You wouldnt know it from the lore surrounding Reagan on the right, - TopicsExpress



          

You wouldnt know it from the lore surrounding Reagan on the right, but he presided over a significant expansion of the federal government. Via Alex Park: -Erika One of the many, many problems Jeb Bush faces in his quest for the Oval Office is his break from Republican orthodoxy on president Ronald Reagans legacy. In 2012, Bush told a group of reporters that, in todays GOP, Reagan would be criticized for doing the things that he did— namely, working with Democrats to pass legislation. He added that Reagan would struggle to secure the GOP nomination today. Bush was lambasted by fellow conservatives for his comments, but he had a point: If you judge him by the uncompromising small government standards of todays GOP, Reagan was a disaster. Here are a few charts that show why. Under Reagan, the national debt almost tripled, from $907 billion in 1980 to $2.6 trillion in 1988:
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 18:52:36 +0000

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