[Texas Eagle]

“There is despair, Mr. President, in the faces that you don’t see, in the places that you don’t visit, in your shining city,”

Yeah? And I suppose there were no faces of despair in the cities you governed, eh, Mario?

As if he was a man of the people.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

“There is despair, Mr. President, in the faces that you don’t see, in the places that you don’t visit, in your shining city,”

Spoken in 1984 - just as Reaganomics was bringing our economy roaring back. As Reagan put it,

Now, I knew I was in for it when the hostile critics dubbed our economic plan Reaganomics. They said we couldn't do it. But while the naysayers complained, we went to work.

Today inflation has fallen from more than 12 percent to 1.8 percent for the last 12 months. Interest rates are down. Mortgage rates are down. And we've seen the creation of almost 11.7 million jobs in less than the last 4 years -- more jobs than Western Europe and Japan put together have created in the past 10 years. You know, I really, though, found out our economic plan was working when they stopped calling it Reaganomics.