The Republican’s Debt and Deficit Blackmail  Tuesday, December
18th, 2012 GOP blackmail  (By The Pragmatic Pundit)  Republicans
have been using debt and deficit blackmail as a bargaining
strategy since the days of Ronald Reagan.Reagan’s brand of
politics was successful at promoting the notion that federal
government spending on social programs is mostly wasted on
pointless handouts to lazy recipients. He carefully cultivated
the impression that “government spending” meant “free money” for
people who were nothing more than moochers.  Sound familiar?
Ronald Reagan was swept into office on the same Republican
fearmongering-propaganda that grips the country today…”spending
is out of control, the country is going bankrupt and government
is too big.”  There is no denying Reagan inherited an economy
that was in a deep recession, but his response to the debt
crisis was far different than Republicans would have us believe.
Despite his “small government” rhetoric, Reagan expanded the
federal government by 7%, employi