Oh, Ferrerman, where do you usually go to be annoyed?
Well, Topix, of course but that isn't important right now.
I was on The Huffington Post this morning, looking at their comedy page- TRYING TO- because as I scrolled up and down, a survey went up and down with me. You've seen these. You can make them go away by clicking on the "X". Or, you can do what they WANT you to do and take the survey. Either or, they've got you (and Ferrerman) jumping through their hoops.
I understand that advertising pays for the internet and yada-effing-yada and that because of that we have to put up with some degree of crap, like sitting through commercial before we see some videos. Ok. And MOVEON.org is HUGE on asking for donations before you see there stuff. This HuffPo thing is too much like that.
The either/or thing pisses me off. You either take the survey or x it out. You either contribute to Moveon or x it out. Or you can opt to not go to those sites and see what they offer.
Well, that's not gonna happen and you know, they know it and Ferrerman knows it so, why do they have to fucking annoy people?
I guess that like everything else in our world today, the numbers people have to have their numbers to tell them what people are thinking. No doubt Xing out the surveys counts as a view and that means something to the numbers people and that something somehow adds up to dollars, somehow....
I think they just enjoy annoying people. They remind me of Earl, a dude I worked with in New Orleans back in the 20th century who liked to stop women on the street and compliment them on their appearance. That was his pick up technique.
I asked Earl if that had ever worked and, no, up to that point it had not but, he told me, "If it works once in 10,000 tries, it will have WORKED!"
Well, shit. He's probably a millionaire several times over in telemarketing because that kind of bullshit logic just has to be rewarded by the masses! Leastways it seems to be the common logic of all advertising once they reach the point where commercials just don't cut it anymore and they have to take hostages to move their product.
The last time I saw Earl, my girl and I were going downtown on the streetcar on St Charles avenue and Earl and his buddy were with their dates. The buddy's date was really good looking. Earl's date might have been her mother. Earl looked a little sheepish seeing Joy and I. Could be that Earl was trying to invent MILF's that day but he settled for a cougar.
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Thursday, December 22, 2011
RON PAUL!!!!!!!
I've been wanting to write about Ron Paul and-
No, I haven't. I've not really been wanting to write about Rob Paul. Rather, I've been thinking that I should.
See, he's the bum of the month or "party savior" as the republicans might call it instead because "Bum Of The Month" just doesn't have the proper zest for a front-running candidate and "party savior" is pretentious, even for the same folks who derisively dubbed Obama "The Messiah" of the democratic party.
It was just a week or so ago that Ron Paul was not getting the proper respect or turn as the GOP bum of the month and people thought he never would. That wasn't fair because everybody but Santorum and Huntsman have had their turn as have people like Trump, Palin and Christie who haven't even actually run this season. Worse, for Paul, Santorum and Huntsman, was that people were making noise about Jeb Bush! Yikes! Only three years removed from the eight year reign of terror of one of the worst presidents in history and people were talking about appointing his brother as POTUS??!! Wasn't that the whole idea of Rick Perry?
It was like Ron Paul couldn't catch a break. Of all the candidates, to me he seemed the most tea partyish/constitutiony/small governmenty of them all. But Foxnews treated him like the goofy uncle everybody describes him as and talked behind his back a lot. When they did talk to him it was to get his opinion on whoever the current front runner was. That's kinda like a father asking one boyfriend what he thinks of the other guys who are fucking his daughter.
More than the other GOP candidates, Ron Paul makes sense if you don't think too much about much of what he says. He doesn't think we should be fighting wars all the time and I'm in favor of that. It makes sense also that the threat of terrorism might pretty much go away if we quit fucking with these Arab/Muslim countries. And why do we go around arresting all our drug users? Sheesh- if you wanna get high, what business is it of the government? And I think instead of spending billions on a fence between here and Mexico, he's in favor of enforcing the laws already in place and eliminating the lure of jobs by cracking down on those who hire illegals. That is a Ferrerman idea, dedicated non-readers might recall. Actually, to be fair to me, so is the isolationist platform. We can't force democracy on other countries and pay for it with the blood of our boys and girls (and Chinese loans). It took a generation or two but the world figured out that, left to it's own devices, communism will fail whether we shoot at it or not so- save the bullets. Same with people who insist on worshipping Allah. It's their business.
