a good thing…

Posted on Wednesday 7 October 2009

At the end of my great graphing frenzy, I had a lot more generated along the way that I didn’t post. Maybe I’ll post them as an aside for a reference later. Some of them are pretty interesting. But there were two that I thought I’d put up as a closing parenthesis.

Notice that Reagan and Bush I spent more than Bush II spent on his two wars. Reagan’s supporters claimed that all that spending forced the end of the Cold War – "We outspent them." Most of us think Communism fell because it didn’t work. If anything brought it to a close, it wasn’t Reagan’s  spending, it was the early tools of the information age – phones, fax machines, email – communication over and around the "iron curtain." But I wanted to end with at least one thing positive about Ronald Reagan’s time in grade…

Through whatever mechanism, he stopped the growth of government. For all the damage he did, it’s clear that non-military government spending has leveled off and it happened in response to his Administration. That’s probably a pretty good thing. It’s what Conservatives are for…

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