{"id":8258,"date":"2017-01-14T20:17:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T04:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=8258"},"modified":"2017-01-14T20:17:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T04:17:05","slug":"biden-vs-reagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=8258","title":{"rendered":"Biden vs. Reagan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some moron on Facebook<\/a> made the claim that Biden receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction takes the value of the award down a few notches.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Then again, this person voted for T-Rump so I question their ability to form coherent thoughts.<\/p>\n

Biden is worthy of the award. Want to know who isn’t?<\/p>\n

REAGAN.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let’s look at what each one has done:<\/p>\n

Reagan<\/u>
\n-screwed up the higher education system in California during his tenure by cutting funding to it and causing programs at various colleges to be cut which forced many students out of said colleges or made it more difficult to graduate
\n-screwed up the economy of the state
\n-ratted out actors\/actresses to HUAC while he was in Hollywood
\n-sicced the California Highway Patrol on a college protest, killing one person and blinding another while injuring hundreds of others
\n-sicced the National Guard on UC Berkeley to stop anti-war protests
\n-screwed up the state economy as governor of California
\n-broke the strike of air traffic controllers, causing massive job losses
\n-the travesty of trickle-down economics
\n-raised takes by a third, screwing the middle class while cutting taxes for the wealthy
\n-tripled the national debt
\n-escalated the Cold War
\n-ignored the AIDS crisis, leading to thousands of deaths and infections of people
\n-the Iran-Contra affair<\/p>\n

He gets no credit for the Berlin Wall falling (that was his successor) or Communism failing in Russia (that was all Gorbachev).<\/p>\n

Biden<\/u>
\n-overcame massive personal tragedy when his wife and daughter were killed by a truck driver and he had to be sworn in at his son’s bedside
\n-commuted 90 minutes each way during his 36 years in the Senate so he could be present for his kids
\n-floor manager for the passage of the Comprehensive Crime Control Act<\/a>
\n-met with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to educate him about American concerns and interests, securing several changes to address objections of the Foreign Relations Committee in getting the SALT II Treaty ratified by Congress
\n-headed both the Senate Foreign Relations and Judiciary Committees
\n-spearheaded the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994<\/a> which included the Violence Against Women Act<\/a>
\n-negotiated with Republicans to pass large amounts of legislation including bills to help with the recession Obama inherited from Bush and the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act<\/a> in 2005
\n-created a plan that foreign diplomacy experts say would have prevented the rise of ISIS by dividing Iraq into three ethnoreligious regions<\/p>\n

Joe Biden has 44 years of positive work in DC. Reagan screwed up the state of California and was a sub-par president at best. I would argue that Reagan did not deserve his award while Biden clearly did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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