All Posts Tagged With: "Ronald Reagan"

This week, the national debt passed $10 trillion. Your individual share of that is more than $33,000 and growing. When George W. Bush took office, the debt was at $5.7 trillion. It has mushroomed by more than $4.3 trillion just during his presidency alone. What’s even more interesting is that since World War II, the national debt, as a percentage of the Gross Domestic Product, has ballooned under the “small government” and “fiscally conservative” administrations of Republican presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.

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Can we really afford another four years of a Republican administration promising “fiscal restraint”?

I’ll let this video speak for itself…

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A candidate of inspiration:

“Everywhere we have met thousands of Democrats, independents and Republicans from all economic conditions and walks of life bound together in that community of shared values of family, work, neighborhood, peace and freedom … They are concerned, yes, but they are not frightened. They are disturbed but not dismayed. They are the kind of men and women Tom Paine had in mind when he wrote — during the darkest days of the American Revolution — ‘We have it in our power to begin the world over again.’ Continued

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