Man! Actors come cheap (especially old worn out ones) who do the bidding of those around him, but Reagan--perfect? He started this debt thing which eventually will kill us. You can buy most anything on credit as Reagan did (he destroyed the old conservative party) but sooner or later?

We have been in debt many decades. And economists will tell you it takes 2 to 3 years of Federal policies to show impact on the debt. Also, things other than Federal policy also impact debt.

Note where they upswings began and who was in office prior.

National Debt

The decline began a year before Bush took office. In the just prior years Clinton implimented a bunch of new fees and excise taxes. Plus his foreign policy was showing up.

You see the swing up beginning under Carter and Clinton on the first Chart.

On the debt chart you see the big swing beginning in the 60 and escalating. Liberal spending Democrates controlled Congress during those years.

They even killed Kennedy's tax cutting income gains by spending it at a higher rate than it came in.

Even with the author, here, trying to dump on Reagan and Bush, his own charts deny him. And affirm other things than politics affect debt.

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Keeping it real and to the core of the issue, not the peripherals.

Reducing spending on Defense is a fool's way of reducting spending.

While the liberals slashed defense, foreign aid and entitlements remained.

I am not talking Social Security or such. I am talking welfare and other such programs that developed a sub-culture addicted to it.

Even the efforts of the states to end it were damaged by Congress demanding they pay for illegals and such.

Today, we have politicians afraid to touch those programs and laws. They believe they will get knocked out of office if they do.

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Keeping it real and to the core of the issue, not the peripherals.