Posted on 07/04/2010 5:30:51 PM PDT by Reaganite Republican
President Ronald Reagan's Address to the Nation New York City - Independence Day 1986
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Thanks for the link and the great memory!
"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have."
--Ronald Reagan
May God protect this great country from the evil that is attempting to devour it.
What a difference from the negative sad sack you have now. Nice speech.
Ping for a walk down memory lane with a great man. Well worth the 10 min. to listen to President Reagan talk about freedom and brotherhood.
Did that “thing” in the WH say anything today?
I’m with you Jan- our current dilemna has made us all appreciate just the tyranny Reagan warned us of.
And just contrast Obama’s $800B beautification of the New Deal (this time on steroids) with the REAL-world Reagan Recovery of the 1980s... which actually brought us back from 11% unemployment plus double-digit inflation AND interest rates.
This was accomplished through an adherence to the teachings of Milton Friedman- implementing spending and tax cuts, in addition to deregulation and incentives for small businesses and entrepreneurs- all aided by the gipper’s sunny optimism and complete faith in the American free-market-enterprise system- this is all of course 180-degrees from what Obama has foisted on us.
Reagan created over 20M jobs, growing Real GDP by almost 30% in the process... and giving this country eight of the best years it’s ever seen.
Those kind of results makes one wonder why Obama’s multi-trillion-dollar spending would impress anybody, with his pledged 3M new and “saved” jobs (whatever those are)… a paltry figure 17M shy of Reagan’s towering accomplishment.
And it’s quickly become obvious that Obama’s empty pledges can’t be delivered upon anyway, almost a trillion bucks later, unemployment is appalling...
Thanks for the ping AB
Have this marked for later.
Was lucky to have Reagan also as my Governor for 8 years.
Ronald Reagan was a REAL American, a Real president, and a Real man.
Bless you and thanks for the ping!
Thanks for the ping, Al. I saw it over at C4P Sunday morning. Reagan was truly one of a kind. An American Irreplaceable. I read the other day how hard he tried to save his first marriage to Jane Wyman and was ready to take her back at any time. He blamed himself for the breakup, although Wyman acknowledged that it was her fault. After the Gipper died in 2004, she spoke about him, saying:
“America has lost a great president and a great, kind, and gentle man.”
I think in an few words, she summed him up. He was a great man AND a good man, and it is very hard (and very rare) to be both.
Having reached the heights in 1980, we have now descended to the cellar. Sad. Let’s hope for a renaissance of goodness and greatness in 2012.
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