Presidential Debate

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

Times were more genteel....  

 

 

 

[Pat Riot]

He is one of my favorite presidents. He definitely had style. 

 

 

[Texas Maverick]

1 hour ago, Pat Riot said:

He is one of my favorite presidents. He definitely had style. 

 

 

Basically an actor with a LOT of COMMON SENSE and not a career politician out for money and power to feed their greedy needs.

 

TM

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

My Dad, Mom, and I were watching this when he made that comment.  I thought Dad was goinf to hurt himself laughing so hard and for a few days he'd spontaneously break out in the snickers.

 

Mom never got it.

[watab kid]

much more civil times in ur political history - not that way anymore , hasnt been for a long time 

[WOLFY]

Long ago, I worked in H'wood with folks who remembered him as an actor.

He had a reputation for being very bright (as in looked at the script a couple times and never needed to reference it again). 

[Will Kane]

My very first memory of Ronald Reagan was watching him host General Electric Theater every Sunday night in the 50s. Although I was just a kid, I was impressed by his apparent sincerity, especially when he gave GE's "progress is our only product" spiel.

[J.D. Daily]

As an actor by profession he had political skills 1st shown by his leadership in SAG.  He showed his skills a editing & delivering speeches.  Every speech his speech writers gave him have many edits which improved them a lot.

[Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619]

On 8/17/2024 at 11:17 PM, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:

Times were more genteel....

 

Or perhaps people were.

[H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619]

I remember this.

A lot of people think that's when he won, and even when Mondale realized he'd already lost.

[Henry T Harrison]

That SOB is the reason that as a retired police officer I only get half of my social security 

[H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619]

13 hours ago, Henry T Harrison said:

That SOB is the reason that as a retired police officer I only get half of my social security 

 

Mondale may have been an idiot, but an SOB?

[Pat Riot]

14 hours ago, Henry T Harrison said:

That SOB is the reason that as a retired police officer I only get half of my social security 

It’s been 40 years. No one has stepped up to fight that since?

[Major Hazzard, SASS #23254]

14 hours ago, Henry T Harrison said:

That SOB is the reason that as a retired police officer I only get half of my social security 

Please explain.

[Henry T Harrison]

It was Ronald Regan that signed and supported legislation to cut our social security because he thought that because we had a police pension we were double dipping 

[Blackwater 53393]

2 hours ago, Henry T Harrison said:

It was Ronald Regan that signed and supported legislation to cut our social security because he thought that because we had a police pension we were double dipping 

That gave the organizations the OPTION to cut or suspend Social Security payments if a pension was offered!

Some did. Some didn’t!  My dad was allowed to continue to contribute to both in the law enforcement department he was employed by.  He did and drew full benefits from both.

 

My wife was employed by the county school system which provided a teacher’s pension from the state AND took SS contributions as well.  She draws full benefits from both.

 

Reagan didn’t do that to you!! Your employer did it!!

 

 

[Badlands Bob #61228]

The government agency decided to opt out of Social Security.  You didn't pay into it and Social Security was substituted by a pension.  I'm drawing full pension and social security from my law enforcement career.  The county school system where I retired from opted out of the social security program and those retiring teachers only get a teachers pension.  

 

 

[Jackson Haller]

I think President Reagan handled the press, speeches, opponents, debates etc so well, because he trained in and survived a ruthless Hollywood. He was a long time survivor in a 'grind them up, spit them out' system for decades and learned how to handle reporters, paparazzi, co-workers, studio company people etc who could be cruel, vindictive and tricky and out to get him.

Being SAG president and then CA governor injected even more of the nasty political aspect and allowed him to polish those skills to a razor's gleaming edge.

I can't think of another politician in my life time that did as well verbally as he did with those out to get him.

 

 

[paradiddle]

I certainly do miss the times when people were decent to one another even when their views were diametrically opposed.

[WOLFY]

28 minutes ago, paradiddle said:

I certainly do miss the times when people were decent to one another even when their views were diametrically opposed.

U said it.  This current situation is the direct result of Identity Politics.  

[Henry T Harrison]

6 hours ago, Badlands Bob #61228 said:

The government agency decided to opt out of Social Security.  You didn't pay into it and Social Security was substituted by a pension.  I'm drawing full pension and social security from my law enforcement career.  The county school system where I retired from opted out of the social security program and those retiring teachers only get a teachers pension.  

 

 

The companies I worked for and paid into social security were well behind me when that law was passed