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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." --C.S. Lewis

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:: Sunday, June 13, 2004 ::

Debunking the Debunkers: The Left's Mythological Reagan

Reagan's "decade of greed" is examined in this essay by Richard McKenzie for the Orange County Register (reg-req). Mr. McKenzie dispatches the anti-Reagan myths thus:

Myth 1: The 1980s, or the Reagan years, were a decade of broad-based economic retreat for the country.

Myth 2: The country deindustrialized during the Reagan years.

Myth 3: The country lost its competitive prowess as revealed in the loss of manufacturing jobs.

Myth 4: The country's production may not have been declining in absolute terms, but it was surely declining relative to the rest of the industrialized world.

Myth 5: The Reagan years were a decade of uncontrolled debt, both in the public and private sector.

Myth 6: The Reagan years were a decade of greed.

The Clinton decade was the 'greedy' decade if you ask me. Global Crossing, Enron, Tycho, Martha Stewart, cattle futures, fat girls wearing berets...need I go on? The rest of the story is here [>]

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