with the exception of the Reagan years

Reagan was the most successful Reconquista Republican, who signed amnesty into law.

He also presided over the US change from a productive business economy, to one based on the government providing most of the jobs. Just after the end of Reagan's second term, manufacturing had decreased and government had grown to such an extent that, there were more gov workers than manufacturing ones. It's been that way ever since. More government worker leaches, than productive manufacturing employees.

The BLS has published seasonally-adjusted month-by-month employment data for both government and manufacturing going back to 1939. For half a century—from January 1939 through July 1989—manufacturing employment always exceeded government employment in the United States, according to these numbers.

Then, in August 1989, the seasonally-adjusted employment numbers for government exceeded the employment numbers for manufacturing for the first time. That month, manufacturing employed 17,964,000 and government employed 17,989,000.

Although Trump did not address this mechanism specifically in his speech, there is a simple way to fund the building of this wall: taxing remittances, which represent money shipped to Mexico by Mexicans working in the United States. Remittances are the second largest component of the Mexican economy, after oil. A four-percent tax on the $25 billion a year that’s sent south of the border would raise $10 billion over the next ten years, more than enough to build the wall. Mexico has all the incentive one could ask for to keep this spigot running wide open. We can even offer to lift the tax once the wall is built.

Overall, a good article. But, the author should have stuck with what Trump DID address; because, once he builds the wall and sends the illegals back home,there will be no $25 billion a year to tax. Or, am I missing something...

Donald Trump may have just won the White House.

I sure hope so!

this evil administration and those before it with the exception of the Reagan years, beyond contempt.

What, exactly, did Reagan do to warrant an exclusion to your list? He promoted illegal immigration along with all others after him and ensured that social security funds could be raided by the US government.

"Transcript: Trump doesn't commit to deporting all illegals"

He doesn't say he won't.

If illegals can't get a job and if they can't get government services, how many will hang around?

"Transcript: Trump doesn't commit to deporting all illegals"

He doesn't say he won't.

He used to say he would.

"He used to say he would."

In the primary. And he caught shit for that, didn't he? Right away the MSM painted his entire immigration plan as "tearing apart families in the middle of the night -- hard-working families that did nothing more than desire the American dream".

You know the score -- run hard right in the primary, move to the center in the general. Oh, you never heard this? Huh. Here I thought you were somewhat familiar with politics.

All Reagan performed was stoke fear; further fear from an aggressor, world class nation ... the USA.

You know the score -- run hard right in the primary, move to the center in the general.

Ah, so Trump is just another politician after all, suckering the conservative base the way they've so often been suckered. Got it.

The USSR was already crumbling

They'd been crumbling for 70 years. You want to call it a coincidence that those 70 years came to an end on Reagan's watch, more fool you.

"Ah, so Trump is just another politician after all ..."

Nah, but he plays one. Pretty well, I'd say.

What a handle for a Hillary fan.

"Ah, so Trump is just another politician after all ..."

Nah, but he plays one. Pretty well, I'd say.

When it comes to suckering the base, very well.

There aren't many on this website, but do you think the leftist loons and the sexually confused are over represented?

Overrepresented where?

You want to call it a coincidence that those 70 years came to an end on Reagan's watch

No. The USSR was already crumbling. Ronnie just stumbled along at the right tyme from a historical perspective.

"You want to call it a coincidence that those 70 years came to an end on Reagan's watch"

No. The USSR was already crumbling. Ronnie just stumbled along at the right tyme

That is calling it a coincidence. Cling to your illusions.

do you think the leftist loons and the sexually confused are over represented [here]?

The only "sexually confused" posters here are the ones who are constantly accusing others of homosexual inclinations or acts - projecting their own desires. I don't think the few leftists contribute anything of value, but if A K A Stone wants to allow them, it's his forum.

Why do you ask?

Reagan was the most successful Reconquista Republican, who signed amnesty into law.

Reagan was serving Job Creators who wanted plenty of cheap labor and cannon fodder.

Cling to your illusions.

