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Originally Posted by HOZ
If I read your last link correctly I think we are in agreement but with a slight misunderstanding.
I was talking about what each President was handed, upon inauguration. The economy and foreign situation for the USA was far worse at Reagan's inauguration.
That link is talking overall economics over the recessions and not just at each President's inauguration. I am in total agreement that Obama's situation economically has it worse NOW and the recession is far worse now. No argument.
My point that Reagan had is FAR worse is even more true because he had the Soviet Union breathing down his neck. Obama has Iran. A F'n fly on the rhino's butt by comparison.
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The Soviet Union wasn't breathing down Reagans neck, in fact the very existence of the Soviets meant the world was a far more predictable stable place, each power had its sphere of influence, neither wanted any more than a proxy war in some remote crap hole, the soviets weren't flying planes into buildings or likely to start a nuclear war in order to martyr themselves into heaven.
The world is a far worse place now than it was in the late seventies or early eighties from a US point of view, all the USSR had was a large army and a crumbling economy, Obama has had to deal with a second superpower, China, that owns the US's arse economically and has a large army.
Upon taking power Reagan had no US troops involved in any conflicts, a reletively stable Middle East for the first time in 20 years, and a USSR that was tied up in Afghanistan and relatively eager to agree to nuclear disarmament.