RR talked a good game of cutting taxes, but did so without cutting expenses. In fact, RR had the biggest deficits of all time, until GHWB and GWB followed to exceed even this. RR’s budget director, David Stockman, now says that the “starve the beast” strategy, referring to cutting taxes to force down the US budget, didn’t and doesn’t work. In fact, that’s the tale of all the past Republican presidents. The only recent presidents with balanced or near-balanced budgets were Kennedy, Johnson and, of course,Clinton with a surplus. Even Carter was lowering the gap before he lost to RR, who promptly screwed it up again with his now discredited, trickle down, voodoo economic policies.

Happy Birthday, Mr. President, up in heaven as I know you are.

For the facts, Ronald Reagan had to rebuild the entire United States of America which had been neglected by the Carter years. Tomcats were being scavanged on Carriers just to keep skeleton crews flying. That is how bad things were in America.
President Reagan ended stagflation, and the Carter Depression.

On the foreign affairs, President Reagan rebuilt the US alliances in leading them. He bombed Libya drawing a line in the sand. He attempted to stabilize Lebanon, but terrorists there murdered Marines.
For Jimmy Carter to use dead Heroes to slap at a deceased President is telling of liberal amorality. What was murrayabraham’s choice, to leave Americans there to be slaughtered like Obama is accomplishing in Afnamistan?

The only reason Marines were in Lebanon is because Jimmy Carter with Zbigniew Brzezinski dethroned the Shah of Iran and installed those Islamocommunist thugs still murdering Americans today and being coddled by Barack Carter.
Carter’s policy destabilized the entire world in the fall of Iranian government.

Finally, what kool aid murrayabraham is smoking is Obama grade as Truman never contained the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was collapsed along with the Warsaw Pac by Margaret Thatcher, Pope John Paul, Ronald Reagan, Polish Unions and Lutherans in East Germany, using Saudi Arabian funding in part.
Ronald Reagan led this effort in moral superiority. His military upgrades toppled the Soviet Union and no matter how many of these progressives try to smear Ronald Reagan’s legacy, the Truth will always win out.

God bless the United States and may America again have a Ronald Reagan blessed to save America from Obama national socialism.

What can be said further than the reflection of Ronald Reagan’s greatest legacy is a Gentleman like yourself who accomplished so much in assisting President Reagan and you do not mention a word of it, but place the legacy on Ronald Reagan.
This is Ronald Reagan’s legacy in he is a selfless American who surrounded himself with Mike Deaver, Lynwood and yourself who served America never looking for credit and still to this day none of you including Mrs. Reagan, mention all of your work in serving this wonderful President.

It is a pleasure to be able to address you Mr. Meese in public in calling attention to all of your God blessed accomplishments for these United States of America.
You are the shining light in Mr. Reagan’s city on a hill, because all of you still work for Americans in thee most selfless of manners.

Smaller government: Federal employment grew by 61,000 during Reagan’s presidency—in part because Reagan created a whole new cabinet department, the department of veterans affairs. (Under Bill Clinton, by contrast, federal employment dropped by 373,000).

Smaller deficits and debt: Both nearly tripled on Reagan’s watch.

Lower taxes: Although Reagan muscled through a major tax cut in 1981, he followed up by raising taxes in 1982, 1983, 1984 and 1986. In 1983, in fact, he not only raised payroll taxes; he raised them to pay for Social Security and Medicare. Let’s put this in language today’s tea-baggers can understand: Reagan raised taxes to pay for government-run health care.

International & military: What did Reagan do in his biggest confrontation with jihadist terror? When Hezbollah murdered 241 U.S. servicemen in Beirut in 1983, the Gipper didn’t surge; he withdrew the remaining American troops, and fast.

Finally, it is common for the nostalgic right wing crowd to say “Reagan won the Cold War”. This of course is absurd. The Soviet Empire collapsed from inside (thanks to Gorbachev’s glasnosc & perestroika) and it was the containment policy setup by Truman and applied by all his successors that did it, not a change in policy on Reagan’s part.