…stores. This included both single-location businesses and small, locally owned chains. This changed in the 1980s. Convinced tough antitrust enforcement was holding back American business, the Reagan administration set about…

St. Reagan famously said that the most terrifying words in the English language were “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Now that the Roberts SCOTUS has decided…

…burdens. My Take: Nine presidents stood in front of Congress and promised the same thing: Energy Independence. Nixon said it. Then Ford, then Carter, then Reagan, both Bushes, then Clinton,…

…Ronald Reagan warning that socialized medicine would destroy American freedom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDnxxsjVr20 Nonetheless, Lyndon Johnson managed to push Medicare through, along with Medicaid — also single-payer health insurance, but only for…

…Unfortunately, our stupidity has been worse than accepting Mr. Mellon’s similar arguments to those used by Reagan et al suggests. That is because, back in Mr. Mellon’s day he at…

Yup! But … but … we didn’t do this during the Reagan presidency–the presidency that was the very embodiment of fiscal responsibility! Just as Paul Ryan said yet again just…

…that my thoughts about when the flash point was for our change to a focus on making money from money was the first Reagan election. I do believe this is…

…GHW Bush, Reagan, and Ford all oversaw an increase in the country’s indebtedness. It has been more than thirty years since a Republican President left office (albeit in a scandal)…

…election was different. I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that, you know, Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did…

…during the 1970s the United States had deficit spending that ran up the national debt, until Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980 and restored fiscal soundness. Oh, wait: it’s actually…