May each of you have the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, and the hand to execute works that will leave the world a little better for your having been here. -- Ronald Reagan

Friday, September 24, 2010

Now: Mourning in America Then: Morning in America

This is now


This was then

Reagan came to power with problems that were more severe than what Obama started with. Without blaming his predecessor, Reagan convinced the public, without insults and name calling, to follow him, that his economic principles of low taxes and limited government work. After a tough start the economy turned about from double digit inflation and unemployment, a demoralized military and citizenry became optimistic, and we had the longest peacetime economic growth in the history of the United States.

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