Complete video at: fora.tv Professor Vernon Bogdanor traces Ronald Reagan’s rise from movie star to influential US president. Bogdanor examines how Reagan’s governing style often led critics to underestimate his intelligence and capabilities. —– Ronald Reagan saw it as his task to restore American self-confidence following the policy failures of the 1970’s. Charismatic, and a master of the media, he was the first president since the 1920’s to come to power with an explicitly conservative …
If we’d followed Carter’s policies we wouldn’t be in the mess we are in today. One of his main goals was energy independence and development of renewable energy. Carter was a victim of the oil cartel, manipulation by the Fed and unemployment due to the entry of the baby boomers into the job market. Too bad Americans think the only resolution to any problem is FORCE.
and most important the dumping the fairness doctrine and starting the consolidation of media so today corporations are capable of keeping Americans brainwashed
The only people who can criticize Reagan are people totally ignorant of economic history and the devastating policies of the Carter administration… these are the fools that elected Barack Obama.
ReaGAN CAN GOTO HELL!
These are all the standard R talking points about their “legend” Reagan.
They conveniently forget trading arms for hostages with IRAN, illegally supplying arms and supplies to the horribly cruel Contras, tax cuts for the rich, reversing all the energy savings initiatives of previous presidents, and quietly destroying our tariff system to start our drive to ship American jobs overseas.
Agreed. The proprosition of global warming itself can not be left alone to the consequences. Whether or not the pace is fast, slow, or at all, we musn’t take that grave of a chance. Plus, it is the future generations that concern me, not the present state necessarily.
Slight quam, but not completely with the “Robin Hood” label:
I just see it creating loads of work, and not jobs that create opportunities for development. Yet, work will support those that otherwise relied on taxpayers.
Green energy is the Robin Hood of politics. It will be expensive at first for sure. However, the benefits that will incur will be long lasting and we as an American people will forever be grateful. For it’s endurance as a source of energy and it’s minimal cost. It will create so many jobs that FDR can finally rest in peace. Even if you think global warming is bullshit. The sole idea is so valuable that it cannot be left alone.
Big oil is behind ethanol, as is Al Gore, Al Gore gets more money from big oil than anyone who doesn’t advocate human activity as the primary source of climate change. the system in place supports ACC, the money the funding to a myriad of scientific interests flows to the “IPCC consensus”. You’re intentionally naive. Every current attempt at dealing with climate change is making the rich richer period. Only the poor suffer.
Ethanol has nothing to do with fighting climate change. It’s a dub put forward by greedy farmers. Anyone who bothers to inform themselves know that, including any self-respecting ecologists.
Sorry. Foolish ignorant? That adequately describes almost every big oil apology and defense you have posted. Guilty rich North Americans…So Exxon-Mobile retires Lee Raymon at 300 million dollars while still in court over Exxon-Valdez fiasco. I can understand why others in this debate have lost patience with you because I certainly have. Now those who advocating climate change reforms are the rich…Go vote for Palin, Bush, Plumber Joe…That’s all I seriously had enough of you. Idiot.
People that advocate stopping clmiate change as opposed to adapting to it, are foolish, or ignorant. Carbon dioxide isn’t even a pollutant. I come from a third world country and still have family there. Carbon cap and trade, energy surcharges, expensive staples drive up the price of living for the poor and my family. I’m not willing to sacrifice my family’s well being for guilty rich north americans to free their conscience.
Reagan is America’s most beloved monster. Even worse than Andrew Jackson.
No. I just remember right wing ideologues like yourself that continually try to justify using far more than your share of resources and then try to justify with limp arguments like above while exploiting third world countries, labor and natural resources. Obama han’t even been in for two months. Let’s just continue using oil and polluting the planet according to you global warming is just a myth propagated to stop you and your ilk form making profit. Pull your head out.
you forget the bread and rice shortage last year which was not very big here in North America but was much bigger in the West Indies and Central and South America. Africa felt it too. Ethanol was the primary factor in that mini crisis.
The US did F up in Iraq. Can’t argue there. For all the lies and fear mongering that occurred under Bush, aren’t you surprised it hasn’t changed yet under Obama ?
Climate Chaneg is real, people being the primary factor in that is fallacy.
People starved because of ethanol? Yeah. Tell that to Brazil. Ethanol is not even a serious consideration as a replacement to oil for most of us. People died because we invaded Iraq…but I suppose those with ideologue’s mind set…will still claim it wasn’t about oil and that the US would be embraced and lauded as liberators. Hyperbole is the style? Bullshit. We’ve had eight years of hyperbole, fear mongering, lies, water-boarding. PS/ Big Oil sucks…and Climate Change is real.
I find it ironic when people who profess to align themselves with science yet remain blissfully ignorant about the agenda they empower. Inconvenient truth is strictly a propganda piece. It may be well intentioned, but it remains propganda. Al Gore wouldn’t debate anyone in public about climate change because he is far from an expert he is an early industry figurehead. He represents the Big Business of ACC, and you don’t even notice it. I wish I could hustle that good.
no Al Gore’s movie is made to play in british classrooms with a warning of 9 factual errors in the movie. Hyperbole is the style the whole movie was shot in. Al Gore is one of the primary investors in ethanol, which is more trouble than its worth. People starved because of ethanol.
We’ve sure proven how persuedable us sheep will be. Fear of “communism” or “terrorism” easily does the job. Then go ahead and gut our dwindling economic protections. We’ll all be hiding under the desk.
No, you failed to recognize that there are a variety of approaches and a variety of implementations of the capitalistic idea, some pure and some compromised.
The debates that a relevant today are debates between those approaches. We all accept private ownership, market forces the many beneficial effects of self-interest as the default or base of our economic system. Do we then interfere in particular cases, such as natural monopolies or externalities? Those are the subjects of debate today.
“An Inconvenient Truth” uses scientific data to support its claims. Al Gore did not send young men and women off to illegal invade a country that had no WOMD to secure the interests of Halliburton and Exxon Mobile with their blood. Blinkered ideologues may not be able to see the difference between the two. Propaganda rarely makes claim to any legitimate scientific data…it’s simply advertising to the lowest common denominator.
(This is the last post I’m making on this video. Anyone who wants to talk to me about this should feel free to PM me, ’cause I honestly neither have the time nor the obsessive passion for this.)
I’m not knocking down straw-men. I can’t magically predict what any random person’s economic philosophy is going to be. All I can get is a gist of what they’re saying. And when I promote the free market, and someone responds negatively, isn’t that a sign they’re anti-free market? I think so.
reaganism is evil
I think that only the most extreme right wing and the advocates of Big Oil, Coal, and unsustainable growth would diminish “And Inconvenient Truth” as propaganda. Scary, yes. Hyperbolized…I think not. Science has always been enemy of blinkered religious zealots. Gore didn’t encourage young men to go to war over non-existent WOMD to benefit the likes of Halliburton and Exxon Mobile.
Didn’t really “move” it; you just failed to recognize where it was in the first place. “Capitalism” is used as a sub for laissez-faire, free-market economics all the time. I just don’t feel like writing “laissez-faire, free-market economics” every time I post for your convenience.
(Besides that, if you really want to question my positions, and have a discussion, feel free to PM me. At least in that situation, I have more room to argue and my message won’t get lost in a deluge of every-two-seconds posts. This goes to everyone, btw.)