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**asiseeit** · January 20, 2024, 08:07 AM

No doubt at all that RR was a great POTUS, top three IMO. I'm older and was middle aged back then. The world has changed. DJT is no imposter. He and his policies have been largely correct this day and age to combat different kinds of threats, to combat globalists, communism, progressives, our borders, and foreign threats. This country desperately needs his leadership again.

**pinstripers** · January 20, 2024, 08:21 AM

Originally posted by asiseeit View Post

No doubt at all that RR was a great POTUS, top three IMO. I'm older and was middle aged back then. The world has changed. DJT is no imposter. He and his policies have been largely correct this day and age to combat different kinds of threats, to combat globalists, communism, progressives, our borders, and foreign threats. This country desperately needs his leadership again.

This country desperately needs his policies again.

**Atxshoxfan** · January 20, 2024, 08:23 AM

Had Reagan been president post Obama, I'm sure his views and policies would have been much different. He didn't have to deal with mass illegal immigration, corrupt federal bureaucracies or the push for socialism, green energy, legalized drugs, destruction of oue penal system, tax payer funded handouts to illegal immigrants and foreign nations who want nothing more than to destroy America.
Regretfully this is a post 9/11 and post Obama world. Totally different America, totally different world. I wish everyone could enjoy life like it used to be.
So go vote for Joe or any other Democrat, they all cater to the socialist donors.

**asiseeit** · January 20, 2024, 08:39 AM

His policies would be much like Trump's in this day and age. Both true conservatives not like so many of the RINO Republican congressmen that have sold out to the elitists the past twenty years

**Kung Wu** · January 20, 2024, 09:26 AM

For example: If you think NAFTA was actually fostering the "free trade" that Reagan was referring to, you aren't up to date on economics. The free trade Reagan referred to simply meant LESS government interference in international trade. NAFTA was MOUNDS and MOUNDS of government interference. Just because "Free Trade" is in the name of a policy, doesn't mean a darn thing.

**Shockm** · January 20, 2024, 10:49 AM

Originally posted by Kung Wu View Post

For example: If you think NAFTA was actually fostering the "free trade" that Reagan was referring to, you aren't up to date on economics. The free trade Reagan referred to simply meant LESS government interference in international trade. NAFTA was MOUNDS and MOUNDS of government interference. Just because "Free Trade" is in the name of a policy, doesn't mean a darn thing.

Economic times have totally changed since the Reagan era. He didn't and couldn't have forseen what was going to be here 40 years later, but his policies worked for the United States in 1980. His policies worked for his time. However China changed, and America changed. China was viewed by the world as a 3rd World Economy during Reagan. They still are given many advantages as a lower economy even though China is one of the Top 3 World economic powers now. Reagan wouldn't have kept with his policies that he had then if he was the U.S. President today. I know that many on here don't like to read a lot, but there is a lot of information in this thread. Reagan's policies which helped the middle and lower classes in the 1980's were helping them less and less by 2000. The economy for the Elites was skyrocketing, while the middle and lower classes were inching lower.

Reagan Set Up The Death Of The Middle Class, But China Was The Clincher

https://ourfuture.org/20140930/reaga...s-the-clincher

Prior to the initiation of economic reforms and trade liberalization nearly 40 years ago, China maintained policies that kept the economy very poor, stagnant, centrally controlled, vastly inefficient, and relatively isolated from the global economy. Since opening up to foreign trade and investment and implementing free-market reforms in 1979, China has been among the world’s fastest-growing economies, with real annual gross domestic product (GDP) growth averaging 9.5% through 2018, a pace described by the World Bank as “the fastest sustained expansion by a major economy in history.” Such growth has enabled China, on average, to double its GDP every eight years and helped raise an estimated 800 million people out of poverty.

Just a moment...

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/RL/RL33534