“Lee Edwards recalls being once left along in Reagan’s study while then-Governor Reagan went to the kitchen to prepare cocktails. Edwards began browsing Reagan’s bookshelves, and was astonished to find dense works of political economy by authors such as Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek heavily underlined and annotated in Reagan’s handwriting .. “
And Alan Greenspan was part of the inner circle of Ayn Rand, a person whose political philosophy was Free Market Capitalism.
Ayn Rand called the launch of the space shuttle an example of rationality, it was/is an example of theft.
Most people are not completely consistent throughout their lives. Those with political power and the intent to hold on to it are up there in being inconsistent with the sports commentators of the world.
Ah yes. Reagan was a libertarian at heart though in practice he was a pragmatic fascist. But hey! that’s good. Or maybe it’s bad ? Actually it’s just neutral since “all value is subjective.” (repeat a thousand times).
Reagan nearly tripled the deficit and increased government spending in terms of GDP, I think you’re doing Ron Paul a disservice by making that comment.
We are all forgetting the wise words of Joseph Stromberg. Reagan’s arm was broken for both terms of his presidency, that is why he couldn’t veto anything!
Was it not Karl Marx who once said, “It’s the crackbrained meddling by the authorities which can aggravate an existing crisis”?
Marx said this not because he was a free marketer, but because he had studied and knew of the empirical facts concerning the ruin that comes to the economy by government intervention.
Are Marx and Reagan free marketers? No, they are people who have the same premise of facts that free marketers have, but their actions and directions were for something else.
What Reagan did was change public opinion about the free market and the other issues he campaigned for. Before Reagan most public discourse was about what government should do about this or that. The idea that government should do nothing was always an extreme minority position and Reagan did change that.
It’s hard to believe that Richard Nixon, who created the EPA, defaulted on the government’s gold obligation, and instituted universal wage and price controls, was considered a conservative in his day. Or that George H.W. Bush, while a Republican congressman, introduced the first bill to federally fund abortions.
