Harry, you are obviously well intentioned but naive and ill informed about many things, looking at the world through Fox News propaganda and ideological bias. I am a scientist, not a politician. The world is NOT divided between "liberals" and "conservatives" as you believe....
2. That is why I am an enigma to you. I just do not fit your view of the world.
Let me try to elucidate the enigma4U, and those that follow this thread. As a scientist, I do not indoctrinate one way or the other. In science we do not rely on authority, but on reasoning&logic
Let me try to elucidate the enigma4U, and those that follow this thread. As a scientist, I do not indoctrinate one way or the other. In science we do not rely on authority, but on reasoning&logic
3. You say that Reagan was the greatest president this country had. I agree that he was a good president, though by far not the greatest. Let me give u an example of how I teach:
Reagan was aGoodPresident, yet the GOP has relied on his formula ever since, whichIsBAD4our country
Reagan was aGoodPresident, yet the GOP has relied on his formula ever since, whichIsBAD4our country
4. U will ask why? How can it be that I say Reagan was a good president yet his formula bad 4 the country? a) The GOP wants a balanced budget. This is a mistake, as any competent economist will tell you. b) The GOP lies about Reagan&tax cuts. He did not have a balanced...
5. ... budget. He had a tremendous deficit, and increased the National Debt by a huge amount. (Check it, u will find it is true. I do not bullshit, I tell the truth.) Reagan called his economics a fancy new name: SupplySideEconomics,LaferCurve, etc. George H. Bush was candid:
6. He called it Wodoo Economics, and he was truthful. The Wodoo was in Reagan's & GOP's magic lie that by cutting taxes you increase growth so much that you end up collecting more revenue. Ted Cruz and many Republicans still preach the same lie. IT IS NOT TRUE. Reagan's economic
7. policy did generate growth, but BY FAR not enough to compensate for the taxes lost, and so he had tremendous deficits. Regan gave a fancy new name for what he was doing, but he was doing actually perfectly orthodox economic policy, called Keynesian economics, after British...
8. economist en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mayn… Keynes was correct in the prescription that Governments should NOT have a balanced budget, and that National Economy is NOT the same as the economy of a household. That Government should have deficits especially in recessions, and pay back
9. the National Debt during healthy growth periods. Reagan did exactly that, except the paying back part. The GOP is only worried about deficits when the President is a democrat. This is PROVEN by the #TaxRape just signed by CONald. It is projected to increase the National Debt
10. by 1.5 trillion, which the GOP LIES THAT IT WILL EASILY DISAPPEAR by additional growth. It will NOT. And the 1.5 trillion could turn out to be 15 trillion if there is a recession again. What did Reagan use the deficit for? He increased military spending by a tremendous amount
11. He also spent a tremendous amount on a pie in the sky scheme on which he spent a LOT of money, and which produced exactly ZERO results. He WASTED money, tremendous amounts of money on something called Star Wars. Wasting money is not good economic policy. It is BAD policy.
12. But it scared the Soviet Union (THEY WERE DUPED BY THIS ONE!! ) who got scared that they could not possibly match American technology, and this led to Gorbachev, and the eventual collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
I hope that if you read so far
I hope that if you read so far
13. U will stop accusing me of brain washing my students. I DO NOT DO THAT. Nor does any good scientist. Contrary to politics, you cannot be a good scientist if you are dishonest. And I pride myself in being a good scientist and a good teacher.. We teach students to THINK for
14. themselves. If I had been more successful in that, CONald would not have been elected. For it was obvious to a THINKING person that he was a liar and a fraud much before the election, and much before it became apparent that he is also a traitor and a criminal.
15. Just one more thing. Regan did another disservice for this country. He started the policy of rewarding the rich while cutting services for the poor. This is BAD policy and also unfair. Reagan spread lies with untrue anecdotes about "welfare queens" that were somehow
16. profiting handsomely from receiving food stamps, and not working, when they could work. This was a lie. There were never any welfare queens in this country. The US has never been generous with the less fortunate amongst us. Our government, especially the GOP is generous
17. with the rich, that receive goodies for their political contributions, and stingy with the less fortunate. The GOP also has been suppressing the vote of the less fortunate by inventing lies about election fraud. There has been NEVER any significant proven election fraud.
18. The fraud is the GOP lies about it. It is unfortunate that many believe these lies without proof. CONald lies every time he opens his mouth. HE LIES in his tweets, he LIED during the campaign. HE starts his sentences with "Believe me..." People who are truthful NEVER do that
