[Dane]

Please do not even try to compare Bush to Reagan.

Really, how dare he. Reagan signed a tax increase, never signed a piece of anti-abortion legislation, and signed amnesty in 86.

[TheFrog]

Reagan: 1st Term

Budget -- and the actual budgets were higher than what Reagan asked for 7 out of 8 years.

July 29, 1981 House approved tax cut legislation.

Reagan signs the Economic Recovery Tax Act.

Reagan vetoed the 1982 Continuing Budget Resolution.

Grace Commission formed to find ways to make government more efficient.

April 29, 1982 Addressed the nation on the national budget and the Balanced Budget Amendment.

Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) with Soviet Union.

Economic Growth -- From 1982-89 the United States experienced a record-setting expansion. The expansion would set a record for peace-time growth, lasting longer than any other peace-time expansion up until that time. During this time the GDP grew at an annual rate of 3.5% (4.3% for the expansion), a rate greater than in the decade before not equaled after until the Republicans took control of Congress in 1994.

Deficit reduction bill.

Amendments to the Social Security Act designed to secure the program for several decades.

U.S. forces bombed Syrian targets in Lebanon - We haven't heard from them recently now have we!

Hostages in Iran are released.

Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief is established.