The gauntlet was down, and Lemuel Boulware issued a response. He saw a great gulf between the political ambitions of union officials and the economic interests of their members. This was a crucial contest, with “our free market and our free persons” at stake.
But before battle could be joined, “every citizen had to go back to school on economics individually … to learn from simple text books … to study until we understand” our democracy and our free market system. In his call to arms, Boulware was describing what became the education of Ronald Reagan. -- The GE Years: What Made Reagan Reagan
Excellent post and it’s the GE years that made Reagan, Reagan. There is no similar period in Trump’s life and every time he alludes to Reagan’s Democrat history I cringe. It’s a sick joke of a comparison.
Listen to these radio addresses written by Reagan himself and you’ll never let Trump get away with the comparison again: http://www.amazon.com/Reagan-His-Voice-Kiron-Skinner/dp/0743509854/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1442228824&sr=8-1&keywords=reagan+in+his+own+words
Get these for your kids and kid’s kids.