Given that YOU made the assertion, it’s up to YOU to defend it — with VALID research.
FYI 1: President Bush actually tried to reform Social Security (Reagan did not). He also inserted free market forces into the Medicare system (Reagan did not). The former was a first and the latter was even applauded (belatedly) by the Heritage Foundation. [Pssst: Just so you know, entitlements grew under President Reagan.]
FYI 2: With No Child Left Behind, President Bush actually introduced ACCOUNTABILITY into the educational system — a first (and also the reason the NEA despises him). [Pssst: Just so you know, President Reagan GREW the federal education system under the tenure of Bill Bennett.]
You do understand that the pseudo-cons of his day attacked and belittled President Reagan just as much as their contemporary counterparts attack President GW Bush today. Welcome to a very petty and misguided club.
If the drivel you are posting to me is an indication of what you consider valid research, we’ve set the bar pretty low.
George W. Bush had a Republican congress for the first 6 years of his presidency. Ronald Reagan had a Democrat House for all of his administration and a Dem senate for most of it.
George W. Bush PUSHED THROUGH and presided over the largest expansion of government since the Great Society. You can sugar coat it and try and run Ronald Reagan’s name through the mud by tying it to the socialist George W. Bush, but it won’t work. Everyone sees through it.
Ronald Reagan may not have been able to eliminate the DOE, but he damn well didn’t expand its power to make it ‘central planning’ for every school in the country. Ronald Reagan never pushed through a new entitlement like Medicare Part D.
Go argue your idiocy with someone else. You’re wasting my time.