I don’t know what Ron said of the Reagan Admin but I am going to guess he was critical of it. Reagan did have to compromise with the Dems in congress to get what he wanted and that caused the budget and deficit to swell. That is politics. Bush had Republicans in the house and senate and they all had a big budget bash in building an even bigger government. Maybe it isn’t meant to be that we’ll ever have a fiscially responsible and accountable government. The beast has been let out and we will never be able to get it back in let alone tame it.