Most of life is walking in the other fella's shoes a bit and thinking about how you might react to anything, as he would. This is pretty simple stuff. Would we like to be invaded by another country because they didn't like our leader, thought we had WMD's (WE DO!!!) and their VP had a financial interest in rebuilding whatever they blew up at the expense of that country's taxpayers?
No. And, no, it's not any different because we think or know that we are the GREATEST COUNTRY EVAH!!!! That doesn't matter. Would we accept such rationale from China or Russia? If God not be for us, who could be against us? Make the world England?
We don't have to police the world nor do we have to act like we're Mormon missionaries out to convert the world. We could just let people be. How 'bout that? We could just let Ron Paul be too. He's just a crazy old uncle, ya know, hardly worth writing about, especially when he starts rambling on about "The Fed"....
Besides, I think it's Santorum's turn about now....
No, I haven't. I've not really been wanting to write about Rob Paul. Rather, I've been thinking that I should.
See, he's the bum of the month or "party savior" as the republicans might call it instead because "Bum Of The Month" just doesn't have the proper zest for a front-running candidate and "party savior" is pretentious, even for the same folks who derisively dubbed Obama "The Messiah" of the democratic party.
It was just a week or so ago that Ron Paul was not getting the proper respect or turn as the GOP bum of the month and people thought he never would. That wasn't fair because everybody but Santorum and Huntsman have had their turn as have people like Trump, Palin and Christie who haven't even actually run this season. Worse, for Paul, Santorum and Huntsman, was that people were making noise about Jeb Bush! Yikes! Only three years removed from the eight year reign of terror of one of the worst presidents in history and people were talking about appointing his brother as POTUS??!! Wasn't that the whole idea of Rick Perry?
It was like Ron Paul couldn't catch a break. Of all the candidates, to me he seemed the most tea partyish/constitutiony/small governmenty of them all. But Foxnews treated him like the goofy uncle everybody describes him as and talked behind his back a lot. When they did talk to him it was to get his opinion on whoever the current front runner was. That's kinda like a father asking one boyfriend what he thinks of the other guys who are fucking his daughter.
More than the other GOP candidates, Ron Paul makes sense if you don't think too much about much of what he says. He doesn't think we should be fighting wars all the time and I'm in favor of that. It makes sense also that the threat of terrorism might pretty much go away if we quit fucking with these Arab/Muslim countries. And why do we go around arresting all our drug users? Sheesh- if you wanna get high, what business is it of the government? And I think instead of spending billions on a fence between here and Mexico, he's in favor of enforcing the laws already in place and eliminating the lure of jobs by cracking down on those who hire illegals. That is a Ferrerman idea, dedicated non-readers might recall. Actually, to be fair to me, so is the isolationist platform. We can't force democracy on other countries and pay for it with the blood of our boys and girls (and Chinese loans). It took a generation or two but the world figured out that, left to it's own devices, communism will fail whether we shoot at it or not so- save the bullets. Same with people who insist on worshipping Allah. It's their business.
Most of life is walking in the other fella's shoes a bit and thinking about how you might react to anything, as he would. This is pretty simple stuff. Would we like to be invaded by another country because they didn't like our leader, thought we had WMD's (WE DO!!!) and their VP had a financial interest in rebuilding whatever they blew up at the expense of that country's taxpayers?
No. And, no, it's not any different because we think or know that we are the GREATEST COUNTRY EVAH!!!! That doesn't matter. Would we accept such rationale from China or Russia? If God not be for us, who could be against us? Make the world England?
We don't have to police the world nor do we have to act like we're Mormon missionaries out to convert the world. We could just let people be. How 'bout that? We could just let Ron Paul be too. He's just a crazy old uncle, ya know, hardly worth writing about, especially when he starts rambling on about "The Fed"....
Besides, I think it's Santorum's turn about now....
Saturday, December 10, 2011
And another thing....
Absolutely worse than closet case teapublicans are the republican candidates I watched tonight being interviewed by Mike Huckabee and three state's attorney generals. Yikes.
If you believe that our Civil War WAS NOT AT ALL ABOUT SLAVERY and was strictly about STATE'S RIGHTS amongst states that (IRONY ALERT!) just happened to disagree about slavery then, you might be surprised to learn that our next civil war could very well be about states rights.
