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  1. February 04, 2011, 02:05 PM #1
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    Republican's passed a bill in 2002 to order the National Park Service to buy Ronald Reagan's house. Well due to budget cuts the National Park service may not buy Reagan's house.

    Nearly a decade after Congress told the National Park Service to try to buy Ronald Reagan’s boyhood home, the plan remains in limbo — the victim of a budget dispute and of the former president’s own limited-government philosophy.

    The Dixon, Ill., house is one of a number of places where the country’s 40th president lived when he called the small town on the Rock River, 100 miles from Chicago, his home from 1920 through 1933. But it’s the one that has been preserved for the past three decades by a nonprofit foundation as the official boyhood home, and it’s also the most likely candidate for the Park Service to incorporate.

    Or it would be, if Reagan — whose 100th birthday Sunday will kick off a yearlong national commemoration of the nation’s 40th president — hadn’t preached a limited-government, free-market philosophy that his supporters say makes a government takeover unthinkable.
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  2. February 04, 2011, 02:08 PM #2
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    Ehhh... what? Why a park service had to buy a president's former house in the first place?
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    Quote Originally Posted by alhoon View Post
    Ehhh... what? Why a park service had to buy a president's former house in the first place?
    The US government buy houses of former Presidents as an Historical site.

    Ronald Reagan is the only President who's house has yet to be owned by the US government.

    We already got Clinton's childhood's home.

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    Oh, I see. So, Regan's 100 birthday will soon arrive and there won't be a museum of him?
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    Quote Originally Posted by alhoon View Post
    Oh, I see. So, Regan's 100 birthday will soon arrive and there won't be a museum of him?
    He does has his library in California. It's more of a tradition.

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    Irony was when they named a tollway after him.

    This is not really ironic.
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    Just Eminent domain that sob
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    Quote Originally Posted by B5C View Post
    Republican's passed a bill in 2002 to order the National Park Service to buy Ronald Reagan's house. Well due to budget cuts the National Park service may not buy Reagan's house.
    I'm sorry... the irony is where?
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    I think it is much irony that National Park Service has to buy every house each President lived before - WTF?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nietzsche View Post
    I'm sorry... the irony is where?
    From where I'm standing, it looks like Reagan's house is being nationalised. That's pretty ironic.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Ugly View Post
    From where I'm standing, it looks like Reagan's house is being nationalised. That's pretty ironic.
    I don't think Reagan was opposed to the Parks Service... So, I'm still missing it... Remember that the federal budget ballooned under Reagan... I think we are mixing Legend, Legacy, and Reality... I suppose it would be ironic to someone who didn't fully appreciate what Reagan actually did...
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    ...And than they accuse USSR of having personality cult for its leaders...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Uncle Joe View Post
    ...And than they accuse USSR of having personality cult for its leaders...
    Ronald Reagan was an a very notable and historically significant president, unlike some of the unknowns of the 19th century and inter-war period.
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    Ronald Reagan was an a very notable and historically significant president, unlike some of the unknowns of the 19th century and inter-war period.
    Wasn't he the guy that's considered mainly responsible for pulling the carpet under of Soviet Union, so that Bush (Sr) was there to see it crumbling?
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    Quote Originally Posted by alhoon View Post
    Wasn't he the guy that's considered mainly responsible for pulling the carpet under of Soviet Union, so that Bush (Sr) was there to see it crumbling?
    No, the Soviets collapsed due to internal problems.

    He just spent a whole lot of money America didn't have, on things it didn't need.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pious Agnost View Post
    No, the Soviets collapsed due to internal problems.

    He just spent a whole lot of money America didn't have, on things it didn't need.
    The Americans could afford the military expenses, the Russians could not. Coupled with collective agriculture and very inefficient manufacturing planning, it was the Russians that could not afford it.

    On this basis alone Reagan's house should be set up as a historical site. But Joe would get a lifetime tour pass.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Uncle Joe View Post
    ...And than they accuse USSR of having personality cult for its leaders...
    When we start putting pictures of the president in all homes, that's when it becomes a cult of personality.

    I fail to see the irony here.
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    When we start putting pictures of the president in all homes, that's when it becomes a cult of personality.

    I fail to see the irony here.
    Turning a place into a museum just because you leader used to live there is not personality cult now?
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    Turning a place into a museum just because you leader used to live there is not personality cult now?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Uncle Joe View Post
    Turning a place into a museum just because you leader used to live there is not personality cult now?
    Nope, not at all. It's a historical museum for people to go to. I don't know why people would go to something like this, but whatever.
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