Rate the Presidents, Installment #40: Ronald Reagan

[JonathanSwift]

Ronald Reagan, 1981-1989

Previous Results
Abraham Lincoln: 4.45 Stars
George Washington: 4.42 Stars
Chester A. Arthur: 3.8 Stars
Dwight D. Eisenhower: 3.7 Stars
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: 3.67 Stars
Thomas Jefferson: 3.65 Stars
Theodore Roosevelt: 3.59 Stars
James Monroe: 3.57 Stars
John Quincy Adams: 3.5 Stars
Grover Cleveland: 3.46 Stars
Grover Cleveland: 3.46 Stars
John F. Kennedy: 3.43 Stars
Harry S. Truman: 3.38 Stars
James Madison: 3.23 Stars
William Howard Taft: 3.15 Stars
Zachary Taylor: 3.15 Stars
James A. Garfield: 3.14 Stars
Calvin Coolidge: 3.12 Stars
Ulysses S. Grant: 3.06 Stars
Martin Van Buren: 3.04 Stars
Jimmy Carter: 2.86 Stars
James K. Polk: 2.85 Stars
Gerald Ford: 2.73 Stars
John Adams: 2.58 Stars
Lyndon B. Johnson: 2.53 Stars
Warren Harding: 2.48 Stars
William McKinley: 2.47 Stars
Andrew Jackson: 2.43 Stars
William Henry Harrison: 2.38 Stars
Woodrow Wilson: 2.36 Stars
Millard Fillmore: 2.33 Stars
Benjamin Harrison: 2.33 Stars
Richard Nixon: 2.29 Stars
Rutherford B. Hayes: 2.15 Stars
Herbert Hoover: 2.11 Stars
John Tyler: 2.11 Stars
Andrew Johnson: 1.72 Stars
Franklin Pierce: 1.6 Stars
James Buchanan: 1.41 Stars

[Sopranos Republican]

Where's the 💩 option?

Though tbf he probably pulled bitches in his acting days, unlike Jeb Bush.

[SWE]

Worst president in American history, bar none.

[Mr. Smith]

Wish zero stars was an option.

[Gass3268]

Awful, the worst President of the 20th century.

[SATW]

5 Stars, one of the Best.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

If you don't vote five stars you are antiamerican commie, imo

[Illuminati Blood Drinker]

Utterly vile. Tim Kreider's obituary will always hold a special place in my heart:

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[PJ]

Was obsessed with tax cuts and deregulation, was vehemently anti-worker's rights, escalated the failed war on drugs, overthrew governments across the globe and replaced them with dictators. One of the worst, 1 star.

[OSR stands with Israel]

4 stars, he reconized that the Soviet Union was 10 years from collapsing if you put pressure on them which he did due to increasing military presence in europe,star wars, and putting more missiles in Europe. The economy was catastrophic when he took office due too sky high taxes and too much regulations and he deregulated the economy(not completely though like Bush JR did)  which caused the economy to jump start again and 16 million jobs were created and unemployment went from 10.8% to 5.4% when he left office. Also inflation went from 14% to 4.7% when he left office which let Americans have a better life.Hes not a 5 star president due to the dramatic increase in the debt though

And Oh yah liberals before you mention that wages were stagnant during Reagan's term , median wages increased by 4000 during the Reagan years after no growth in the carter years, and with inflation dropping as much as it did that wage increase meant more

http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa261.pdf

http://www.multpl.com/us-median-income

[OSR stands with Israel]

Historians rank Reagan 11th all time

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/02/16/new-ranking-of-u-s-presidents-puts-lincoln-1-obama-18-kennedy-judged-most-over-rated/

He ranks 8th in mine

1. Washington
2. Lincoln
3. FDR
4. Jefferson
5. Teddy Roosevelt
6. Truman
7. IKE
8. Reagan

[Antonio the Sixth]

1 star. Not quite in Tyler/Buchanan/Dubya's league, but still thoroughly awful.

[OSR stands with Israel]

Worst president in American history, bar none.

Socialists are still mad that the USSR fell lol

[Antonio the Sixth]

median wages increased by 4000 during the Reagan years

dafuq?

[Mr. Smith]

Nixon looked like a saint compared to him.

[Classic Conservative]

5 Stars, one of the Best.

[OSR stands with Israel]

Worst president in American history, bar none.

Socialists are still mad that the USSR fell lol

Please stop.

Well TNF is clearly neo-soviet and the poster I responded to is a fan of him.

[OSR stands with Israel]

median wages increased by 4000 during the Reagan years

dafuq?

Look at the links for proof

[Antonio the Sixth]

median wages increased by 4000 during the Reagan years

dafuq?

Look at the links for proof

That's not a 4000 increase. That's an absolute $4000 increase, which is a pretty meaningless figure.

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

****

Amazing job at undoing the damage of the last decade, and his crackdown on the Air-Traffic Controllers was a great move to keep public-sector unions from holding the country at gunpoint. His economic record was a bit more of a mixed bag, and he definitely made some mistakes in his dealings with the Contras. Still, the best since Eisenhower.

[OSR stands with Israel]

median wages increased by 4000 during the Reagan years

dafuq?

Look at the links for proof

That's not a 4000 increase. That's an absolute $4000 increase, which is a pretty meaningless figure.

meaningless how, inflation declined by over 9%

[Rockefeller GOP]

****

Amazing job at undoing the damage of the last decade, and his crackdown on the Air-Traffic Controllers was a great move to keep public-sector unions from holding the country at gunpoint. His economic record was a bit more of a mixed bag, and he definitely made some mistakes in his dealings with the Contras. Still, the best since Eisenhower.

[The Dowager Mod]

I almost stepped in a steaming pile of dog crap yesterday that had more integrity than Reagan.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Voted 5 stars to offset all of the 1 stars and the fact that are left of center friends are still burthurt about FDR being 'Arthured, but in reality, I'd vote a solid 3 stars.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Two stars. I know he was 'successful' at what he wanted to do; but what he did was too loathesome to condone.