Not a good idea then, nor now. The AG's, even the spankable blonde one, scared me more than the candidates. Well, maybe. Ron Paul was there....Newt....Perry....I think Santorum showed....both Romney's showed.... The usual suspects minus that Herman Palin dude.
BIG GOVERNMENT has been in the news since the day Barack Obama got elected and increased the government by one black guy, causing much consternation amongst the second-place finishers who felt government could get smaller by getting him out and one of theirs in. I've done the math and that works out to an even trade actually.
So, that math might have occured to them too so, they decided to also focus on trying to eliminate other portions of government that weren't Obama but they didn't like either. You know- stuff like the EPA, FDA, and other letters of the alphabet that might cost money and inhibit growth amongst the 1-2% that we exist for.
Well, that's just my insane liberal opinion. Using math again, I factored in their desire to end Social Security, Welfare, Unemployment Compensation- anything that costs money that could be used in the Wall Street Casinos instead, and their anti-alphabet sentiments, carried the anti-Obama sentiment and figured; teapublicans are greedy assholes.
Part of me thinks those things were smokescreens, at least at first. Candidates and parties make promises that sound great but aren't always doable. Guantanamo, for example. Candidate Obama says he's going to close it. President Obama found out that's easier said than done. These current GOPers can talk all they want about building electrified fences with "boots on the ground" and drones but, once they (shudder) get in the White House, they'd find there's no money for that. Maybe because they lowered taxes on their rich friends?
And part of their small government agenda is turning over more power to the states themselves. Let the states decide education, abortions, who can sit at lunch counters (and who can't) and lot's of yada-yada stuff. Let the states redecide for themselves all the stuff that happened in the few hundred years. In short, make each state it's own BIG GOVERNMENT. Huh? One big government is too much but 50 is just right?
If you believe that our Civil War WAS NOT AT ALL ABOUT SLAVERY and was strictly about STATE'S RIGHTS amongst states that (IRONY ALERT!) just happened to disagree about slavery then, you might be surprised to learn that our next civil war could very well be about states rights.
Not a good idea then, nor now. The AG's, even the spankable blonde one, scared me more than the candidates. Well, maybe. Ron Paul was there....Newt....Perry....I think Santorum showed....both Romney's showed.... The usual suspects minus that Herman Palin dude.
BIG GOVERNMENT has been in the news since the day Barack Obama got elected and increased the government by one black guy, causing much consternation amongst the second-place finishers who felt government could get smaller by getting him out and one of theirs in. I've done the math and that works out to an even trade actually.
So, that math might have occured to them too so, they decided to also focus on trying to eliminate other portions of government that weren't Obama but they didn't like either. You know- stuff like the EPA, FDA, and other letters of the alphabet that might cost money and inhibit growth amongst the 1-2% that we exist for.
Well, that's just my insane liberal opinion. Using math again, I factored in their desire to end Social Security, Welfare, Unemployment Compensation- anything that costs money that could be used in the Wall Street Casinos instead, and their anti-alphabet sentiments, carried the anti-Obama sentiment and figured; teapublicans are greedy assholes.
Part of me thinks those things were smokescreens, at least at first. Candidates and parties make promises that sound great but aren't always doable. Guantanamo, for example. Candidate Obama says he's going to close it. President Obama found out that's easier said than done. These current GOPers can talk all they want about building electrified fences with "boots on the ground" and drones but, once they (shudder) get in the White House, they'd find there's no money for that. Maybe because they lowered taxes on their rich friends?
And part of their small government agenda is turning over more power to the states themselves. Let the states decide education, abortions, who can sit at lunch counters (and who can't) and lot's of yada-yada stuff. Let the states redecide for themselves all the stuff that happened in the few hundred years. In short, make each state it's own BIG GOVERNMENT. Huh? One big government is too much but 50 is just right?
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Conflict of Interest or interesting conflict?
Yesterday, I learned that my most menacing and persistent troll (sorry, Angelique- you are slipping in the polls) is a homosexual.
Not that there's anything wrong with that....
It is a bit of a quandry for me though because, though I am a liberal who believes in freedom and equal rights for all, I'm also a dude who likes to make fun of homos. No hatred or bashing here. Just jokes. I'm not always politically correct and reserve the right not to be. You can still have fun without denying people equal rights and/or bashing them in the head.
Maybe that's disingenuous and that's why it's a quandry.
