re: #158 publicityStunted

Another reason I don’t believe Reagan has any place in the Top Five or Top Ten is because much of what ails us today can be traced back to him:

* rise of the Religious Right and their anti-gay, anti-women’s rights-agenda

* deregulation (and all the lovely things in brings, like pollution, the credit default swap fiasco, bank failures, price-gouging, erosion of worker rights, etc)

* Afghanistan (mujaheddin, anyone?)

* Huge, bloated defense budgets and deficits without the revenue to pay for them

You forgot Iran Contra…. not sure if that has any fallout on our current problems, but it still feels like we shouldn’t discuss the problems that Reagan caused without bringing it up….