[snopercod]

I, too, remember the dismal Carter years of national guilt and stagflation.

Being young and foolish, I didn't care much for Reagan at the time. But looking back, I see that the best, most productive years of my life were during his presidency. Great works were being built, good jobs were plentiful, and anything was possible.

After twenty years of thinking things over, I now realize that the prosperity of those years wasn't just a coincidence.

[Jeff Head]

Of a truth...it was no coincidence. Thiis quote of his puts it to word...words he inspired in the rest of us:

Only when the human spirit can worship, create, and build, only when people are given a personal stake in determining their own destiny and benefiting from their own risks, do societies become prosperous, progressive, dynamic, and free.