Calvin:
If you claim that Bush is an intellectual – we must be living in different realities. Would you also claim that Reagan was lucid for the whole of his 2 terms? I am not angry but we are talking about the fundamentals and squandered opportunities. What we have lost since Reagan will be hard or maybe impossible to get back. What is saddest is that it was lost to gluttony and greed. For 30 years after WWII where able to reduce the deficit (cost of WWII), save European and Japanese economy, build the best roads and schools, go to the Moon, expand trade and expand a vision of freedom, democracy and prosperity that the whole world admired. The heroes of that time where the workers and the capitalists who worked hard, made profits and like true patriots paid their fair share of taxes. You want a great country – you have to pay for it. Reaganomics killed all that and this is where we are right now – biggest deficit in 50 years, our debt owned by Islamists and China our financial markets on the road to being nationalized. if you don’t think that is tragic – what kind of country do you think our Founding Fathers where thinking of?
