Sure.
The servant has become the master.
Since the massive growth of borrowing to increase government spending under Reagan government has become like a snake choking off the best instincts of "America" in favor of lobbying by corporations and mandates by "experts" in government. Taxes have to go up to pay the debt, not to mention there are more people working in government than ever. When was the last time anyone here heard the pretense citizens are the boss and government works for citizens?
Wait a second, how can you blame Reagan when in the next post the liberals will give Clinton credit for a balanced budget? Do you think liberal people even read all the DNC talking points? Reagan saved the economy and ushered in the greatest peacetime expansion of the eonomy in history. It went quite well until the effects of the "free" trade agreements hit America and the take over in 2006 of congress by democrats.
Reagan saved nothing. Shemp Howard could have been there when the US economy came back in the 1980s and done less harm to US long term prospects.
The bobbleheaded cocksucker Reagan's real legacy is he started a credit binge that created the illusion Clinton balanced the budget. No question history will show that illusion as a fact - but Clinton balanced the budget on credit. Why don't you try that at home for eight years then get back with us on how that works out? Clue: 2008.
Government is huge. Volcker had policies in place before Reagan was elected that ended the recession. Reagan's supply side bogusness (hilariously masked Keynesian theory directed into the private sector) directly caused a relapse that as Volcker understood would take longer to remedy.
The bottom line, son, is there are few heroes, ever. And none in US national politics since IKE condemned the mic and started the interstate highway system - he directly copied that from Germany.
Wow, more unfounded unproveable assertions by the asshole in chief here.
Gov't had been expanding exponentially since FDR. Johnson added to it. Nixon added to it. They all added to it. Reagan at least made attempts to pare it back and was successful. His tax rates ushered in the longest peacetime expansion since WW2.