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Back to the future with the Gipper
Washington Times ^ | September 4, 2016 | Washington Times

Posted on 09/04/2017 9:16:38 PM PDT by TBP

ogether, we’ve swept away many government-created obstacles to our prosperity. In our fight against inflation and high interest rates, we enacted the largest budget cuts ever considered by the Congress. We produced the first real tax cut for working men and women in nearly 20 years. We slowed the pace of federal rule-making. We saw to it our money supply followed a pattern of slow, stable growth.

These dramatic changes in economic policy are the dynamic result of millions of individuals coming together, committed to preserving a society where we can each seek our own goals, assured of the freedom to climb as high as our own drive, ambition and talent can take us.

Let me make our goal in this program very clear: jobs, jobs, jobs and more jobs … .

We built this great nation, built it to surpass the highest standards ever imagined, through the hard work of our people. I would match the American worker against any in the world. The people whose labor fuels our industry and economy are among the most productive anywhere.

But too many Americans don’t have a job, and too many Americans who do, dont have the tools they need to compete. Past, stagnated policies have made it too difficult to modernize and too risky to expand. Our people, our workers, have cried out for change, and in the last seven months have achieved a historic reversal of the failed policies of an era gone by. We returned to the principles that made us great.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1981; economy; laborday; reagan
From President Reagan's Labor Day address in 1981. It sounds like today, doesn't it?
1 posted on 09/04/2017 9:16:38 PM PDT by TBP
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To: TBP

Inflation? No.
High interest rates? I wish.
LOL


2 posted on 09/04/2017 9:22:04 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: TBP

Bookmark


3 posted on 09/04/2017 10:10:30 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: TBP

The best there ever was, the best there ever will be.


4 posted on 09/05/2017 5:06:24 AM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: ReleaseTheHounds

Best of our lifetime, without a doubt. (President Trump is up there, but hasn’t been in office long enough or achieved enough yet to catch The Gipper.) Calvin Coolidge is probably our most underrated president, and one of the best.


5 posted on 09/05/2017 1:07:30 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: TBP

I agree on Silent Cal, but I don’t think President Trump has it in him to approach the Gipper — he was one of a kind. JMHO.


6 posted on 09/06/2017 7:27:41 AM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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