REAGAN REDO PART 2

AGAIN WITH TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES: I DO NOT BLAME GEORGE W. OR MICHAEL MOORE, BUT LAY THE BLAME DIRECTLY AT THE FEET OF MY LACK OF COMPUTER SAVVY ON MY PART. A FRIEND OF MINE IS GOING TO ASSIST ME WITH CLEANING UP MY COMPUTER SO THAT IT WILL RUN CORRECTLY.
Ronald Reagan is certainly a case of the packaging fooling the people, because behind his grandfatherly look, lurked a villain as dark as any he fought in the movies. Even when found out the people who reported what he really up to often still gave him a pass, because they liked the man behind the villainy.
There is a story that Sam Donaldson of ABC told, in which Reagan would tell the story of the welfare queen who would show up to get her welfare checks in her mink coat and driving a Cadillac. Sam and his associates looked into the story and searched high and low for the person behind this Reagan staple on the sump. They never found this person or anyone like it and when Reagan was corrected he took it in and then at the next stop he would tell that same story again, not because it was true, but because he wanted those "people" to be like that so that he could justify the need to end welfare and stop the welfare queens from getting money. Well, if was not enough for ol' Ronny to stop the fraud and abuse in the government, he thought that many on disability social security were also faking or defrauding the government to one degree or another. His ingenious solution was to disallow all disability benefits and require the disabled to fight there way onto the disability roles, even if this meant that some may not make it, either through inappropriate reading of the disability rules by those who were to decide the cases or that some might just die from lack of care.
This happened on more than one occasion and would ultimately lead to a Federal Judge ordering the arrest of Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler and her boss Ronald Reagan. The warrants were not enforced, but the deluge of calls and mail to Senators and Congressmen led to a bill which passed almost unanimously by both Houses of Congress and left to become law by Reagan not signing it for ten days, which relinquished and saved many of the disabled from the death and poverty which many found themselves after fighting and spending their finite resources to get on disability. This evil was rampant abuse of people who were not able to fend for themselves by a man who "knew what he knew" no matter the facts of the case.
This was the same Ronald Reagan who had his administration declare that under the federally funded school lunch programs ketchup would be a veegatable. The day that this was announced the White House was giving a State dinner which cost nearly eleven million dollars, and at which ketchup was no were listed as a vegetable.
Reagan apologists would have you believe that anything that was done during his administration that was wrong such as the above cases were done in his name, but not at his behest, and yet it was Ronny who was spouting the nonsense and getting his cohorts in the Congress to go along with his programs. This would lead to more people suffering in all areas of our country, save the board rooms of the rich and powerful, who were able to dine at the public trough like there was no tomorrow. The deficits would soar, but Reagan's slight of hand would keep people dancing to his tune throughout the first and second terms of office.
We shall have one more Ronald Reagan installment before we look at the simlarities of then and now. We shall also promise to do more later for I was given a Ronald Reagan fantasy book, I believe it says biography on it, and I am sure there will be much more to expunge and cleanse from our national memory, so that some people will see him for the dark person that he was instead of the man behind the curtain wizard of oz fable that he has become.
Daniel Carvel Kepler