The truth is: Ronnie didn't do anything other than arm the so-called "Freedom Fighters" otherwise known as the Mujahideen via the US_CIA. Once the USSR left Afghanistan, Ronnie left Afghanistan as his proxie war with USSR was considered a VICTORY in the USA and left his "Freedom Fighters" completely abandoned. Angered by US policies, the Mujahideen later morphed into the Taliban and other radical Muslim groups, such as Al-Qaeda and spawning ISIS.

Yeah, some illusion. The ME has turned into a nightmare because folks like YOU do not understand the responsibility the USA has played in creating international turbulence through silly meddling policies.

Reagan forced the USSR into bankruptcy and cleaned up the mess left behind by

Economy collapsed there AFTER imposing free market reforms and predatory privatisation during Yeltsin misrule.

How are things over on the left side, Buckeroo?

Left side of what? Even your Rush Limbaugh is left of me.

You wantt to call it a coincidence that those 70 years came to an end on Reagan's watch, more fool you.

Berlin Wall was removed during the early Clinton as a result of Gorbachev pressure on East German government.

And Soviet Union fell apart because of Yeltsin later

Once the USSR left Afghanistan, Ronnie left Afghanistan as his proxie war with USSR was considered a VICTORY in the USA and left his "Freedom Fighters" completely abandoned. Angered by US policies, the Mujahideen later morphed into the Taliban and other radical Muslim groups, such as Al-Qaeda and spawning ISIS.

Which has squat to do with what/who caused the USSR to fall. But don't let me stop you from changing the subject.

Ronnie's effort was minor in regards to toppling the USSR. His effort was major creating a ME crisis that persists to this day.

* NSDD-32 declared that the United States would seek to "neutralize" Soviet control over Eastern and Central Europe and authorized the use of covert action and other means to support anti-Soviet groups in the region, especially in Poland.

* NSDD-66 stated that it would be U.S. policy to disrupt the Soviet economy by attacking a "strategic triad" of critical resources--financial credits, high technology, and natural gas. The directive was tantamount to a "secret declaration of economic war on the Soviet Union."

* NSDD-75 stated that the U.S. would no longer coexist with the Soviet system but would seek to change it fundamentally. America intended to roll back Soviet influence at every opportunity.

A subset of the Reagan strategy was U.S. support of pro-freedom forces in Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Angola, and Cambodia. A key decision was to supply Stinger ground-to-air missiles to the mujahideen in Afghanistan, who used them to shoot down the Soviet helicopters that had kept them on the defensive for years.

[...] The same month, the President announced that development and deployment of a comprehensive anti-ballistic missile system would be his top defense priority. The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was called "Star Wars" by liberal detractors, but Soviet leader Yuri Andropov took SDI very seriously, calling it a "strike weapon" and a preparation for a U.S. nuclear attack.

Moscow's intense opposition to SDI showed that Soviet scientists regarded the initiative not as a pipe dream but as a technological feat they could not match. A decade later, the general who headed the department of strategic analysis in the Soviet Ministry of Defense revealed what he had told the Politburo in 1983: "Not only could we not defeat SDI, SDI defeated all our possible countermeasures."

- www.heritage.org/research...d-reagan-and-the-fall-of- communism

"Star Wars"

Another failed Reagan program. Keep up the BS, pal ... because you are full of it.

Nicaragua

This was the CIA "CONTRA" BS instilled by Ronnie. Another failed program.

Cambodia

Another failed Ronnie program which lead to USA intervention in Vietnam because of the so-called "domino effect." Total BS to this day.

Another failed program.

Another red herring - freedom fighters didn't need to oust Communist governments, nor did SDI need to become fully operational, to destabilize the Soviet empire.

It is total BS that you subscribe to that Reagan was some sort of GREAT President. He was lead by the nose into meaningless intervention around the globe.

The failures are about the Reagan exalting foreign intrigue and intervention into areas that has ZERO to do with US national security.

Which has squat to do with what/who caused the USSR to fall. But don't let me stop you from changing the subject.

Why do you ask?

Just wanted your opinion.

Got it.