6th June 2004, 6:21 PM
Quote:It wasn't an accident that he was one of the most popular president of the modern era when he left office.
And people like my family can't understand why.
Outclass? The USSR beating us? I don't think that was ever true. Oh, sure, at one point they had more nukes, but when you have that number, isn't it utterly irrelevant? You can already blow up the world many times over... Sure, Reagan's raising our military spending did help speed up their collapse. But it was disasterous for our economy ('trickle-down economics' and the utter failure they were) and culture (decimating arts programs to pay for more military stuff we didn't really need)... it could have been managed much better (as in, not setting off a sizable depression in the end like Reaganomics did...).