundry list of disastrous policies of Ronald Wilson (666) Reagan that are still locking this country in a choke hold. I'm not going to insult their intelligence or waste my time listing them.

Regardless, your argument falls apart on its own gravity. Look out below, nonsense coming through--collapsing upon itself at nearly free-fall speed!

Southern Rape Complex

In 1941 in a book titled “The Mind of the South” J.W. Cash defined the “southern rape complex”. He identified the obsession of the white Southerners with black-on-white rape. Not only did such an act “defile” the “sacredness” of a white southern woman, it was also seen as the penultimate act of rebellion on the part of black men. It was so strong in the South that the rape of a white woman by a black man in Forsythe County, Georgia in 1912 resulted in all blacks being driven from the County.

SO I question the “fairness” of a southern all-woman jury sitting in judgment of a white man who murdered a black man. Was there some subconscious prejudice at work here that would preclude George Zimmerman from being treated fairly?

I blame Clinton and Bush. Bush who stood by for 8 long years while this was going on and did absolutely nothing to help. The entire GOP stopped anything from recovery during the first 4 years of the Obama administration and nobody is calling them out on this in congress.

Recently I watched as the GOP side of the isle who were all were laughing and holding their hands over their mouths laughing so hard. It was after Sen Reid was trading the GOP to get votes for nominations and giving up 2 labor nonimations.

Quote Mauiman2:Mr. Reiter, I understand that you think everything that is wrong with the world is the Republican's fault, but can you really lay the mess in Detroit at the Republican's feet?

Mauiman2 ~ A very fair question! The answer, yes, you can lay the mess in Detroit at the Republican's feet. This whole disaster is the dream child of President Ronald Wilson Reagan--the 666 Beast. Are the Republicans totally responsible--you might ask? The answer, of course, is no. It was President Clinton that drove in the final nails of the coffin of 'free trade.'

Then, who, you might ask, can we blame fully for the mess in Detroit and across the country. The answer is Multi-National Corporations. For it is these entities that own both political parties and have the most to gain from Industrial flight; and, the least to gain from supporting the American Labor Force.

"Too big to fail," is a red herring. "Too big to succeed," needs to be the battle cry!

I hope that answers your question!