You’re gonna make me cry again.

I love this: To which I say: look around you.

Good post.

Proper grammar saves lives.

Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.

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Thanks so much, Moe, for posting this.

Every time I hear that man’s voice, I remember what it was like to have a true, humble, patriotic leader occupty the Oval Office.

Thanks for bringing back the memories…and the tears.

Thank you for posting “A Time For Choosing.” Though given almost a half century ago, the words resonate clearly today. May America yet have another leader with President Reagan’s character, vision, and courage.

Washington “wise man”, [where did that phrase go?] Clark Clifford, called Reagan a “amiable dunce”. The slur took off like a rocket among the delusional, desperate for self esteem.
A few years later, Clifford, 81 years old, stood before a judge for sentencing in the BCCC banking scandal, 81 years old. The old fool couldn’t stop even at that age from engaging in fraud and insider games. Yes, a Washington “wise man”, indeed and by the standards of liberal degenerates. But not fit to buff the shine on Reagans shoes.

In spite of the Left’s attempts to portray him as an “amiable dunce” he had more courage and wisdom than the entire O’Barry administration combined.

30 years form now no one but a leftist fool will mention Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama in the same sentence.

I love that guy.

Truly an amazing speech.

I so wish he were “waiting in the wings” in 2012. I hope and pray we have someone like him to vote for in 2012.

The pertinent part of the speech regarding Social Security:

“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

Now — we’re for a provision that destitution should not follow unemployment by reason of old age, and to that end we’ve accepted Social Security as a step toward meeting the problem.

But we’re against those entrusted with this program when they practice deception regarding its fiscal shortcomings, when they charge that any criticism of the program means that we want to end payments to those people who depend on them for a livelihood. They’ve called it “insurance” to us in a hundred million pieces of literature. But then they appeared before the Supreme Court and they testified it was a welfare program. They only use the term “insurance” to sell it to the people. And they said Social Security dues are a tax for the general use of the government, and the government has used that tax. There is no fund, because Robert Byers, the actuarial head, appeared before a congressional committee and admitted that Social Security as of this moment is 298 billion dollars in the hole. But he said there should be no cause for worry because as long as they have the power to tax, they could always take away from the people whatever they needed to bail them out of trouble. And they’re doing just that.

A young man, 21 years of age, working at an average salary — his Social Security contribution would, in the open market, buy him an insurance policy that would guarantee 220 dollars a month at age 65. The government promises 127. He could live it up until he’s 31 and then take out a policy that would pay more than Social Security. Now are we so lacking in business sense that we can’t put this program on a sound basis, so that people who do require those payments will find they can get them when they’re due — that the cupboard isn’t bare?

Barry Goldwater thinks we can.

At the same time, can’t we introduce voluntary features that would permit a citizen who can do better on his own to be excused upon presentation of evidence that he had made provision for the non-earning years? Should we not allow a widow with children to work, and not lose the benefits supposedly paid for by her deceased husband? Shouldn’t you and I be allowed to declare who our beneficiaries will be under this program, which we cannot do? I think we’re for telling our senior citizens that no one in this country should be denied medical care because of a lack of funds. But I think we’re against forcing all citizens, regardless of need, into a compulsory government program, especially when we have such examples, as was announced last week, when France admitted that their Medicare program is now bankrupt. They’ve come to the end of the road.

In addition, was Barry Goldwater so irresponsible when he suggested that our government give up its program of deliberate, planned inflation, so that when you do get your Social Security pension, a dollar will buy a dollar’s worth, and not 45 cents worth?”

As you can see, he was ahead of his time with calls for voluntary features. And he saw the demagoguery that Democrats would use from the 1980′s to the present day. And he pointed out how one could do much better in the private insurance market with the withheld taxes than what the government would ultimately pay in the end.

Social Security was a fraud from the day FDR proposed it. In 1935, the life expectancy for an average male was 59.9, and for a female 63.9. Yet payments would be made only when they reached 65. It took until 1949 before males reached a life expectancy of 65.

Witness the first recipient of a SS check, Ida May Fuller, who paid in about $25 over 3 years between 1936 and 1939. She lived to be 100, and collected almost $23,000 in SS monthly benefits until 1975.

Reagan gets railed on for his part in reforming the SS system in 1983 by increasing payroll taxes, but in the end he helped save the system that was doomed from the start by FDR.

Imagine a world without the American-scented life of Ronald Reagan. We would have had four more years of Carter, from which this nation likely would not have recovered. The Soviets would have rolled on, in their deranged and power-hungry (and poverty ridden) quest for world domination.

No one would have challenged them. They would have likely made a move from Afghanistan to the broader Middle East to have a warm-water port. And they would still be with us, Israel would be gone.

What a disgrace that we have the Big O around at precisely the moment we are celebrating Ronald Reagan’s birthday. But, I guess he does provide contrasting relief to make us yearn all the more for a strong, morally upright, steady, (and yes) manly leader who loves the American nation and people.

Awesome!

I didn’t know Reagan’s birth date. Yesterday I realized my son is privileged to share it with this heroic man. Pure luck, but a fact in which we both can take pride!

Dude. That man was a great man, and at the time I didn’t really understand. I just thought that was how every president was supposed to be.

The left attacked and ridiculed him as the President. That was perhaps the highest compliment they could pay him.

of remembrance on his 100th Birthday because he was a true American President, he loved this Country more then himself. He did not find that we needed to be brought down to size as this current inhabitant of the White House believes. He was a principled and PATRIOTIC President and when a person with those two traits steps up to the plate they will help to turn the tide against big government.

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling… our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” – Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan. It remains my proudest.

Ronald Reagan. It remains my proudest.

I picked this one of the many.
I’m sure Uncle Ronnie is talking politics and freedom with God.
Happy Birthday.
My present to you.

Wow! It’s like he was speaking to us today. I do long for political leaders who could stir the kind of emotion that Reagan did in that speech & so many others that he gave.

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the Great Communicator. And this was one of his many amazing speeches. I wonder what people in that audience were thinking when they heard him. They probably thought something like this, “Well, we like Barry Goldwater. He’s a heckuva guy & we love his politics, but man this Reagan fellow had me at hello!”

When people who claim to be Republican ask why we keep looking for another Reagan, maybe they should be forced to watch this video to understand why.

My last point about Reagan, he was an absolute genius. I love his wit & his intellect. He didn’t talk above us at all, but how many American politicians share a message that they crafted themselves at the speed that Reagan delivers his here. It was like he had so many important things to say in 30 minutes that he was almost speed talking through it. And that made his whole speech even more amazing.

I really look forward to meeting Reagan in Heaven if I make it. He is still my hero & has been for my whole life.