*Sam* has an anonymizer/proxy server that allows him to post un-registered all over the country. He takes his many personas on the road, day and night. The thing is the tone is always the same; angry, *conservative* and bitchy. Why a poster can't do that as one persona is beyond me.
But, some people have a secret side to them that they can't always share, even on an anonymous public forum. If you're a tough guy, gun-loving, liberal-killing-wannabe and a teabagger, you don't want your conservative cohorts knowing that you do that other teabagging thing on the down low. They are against gay people. They might kick you out! They certainly won't show at your wedding.
I caught him making posts from Pennsylvania that were very much pro-gay and decidedly anti-Christian. That's not what cinched it though. It was his usual teapublican nastiness from the same locations elsewhere on the threads that tipped me off. What are the odds that some podunk town in Pennsylvania suddenly gets slammed with pro-gay posts and anti-Obama posts, that sound like the same person wrote them? And, in both cases, that person also posted (same made up name) from Philadelphia, just like Sam's usual posts from all over Ohio, Florida, etc. I don't know the ins and outs of proxies but, evidently they bounce around. I've heard cell phone posting is like that too. People use them to hide and maybe keep from getting caught.
So, the dude who considers himself to be my arch-nemesis, who's perpetually promising to have me banned and run off the threads FOR EVER, is a cocksucker. Not that there's anything wrong with that....
No, what's wrong is that he rails so against the people who would (and do) stand up for his rights while he supports a party that would love to strip him of all his rights. That's a lot of denial. Very sad for him. Odd politics indeed.
I knew there was a good reason to not like that homo!
Not that there's anything wrong with that....
It is a bit of a quandry for me though because, though I am a liberal who believes in freedom and equal rights for all, I'm also a dude who likes to make fun of homos. No hatred or bashing here. Just jokes. I'm not always politically correct and reserve the right not to be. You can still have fun without denying people equal rights and/or bashing them in the head.
Maybe that's disingenuous and that's why it's a quandry.
*Sam* has an anonymizer/proxy server that allows him to post un-registered all over the country. He takes his many personas on the road, day and night. The thing is the tone is always the same; angry, *conservative* and bitchy. Why a poster can't do that as one persona is beyond me.
But, some people have a secret side to them that they can't always share, even on an anonymous public forum. If you're a tough guy, gun-loving, liberal-killing-wannabe and a teabagger, you don't want your conservative cohorts knowing that you do that other teabagging thing on the down low. They are against gay people. They might kick you out! They certainly won't show at your wedding.
I caught him making posts from Pennsylvania that were very much pro-gay and decidedly anti-Christian. That's not what cinched it though. It was his usual teapublican nastiness from the same locations elsewhere on the threads that tipped me off. What are the odds that some podunk town in Pennsylvania suddenly gets slammed with pro-gay posts and anti-Obama posts, that sound like the same person wrote them? And, in both cases, that person also posted (same made up name) from Philadelphia, just like Sam's usual posts from all over Ohio, Florida, etc. I don't know the ins and outs of proxies but, evidently they bounce around. I've heard cell phone posting is like that too. People use them to hide and maybe keep from getting caught.
So, the dude who considers himself to be my arch-nemesis, who's perpetually promising to have me banned and run off the threads FOR EVER, is a cocksucker. Not that there's anything wrong with that....
No, what's wrong is that he rails so against the people who would (and do) stand up for his rights while he supports a party that would love to strip him of all his rights. That's a lot of denial. Very sad for him. Odd politics indeed.
I knew there was a good reason to not like that homo!
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Street-fighting Ferrerman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wKEzHXVPE4
Admitedly, I like to fight. My specialty is fighting actors. I've never been defeated.
It's not because I'm so skilled at the manly art of fisticuffs. It's that actors are generally skilled at stage fighting. They are taught to pull their punches so that no one gets hurt and editing makes it look real. Sound effects too.
When I fight an actor, I hit them and kick them hard and for real. By the time they realize I'm completely un-trained in stage fighting, they are on the ground, writhing in pain, while I go all Robert DeNiro on them with my loafers.
Oh, by the way- I will NOT fight Robert DeNiro. He's a method actor. You don't wanna mess with a guy who purposely gains 60-some pounds to play fat-Jake LaMotta. Are ya crazy? DeNiro gets fully immersed in a role because it adds to the realism. It's in his contract that he actually kills the other actors in his movies (when the script calls for it). DO NOT play Russian roulette with him! He's very good.
