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Thank you we sneak After the turmoil of the nineteen

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sixties and nineteen seventies america needed a vacation to recap

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the iran hostage crisis finished the nineteen seventies and carter's

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embarrassing administration ended on a dull note and to add

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insult to injury the nation was still floundering through stormy

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economic waters that persisted throughout the reign of jimmy carter

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Well the american public was eager for a new type

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of leadership and a return to simpler more conservative kind

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of ideals Well republicans found the perfect personality and ronald

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reagan who traded in his acting career to the governor

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of california where something didn't go by the governator Though

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some ex actor politician feeding carter in a landslide that

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put fleetwood mac's to shame reagan rose to the white

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house with a promise to take a hatchet to all

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the liberal spend spend spend programs of democrats that didn't

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seem to be going anywhere He swore to do away

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with what he called the welfare state mentality that he

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believed had been strangling the country largely since fdr is

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new deal Well reagan wanted to slash a whole bunch

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of social programs he didn't feel we're working on welfare

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Families or children filling took took a beating He also

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wanted to do away with food stamps all the name

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of bouncing americans budget price surprise things didn't quite work

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out like that Well he garnered support because he was

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likable and patriotic and he promised the so called revolution

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of ideas that would re energize america's capitalist spirit The

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idea was that our national pride would be restored and

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we'd all be enjoying gleaming new eras of prosperity Well

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he couldn't have been more patriotic than if you've flown

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across the country and hang glider made out of an

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american flag escorted by bald eagles that's reagan reagan was

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a two different breed from his ultra liberal predecessors He

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made no bones about being a conservative As conservatives go

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what did not freak out the public was reagan's simple

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relatable message he was going to bring god and christian

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morals back to the white house It was going to

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pump money into the military so that america to be

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safe from the bad guys He was going to reduce

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taxes on the wealthy and reduce government regulations on business

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so that the economy could grow again like a chia

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pet on steroids and he was going to cut government

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spending on social programs that was wasteful Well his first

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method of attack on the economy front was to convince

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congress to amend some of lbj's great society programs Well

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lbj was undoubtedly cursing up a storm in his grave

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One of these was section eight which provided federally subsidized

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housing for low income families while the result of reagan's

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pull on these programs was that those that bottom became

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well more firmly entrenched Their poverty exploded during the nineteen

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eighties especially in america's big cities as reagan's budget cuts

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targeted programs such as a family men and children on

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the other hand his cuts It didn't scale back social

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security or medicare too with largest government expenditures when it

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came to social program Interesting that the primary beneficiaries of

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those particular programs were conservative elderly people you know reagan's

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voting base well can't blame him for not one to

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