"I'll admit Reagan was one of Americas greatest presidents."
It's unreal that people still make this statement.
Where was I during the Reagan period?, middle class small town America.
Ok here's your great president.
While cutting funding for public education, social security pensions, and guaranteed student loans, he still managed to spend enough on the cold war to take us from world's largest crediter to world's largest debter nation. And that cold war thing any way, I mean come on, I still remember social studies classes, "at this point we can destroy the earth 127 times while Russian can only destroy the earth 54 times". Hello, if you can destroy the entire earth several times over why the phuck are you still spending money on more bombs.
Now let's look at his criminal activity. He ran the most corrupt administration in our history, more indictments in his administration than even Nixon's. He used drug money to buy weapons from Iran to fund an illegal war in Nicaragua that he hid from the American public (and conservs talk about Clinton lying about a blow job, give me a break). That perpetuated the civil war in Nicaragua for several more years, destroying the infrastructure of the country leaving thousands maimed or dead but no aid was ever provided to rebuild. Nicaragua still suffers the consequences of Reagan even today. Aside from that, all the lies never even came to the American public's attention. For example, I certainly don't remember anything ever coming out about the secret military bases and landing strips that were built in the jungles of Costa Rica.
Yeah I see what you mean he was a great guy.