Posted on 06/09/2004 4:40:12 PM PDT by quidnunc
If you weren't around in 1980, or you were insufficiently sensitized to key world realities, you cannot know how bad things really were hence the extent to which the nation required, the world required, a catalytic change artist like Ronald Reagan.
Regarding Reagan, this is an hour of self-serving hagiography, of transmogrifying anthropomorphism and comically by many in the press who spent seemingly their every waking hour ripping him and detesting everything he tried. Reagan was not a saint, not a god in human form. Nor was he the Lucifer of leftist desire. He was merely a man yet a common man with a vision and uncommon success in accomplishing change.
They already have named buildings and airports after him and schools and roads and all the standard stuff. They'll certainly name too many more. Some even are agitating to add his face to the nation's money and on that, why not let his visage replace on the dime that of his presidential predecessor he most admired? Yet relating to three of his most notable achievements, his name already is in the vernacular.
What are they?
Also known as supply-side economics, it's a doctrine of fundamental free enterprise, a/k/a capitalism. Reaganomics derived perhaps more than anything from Nobel economist Milton Friedman's three-part formula, "Cut taxes. Cut taxes. Cut taxes." Corollaries are: Cut government spending where possible, and cut government regulation as necessary. Let the market work unfettered.
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(Excerpt) Read more at timesdispatch.com ...
Thanks Mr. President - for the ride...
A lesson that should be heeded by liberals...
Townhall.com link: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/rossmackenzie/printrm20040610.shtml
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