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Anyone who can read knows that American foreign policy in the 1980's brought about the demise of the Soviets, & Reagan was largely responsible for that policy. Granted, gay men's sexual practices were not a large part of Reagan's policy, foreign or domestic, but then the Soviets weren't afraid of gay men...they were afraid of Reagan & his willingness to use the American military.

I do plenty of research at work & I'm not going to spend my Saturday night citing facts that won't change your opinion of Reagan anyway. Maybe later. Nothing I say will change Reagan's legacy, & neither will your derisive comments about him.

I just wanted to jump in here and say I too believe the US and Europe have been better off since the 80's. I was only a toddler then, but from my mother we had a horrible economy in the late 70's and early 80's and we have prospered as a country since then. I thought Reagan made great strides to decreasing drugs in this country (don't get me wrong people still traffic, use and abuse, but we had a crack epidemic and crime up the wazoo.) This has significantly decreased. I don't know much about these central american countries but I found this link. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_Doctrine
And from reading it and your logic what I understand is that all presidents since Truman were fighting against the Soviet Unions goal of global domination and I think he was perfectly justified in providing aid to countries that didn't want to be ruled from communism and rebels who wanted to fight for a freerer society.

[quote plot]... Just a question if anyone knows, do husbands still need to sign a consent form for a tubal ligation now? That seems so wrong.

i don't think so, i can remember being so mad, but those were different days, i took a lot of flack for my decision

[quote rei1]... just a thought...If in a marriage the husband get's a vascetomy without the womens consent and she wanted to have children how would she feel..personally I don't think the Gov. should have a say in that decision..I feel that the married couple should agree mutually and if they don't then they shouldn't have married to begin with. Premarital counceling or precannna..however you want to call it is the best tool PRIOR to marriage..know your future spouce and there won't be a problem

i know it's off topic now, but i agree, it should be discussed and of course we did, i would hope all couples would, i am guessing it would be grounds for divorce if one or the other spouse had a procedures done w/o the other's knowledge, anyway i agree with EJ, we all feel so strongly about this topic i think i will just wait for the elections and go back to the Y&R threads, i want to thank you all for
all the information i have gleaned here, and remember VOTE

You know what people. We really need to look at this whole thing for what it is. It's not about race, color dem or rep, it about the people of the world. Look at what the rich has done to this country. McCain is over 70 years old, he is too old. You know if your grandfather was working at this age all of us would say to him " retire and enjoy the rest of your life. The president job is a stressful one, we would not want our parents or grandparents to do this job, so why in the world would you want McCain to do this. He is not for the people or this country. Some talk about keeping this country safe, what human can do that. Was Bush able to keep the country safe no. He lied, cheated and kills several people for what (Nothing) but for his own personal gain. No matter who is president no man can stop another man from being evil. We just need to remember that we all need to eat, we all need jobs, we all need to raise our families, and we all need to remember we all need to live in this world together for now. Let's not think about just being safe which is very important, but we all need to be able to be free and care for man kind without using race,creed or color, rich or poor, demo or repub, just the HUMAN RACE and the respect for man kind. We shouldn't always say GOD BLESS only america, but GOD BLESS US ALL....