Admitedly, I like to fight. My specialty is fighting actors. I've never been defeated.
It's not because I'm so skilled at the manly art of fisticuffs. It's that actors are generally skilled at stage fighting. They are taught to pull their punches so that no one gets hurt and editing makes it look real. Sound effects too.
When I fight an actor, I hit them and kick them hard and for real. By the time they realize I'm completely un-trained in stage fighting, they are on the ground, writhing in pain, while I go all Robert DeNiro on them with my loafers.
Oh, by the way- I will NOT fight Robert DeNiro. He's a method actor. You don't wanna mess with a guy who purposely gains 60-some pounds to play fat-Jake LaMotta. Are ya crazy? DeNiro gets fully immersed in a role because it adds to the realism. It's in his contract that he actually kills the other actors in his movies (when the script calls for it). DO NOT play Russian roulette with him! He's very good.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
*POST STARS*
I'm Rick Hairyson and THIS is my Post Shop.
Earlier today this guy comes into my shop with posts he says are Ferrerman posts. Ferrerman is one of the hottest posters on Topix. His stuff is GOLD! He's poignant, thought-provoking, witty as all get out and extremely charming. Word has it that he's quite the charming bottom-spanker in real life as well.
My suspicions however are that these aren't real Ferrerman posts. Because he's so high-profile, he gets trolled a lot. Fake Ferrerman avatars are fairly common. I had one last year that looked OK to the casual eye- the Ferrerman photo of his six year old, handsome self and the quotation/location were current for the time. The problem was, there was an extra "r" in Ferrerman. Trolls do this to get around Topix laws as well as to be assholes. If you're not careful, you might fall for these fakes. Another problem is that trolls archive Ferrerman posts. Some trolls collect absolutely everything he posts in hopes that- I don't know- they'll get the Ferrerman life 'cause they have no life of their own? So there are roughly 12,000 plus Ferrerman posts out there....some are brilliant, some are funny....some are brilliantly funny. With that many posts, you're bound to get fakes.
The Ferrerman Brand is very important to him but, he does "gray box" post. That's when a poster isn't registered or chooses to post un-registered for a time. In Ferrerman's case, it's to post with a fake, often humorous name, one that pertains to the post itself. The key with these posts is like real estate: "Location, location, location". Anyone who *knows* Ferrerman, knows that his ISP is ALWAYS in the Chicago area. I've seen fake Ferrerman posts from Florida to Ohio to California. The trolls always try to claim Ferrerman has a *proxy server*. No deal. Ferrerman does not use a proxy. Why would he? He's a Hall of Fame Topix poster- perhaps the best ever. Did Babe Ruth ever hit home runs under a fake name for different teams? Well, yes, because his real name was George Herman Ruth but, that's a different story. Ferrerman, because of his Illinois ISP, can't hide so, he doesn't. He WANTS you to know it's him posting. It's like Muhammed Ali standing over an opponent he's just knocked out. He wants you to know that Ali just knocked you out- not Cassius Clay.
So, I ask the jerk-faced weirdo what he wants to do with these posts. Amazingly, he tells me he wants to get Ferrerman banned!
Well, there's no market for banning Ferrerman. This would be like killing Wyatt Earp- Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp, if you're scoring at home. You just don't do it. Topix Boot Hill is full of those who tried, and failed miserably.
So the guy protests that Ferrerman is *mean*. Well, Ferrerman bullies the bullies. Girl-fighters don't stand a chance with him! The guy has never been defeated in political combat either. Because he's left, he's always right so, it's very hard to beat him if you come at him with Foxnews hyperbole and histrionics. I honestly don't know why people try. But then, Topix Boot Hill....
So I didn't even need to call in an expert for these fake, non-Ferrerman posts. I had Big Hoss and Chumlee escort the pathetic loser out of my shop. Then I logged on to Topix to check out the real Ferrerman. That guy cracks me up!
Earlier today this guy comes into my shop with posts he says are Ferrerman posts. Ferrerman is one of the hottest posters on Topix. His stuff is GOLD! He's poignant, thought-provoking, witty as all get out and extremely charming. Word has it that he's quite the charming bottom-spanker in real life as well.
