[Reagan Man]

>>>>We need to be reminded of the damage inflicted by Johnson more frequently!

& FDR

And Bush43!

Sadly, the President doesn't support limited government.

Hall of Shame

2004—Medicare Prescription Drug Plan The Medicare prescription drug plan, or Medicare Part D, was enacted by a Republican Congress at the request of Republican President George W. Bush in 2003. It goes into effect next year and will cover most of the cost of drugs for seniors on Medicare. Medicare’s trustees have determined the cost of this program to be $8.1 trillion over the next 75 years.

[Alberta's Child]

I disagree that the Medicare prescription drug plan is one of the most damaging government programs. I don't like the idea at all, but that measure pretty much became necessary as a result of a whole host of other laws passed over the years (the Coal Industry Health Benefits Act of 1986 and the Steel Industry Consolidation and Retiree Benefits Protection Act of 2002, for example) that made the Federal government the guarantor of many private medical plans for retirees.

The Medicare drug plan of 2004 was a pretty meaningless government program because the Federal government was going to pay the cost of prescription drugs for retirees in any case -- either in its role as guarantor of those private plans (since they're all going bankrupt anyway) or in its role as the "administrator" of Medicare.