I know what you're saying about Reagan. He used to blame the Congress for the spending. Well the GOP doesn't have that excuse anymore. Reagan walked the walk. I recall his initial budgets and some reforms he wanted to enact had not a prayer back in those days. Can you imagine in your wildest dream Ronald Reagan proposing and enacting a huge prescription drug entitlement added on to Medicare?
"I know what you're saying about Reagan. He used to blame the Congress for the spending."
It takes two to tango. Point I was trying to make was due to cuts during Yimmities years on military needs, Regean had to spend a lot more during his years, and the Congress went along with it, to get our military up to snuff. After all we had to at least stay equal with the Russians. So the end result was, with not cutting back on social programs, added spending was incurred to rebuild our military. That was all I was saying.