Jake Break...
Reagan was nothing more than third rate actor (Remember "Bedtime for Bonzo?") and his presidency was one big B-rate picture.
(1) His administration tried to re-classify ketchup as a "vegetable" for schoolkids' lunches.
(2) His Secretary of the Interior, James Watt, went to Centralia, Pennsylvania, where underground coal deposits and even bed rock was on fire, gassing families in their homes and burning out their town and he refused to help, telling the people "Don't worry, the thing will burn itself out." (The town is no longer there).
(3) While president, Reagan actually believed himself to have personally visited a Nazi death camp during WWII after watching a documentary video on the subject years after the war.
(4) With Reagan as commander-in-chief In 1983, we had 220 Marines, 18 sailors and three soldiers blown to hell by the suicide bombing of their unprotected barracks at Beirut, Lebanon. U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger had already advised his boss against stationing any U.S. Marines in Lebanon but was ignored by your "cowboy" president.
Nevertheless, Reagan managed to get out of this most deadly screw-up by putting another act as he called upon a Marine survivor of the bombing on nationwide TV in front of the entire Congress in a sleazy attempt to take the nation's attention and the heat off himself.
(5) Just three years before in April of 1980, with Carter as commander-in-chief, there were a total of eight serviceman lost in the tragically failed Iran hostage rescue attempt (Eagle Claw) and that president was roasted over the coals by the same bug-wits who worship Reagan.
(6) Finally, recall the Iran–Contra affair when your hero approved the trading of arms with our enemy, Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini...but then, maybe you'll be telling us that the Ayatollah really wasn't our enemy?
Let's take those rose-colored glasses off and try to see this guy for what he really was...a deeply flawed and sometimes mean-spirited president who occasionally imagined things that never were.

Worst President ever!

1. Reagan cut taxes for the Rich, increased taxes on the Middle Class -

Ronald Reagan is loved by conservatives and was loved by big business throughout his presidency and there's a reason for it. When Reagan came into office in January of 1981, the top tax rate was 70%, but when he left office in 1989 the top tax rate was down to only 28%. As Reagan gave the breaks to all his rich friends, there was a lack of revenue coming into the federal government. In order to bring money back into the government, Reagan was forced to raise taxes eleven times throughout his time in office. One example was when he signed into law the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982. Reagan raised taxes seven of the eight years he was in office and the tax increases were felt hardest by the lower and middle class.

2. Tripling the National Debt -

As Reagan cut taxes for the wealthy, the government was left with less money to spend. When Reagan came into office the national debt was $900 billion, by the time he left the national debt had tripled to $2.8 trillion.

3. Iran/Contra -

In 1986, a group of Americans were being held hostage by a terrorist group with ties to Iran. In an attempt to free the hostages, Ronald Reagan secretly sold arms and money to Iran. Much of the money that was received from the trade went to fund the Nicaragua Contra rebels who were in a war with the Sandinista government of Nicaragua. When the scandal broke in the Untied States it became the biggest story in the country, Reagan tried to down play what happened, but never fully recovered.

4. Reagan funded Terrorists -

The attacks on 9/11 by al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden brought new attention to international terrorism. All of a sudden, Americans coast to coast wore their American flag pins, ate their freedom fries and couldn't wait to go to war with anyone who looked like a Muslim. What Americans didn't realize was that the same group that attacked the United States on 9/11 was funded by Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. Prepping for a possible war with the Soviet Union, Ronald Reagan spent billions of dollars funding the Islamist mujahidin Freedom Fighters in Afghanistan. With billions of American dollars, weapons and training coming their way, the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden took everything they were given and gave it back to the United States over a decade later in the worst possible way imaginable.

5. Unemployment issues -

When Ronald Reagan came into office 1981, unemployment was at 7.5%. After Reagan cut taxes for the wealthy, he began raising taxes on the middle and lower class. Corporations started to ship more jobs out of the United States while hiring cheap foreign labor in order to make a bigger profit. While corporations made billions, Americans across the country lost their jobs. As 1982 came to a close, unemployment was nearly 11%. Unemployment began to drop as the years went on, but the jobs that were created were low paying and barely helped people make ends meet. The middle and lower class had their wages nearly frozen as the top earners saw dramatic increases in salary.

6. Ignoring AIDS -

By the time the 1980s came around, AIDS had become one of the most frightening things to happen to the country in recent memory. No one understood what AIDS and HIV really was and when people don't understand something, they become scared of it. The fear of the unknown was sweeping across the country and Americans needed a leader to speak out about this horrible virus, that leader never came. Instead of grabbing the bull by the horns and taking charge, Reagan kept quiet. Reagan couldn't say the words AIDS or HIV until seven years into his presidency, a leader not so much.

7. Reagan gave amnesty to 3 million Undocumented Immigrants -

In today's GOP, the idea of any immigrant staying in the United States whether they are legal or illegal isn't something that conservatives embrace. What might shock them is that in 1982 Ronald Reagan gave nearly 3 million undocumented workers amnesty. The biggest reason for undocumented workers coming to the United States is because corporations hire them at a cheaper rate than they would an American citizen. All the laws that would have cracked down on companies who hire undocumented workers were, of course, removed from the bill.

8. His attack on Unions and the Middle Class - The Republican war on unions and the middle class has been heating up in states like Wisconsin and Ohio, but it has been going on for a long time. Unions are formed to give a united voice to the workers in an attempt to create fairness between the corporations and their employees. On August 3rd, 1981, PATCO (Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization) went on strike in an effort to get better pay and safer working conditions. Two days later, taking the side of business, Ronald Reagan fired 11,345 workers for not returning to work.

It is hard to believe that the Obama Administration was re-elected after the very poor performance of the first term.Now into the second term many of the shortcomings of the first term are becoming apparent to all who care to see. The country's foreign policy has been discredited around the world and our adversaries have discarded their caution and gleefully stick their finger in our eye every chance they get , and it is done with complete impunity. Many of our great city's are broke, and there are few leaders with the chutzpa to clean up the mess that decades of the unholy alliance with big Unions, and graft takers have caused. We are at the tipping point of a very long slide downward and desperately need new leadership, but what do we get?....speeches and race baiting, and excuses from this figurehead President. Our government is being managed by the people behind the curtain while our president plays golf and has partys......and there is over 3 years left to endure.

It is hard to believe that the Obama Administration was re-elected after the very poor performance of the first term.Now into the second term many of the shortcomings of the first term are becoming apparent to all who care to see. The country's foreign policy has been discredited around the world and our adversaries have discarded their caution and gleefully stick their finger in our eye every chance they get , and it is done with complete impunity. Many of our great city's are broke, and there are few leaders with the chutzpa to clean up the mess that decades of the unholy alliance with big Unions, and graft takers have caused. We are at the tipping point of a very long slide downward and desperately need new leadership, but what do we get?....speeches and race baiting, and excuses from this figurehead President. Our government is being managed by the people behind the curtain while our president plays golf and has partys......and there is over 3 years left to endure.

Can't blame me, I did not vote for the b@#^&d...hope those that did are happy with his policies that continue to not only embarrass our country but take us further down a very depressing no return dark road. I do not feel sorry for the a$$ holes that have put us there, rather we the victims of this on slot...and like you said, there's still three years left, who knows how much more damage he will cause by his stupendous decisions...time will show that he is the worst "so called" president of all times...