WHEN (not IF) Mitt Romney is elected he should pirate the first 3+ minutes of Reagan’s 1st press conference. You know Obama would never do the things that Reagan announced at the opening.
How refreshing it is to see a President:
• Not use a teleprompter
• Take questions from the Press
• Not ‘hand pick’ the questions
• Speak with conviction about America’s place in the free world
• Not be a narcissus
BTW-I love the 1st question by Helen Thomas—She was worried about Iran! Big surprise!!
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By: Case closed: The Reagan Recovery vs. the Obama Recovery in two charts | AEIdeas | The Busy Post on June 28, 2012
at 2:40 pm
He spoke of making government smaller and reducing our deficit. He did neither. In fact, he was the first post-WWII president to increase the national debt as a percentage of GDP.
By: Michael Johnson on June 18, 2012
at 5:09 pm
What is your source for this information?
This is a common lib argument which is totally false.
By: The Busy Post on June 18, 2012
at 5:21 pm
My sources are here:
http://powerlineiswrong.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/reagans-recovery-vs-obamas-recovery/
and here:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Federal_Debt_1901-2010_.jpg
By: Michael Johnson on June 18, 2012
at 5:23 pm
“Spending reductions, including a $31 billion cut in spending in 1981, close to 5% of the federal budget then, or the equivalent of about $175 billion in spending cuts for the year today. In constant dollars, nondefense discretionary spending declined by 14.4% from 1981 to 1982, and by 16.8% from 1981 to 1983. Moreover, in constant dollars, this nondefense discretionary spending never returned to its 1981 level for the rest of Reagan’s two terms! Even with the Reagan defense buildup, which won the Cold War without firing a shot, total federal spending declined from a high of 23.5% of GDP in 1983 to 21.3% in 1988 and 21.2% in 1989. That’s a real reduction in the size of government relative to the economy of 10%.”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2011/05/05/reaganomics-vs-obamanomics-facts-and-figures/
By: The Busy Post on June 18, 2012
at 9:37 pm
Spending as a percent of GDP was the same at the end of Reagan’s term as it was at the beginning. It jumped in 1981 and 1982 because of the recession, then fell during the recovery. Remember, spending as a percent of GDP will rise if GDP falls.
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fredgraph.png?g=86P
By: Michael Johnson on June 19, 2012
at 8:13 am