What exactly did Ronald Reagan accomplish that was so monumental to conservatives?
The New York Times reports that Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States ‘had some successes’ during his eight years with his economic policies, such as getting rid of a federal program that gave employment and training to over 300,000 people in poverty; he was able cut food stamps so that more people could go to bed hungry; he succeeded in cutting many children off of welfare (to make up for that extra Pentagon money); and by ‘trimming’ the Medicaid roles he was able to swell the ranks of people with no health insurance. His Agriculture Department wanted to count ketchup as a vegetable when providing school lunches for poor children — Another ‘success’ was eliminating 300,000 people from Social Security disability payments. Tax cuts for the rich, suffering and degradation for the poor. Reagan began the bankrupting of America and the creation of a super wealthy CEO class, one where their great grandchildren will never have to work, an aristocracy of trustifarians.
