I've had it up to HERE.
Jun. 11th, 2004 01:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kellinatorAll right. All week I've been quiet about the Reagan media circus, not wishing to court the drama. But fuck it. I'm not going to take it anymore.
How fucking sad am I supposed to be that Reagan died? Look, people die. It happens. A peaceful death at 93 after a long full life is the best that any of us can hope for. And when that death is preceded by the living hell known as Alzheimer's disease -- well, that's a blessing.
Not that Reagan was exactly interested in providing funds for Alzheimer's research during his time in office. Maybe if that had been more important to him than tax cuts for the rich, he wouldn't have had to suffer through that long death -- and neither would have millions of innocents, including my grandmother.
Not to mention all the other diseases that Reagan ignored -- AIDS, anyone?
Despite his own recollections to the contrary, Ronald Reagan spent World War II in Hollywood making movies. Jimmy Stewart took time out from his film career to be a fighter pilot -- and had a clause in his contract that if the film studio tried to get publicity out of that, he'd walk off the set.
Last Sunday should have been dedicated to celebrating and remembering the brave troops who stormed the beaches on D-Day, not Reagan. Don't insult real heroes by comparing them to this man.
What's with all this misguided 80's nostalgia? See if![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shawnj refreshes your memory. The '80s sucked, and Reagan was a big part of why.
And for those who are convinced that Reagan was a genius -- well,gaiagurl helped me out with this link to some of Reagan's more bizarre quotations.
What set me off to the point of no return was hearing someone say that it won't be as big a deal when Jimmy Carter dies, he won't be as "well-remembered or missed." Whether or not you like his politics, Jimmy Carter has dedicated his life to helping the less fortunate. He is one of my personal heroes and is respected around the world. If people think Ronald Reagan is a better man that Jimmy Carter -- well, maybe the United States is in even worse shape than I thought.
Go ahead. Have your bread and media circuses devised to get Dubya reelected. You get the America you deserve.
(Just wish I'd had the balls to post this earlier in the week. Nobody reads LiveJournal on Friday.)
How fucking sad am I supposed to be that Reagan died? Look, people die. It happens. A peaceful death at 93 after a long full life is the best that any of us can hope for. And when that death is preceded by the living hell known as Alzheimer's disease -- well, that's a blessing.
Not that Reagan was exactly interested in providing funds for Alzheimer's research during his time in office. Maybe if that had been more important to him than tax cuts for the rich, he wouldn't have had to suffer through that long death -- and neither would have millions of innocents, including my grandmother.
Not to mention all the other diseases that Reagan ignored -- AIDS, anyone?
Despite his own recollections to the contrary, Ronald Reagan spent World War II in Hollywood making movies. Jimmy Stewart took time out from his film career to be a fighter pilot -- and had a clause in his contract that if the film studio tried to get publicity out of that, he'd walk off the set.
Last Sunday should have been dedicated to celebrating and remembering the brave troops who stormed the beaches on D-Day, not Reagan. Don't insult real heroes by comparing them to this man.
What's with all this misguided 80's nostalgia? See if
shawnj refreshes your memory. The '80s sucked, and Reagan was a big part of why. And for those who are convinced that Reagan was a genius -- well,
gaiagurl helped me out with this link to some of Reagan's more bizarre quotations.What set me off to the point of no return was hearing someone say that it won't be as big a deal when Jimmy Carter dies, he won't be as "well-remembered or missed." Whether or not you like his politics, Jimmy Carter has dedicated his life to helping the less fortunate. He is one of my personal heroes and is respected around the world. If people think Ronald Reagan is a better man that Jimmy Carter -- well, maybe the United States is in even worse shape than I thought.
Go ahead. Have your bread and media circuses devised to get Dubya reelected. You get the America you deserve.
(Just wish I'd had the balls to post this earlier in the week. Nobody reads LiveJournal on Friday.)
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Date: 2004-06-11 10:55 pm (UTC)"In a Congressional Research Service study titled AIDS Funding for Federal Government Programs: FY1981-FY1999, author Judith Johnson found that overall, the federal government spent $5.727 billion on AIDS under Ronald Reagan. This higher number reflects President Reagan's proposals as well as additional expenditures approved by Congress that he later signed." -- Deroy Murdock
Apparently Reagan proposed about $3 Billion across the end of his administration, which cooresponds to the time at which we started seeing AIDS as the crisis it was. The lesson from that delay has been applied to other health concerns, leading to early warning analysis and risk assessment, like the rapid response to West Nile and various Flu outbreaks.