MICHAEL REAGAN brags that he can afford GAS for his GAS GUZZLERS and creates a fairy tale of GLOBAL INFLATION that has been widely written about elsewhere.
REDUCE YOUR CONSUMPTION, MICHAEL!
GLOBAL FOOD PRICES will continue to escalate due to the RUSSIAN INVASION of UKRAINE and the RUSSIAN DESTRUCTION of farms, farm equipment and killing farmers. UKRAINE provides massive amounts of FOOD for the region and supplements the UN FOOD PROGRAMS across the Globe.
As a footnote, an overweight poster elsewhere was whining about the increased prices of JUNK FOOD, SUGARED DRINKS, COOKIES. Spoiled Americans need to try healthy foods, grow a few vegetables and consider healthy alternatives. There are alternatives.
How about CORPORATE CONSOLIDATION of INDUSTRIES?
How about profitable corporations that pay no taxes raising their prices and bragging about record profits?
GAS PRICES???? Try blaming the PRICE GOUGING of BIG OIL.
A President doesn't determine GAS PRICES!
Notice how BIG OIL is using their excessive profits to BUY BACK STOCKS, just as the AIRLINES INDUSTRY did before they received a taxpayer bailout.
There's more to the history of the sabotaging of PRESIDENT CARTER that's available elsewhere, but it should be noted that PRESIDENT CARTER cleaned house at the CIA and the discarded agents went to work for the CARLYLE GROUP. See the connection?
And of course, you can choose to believe the Republican Fairy Tale about the release of hostages.
The Republican myth of Ronald Reagan and the Iran hostages, debunked
And PRAISING MASERATI MANCHIN?
MASERATI MANCHIN sold his soul long ago and never did ANYTHING for WEST VIRGINIA.
GET A LIFE, MICHAEL!
Michael Reagan: History repeats itself – unfortunately
Forty years ago we had a soaring inflation rate, obscene gas prices and interest rates in the teens.
Today, thanks to their incredible incompetence, bad policies and serial stupidity, the Democrats in Washington are bringing back all those problems.
It’s getting so bad, I’m actually beginning to think Jimmy Carter was not such a bad president after all.
People under 40 have no idea how bad things were in the late 1970s under Carter.
They’ve grown up knowing only 3 percent interest rates, dirt cheap gasoline and 2 percent inflation.
They don’t know how miserable things were under Carter or how miserable they can get again under Biden.
My friend who owns a local tire store in Los Angeles doesn’t need a history book to remember how awful America was in the early 1980s because he lived through it.
When I got an oil change at his place this week, he was railing about how today’s official inflation rate of 8.5% doesn’t come close to the real figure.
“Where is the thing I’m buying that’s only gone up eight and a half?” he asked.
“The tires I’m buying aren’t only up eight and a half percent. The gas and food I’m buying are not only up eight and half.”
He’s right, and you don’t have to be Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia to know it.
Earlier this week, when the new monthly inflation figures came out, Manchin, arguably the last sensible Democrat with an elected job in Washington, rattled off some of the real numbers.
Year over year, gasoline is up 48%. Beef is up 16%, chicken and milk up 13% and coffee and eggs up 11%.
Used car prices are up nearly 40% – and the wait to get a new one feels almost as long as it was in 1981 Moscow.
Democrats have created our economic and social problems themselves – in just 14 months – but they always try to blame them on bad or greedy other people.
They say that if the rich would just pay more in taxes – their so-called “fair share” – ordinary people will somehow be better off, as if the additional taxes the rich are forced to pay will go directly to needy people.
But the reality is, as the last 75 years have proven again and again, Democrat policies always hurt the poor and middle class the hardest, not the rich.
For example, I have a Ford F-150 pickup and with gas in California going for almost $6 a gallon it costs me nearly $200 for a fill up.
I can afford that, but my daughter-the-school-teacher can’t. Neither can my son, who has two young girls.
Neither can the grocery clerk or the waiter at a restaurant – but the owners of the grocery store chain or the restaurant can.
The last good Democrat president was Bill Clinton. He balanced the budget, gave us welfare reform and actually worked well with Republicans, but we’ll never see his like again.
Today we’re watching the usual Democrat horror story playing out with the added bonus of a president who does everything backwards.
President Biden, following the Democrat playbook, blames Vladimir Putin, the rich and gouging oil company CEOs for high gas prices – anyone but his administration, which caused them by shutting down pipelines and generally abusing America’s productive energy sector. NO PIPELINE WAS SHUT DOWN THAT HAD ANY OIL! IT'S TIME TO STOP THE BIG OIL LIES!
KEYSTONE XL FACTS - INTENDED FOR EXPORT
Given the way the Democrats are governing in D.C. now, things will never change for the better unless a miracle happens.
That’s what happened in 1980 when Ronald Reagan came to Washington and turned things around by lowering taxes, cutting government regulations and lifting the country’s spirits.
To many of us old-timers it feels like the early 1980s all over again.
And the only way the country will ever recover from the damage of the Biden Gang is to elect a Republican worthy of being president.
Thank God there will be many candidates.
Michael Reagan, the son of President Ronald Reagan, is an author, speaker and president of the Reagan Legacy Foundation.
IRAN CONTRA
BILL BARR was ATTORNEY GENERAL who pardoned the criminals, destroyed evidence, allowed OLLIE NORTH to testify with IMMUNITY to a sanitized version before CONGRESS to prevent the JUSTIFIABLE IMPEACHMENT of REAGAN & CIA DIRECTOR VP BUSH.
ROBERT PARRY contiued to investigate and report until his death.
Robert Parry explains the Iran/Contra scandal
ROBERT PARRY: The Iran-Contra Coverup
Bob Parry RIP: The Reporter Who Broke the Iran-Contra Story
Obit: Robert Parry, Iran-Contra Affair Investigation
Robert Parry: Rethinking Iran-Contra
Gary Webb : Murdered For Exposing The Truth
After gaining access to secret grand jury transcripts in 1996, and following the subsequent paper trail that followed therein, Gary Webb made the shocking discovery that government informant, Oscar Danilo Blandón, was covertly selling tons of cocaine for the Central Intelligence Agency in South Central Los Angeles, and other parts of the country. As we now know today — thanks to Gary’s brilliant research — this is what most visibly sparked the crack epidemic that swept North America during the 1980’s and 90’s.[1] The funds were being raised to fund CIA trained terrorists in Nicaragua to overthrow the Sandinista government who had recently ousted the U.S. backed military dictatorship of the Somoza Dynasty.[2]
When Gary originally broke this mind blowing story, the arrogant authority’s assumed they could simply ignore him and hope he’d go away. But they underestimated the paradigm shifting power of the internet, and the intelligence of Webb, who not only listed the explosive story online — far beyond the reaches of the mainstream media — but he also listed the necessary documents and audio recordings one would need to verify his remarkable claims too. In other words, Gary was one of the original alternative media personalities to effectively challenge the information monopoly of the establishment press, and directly put the power of research and fact checking into the hands of the people. What followed was national outrage, particularly from the black population who were hit the hardest by the unparalleled flood of cocaine into their neighborhoods.
Once this happened, and the story began to snowball and take on a life of its own, the mainstream media began to demonize Gary aggressively. As Webb later noted, some of these journalists were directly linked to the CIA. This, of course, should come as no surprise considering the Agency’s well documented history of manipulating the media.[3]
The pressure became so intense, that Webb’s marriage fell apart, his employer backed down from the story, and he ultimately had to leave the company.
