The more I learn about Obama’s economic recovery plan, the more I am bothered. The PatriotPost has a great article today comparing Ronald Reagan to Obama. Here is a clip from Reagan’s inaugural address in 1981:
“The economic ills we suffer … will not go away in days, weeks, or months, but they will go away. They will go away because we, as Americans, have the capacity now, as we have had in the past, to do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom. In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. … Our government has no power except that granted it by the people. It is time to check and reverse the growth of government, which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed. It is my intention to curb the size and influence of the federal establishment and to demand recognition of the distinction between the powers granted to the federal government and those reserved to the states or to the people. All of us need to be reminded that the federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.”
He says government is the problem, and I agree. This article contains a ton of good information, but I will stop with this. Read if for yourself. Who can restore Americans’ confidence today? Who knows, maybe Pres. Obama can, but I won’t put too much stock in that.
Reagan was such a good president…
Thad I just spent 15 min reading info on that site, it’s amazing, but scary to read what has been sad, what has been done, and what is coming. Our country may be removed from it’s place of grander as the most free country that everyone ‘wants’ to flock too. Thanks for sharing!