My suspicions however are that these aren't real Ferrerman posts. Because he's so high-profile, he gets trolled a lot. Fake Ferrerman avatars are fairly common. I had one last year that looked OK to the casual eye- the Ferrerman photo of his six year old, handsome self and the quotation/location were current for the time. The problem was, there was an extra "r" in Ferrerman. Trolls do this to get around Topix laws as well as to be assholes. If you're not careful, you might fall for these fakes. Another problem is that trolls archive Ferrerman posts. Some trolls collect absolutely everything he posts in hopes that- I don't know- they'll get the Ferrerman life 'cause they have no life of their own? So there are roughly 12,000 plus Ferrerman posts out there....some are brilliant, some are funny....some are brilliantly funny. With that many posts, you're bound to get fakes.
The Ferrerman Brand is very important to him but, he does "gray box" post. That's when a poster isn't registered or chooses to post un-registered for a time. In Ferrerman's case, it's to post with a fake, often humorous name, one that pertains to the post itself. The key with these posts is like real estate: "Location, location, location". Anyone who *knows* Ferrerman, knows that his ISP is ALWAYS in the Chicago area. I've seen fake Ferrerman posts from Florida to Ohio to California. The trolls always try to claim Ferrerman has a *proxy server*. No deal. Ferrerman does not use a proxy. Why would he? He's a Hall of Fame Topix poster- perhaps the best ever. Did Babe Ruth ever hit home runs under a fake name for different teams? Well, yes, because his real name was George Herman Ruth but, that's a different story. Ferrerman, because of his Illinois ISP, can't hide so, he doesn't. He WANTS you to know it's him posting. It's like Muhammed Ali standing over an opponent he's just knocked out. He wants you to know that Ali just knocked you out- not Cassius Clay.
So, I ask the jerk-faced weirdo what he wants to do with these posts. Amazingly, he tells me he wants to get Ferrerman banned!
Well, there's no market for banning Ferrerman. This would be like killing Wyatt Earp- Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp, if you're scoring at home. You just don't do it. Topix Boot Hill is full of those who tried, and failed miserably.
So the guy protests that Ferrerman is *mean*. Well, Ferrerman bullies the bullies. Girl-fighters don't stand a chance with him! The guy has never been defeated in political combat either. Because he's left, he's always right so, it's very hard to beat him if you come at him with Foxnews hyperbole and histrionics. I honestly don't know why people try. But then, Topix Boot Hill....
So I didn't even need to call in an expert for these fake, non-Ferrerman posts. I had Big Hoss and Chumlee escort the pathetic loser out of my shop. Then I logged on to Topix to check out the real Ferrerman. That guy cracks me up!
Friday, November 25, 2011
Why we need Ronald Reagan
The guy got things done.
Hostages in Iran? He got them released ON HIS OWN RECOGNIZANCE!
All he had to do was get elected president and, suddenly, Iran was like: "Hey! OK. SORRY! Here's your people! Our bad! Just don't hurt us!"
Communism? How many presidents had spent how many trillions of dollars fighting a Cold War against Russia? All Reagan had to do was say: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall!"
Had anyone else thought to just ask???!!!
And, except for the seven times he did, Ronald Reagan NEVER RAISED TAXES!!!!
He hated BIG GOVERNMENT too. Famously, he said that the most frightening words ever spoken were: "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you." George Bush copied off of that for eight years, it was that good.
In Reagan's eight years in office, government was limited to him, the senior George Bush and a guy named Carl who picked up around the White House. Carl, by the way, was not union.
Pretty neat, eh?
Hostages in Iran? He got them released ON HIS OWN RECOGNIZANCE!
All he had to do was get elected president and, suddenly, Iran was like: "Hey! OK. SORRY! Here's your people! Our bad! Just don't hurt us!"
Communism? How many presidents had spent how many trillions of dollars fighting a Cold War against Russia? All Reagan had to do was say: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall!"
Had anyone else thought to just ask???!!!
And, except for the seven times he did, Ronald Reagan NEVER RAISED TAXES!!!!
He hated BIG GOVERNMENT too. Famously, he said that the most frightening words ever spoken were: "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you." George Bush copied off of that for eight years, it was that good.
In Reagan's eight years in office, government was limited to him, the senior George Bush and a guy named Carl who picked up around the White House. Carl, by the way, was not union.
Pretty neat, eh?
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