Reagan Is Dead, Who Cares?

Well, I don't, for one. People die every day, people are dying right now - and a lot of those people weren't assholes. Yet, there is no huge all out large festival to mourn their deaths. This man was one of the most ruthlessly capitalist presidents America has seen. Especially for his time. In fact, he is often refered to as creating a new path for the following presidents. You know, the path where you give corporations a ton of breaks and cut down on social programs and welfare. Oh yeah, plenty of military subsidaries, for good measure.
Reagan, no doubt, was big on that whole "trickle down economy" bullshit. I can't even begin to say how ridiculous it is that anybody buys that "trickle down" shit. They should just say "Hey, give us rich people more money! Trust us, it will be good". For those of you not familiar with the idea, it means that when you give the rich larger meals, it will benefit the everyone because the rich will have bigger table scraps they might want to give the poor. Of course, giving the poor larger meals just wouldn't make sense.
Reagan gave the OK to the whole corporate merger movement. Indeed 9 out of 10 of the biggest corporate mergers happened under his presidency. For those of you who don't see why corporate mergers are such a bad thing, well, what can I say but that you are blind and hopeless [;-)]. It would take too long to explain the whole thing.
Mr. Reagan also did cool things like throw away safety regulations and give corporations tax-funded research information. Yes, that means that when you paid taxes for "public research", it was really just going to corporations who didn't want to fund it themselves. The Reagan government was also the only member of the UN to vote against a reform on dumping hazerdous materials. The code was in reaction of studies showing the deaths of millions of 3rd world babies.
He also lead the new "War On Drugs" that we see working so well today... and not to mention how he "saved us" from the international communist conspiracy - The same conspiracy that turned out to be just that - A conspiracy, and a false one too. It's unfortunate that America can now point the finger at any nation in it's way of Imperialist Domination and say "Communist!" and tell the public that "there's still time, these people can still be stopped!". But the more things change, the more they stay the same, and the word "communist" (meaning any thing in the way of the capitalist greed machine) has now changed to "terrorist".
Also, speaking of terrorists, guess what other cool things Reagan did. To help fight the "communist comspiracy", he gave lots of money and weapons to these neat people called "islamic fundamentalists". He also aided this one awesome dude, maybe you've heard of him, "Osama Bin Laden". Needless to say, he was the president, therefore all these things he did were good things, don't question it, it's much more fun to celebrate him! That way you can have some cake and ice cream and forget about the hell he helped create for many people.
I was watching one of the eulogies of some rich old white man speak of Reagan's glorious life and he was talking about the good old times: He shared the memories with the audience that we can look back and laugh about, like the time he funded terrorists that later attacked and killed 3,000 americans on 911 and countless other acts of terrism commited on other parts of the world. HA! That Reagan! What a card! And that one time when he and his wife Nancy were vehemenantly against stem-cell research on moral grounds (even though church and state are seperate... right?) even though stem-cell research could seriously help many sick people such as people with Alzheimers! Man, that was funny. His wife still embraces his amazing sense of NOT being a complete hipocrite, by later doing an about-face and running to her friend Walker Bush because she suddenly realizes how many Americans should have the right to stem-cell reasearch. Of course, this had nothing to do with the fact that ol' Ronny himself developed Alzheimers... nope... purely coincidence.
To sum up, Reagan was a right wing bitch who radically expanded on the idealogy of giving corporations a blank check and sending the American citizens the bill. Given this information, I can't help but feel that he was more of a traitor than any "communist" could ever be.